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Queen altered his tactics for the game with a view to working the ball into the box more quickly to provide more of a cutting edge.

He said: "We set up looking to keep a clean sheet because we've been losing a lot of goals recently. I told the players we didn't want to do away with the passing style we usually play, just amend it a bit.

Looking to work the ball out wide and get crosses into the box more quickly. We kept the tempo high.

"The players seemed to buy into it as well and I told them if they went a couple up I didn't want them to take their foot off the pedal."

Queen believes the team are beginning to adjust to the Super League first division's more clinical style of play.

He continued: "In this league you can keep the ball off a team for 10 or 15 minutes and then they get it back and play a long ball into the box and go a goal up. Last year teams didn't hunt the ball as much either so it's been a learning experience.

"The players are realising that it isn't like it was last year where, when you go on a run of so many games unbeaten, teams come and are a bit afraid of you."

The Guy's Meadow club have a break this weekend, before a long journey north to Aberdeen on October 2 to face Stoneywood in the Scottish Junior Cup.

Queen added: "To be honest I don't know too much about them. A couple of our players have come across them and we'll try to use that to our advantage. It'll be a test – not just from a footballing perspective but you've also got the long trip up there before the game so we'll need to make sure the players stay focussed."