palmy_cammy Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 The change in mindset will have been aided considerably by the change in management. I'd imagine our largely young squad appreciate the modern approach we have this season compared with the previous pre-historic regime as well. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Tennis Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 (edited) Queens had a really awful season the year before they won the league in 02 IIRC. Two years before was the really abject one, where Hamilton players saved us by going on strike. Edited January 8, 2013 by Monkey Tennis 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyline Drifter Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 Two years before was the really abject one, where Hamilton players saved us by going on strike. Yep 99-00 under Rowe and Eadie. Connolly did ok in turning things around in 00-01. We didn't really threaten promotion much and faded away to 6th in the end but it wasn't awful and as late as March a good run could still have gotten us promotion. 01-02 was better obviously but as I said before, although we did top the table for a while early on, we were only about 4th at the turn of the year and it was really only form from February onwards that ran us into the title. We won 11 and drew 1 of our last 14 games. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Flash Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 The 80-81 promotion was a bit of a fluke. We were 8th in early December after losing 5-1 at home to Montrose. The big difference was made after Allan Ball came back from injury in the next game away to Forfar. Although we still conceded 3, we won and then went on a decent run. Promotion was still in doubt until the last day, when we needed to beat Albion Rovers and hope Cowdenbeath lost at home to Queen' Park, who were already champions. This seemed so unlikely that only about 1,500 showed up for our game. It did work out, but the following season we kind of wished it hadn't as we were out of our depth and went straight back down. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Distant Doonhamer Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 (edited) The 80-81 promotion was a bit of a fluke. We were 8th in early December after losing 5-1 at home to Montrose. The big difference was made after Allan Ball came back from injury in the next game away to Forfar. Although we still conceded 3, we won and then went on a decent run. Promotion was still in doubt until the last day, when we needed to beat Albion Rovers and hope Cowdenbeath lost at home to Queen' Park, who were already champions. This seemed so unlikely that only about 1,500 showed up for our game. It did work out, but the following season we kind of wished it hadn't as we were out of our depth and went straight back down. Yep, that`s pretty much how I remember it. We had some decent players including the excellent Jimmy Robertson and a young Rowan Alexander. The side put in some excellent performances late in the season including winning 5-1 away to Alloa who were also near the top but also served up some dross especially earlier in the season. Queens Park were the best side in the division by a distance with the rest much of a muchness from memory. Still remember invading the pitch at full time in the Rovers game when the result at Cowdenbeath went our way Edited January 8, 2013 by Distant Doonhamer 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
portland Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 Yep, that`s pretty much how I remember it. We had some decent players including the excellent Jimmy Robertson and a young Rowan Alexander. The side put in some excellent performances late in the season including winning 5-1 away to Alloa who were also near the top but also served up some dross especially earlier in the season. Queens Park were the best side in the division by a distance with the rest much of a muchness from memory. Still remember invading the pitch at full time in the Rovers game when the result at Cowdenbeath went our way remember it well, Jimmy Robertson scoreing the 3rd from about 25/30 yards top corner good times. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Tennis Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 I wasn't at that final game, but remember celebrating news of it as it came through. I went to a few games that season - did we play Cowdenbeath midweek late on? - but I never really became a regular until the following season when I was in P7. Given how that season went, I'm surprised I stuck at it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Flash Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 Yeah, we drew 2-2 with Cowdenbeath midweek late in the season. I think Alexander scored with an overhead kick in that one. Also remember going to Arbroath for the second last game of the season, when we thought we'd blown it after a 1-1 draw. I think that was the one when Dick Malone fired a penalty over the roof late on. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Distant Doonhamer Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 (edited) As posted earlier I remembered Queens Park as being easily the best team in the league. They only finished 4 points ahead of us so clearly not the case. Only 10 points between the top 8 albeit only 2 points for a win in those days. Wiki Link Edited January 8, 2013 by Distant Doonhamer 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qos_75 Posted January 8, 2013 Author Share Posted January 8, 2013 I remember being on the pitch some time after the the end of the last game and a couple of folk were playing head, cross and volley in the goals of the Terregles Street end with a ball made entirely of brown parcel tape. Strange what you remember. