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Would simply just love to see top flight football in Dumfries, I've never seen it and would like to be enticed a bit more often. Show me that there is something above the John Dempster, Jimmy Donald, Peter Dickson and Allan Ball's level, and I WILL go to some home games. Sorry, I'm not Truthy.

This is a debate mate, if you can't hack it, then you know where to go. We are not all after local games with the likes of Annan or Stranraer.

Killie have a nice ground and a very good hotel on site. We have nothing but false promises.

Oh yes it is. Why leave so bloody early before games then?

I know the board of directors have their hearts in the right place, but simply being part of the second level is no longer enough. I would want Queens to become a Saint Mirren, Saint Johnstone, Inverness Caledonian Thistle, Ross County, Kilmarnock, Dundee or even Motherwell, I know we should be hoping to aspire to their level, but as I have posted previously, the proof is in the pudding.

It's going to be 50 years of being a small fry team, how can we expect Doonhamers to go and watch Queens over the Champions League games on the telly or the fast declining Old Firm?

But that's exactly it, it's too long to go on a Saturday and certainly not for a mid-week game. I don't go for getting gassed afore a game and would never join the Travel Club (Drinkers Association) simply to get a good bevvy before going to the game. Well it's not for me anyway, but maybe that is why there are only a couple of buses leaving for a record breaking season.

Let's take a deeper intake of the situation and look at what is happening, Walking over part-time teams in a League full of nobodies just does not inspire floating fans to take a look at tiddly teams such as Albion Rovers, Forfar Athletic, Stranraer or Stenhousemuir. To see these clubs come to the town with such consistent frequency simply does not excite most of the townsfolk to leave the comfort of their homes or bookies to sit/stand and watch such drab stuff on the pitch. Even if Queens do reach the challenging places for a rise to the top League, it might take more than one attempt at promotion to entice the local populace to start showing a tad more endeavour or tolerance to what is now happening at Palmerston. I can't get myself up for a visit from East Fife or Brechin City and I'm almost certain that is one of the main reasons that no one really takes that much interest by posting their presence at home matches. I know that some posters on here will want to crucify me for posting what I see as one of the main factors for low attendances, but this is certainly why I do not attend as much as I should, the price is another reason, but that is starting to stray away from what is really the main problem. Taking Queens seriously is what we should be working on.

Queens could quite easily match Falkirk's crowds if they were to show ambition by challenging to play in the SPL. Dumfries folks don't take the club seriously because it has been more than 40 years since the town has produced a top division side. Also many fans have been chased away from home games due to the Rangers vote last season, with many of us going to away games only. Another thing, our location plays havoc with our average attendances. So there!

I preferred Andy Thomson to Stephen Dobbie, but that's just my opinion. I liked Ted McMinn over Jimmy Robertson and John Dempster over Jimmy Donald. I do agree with some posters that Stephen Dobbie is much better than some of the shyte that has represented Scotland in the past.

No he's not, he simply is not good enough to play any higher than the Championship or the SPL. In fact, as most people seem to think, he is better coming of the bench and is seen as a bit part player by most managers and that includes a certain Mr Chisholm.

Hi there Burnie, any idea what sort of crowd you had against Glencairn? Cheers mate.

Why send the Queens fans up to Angus towards the end of February? For what reason would the SFL put our lives at risk on what has been a very cold and wet winter? Surely there must be time in April?

My first ever post, I never knew this site existed