When the side’s last met at Forthbank a little under two months ago, Samson was a virtual spectator as his team-mates blasted in six goals at the other end.

Not only, however, does he feel talk of a repeat is disrespectful to Albion, he just can’t see why it should be part of the game plan.

“It isn’t right for anyone to be saying we’ll score loads of goals tomorrow and we’ll give Stirling more respect than that,” he said.

“The main thing for me is not the respect, but the fact that the way the league has worked out, it is very hard to see the race between ourselves and Hamilton coming down to goal difference.

“We are trying to catch them and it’s going to be points we need to do that, so the games now are about making sure we win.

“There is no way we are going to go gung ho looking for loads of goals and leave ourselves open at the back. We’ve prepared for this game properly and we’ll have the right approach.”

If business has been taken care of, the first thing the players will do when they come off is ask for Hamilton’s score away to Livingston and Samson insists there is still a belief at Dens that they can catch the top team.

“Our main concern is focusing on our games and, if we win this one, there is another very hard one to follow at QOS next week.

“Hamilton have hard games too and, in Livingston and then Clyde, they will be facing teams who are fighting for their lives.

“The feeling here is definitely that we are in with a chance of taking it to the last day against them at Dens and we have to make sure we do our bit by keeping winning.

“If we do, and Hamilton win their next two games to go up before the last game here, then good luck to them.”

Like his goalie, the only number boss Alex Rae is interested in is three, the number of points he wants his men to pick up.

“Like every other game just now, it is about winning and nothing else. We have won seven of our last nine and we need to make it eight out of 10,” he said.

“That’s not bad going and, if we keep winning between now and the end of the season and do not go up, it will be because another team’s been on an exceptional run as well.”

His team selection will be along similar lines to last week at Morton, with the only possible change being to find a place in the starting line up for Derek Lyle. And Scott Robertson has made the squad a week earlier than expected.