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QoSStewartry Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 I remember being on the pitch some time after the the end of the last game and a couple of folk were playing head, cross and volley in the goals of the Terregles Street end with a ball made entirely of brown parcel tape. Strange what you remember. Stranger still is where they would've got that much brown parcel tape ... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost of Harkness Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 I have little memory of the 80-81 campaign except at humping at the hands of Queens Park at Hampden, 5-1 we lost. Queens fans were getting spat on in the enclosure below the old main stand. I still have the programme somewhere. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dickie Davies Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 (edited) I remember 1980/81 very well....it was the 1st season that I started regularly watching Queens culminating in that dramatic last game of the season. I can vividly remember the 1,500 fans invading the pitch at the end of that last match and congregating at the tunnel facing the stand whilst chanting "One Willie Harkness..etc etc". Soon after the players came into the stand where they were warmly congratulated by excited fans. I recall Jimmy Robertson standing on my usual seat while saluting the fans.....as an excitable 10 year old I absolutely thought I was in dreamland! I also remember Alan Ball hugging my brother in celebration and even asking how his new Fiat Strada was going!! Conversely, 1981/82 was a disaster of a season what with Jimmy Roberton in contract dispute with QOS and who didn't play for us until October. Mind you I'm not sure that would have made a big difference. Do you remember Harry Hood being appointed manager at the start of 1982 only for him to resign several weeks later?! And finally that 1981/82 QOS strip......who was the shirt sponsor? Barollon or Legoland?? 1980s nostalgia - you can't beat it! Edited January 10, 2013 by Dickie Davies 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRS LEFT PEG Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 (edited) I was only young (11) but think the departure of Harry Hood was linked to the Jimmy Robertson dispute.I remember sitting in the main stand 81-82 and watching us get stuffed 5-1 against Hearts. The crowd at the last game of 80-81 was 1600 odd and thats without checking Edited January 11, 2013 by JRS LEFT PEG 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Flash Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 I was only young (11) but think the departure of Harry Hood was linked to the Jimmy Robertson dispute.I remember sitting in the main stand 81-82 and watching us get stuffed 5-1 against Hearts. The crowd at the last game of 80-81 was 1600 odd and thats without checking It was. Harkness took Robertson's side and isisted he should play while Hood wanted to leave him out - I think it was over whether Robertson was fit enough or something. So Hood resigned on a point of principle. Robertson's every touch was booed in the first game he subsequently played - against Queen's Park at home. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRS LEFT PEG Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Queens Park were a standout team in the 80-1 season. Other memories include Queens manager George Herd walking out halfway through the season and the directors picking the team for the rest of it, of course leading us to promotion.Maybe this was the reason that Willie always thought he knew better than whoever was ever in the Palmerston hot seat. My boyhood hero JR was voted second division player of the year and was an outstanding talent.ps Herd was travelling a long way to come to Dumfries ( North East ?) and was ' travel sick '. This was the main reason he left 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Tennis Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 And finally that 1981/82 QOS strip......who was the shirt sponsor? Barollon or Legoland?? 1980s nostalgia - you can't beat it! I believe it was Barallan or something. What did they actually make/do? You always were a sucker for nostalgia Dickie. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qos_75 Posted January 11, 2013 Author Share Posted January 11, 2013 (edited) And finally that 1981/82 QOS strip......who was the shirt sponsor? Barollon or Legoland?? 1980s nostalgia - you can't beat it! As far as I remember we had the old umbro kit with the double diamonds all they way down the sleeves when we won promotion in 81. These didn't have a sponsor, the kits with the Barrallan were the season after. I'm not sure who the kit manufacturer were, I think it was a bobby washable make but we were playing in them in the under 18's some six years later. Edited January 11, 2013 by qos_75 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRS LEFT PEG Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 (edited) Anyone wanting to put a few quid on us to win the league better get in quick. We are now 1-250 and getting shorter. Edited January 12, 2013 by JRS LEFT PEG 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Tennis Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 As far as I remember we had the old umbro kit with the double diamonds all they way down the sleeves when we won promotion in 81. These didn't have a sponsor, the kits with the Barrallan were the season after. In fairness, that's exactly what Dickie says. He's talking about the 81/82 kits. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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