Mark Walker’s Scottish Football Tips: Wasps to sting Hearts in Fife

Alloa can get the win they need in Fife to get into the League One play-offs by beating Kelty Hearts.

In a week peppered with dead rubber games, it's probably best to concentrate on meaningful matches. And it's certainly a big game for the Wasps, who must win to ensure that fourth place and stop Stenhousemuir catching them. In fact, they could even sneak into third if Queen of the South lose at champions Arbroath.

Andy Graham's side should view their trip to New Central Park with confidence after a really good run of three wins and a draw in their last four games.

It's a good time to be reaching form and they have won against Stenny, Annan Athletic and Montrose in their current run.

Managerless Kelty have nothing to play for except a few quid on the league positions. They doubtless just want the season to end after picking up just one win in their last nine games.

Back Alloa at 20/21 with McBookie.com.

Hearts are approaching crisis time after a season from hell and Neil Critchley paid the price last week after he was axed hours after a defeat at home to Dundee.

But how often have you seen a new manager bounce and they can win at Ross County under caretaker boss Liam Fox.

Hearts are now dangerously close to getting sucked into a relegation play-off battle and it would be panic stations if they lost in the Highlands.

But they are playing a County side who looked drained of confidence in last week's defeat at Kilmarnock.

It was their fifth defeat in a row and put them second bottom – a position they have ended the last two seasons.

It's a bad time of the season to lose from and Hearts surely have more than they produced for Critchley.

A win would all but end any play-off worries and they can get it at 17/20 with McBookie.com.

Bonnyrigg Rose have to win at Stranraer and hope Forfar Athletic lose at home to Stirling Albion if they are to save themselves for a very tough play-off with East Kilbride, almost certainly.

The East Lothian side have picked up form though and have won their last two games. They can make it three at Stair Park against a Stranraer side with nothing to play for.

Stranraer have lost five out of six and while not even Rose's former player, 007 Sir Sean Connery, may have been able to save their skins, they can at least get the win here at McBookie.com's 6/4.

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