Darren Young has called on his Albion Rovers players to sharpen up their act after last weekend’s drubbing at East Fife.

Rovers competed well in the game for an hour, but again lost cheap goals from set-pieces, a weakness that has recently crept into their game.

“We need to learn and learn quick,” Young said.

“A few of the boys have played at this level, and it’s a step up, but at the same time we proved last week against one of the favourites for the league that we can more than match them on our day.

“Up until we lost the first goal we were more than in the game.

“I thought we had the slightly better chances in the first half to be honest and it was a pretty even game.

“Ally Love has had a good chance that’s been cleared off the line, so we could have gone in at half-time 1-0 up.

“Even going in at 0-0, we knew that if we kept playing the way we did then we’d be in with a shout.

“But then we lost another silly goal from a set-piece. For whatever reason, we seem to be switching off from set-pieces just now.

“We then lost two quick goals from corners and it’s obviously disappointing.

“We had a great performance and result against Ayr, but then we go and shoot ourselves in the foot again.

“The only positive we can take out of it is that in the first hour we did well, but from there we crumbled and lost cheap goals.”

Despite the set-back, Young insists that he is staying positive ahead of Saturday’s trip to face Cowdenbeath.

“It looks like a bit of a doing in the end up, but we’re not getting too down,” he said.

“It’s three points lost, but we’ve just got to dust ourselves down and move on.

“It’s going to be another hard game on Saturday but we’re looking forward to it and we’ll have got ourselves sorted out in regards to set-pieces.

“We’ve spoken about things in training, so we’ll be ready to go.”

Young also revealed that brother Derek, currently starring in the Forfar midfield, had resisted the temptation to gloat about the victory over his sibling.

He said: “He knows himself the way things are, one minute you’re up and the next minute you’re down.

“It’s disappointing he won the battle in the end up though!”