Monkey Tennis Posted October 1, 2023 Share Posted October 1, 2023 Just now, Gnash said: It definitely wasn't the lowest ebb - because we beat you 7-0 at Palmerston in the same season! Was that April 1996? I missed it because my sister got married that day. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otis Blue Posted October 1, 2023 Share Posted October 1, 2023 1 minute ago, Gnash said: It definitely wasn't the lowest ebb - because we beat you 7-0 at Palmerston in the same season! Jesus wept ... fortunately, I'd returned to my southern abode by the time that fiasco came round. A cup tie in 68 was actually what whetted my appetite for following my home team. I read in the paper (Express it would have been, my mum always bought that) that Queens had beaten top tier Stirling 3-1 in a replay - Stirling were a first division side back then (in a two league set up) so something of a cup shock. Given they were only a few miles up the road, I pestered my neighbour into giving me a lift to the games ... and that was that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnash Posted October 1, 2023 Share Posted October 1, 2023 49 minutes ago, Monkey Tennis said: Was that April 1996? I missed it because my sister got married that day. That's the one, aye. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WC Boggs Posted October 1, 2023 Share Posted October 1, 2023 41 minutes ago, Otis Blue said: Jesus wept ... fortunately, I'd returned to my southern abode by the time that fiasco came round. A cup tie in 68 was actually what whetted my appetite for following my home team. I read in the paper (Express it would have been, my mum always bought that) that Queens had beaten top tier Stirling 3-1 in a replay - Stirling were a first division side back then (in a two league set up) so something of a cup shock. Given they were only a few miles up the road, I pestered my neighbour into giving me a lift to the games ... and that was that. Needless to say by the summer we were back in division 2. That's the Binos for you. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otis Blue Posted October 1, 2023 Share Posted October 1, 2023 4 hours ago, WC Boggs said: Needless to say by the summer we were back in division 2. That's the Binos for you. Queens fell out of the top tier in 63 (I think) and never made it back, so you're ahead of us on that aspect. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Tennis Posted October 1, 2023 Share Posted October 1, 2023 16 minutes ago, Otis Blue said: Queens fell out of the top tier in 63 (I think) and never made it back, so you're ahead of us on that aspect. 1964 I think. It's much more recent than you suggested. Virtually yesterday in fact. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slipmat Posted October 1, 2023 Share Posted October 1, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Otis Blue said: Queens fell out of the top tier in 63 (I think) and never made it back, so you're ahead of us on that aspect. 1 hour ago, Monkey Tennis said: 1964 I think. It's much more recent than you suggested. Virtually yesterday in fact. Only because the Scottish League supremos were so unnerved at the prospect of the Queen of the South juggernaut rampaging it's way through the top flight after finishing runners-up in the old old second division in 1974/75 that they hastily restructured the league divisions for 1975/76. Edited October 1, 2023 by Slipmat 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StewartyMac Posted October 1, 2023 Share Posted October 1, 2023 The 7-0 game was a real highlight in a season full of them, best ever season supporting the Albion, bar none. Two things stick out about that game... 1. We won it by that margin without top scorer Stevie McCormick who was suspended 2. His replacement, Gary McGrotty, won us a penalty, when home keeper John 'Budgie' Burridge brought him down with his nose. What a time to be alive that was. Canny see the same thing happening next weekend however, but I am looking forward to the trip. Any Queens fans know if away fans are allowed in the bar at the ground? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slipmat Posted October 1, 2023 Share Posted October 1, 2023 2 minutes ago, StewartyMac said: Any Queens fans know if away fans are allowed in the bar at the ground? You're more than welcome provided you don't bring an acoustic guitar. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StewartyMac Posted October 1, 2023 Share Posted October 1, 2023 2 minutes ago, Slipmat said: You're more than welcome provided you don't bring an acoustic guitar. Our guitarist is currently on sick leave so you've no need to worry on that score! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB_Bino Posted October 1, 2023 Share Posted October 1, 2023 44 minutes ago, StewartyMac said: 2. His replacement, Gary McGrotty, won us a penalty, when home keeper John 'Budgie' Burridge brought him down with his nose. This is the second time Budgie has come up today. I was listening to Big Sam’s No Tippy Tappy Football podcast earlier today and he came up in that and now this. It’s funny because I remember him at Hibs, at was at the start of High School then and hadn’t seen anyone like him before. I remember him leaving Hibs, then a few months later popping up at Dunfermline to sit on the bench for a few games due to an injury crisis. Few years after that, he was on MOTD at City becoming the oldest Premier League Goalkeeper ever then I never heard of him again. It wasn’t until reading this that I realised he was in at a good number of Scottish clubs during his career, maybe didn’t play but he racked up some amount of clubs. Absolute maverick!