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So here I am once more In the playground of the broken hearts….

Interesting reading Dunfermline’s statement today. They’ve got the opposite problem to us. They’ve just “retired” 3 board members to stream line their board to 8!

On the flip side I reckon Nditi cost us enough points early season to have finished 3rd bottom

Agree Paton looked more dangerous when he came on but he also missed a very good chance (which tbf he made for himself) so I don’t think he can really be the striking answer. But Cameron and Soares are so toothless it’s painful. Todd missed a sitter but so did several Ayr forwards so we were lucky to go in level. Todd isn’t captain material imo. Too quiet. If WG does stay on as manager I think he needs to hang up his boots and focus on it. I don’t think the player manager gig has worked, and it says so much that he’s been our best player this season.

Noticed in a few games Wullie absolutely blasting various individuals - usually the defence or GK- really blowing his top. For me that’s the captains job on the park. I don’t think the psychology’s been right the last few games. It also sometimes feels like every move has to go through him. Makes us feel very one sided at times. I’m not sure what the solution is but if Wullie gets the manager role next season I think he needs to hang up his boots. If he wants to keep playing I think he needs to become a team player again.

Is it a problem that when we get down to the business end of the season and needing wins to avoid relegation, that the majority of the squad are either loaned or out of contract in 2 months and so the concept of relegation isn’t likely to be the same motivation that it is for the fans.

He got a proper media job in the NE of Scotland

Agree, in particular think we’re missing something up front. Maybe if Connolly hadn’t gone off injured it might have been different. Cameron played as well as I’ve seen him but think he needs a finisher alongside him. Not sure we have that in the squad.

Yeah I was a bit underwhelmed too with a lack of specifics. No plans to increase the size of the board but all board members looking to jump ship. Not all that reassuring. Would have been nice to hear of some progress being made in that area. Have to say I simply disagree that a board of 3 is good as it aids quick decision making. If it’s the wrong decision, the speed isn’t really relevant, and sacking the manager at this point in a poor season can’t really go down as a quick fire decision.

Well hopefully not the other one ….. Goodwillies mate.

I think if we can’t even convince the likes of Reilly to sign then we are probably kidding ourselves that we can find the quality to dig ourselves out of this. AJ pretty clearly doesn’t know his best side, and IMO we have several first team regulars who aren’t championship standard.

Some were for sure. Some boos too. I just left. Tbh I don’t think you can fault the attitude of the players. It was a bit of a war of attrition out there and we were holding our own, more so after the East screamer, until 2 minutes of inept defending undid us. There’s definitely a few players that aren’t good enough but couldn’t fault their effort. Can’t see this team staying up even with a new manager tbh so I’d be looking to rebuild for next season in the first now.

To be fair we defended really well for 85 minutes……

I’m quite looking forward to todays match. It’s not often you get to see a Queens v Queens reserves match that’s not behind closed doors.

I have a mate (now in his late 50s) who in the 80s put on his CV that he played football as a hobby. But because he just played in the park not for a team as such, he wrote Hobbies Football (casual) ….

And we’ve gone down the road of a star striker in a duff team before haven’t we.

I don’t think I’ve seen him play, certainly not in the flesh, but was thinking he must be bad (or at least very lightweight) if he’s a worse option than our current ness of a defence

I see Magic has signed us a new Centre Back …[emoji6]

Watched on QOSTV. Deserved win. Ayr poor but we looked up for it. Pleased with the overall attitude which didn’t look like a team resigned to relegation.

http:// http://www.qosfc.com/news-5611. Interesting update. Plenty of behind the scenes info. No mention of the manager (by name) at all, just the “ management team”. Not sure what to take from that.

No kids mind

Do we know how many ( if any) of these companies have any financial relationship with Queens? I’m not suggesting anything untoward, but it might at least explain an apparent reluctance to hand over the reins in the face of apparently overwhelming loss of confidence from the fans. I can’t see what Mr Hewitson can be getting personally out of the current situation, and it must really hurt the other two board members to be getting compared to the Harkness regime in some quarters.

That was really poor from Queens. Cove deserved their win and looked the more motivated but some howlers in defence and I’m not sure I buy the “World class” first goal either tbh. At first look I thought Bryan should be getting it and certainly misjudged it. It was low enough to be in range. And as for loan players. Forget it. Scrabbling to stay up is so 2010s. Get a manager in who can build a team to get us promoted out of Div 1 in a couple of seasons cos that’s what we surely need.

It’s been a privilege to watch him. You have to credit him for sticking with us even when we didn’t have the team to support him. Feels a bit unlikely he would join another Scottish club given his commute from home. Would have thought he could find something nearer home. Agree it would be nice to have a testimonial of some sort.

Yep - Arbroath probably can argue they were the better team given the first half was a nonentity but that was really lazy defending for their first (twice) not sure if it was McCabe both times but plenty of chances to get stuck in and get the ball away.