ALLOA boss Jim Goodwin says there’s no chance his players will be downing tools when they visit Raith Rovers on Saturday.

The Wasps handed the title race initiative to the Stark’s Park side by beating Ayr United last Sunday.

But the manager insisted that his side will be going all out to end their season with a victory.

Goodwin told Advertiser Sport: “Ayr will be disappointed that it’s out of their hands but I can assure Ian McCall and his team that we will be as professional on Saturday as we were against Ayr.

"We won’t be handing anybody anything. We want to give a good account of ourselves again next week.

“It’s important that we don’t switch off, and having that momentum going into the playoffs is vital.

"Going into them on the back of two heavy defeats wouldn’t be great. We’ve managed to win the first one, we’ll try to win at Raith on Saturday as well and hopefully, whoever we get in the playoffs, we’ll be going into it high on confidence and feeling good about ourselves.”

Alloa put in one of their best first-half performances of the season as they came out on top against Ayr, and Goodwin was delighted with the way his players weathered a second-half storm from the visitors.

He said: “Every game matters. People might have thought we had nothing to play for, but they’d be wrong because every time you go out on that pitch there’s professional pride at stake.

"There were some great individual performances but as a team it was great.

“It was certainly a game of two halves. In the first half I thought we were excellent. We dominated possession and scored two good goals, particularly the first one.

“Ayr will probably be disappointed with the second goal because nine times out of ten, Andy Geggan heads it away.

"But I’ve got to give credit for Callum Crane for being there and being as positive as he was. It was a great finish.

“We knew they’d come flying out at us in the second half because at the end of the day they are trying to win the league.

"I thought we caused a lot of that ourselves and that’s the only negative of the afternoon.

"But after we weathered that storm I thought we came back into the game and had chances of our own.”

The manager felt justice had been served after Ayr were awarded a controversial penalty with the score 2-1, only for Honest Men striker Craig Moore to send his spot-kick high over the crossbar.

Goodwin added: “I was really disappointed with the penalty. I’m not one for publicly slagging off referees because we all make mistakes but for me that’s a big mistake.

"I don’t know if it’s because he doesn’t want to make a colossal decision which could cost them the league so he’s gone for the easy option, but it was soft.

"If you’re giving penalties for that you’ll have half a dozen in a game. Justice was done in the end.”