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otis Blue Posted October 1, 2023 Share Posted October 1, 2023 1 hour ago, Slipmat said: Only because the Scottish League supremos were so unnerved at the prospect of the Queen of the South juggernaut rampaging it's way through the top flight after finishing runners-up in the old old second division in 1974/75 that they hastily restructured the league divisions for 1975/76. Remember that season well(ish). Sure we had a fine 2-1 win at Brockville with Iain Reid scoring (?). The Bairns pipped us for the title that season by a point. We got a brick through our bus window leaving Falkirk by way of thanks - friendly folk the Bairns. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUPERSOUTH Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 A must win game for Queens.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fae_the_'briggs Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 3 hours ago, SUPERSOUTH said: A must win game for Queens.... Was beginning to wonder if the thread was about a game this week or an episode of "All our Yesterday's" Tbh, I'm a bit jealous that I can't remember details of past games. Back on thread, hardly in must win territory yet, although it's getting close, we certainly need to stop the rot and soon. Home form has to improve drastically to give us a chance of climbing into play-off contention. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otis Blue Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 1 hour ago, Fae_the_'briggs said: Was beginning to wonder if the thread was about a game this week or an episode of "All our Yesterday's" Tbh, I'm a bit jealous that I can't remember details of past games. Hands up, my fault - love reminiscing about bygone days. Thing is, at my age I can't remember what I did five minutes ago but I can recall some things decades back. That's auld gits for you. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WC Boggs Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 5 hours ago, Otis Blue said: Hands up, my fault - love reminiscing about bygone days. Thing is, at my age I can't remember what I did five minutes ago but I can recall some things decades back. That's auld gits for you. Tell me about it. I can't find the jersey I took out of the closet to put on after a shower. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Tennis Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 20 hours ago, BB_Bino said: This is the second time Budgie has come up today. I was listening to Big Sam’s No Tippy Tappy Football podcast earlier today and he came up in that and now this. It’s funny because I remember him at Hibs, at was at the start of High School then and hadn’t seen anyone like him before. I remember him leaving Hibs, then a few months later popping up at Dunfermline to sit on the bench for a few games due to an injury crisis. Few years after that, he was on MOTD at City becoming the oldest Premier League Goalkeeper ever then I never heard of him again. It wasn’t until reading this that I realised he was in at a good number of Scottish clubs during his career, maybe didn’t play but he racked up some amount of clubs. Absolute maverick!! I watched Burridge play for Newcastle when I was a student there in around 1990. He was clearly well past it then, six years before he rocked up at us. He was laughable as Queens' goalkeeper. You could almost have felt sorry for him, were he not such a swaggering twat. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flybhoy Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 1 minute ago, Monkey Tennis said: I watched Burridge play for Newcastle when I was a student there in around 1990. He was clearly well past it then, six years before he rocked up at us. He was laughable as Queens' goalkeeper. You could almost have felt sorry for him, were he not such a swaggering twat. He's certainly a character is Burridge to be fair, a tee totaler who's never touched a drop in his life, mad into his fitness routines and extreme diets and unusual training methods, remember reading when he was at Hibs a few years earlier he would regularly train with three or four goalkeeper jerseys on whilst diving about the place so he would be more lightweight and free moving during games...... no me neither His Wikipedia page is wild, played for something like 30 odd clubs up until he was about 50. I too was at that 7-0 game from 1996, pretty sure Alex Bone grabbed three or four, my only abiding memory of Gary McGroty, apart from being pretty pish (he never scored for the Albion) was ex St Mirren team mate Jim Dick jibing him one day at Forthbank when he wasn't stripped with... "No even getting a game for a pub team these days wee man?" Dick got pelters every time he played against Stirling Albion the rest of his career... Dick by name........ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenacres Posted October 2, 2023 Author Share Posted October 2, 2023 12 hours ago, Fae_the_'briggs said: Was beginning to wonder if the thread was about a game this week or an episode of "All our Yesterday's" Tbh, I'm a bit jealous that I can't remember details of past games. Back on thread, hardly in must win territory yet, although it's getting close, we certainly need to stop the rot and soon. Home form has to improve drastically to give us a chance of climbing into play-off contention. For me it is a must win not close it is here and now . 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fae_the_'briggs Posted October 3, 2023 Share Posted October 3, 2023 16 hours ago, WC Boggs said: Tell me about it. I can't find the jersey I took out of the closet to put on after a shower. Not too bad, at least you didn't put it on before getting in the shower. Going into a room and then thinking "what did I come in here to get?" must be about the most common senior moment I reckon. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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