The Wasps currently prop up the table having lost three out of three so far, conceding 11 goals in the process.

Danny Lennon’s side have also been eliminated from both cup competitions by League Two clubs in Berwick Rangers and Elgin City.

Elgin’s 2-0 extra-time victory over Alloa came just over a fortnight after they had lost 5-0 to a rampant Ton in the League Cup.

But Duffy, who went through to Clackmannanshire for that Petrofac Cup tie, will warn his players that it will still require a top performance to take all three points tomorrow.

The Ton boss told the Tele: “As a manager I don’t read into Alloa’s results so far.

“Football’s never as simple as that. You can’t just judge teams based on results.

“I know, for instance, that they played really well in the first half against Raith Rovers last week. They had a couple of really good chances that didn’t go for them.

“They then lost a goal and the confidence swung to Raith, and Alloa maybe lost a bit of confidence. Games can change on a fraction.

“I went to see them against Elgin in the cup and Danny made a lot of changes. They could have won it but it went to extra-time and they chased the game and conceded two penalties in extra-time.

“They could have quite easily won that game; they had a couple of chances to score and missed them. It wasn’t as though they played terrible and deserved to lose.

“In terms of the goals they’ve conceded, one of the games was against Rangers, so I think you can take that with a pinch of salt.

“I said it a lot last year, but people often associate the difficulty of a match with a name rather than players, managers and attitudes.

“Whenever we played a Brechin or Stranraer people thought we should just win those games, so it’s a piece of nonsense. And I’ll say it again with Alloa.

“They have been an established Championship side now for the last couple of years and they will be doing everything in their power to continue to surprise everybody as a part-time club at this level.

“Danny is a very experienced manager. He’s been there and done it, and he knows all it takes is one good result to get off and running.

“I don’t think they’ll get detached at the bottom at all, and the more teams are written off, the more they will be determined to ram the words down people’s throats. Teams are still finding their feet at this stage of the season, still looking to see what’s their best team and the best way of playing and still looking to add to their team.

“So from our point of view we’ve got to continue with the work we’ve done over the last few weeks, to keep building and keep that positivity in place. If we get the result that’s exactly what that does.” Ton have drawn two and lost one of their opening three league matches, and Duffy knows the perception of their start to the season will likely be influenced by tomorrow’s result.

He explained: “If someone said at the start of the season, you would draw against St Mirren, draw against Falkirk, beat Elgin and Queen of the South in the cup and loss 1-0 to Hibs at Easter Road ...

“I don’t think they’re fantastic results but I don’t think they’re bad results, or that people would be complaining too much, either.

“I think you’ve got to look and say over the last month I think our results have been decent and think our performances have been very good. If we had won one of those matches, say beaten St Mirren, then the whole image changes. I understand that’s how football works.

“If we go on Saturday and win then people say we’ve had a good start, and if we lose people say ‘I can’t believe it’. It goes from one extreme of positivity to the other extreme of negativity. I judge how we’re doing over the space of several months, but ideally you want to get that win at the weekend to build momentum after an excellent result at Queen of the South on Tuesday.” Morton’s injury woes show no signs of easing up ahead of tomorrow — but Duffy expects his depleted squad to continue to show resilience in the face of adversity. He added: “We haven’t been able to field any kind of settled side since the first day and it’s continued since then.

“If you look at the division, we’re the team who has been most heavily hampered by injury, so it’s been frustrating.

“Luca Gasparotto missed Tuesday’s match with a hip injury and we’ll have to see how he is, but the rest of the guys who were injured are still going to be out.

“And Peaso is struggling. He jarred his ankle in the last few minutes against Queen of the South, so he’s in a protective boot for a couple of days. So that could be another problem for us.

“But the other side of this is that the players have been terrific in their attitude and their resolve. In every game, even the game we lost against Hibs.

“It was such a determined performance, a resilient performance that it gave us hope we can go and compete against just about anybody at this level.

“We’ve come into this league, a division above, as underdogs while being severely hampered by injuries. But the players have not gone into the games with that mentality; they’ve rolled their sleeves up and gone into games on an even basis and proved that they can compete. They deserve credit for how they’ve managed to deal with an adverse situation. They haven’t let anybody down and will hopefully have the same attitude tomorrow.”