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Be interesting to see if Dykes can continue to turn it on against the likes of Hamilton and St Mirren on a wet Tuesday night in winter. In my experience over the past couple of seasons - possibly not. Having said that ddese4rved win and he played well. Be nice to see some consistency from refs wrt players kicking the ball away though. I reckon Livvy could have had 4 or 5 bookings for this in the last 5 minutes alone.

lol. Yeah this.

Actually having seen the replay I’ve gone the other way. On the day from behind the goal I thought Holt could have got closer to the striker and maybe the keeper would be disappointed not saving it. From the stand though it looks a strong connection and really didn’t give anyone much of a chance.

Early candidate for post of the season[emoji23]

Aye we thought Holt switched off for the goal. Wouldn’t blame the keeper but suspect he’d probably be disappointed not to save it as he was very close to it. Whether Queens could or should have been 3 up, we were definitely on top prior to the goal and had missed several decent chances. About 20 minutes in I said to my mate that this was exactly the sort of game we usually end up losing 1-0.... I wouldn’t be too tough on Faisal for shooting when through on keeper. Having spent much of the last 12 months watching the rest of our team pass up obvious shooting opportunities in favour of trying to pass to Dobbie, it’s refreshing to see someone else prepared to have a go. He missed a couple but expect him to pay his way in goals in due course.

Soooooo.....I thought the keeper showed he’s not scared to have a go at crosses but looked a bit nervous. That’s still a notch or two higher on the goalie scale than Martin and suggests some potential at least. Also felt we played some nice one touch football in patches particularly early on and created a decent number of half chances in the game. Sure Dobs would have nabbed one or two. Semple looked a bit heavy to me but he seems mobile enough. The big guy up front Hamilton already feeling more effective than Dykes for me.

Some game though. 3-3 and off to pens. Think that means we’re out either way though? Thought our first might have been offside. Def pen for theirs. Couldn’t see why their 4th was ruled out. Foul by the looks but thought defender and goalie hit each other

Garry Harkins spotted in the Q at the turnstile. Which ends he heading for you reckon?[emoji23]

But you are not Stats God Skyline Drifter.

To be fair though Dobbie went through a fairly prolonged spell of unDobbieness last season where the main issue was we didn't have any obvious replacement. I'd hope AJ in those circumstances has the balls to drop him to the bench and play Murray.

Thought he showed a fair bit of potential when with us but far from the finished article. Hope he's progressed a bit on his holidays up north. I'd have liked to see Doyle stay mind you for a bit of his enthusiasm and commitment.

No that's harsh. On his day he could be one of our most positive players when he goes on a run, but I think he wasn't maybe encouraged to do this often (Naysmith tactics) or maybe hes a confidence player and wasn't always feeling up to it. Definite ability on the ball but as others hinted maybe not always to much end product.

Lol I assumed this was the guy from the Queens twitter account again....

When one is dropped to the bench ;-)

Yeah I've liked what I saw of him when we played against him at Morton. Cant really recall having much on an opinion on him when he was at Queens. Chance he's developed since then so lets see what hes got to bring to the party.

That seems to be the general implication.

Absolutely agree wrt his attitude. Cant fault it. Bit error prone but as said above - worth seeing who we get in to replace him.

If you think that's bad have you seen what happened at St Mirren with the tickets for the playoff final. Seems they accidentally released tickets for public sale for all the season ticket holders seats so most of them cant sit where they usually do and quite a few haven't got tickets at all! That would be quite funny if it wasn't so.... nah its just funny.

So Scotland enlist former international defender as manager in bid to avoid embarrassing defeats to lower quality opposition. What could possibly go wrong?[emoji23]

Nothing in particular against Falkirk fans so I wont join in the baiting. Dundee on the other hand..... [rubs hands in anticipation}

Not a classic. Can’t fault the effort from Queens though. Murray and Doyle pretty effective down the right at times. Would like to see the penalty again as from where I was it looked giveable. The ref was pretty kind to us if I’m honest. Nice to see Palmy buzzing again for the last couple of games.

I'm not unduly optimistic but think you are being a bit unkind to Raith there. They played well and had us under the sort of pressure I would have expected a confident team to produce on their own patch, but we defended a fair bit better than of late and the goals we scored were pretty decent too. I thought Raith were unlucky to be 3 down and deserved to at least have some chance for todays game. Its not all over by any means but if we play like we have in the past couple of games I think it'll be pretty difficult for Raith to get what they need from the game.

I'll take just the one mistake. Its definitely an improvement. And Dykes goal (no way was the 3rd his) was just so not Lyndon you have to applaud it and hope he remembers how he did it.

Turned Martin into a keeper and Dykes into a striker. Magic right enough!

That didn’t look like a team of players not playing for the shirt today! Even Martin seemed to enjoy himself and had two very important saves at 0-0. Well done to AJ for pulling that performance out of a team in free fall. Looking forward to next week now.