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1 hour ago, HighlandQueen said:
Did well to get them out of L2 and back end of this season has been good but no progressive forward player development strategy as seems to be done with a nexus of ageing pros, mostly ex Queens players. He has got a lot out of them but not sure how he would handle a bigger budget and no evidence of ability to get a team out of L1 or play on a bigger stage. Not for me but I could be wrong. Difficult to be worse than our last 2 incumbents. Still the proven track record and connections of McCall for me.
Don't forget Murphy's work with Bauhaus in the late 70's/early 80's. A charismatic frontman, and songs like "Bela Lugosi's Dead" and "Kick In The Eye" are now regarded as post-punk/goth classics which have stood the test of time.
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Our Board of Director may be keen on bringing Murphy in if they are best buddies. I'd prefer Murphy too to McCall to be honest, but first things first, let's get the incumbent buffoon out of the door. No point in contemplating who his successor may be while there's still a danger that he may still be here in May and beyond.
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Talking of finances and how to address losses, I was re-reading my Scottish Cup Final programme the other day and it was interesting to read in Davie Rae's interview that in the first season under McCall we lost £330,000 and the second suffered another loss of £120,000 (including the £20k fine for playing Jamie Adams in a cup tie he wasn't eligible to play in). Obviously we hovered around the relegation spots in both seasons which affected crowds.
Rae's solution was to go full-time to attract a better quality of player, but crucially he dictated to Chisholm that he ran with a squad of no more than 20 players rather than the 30+ that McCall ("I just need to add another 2 or 3 players to the squad and we'll be fine" - rinse and repeat) had on the books as he felt that the main cause of the losses was the size of the payroll, even one made up of part time wages. The full time team then finished fourth and got to the said cup final and the crowds swelled.
Pity that Hewitson wasn't so strict with Bartley in terms of adding more and more players to an already bloated squad this season.
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Well, I managed to make it through the first 45 seconds of the buffoon's post match interview before turning it off. His opening gambit regarding his pre-match team talk was "it is imperative that we don't lose this game of football. Go out there and give everything you can, possibly to win it." Possibly? FFS!
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14 minutes ago, Riviera711 said:
You would really, really have to hope so! I'm just living in fear that because we've never heard anything about his situation that he'll still be at Palmerston next season. Surely not!! But if so, I won't be, unfortunately.
Well, he's definitely going to be in situ until the new board has been formed. It's starting to become a major concern that it would seem that only one suitable director has been identified or put themselves forward in the two months since the current mob, who clearly have no intention of dealing with the Bartley problem, announced that they would stepping down. This makes it all the more essential that Hewitson & Co ramp up their efforts to get a new board is in place asap, a new board who recognise that binning Bartley before the summer transfer window opens in order to prevent him from overseeing another summer recruitment shambles is an immediate priority.
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I can only assume, to use a well-worn cliche, that Ferguson "does a lot of the unseen work for the team"... because I've failed to see it.
Speaking of things unseen, what's happened to Houston? Has he picked up another injury? I know Bartley regularly used him in the scapegoat role, but now he seems to have lost his place on the bench to Jay Burns. I would have thought that at this stage of the season having one of our more experienced players around would be more beneficial than deciding that this is the right time to potentially blood a youngster.
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1 minute ago, 19QOS19 said:
This fuckwit we call a manger is just doing his best to piss everyone off before he goes, isn't he?
I've called him a lot of things but never a manger!
To be fair though, I would never call him a manager either. The fuckwit description certainly applies though.
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8 minutes ago, Slipmat said:
Annan getting beat!
Annan no longer getting beat
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Annan getting beat!
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33 minutes ago, bod said:
McKechnie has got to come off for Gibson.
You called it!
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3 minutes ago, 19QOS19 said:
Absolute fucking embarrassment. Any neutral watching that doesn't know the FT side and the Under 20 side. Edinburgh very comfortable. We've created one good chance and nothing else. Edinburgh haven't really threatened but they'll almost certainly get a chance.
Edinburgh coaches loud throughout. We have Twiddle Dee and Twiddle Twat standing looking clueless. Can't wait for those pair to f**k off along with the majority this squad.
Bartley will be satisfied. We've kept a clean sheet for 45 mins.
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Kelty 1 Stirling 0. Annan move up to 8th in the live table, Stirling down to 9th.
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Annan 2 Cove 0
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Annan winning.
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5 hours ago, Distant Doonhamer said:
Only signed until May 2024 according to Official Site but may of course have been offered an extension. Be happy if he stayed with us.
He'd get my vote for POTY despite only having played in half a dozen league games!
When he picked up his injury we were comfortably top 4 and had just knocked Partick out of the Challenge Cup. Then Ferguson stepped into the Mimnaugh role and has barely missed a match. That's worked out well, didn't it?
