INVERKEITHING HILLFIELD SWIFTS manager Jason McCrindle insists his team will be as prepared as they can be going into today's East of Scotland Qualifying Cup final.

Fellow East of Scotland League Premier Division side Dunbar United await at Newtongrange Star's New Victoria Park for their first cup final since launching their senior side six years ago.

The East Lothian side, who defeated East Fife earlier this season in the Scottish Cup, claimed the East of Scotland League First Division title last term, and sit sixth in the league.

They're also chasing a first cup win in 24 years but McCrindle, whose side are third bottom of the league, is confident they'll have done all they can to be ready for the showpiece occasion.

When Press Sport checked in on the team in the build up to the game, ahead of which Swifts have had a free week, McCrindle commented: "I was here two hours before watching Dunbar's highlights, so I'm trying to do everything I can to help the players, make sure we're prepared, make sure that we're ready so, on the day, it'll just be a case of we've done everything that we can in terms of the preparation.

"Then we'll give the players as much information as we can in terms of their strengths and their weaknesses. It'll not be a case of going there and being unprepared.

"We'll go there and be prepared as much as we can to give the boys the best opportunity to go and win the game.

I went down earlier on in the season with Inverkeithing and we lost that game (4-0 in the league in February). We went down after that, and we got beat 1-0 (in the League Cup last month). It was a closer game by just tweaking one or two wee things.

"Just watching the highlights there again there's wee things that we can do to hopefully exploit where we feel we can get at them, but they're a really good side.

"We'll make the guys aware of their strengths but also their weaknesses as well."

McCrindle continued: "We'll speak with the players and we'll make them aware of what they've done, in terms of going and beating Gala, going and beating Broxburn, so we deserve to be here. We deserve to be in the final.

"At Gala, we were really good, against Broxburn, we were really good, so we deserve to be here. I think we just need to go there, not to lose it, I think we go there to try and be positive to go and try and win it.

"You don't get many opportunities as a club to get to finals, so we don't really want to go with any regrets, saying we'll go there and not get beat. You need to be clever with it as well, but we just need to make sure we go there to give ourselves the best opportunity to go and win the game, not to lose it."

Skipper Callum Deas feels as though it'll be a competitive final, based on previous encounters between the sides, commenting: "They've been close and well-fought.

"It's not like we're massive underdogs or anything like that, so there's nothing to be scared of."

Owen Reid, who has been at the club since the age of five, progressing through their pathway to the senior side, added: "The game should be good.

"We've had past games against Dunbar. We've lost against them twice.

"As you'll have seen in the semi-final, we played Broxburn a week before or two weeks before, and we lost 5-2 to them, but then, after that game, we studied them and we were able to take that into the semi-final, where we managed to hold out and beat them 2-0.

"Hopefully we can do the same thing going in to Dunbar."

Kick off for the final is at 2pm, with cash entry at the gate costing £10 for adults and £5 for concessions.