Despite the penalty shoot-out defeat to the Blues, Queen’s Park are in otherwise good form having lost just once in 90 minutes in the past eight games – and even that came from an acrobatic injury-time winner from Michael O’Halloran at Cappielow.
As well as the long wait for a Saturday fixture, this weekend also provides striker Smith a chance to finally make a debut, if selected.
He’s been cup tied in both the KDM Evolution Trophy and the Scottish Cup and denied involvement by the cancellations.
Ironically that first appearance for the Spiders could come against his old side – but only this one. Rovers are also Queen’s Park’s next opponents too in Tuesday’s KDM Evolution Trophy quarter final, and he’ll be sidelined again.
First it’s league business though and head coach Sean Crighton is keen to continue the run of results and move up the table with a backlog of fixtures to come.
