Small margins can lead to big gains for City of Armagh's Chris Parker

City of Armagh welcome Clontarf to the Palace Grounds while Ballynahinch host Terenure.

Armagh are eighth and coach Chris Parker feels the team need to start winning the tight games.

“We have been there or thereabouts in games and just come up short for one reason or another and in a couple of others we have done enough to get over the line,” said Parker. “It is the small one or two per centers that make a difference and we have spoken about that over the break and tried to address the areas they we need to improve on going into this block.

"Because every point that we pick up is going to be vital in this league, be it a losing bonus or a try scoring bonus...it is making sure that we get our house in order so we can pick up as many points as we can each week.

“The two things are probably discipline - stop giving sides easy entries into our 22 – then the flip side of that, we need to be more ruthless.

“We are not being effective enough at times converting those into points...if we can stop giving teams entries through our ill-discipline and then be a bit more patient when we get into the 22 and take our opportunities, we can hopefully turn some of those tight loses into victories.”

Armagh lost 35-25 to Clontarf in December.

“When you are back-to-back you really don’t want to read too much into it because everybody has had time to change a few things and be able to tweak what came out of that game,” said Parker. “So I don’t think we can read too much into it...Clontarf have a pretty good all-round game, they have a huge strong powerful pack but extremely quick skilful backline.

“It has been a wee bit disruptive with the weather but we feel we’re in a good position going into the game.

“We’ll just try to get off to the best start and pick up as many points as we can and just keep building and try to catch Lansdowne, who are above us, we go there next week.”

Props Callum Reid and Cameron Doak start, Ross Taylor comes into the centre while Rocky Olsen moves to full back. There is a potential AIL debut for Michael Burnette off the bench.

Hinch coach Adam Craig knows his side must return to winning ways if they are stay in play-off contention.

“We need to get back winning again but you see from the opposition we are playing and everyone in this league has lost a game," he said. “Anyone can beat anyone on their day.

"We have been in the game at half-time and we just need to fix a few things around momentum in the second half and we should be ok.

"I think the rest has been really important, the guys had a bit of time off over Christmas to enjoy life away from rugby.”

“We love playing at home and playing with the badge on in front of the Ballymacarn faithful...so, hopefully, we can put a show on for them.”

Queen’s travel to Old Wesley in Division 1B hampered by Ulster call-ups and injury.