Those were the words of John McGlynn on the eve of the second home match of the season, with Stranraer visiting Stark's Park on Saturday.

Raith have already dropped four points on their travels following two draws in Ayr and Alloa, but McGlynn reckons home form will hold the key to his team's title chances.

"If you look at the form book over last season, and the season previous, we dropped points to teams at home that we should have been beating," he said.

"If Raith Rovers want to be a team that gets out of this league we have to beat the Alloas, Brechins, Stranraers, East Fifes, Peterheads — basically we have to beat them all to get up.

"Stranraer are the next team coming to Stark's Park and they stand between us and three points. We have to go about our business in the right manner, which the players have been.

"We're trying to entertain, we've got the ball down on the ground, we're making passes, creating chances – we'd just like to produce more goals from them."

One goal and one point was Rovers' scant reward for dominance in Alloa, but McGlynn believes his team has the firepower to overcome Stranraer.

"We just need a break in front of goal which may come on Saturday and kick us into a situation where confidence will be flying," he said.

"We're getting a lot of corner kicks and free-kicks and we need to try to turn these to our advantage. We've had a high amount of set pieces but we've not really had a return off them yet."

Rovers won just eight out of 18 league games at Stark's Park last season — a statistic which must improve.

"Ross County had the most wins at home last season, with about 11 or 12," McGlynn said. "That's the benchmark. We want to win every home game, which may be unrealistic, but it is the target. We can't do any more than win our next game and that's what our aim is."

Rovers still have injury concerns over defenders Andy Cook and Laurie Ellis while Joe Dunbar is also on the Stark's Park treatment table.

"It may be that we don't get any of them back for Saturday," McGlynn warned. "We may get one or two, and if we're really lucky we'll get all three, but that's a long shot. Some may start training but it will depend how they react."

The recovery time of his injured players will determine whether Mark Ferry and Gareth Wardlaw are once again used out of position to compensate.

"The lads have went out of position, did their absolute best, and came out of it very well indeed," McGlynn said.

Spanish midfielder Juan Guerrero (23) has signed on the recommendation of his agent, former Raith star Martin Prest, in a deal will not cost the club money.

"He's just new to Scottish football, he's had an injury, so he probably needs a run out in a closed door game to get some match fitness," McGlynn said.

"He's still got to adapt to Scottish football and over the weeks and months to come that may materialise."

Rovers are in League Cup action on Tuesday night, with SPL club Falkirk coming to Kirkcaldy for a 7.45 p.m kick-off.

"Falkirk are a very good football team but if we can raise our game and everyone lifts their own personal performance anything is possible," McGlynn said.

"We're a potential banana skin. It's our opportunity to create a shock."