​Berwick Rangers manager Kevin Haynes hoping to make amends for 4-1 loss at Albion Rovers

North Lanarkshire’s Albion Rovers are due to come calling at Rangers’ Shielfield Park home ground this Saturday, with kick-off at 3pm, and Haynes is regarding their visit as an opportunity to make up for his side’s 4-1 thumping in October’s reverse fixture in Coatbridge.

Though not the heaviest hiding among their 11 losses this term, having been beaten 5-0 by Broxburn Athletic both home and away in December and last August, Haynes ranks that game away to Rovers as one of their worst, telling the club’s Facebook page: “We need to certainly be much improved from when we went through there earlier in the season.

“That was probably one of our poorest performances of the season, so we’ve got to right that wrong next week.”

 

Berwick go into that game sitting 12th in the table, on 31 points from 24 fixtures, five places and ten points better off than Sandy Clark’s second-from-bottom visitors, beaten 2-0 away to Edinburgh’s Civil Service Strollers on Saturday.

It follows a 2-1 defeat hosting second-placed Clydebank on Saturday gone due to two controversial penalties being awarded against them by referee Konrad Spalony.

 

Rangers went ahead via a Nicky Low own goal on 20 minutes but two spot-kicks for the visitors past home goalkeeper Liam Campbell, converted by Nicky Little on 28 minutes and Neil McLaughlin on 75, respectively awarded for a foul on Oisin McHugh by Alfie Robinson and contact between Jamie Pyper and McLaughlin, turned the tide in their favour and gifted them all three points.

Haynes, 44, was especially put out by the second penalty award, saying: “It was very frustrating.

“It wasn’t a great game. There wasn’t a lot in the game, nothing between the two sides, I don’t think.

 

“We lost on what I think is a ridiculous decision. There was probably one person in the stadium thinking that’s a penalty and unfortunately it was the man in the middle with the whistle, so that’s really irritating.

 

“I think a draw would have been a very fair result for two teams that never really created much.