Port Glasgow boss gives West Park South Region Cup challenge

The Undertakers welcome the Bishopbriggs side to Parklea this weekend as cup fever hits Inverclyde - and Jamieson says he wants his side to be ready for any difficulties that the East Dunbartonshire outfit might try to throw at them.

Jamieson believes his side couldn't have come into the game in much better form, and says he expects a very different game to the narrow away victory his side pulled off when the sides met in the West of Scotland Football League's opening day at the end of July.

He told the Tele: "We've already played West Park in the first game of the league season and we managed to come away with a 2-1 win.

"At home we expect a different game, where we're able to play a bit more comfortably and open them up a bit more.

"Don't get me wrong, they're a good team. We know what they're like. They'll come and make it hard for us, so it's up to us to go and overcome that challenge by taking the game to them."

The Undertakers were given a bye into the second round of the tournament, though they already have one notable cup success under their belts this season after dumping Second Division Whitletts out of the Strathclyde Demolition Cup at the end of August.

"With the cups that we're in, we want to progress as much as possible," Jamieson added.

"The South Challenge Cup is no different.

"I believe that if we can get a home tie against anyone then we'll compete with most teams especially off the back of four good wins.

"We'd be happy to win and hopefully we can see ourselves in the hat for the third round."

The Undertakers gaffer hopes to see his side become more ruthless in front of goal.

That's something that may sound strange given the high scoring affairs that the Port have seen in recent weeks, with that 4-3 cup win over Whitletts followed by a 4-1 league win over East Kilbride Thistle at Parklea.

But the gaffer says he doesn't want any spurned chances to come back to haunt his side.

Chris Millar rolled back the years against East Kilbride (Image: alex craig)

"I thought we made it difficult for ourselves against East Kilbride," he said.

"We'd missed chances in the opening 20 minutes and had missed a penalty at 0-0.

"The way that we want to set up is that we press high up, we want to be fast, and we just couldn't score. We should've scored with about seven or eight chances, and we were beginning to think that it was going to be one of those days.

"We had a lot of the ball, which meant that we were making our own mistakes, and that's what we want to try and cancel out.

"That was a good win. It kept us up there and it gives us a good bit of form heading into the cup this weekend."