TRANMERE are putting the building blocks in place to establish Prenton Park as a fortress once more, manager Les Parry believes.

Rovers recorded their second home win in eight days with a 2-1 success at the expense of Walsall and they now boast a record of four wins and three draws from eight League One fixtures at Prenton Park this season.

Parry said: “We said at the beginning of the season that home form was our Achilles heel last year and we had to improve it. All good runs are built on winning games at home and it’s good to get another one under our belt. It was a well-deserved win.

“Only Carlisle have turned us over here.”

Tranmere, unbeaten in four league games during October, climbed to eighth place and within two points of the play-off zone thanks to high-quality goals from Robbie Weir and substitute Mustafa Tiryaki.

Weir’s 59th minute strike was his third of the season, making the Irishman Tranmere’s leading goalscorer. Tiryaki struck his first league goal for Rovers on 80 minutes, soon after replacing Enoch Showunmi in the central striker’s role.

Not that Parry claimed any credit for an inspired change after Tiryaki applied a close range finish to a smart passing move that sliced through the Walsall defence.

Parry said: “Enoch had worked really hard and was looking a bit tired. Sometimes centre-backs start to feel comfortable against centre-forwards and that was the reason we made the change, to upset them a bit.

“I was delighted for Mustafa because he had a goal wiped out in the abandoned Accrington game a few weeks ago. I said to him as he was going out that he was due a goal.”