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The reserves completed their league programme today, and it looking at their final playing record it would appear that the home form vs away form issue isn't exclusive to the first team:
Queen of the South Reserves 8 1 0 3 7 9 2 1 1 9 9 -2 10 0 -
1 hour ago, Palmerstunned said:
So, we’ve got a team who mostly have to travel a decent distance to a ground they only visit every couple of weeks in front of crowd who are hardly known for their vocal support (when was the last time anyone heard any chants or singing at Palmerston that didn’t come from away supporters?).
Difficult to see how that creates any sort of ‘home’ advantage?
You may be onto something here.
In English football, in my youth the club with the reputation for being hardest to beat on their own ground was said to be Millwall who went through 2 consecutive league seasons unbeaten at home in the mid-60s, and then on a further occasion in the very early 70s. This included a 59 game unbeaten run. Obviously this was probably helped by the, ahem, "boisterous" reputation of Millwall fans giving the (old) Den a most unwelcoming and threatening atmosphere.
There's certainly none of that at Palmerston where we only tend to grumble and tut-tut at our own players, aside from the odd occasion when an opposing player gets away with a horror tackle or gamesmanship. Now I'm not suggesting for one moment that Queens fans go all Millwall and start ripping up seats and throwing them at the dozen or so Cove fans who make the trip to Dumfries in order to create something approaching an intimidating atmosphere , but the current shitshow on the pitch gives us very little to shout about meaning that the old "the supporters are our twelfth man" cliche certainly doesn't apply at Palmerston.
ETA: not having a pop at our fans, it's just that the on-field product doesn't exactly stir the emotions.
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7 minutes ago, 19QOS19 said:
I'm hoping and half expecting his release to be negotiated. Miles out of his depth.
I hope our incoming one man board of director has deep pockets so that Bartley, Doherty, Hutchinson and McKechnie can all be "released". Grant Murray too, if he is contracted for next year.
Does anyone know if there is a minimum number of directors requirement in order for the club to be SFA/SFL compliant? At the painfully slow rate that we're going at in terms of assembling a new board, I fear that some of the current board members will still be around next season to make up the numbers.
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16 minutes ago, Artemis said:
Hutchinson has scored the same number of league goals this season as the Edinburgh City goalkeeper.
Just had a look to see how Hutchinson has been getting on at Eastbourne. He started the first four games after his arrival and failed to score. Next three games he came off the bench and failed to score. The last four games he hasn't even been used as a sub.
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19 hours ago, bod said:
Kilty needn't panic what with our home form and as I type marvellous Marv will be analysing and working on our tactics, shape and how to shoehorn his favourites in!
I'm just wondering if we'll play 5-4-1 or 4-5-1 in this must not lose game.
Met Office predicting wind gusts of 45mph. Cue lots of hope(ful/less) long balls up to Mumbongo instead of keeping it on the deck.
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10 hours ago, Bairn in Exile said:
Pardon the brainfart, of course Motherwell got lucky in season 1997-98.
The Scottish Premier League (SPL) was founded in 1998 as the new top flight of Scottish football. The new league and its rules denied Falkirk the chance to be promoted into it on three occasions as a consequence of its formation. When the SPL was created from the old Premier Division, a play-off match that was held between the team ranked ninth in the Premier Division and the team ranked second in the First Division was abolished during the 1997–98 season. Falkirk, ranked second in the First Division, was thus denied a play-off with Motherwell.
Motherwell also avoided relegation through league restructuring in 1986 and again in 2003 when Falkirk were denied promotion due to Ochilview falling way short of SPL ground requirements and the construction of Falkirk Stadium still a year off from being completed.
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3 hours ago, Monkey Tennis said:
That might just be the best 3rd kit in our new division.
We'll have to wait and see what design Brechin come up with.
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10 hours ago, printer said:
Kelty were excellent last night. Fired up from the first whistle, never let us settle and played a lot of good stuff.
Exactly the sort of performance that was needed in their circumstances.
While some teams can start a match fired up, our gang jog onto the pitch looking for all the world like damp tinder. The manager spends the rest of the match rubbing two sticks together in the hope of creating a spark. And usually fails.
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13 hours ago, Mon_The_South said:
Blamed most of the issues on injuries... he was asked that with the size of squad he had assembled he should be able to field a second team no problem. He refused and said they were youngsters and couldn't be called upon as 'first teamers'... absolute nonsense. Although understand the injuries to key players... as a fulltime squad of 27 or whatever, against majority of part timers, they should still be able to hold their own..... so don't have that rubbish excuse.
That'll be the same youngsters that scored 5 goals at Kilmarnock in the reserve league this afternoon.
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Queens v Cove
in Scottish League 1 General Chatter
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Any bets on how long it will take our Commander In Chief to hook Gibson for McKechnie?