CLYDE midfielder Alan Trouten believes the Bully Wee must make home advantage count in Sunday's Alba Challenge Cup quarter-final with Ross County at Broadwood.

John Brown's men have already met County on league business this season when they battled back from two goals down to earn a point.

And Trout, who has been sideline by excruciating migraine attacks, is hoping he will be restored to the starting line-up by boss Brown for the second coming of County.

And he said: "I have suffered from migraine attacks since I was a kid and there is not a lot you can do when one comes on. Basically it is a case of looking for a dark room and getting your head down, but they can go on for 24 hours and are pretty hellish.

"They cost me a couple of games against Livingston and Hamilton, although I came on as a sub in the win at St Johnstone last weekend.

"But after another great week in training I am just hoping to get the nod to face County on Sunday.

"Unfortunately migraine attacks are just a fact of life for me that I have to get on with."

Trouten has plenty of experience of playing against County from his time in the Irn-Bru Second Division with Queen's Park. He has not been surprised by their strong start to life in the First Division or their place in the last eight of the Challenge Cup.

Alan said: "County may have surprised a lot of people by how well they have done since they came up, but I knew they played a lot of good football from my time at Queen's. In guys like Steven Craig they have the type of quality up front that can hurt you.

"But we got a superb win at St Johnstone last week where we showed a lot of character.

"If we can get past County a place in the last four would be a huge boost both in terms of confidence and of winning back-to-back games and increasing our momentum."

Sunday's quarter-final will be a repeat of the 2006/2007 Challenge Cup Final when County came out on top against Clyde 5-4 on penalties after a 1-1 draw at McDiarmid Park.

But Trouten says that will have no bearing on their meeting this time around.

He said: "If you look at the amount of changes in both teams, never mind the fact we have a totally new management team in place, then there is no point in drawing any conclusions from that.

"But the one thing we must get right is to avoid falling two goals behind.

"In the league meeting County played us off the park for the first half and we never got close to them - this time we need to be in their faces from kick-off.

"It's not every time you get a chance to play in a semi-final and to do that we must make the most of home advantage." Bully Wee reduce prices

CLYDE and Ross County have agreed to reduce prices for Sunday's Alba Challenge Cup quarter-final at Broadwood. Adults are £10 with concessions £5 and under-12s will get in free. Cash-strapped Stranraer have admitted financial mistakes have forced the club to take drastic action to avoid going out of business.

Debts are understood to have risen to £250,000 and tensions between the board and manager Derek Ferguson are thought to have developed over transfers. The Second Division strugglers have also scrapped their Under-17 team.