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Steve Tosh found it tough going

Wednesday nights warning signs went unheeded, as Queens crashed out of the Alba Challenge Cup in a lacklustre display at Palmerston Park…………………..

Queens stole the points against a lively Ross County side in front of over 2,500 fans on Wednesday night but, due to injuries, will face a tough battle against Morton tomorrow in the Alba Challenge Cup Quarter finals.

Here’s the 1^st Division team of the week based on average marks from various match reports.

Douglas – Dundee, McCulloch – Ross Co, Hazley – Airdrie, Barr – QOS, McQuilken – QOS, Kettlewell – Clyde, McDougall – Airdrie, Davidson – Livingston, Weatherston – QOS, McLaughlin – Airdrie, Dobbie – QOS.......................

It’s indicative of how well Queens are doing when we have two games this week when, if we hadn’t been in Europe and we hadn’t taken the Alba Challenge Cup seriously and beaten Dunfermline, we would have had no games. The picture shows that even 4 years ago Queens fans, long before Hampden and Europe, were roaring and cheering on the Doonhamers. In fact this pic was taken in 2004 on the last game of the season up at Dingwall when a certain Alex Burke scored the winner for Queens in a 2-1 win………………..

David Weatherston made a dream debut for Queens

Queens brushed aside a strong looking Dundee side 3-1 in front of over 3600 fans at Fortress Palmerston…………….

Queens see the return of Eric Paton and his new clubmates to Palmerston today. Kick off 3pm........................

For the 3rd season in a row JB numbers have gone up and not surprisingly the Cup Final and our Uefa Cup experience have seen Junior blue numbers reach their highest level ever....................

Carlsberg don’t do football supporters, but if they did they wouldn’t be doing themselves a disservice by choosing those that follow Queen of the South Football Club. Colourful, noisy, friendly and funny are just a few of the adjectives which could be harnessed to describe our Fans in Farum as Queens went out of Europe with heads held high...............................

If ever there was a clearer example of why Supporters should play a greater role in their football club, it’s the demise of Gretna Football Club. Their rapid rise from semi-professional English football to the pinnacle of the Scottish game was seen as many as a ‘fairytale’. ‘Living the Dream’ they called it, and the media fawned on the ‘wee borders club’ as it made its meteoric rise it to the very top of Scottish football. Winning three divisions in successive seasons, a Scottish Cup Final, Europe, it was like someone had turned every supporters perfect scenario into reality.

Queens extended their unbeaten run to nine games with only one loss in twelve to retain 4th spot in the Irn Bru league Division 1.....................

As the weekends FA Cup upsets showed, if you don’t take teams seriously, no matter what level they play in, you will be undone. Just ask Blackburn, Everton, Liverpool, Swansea, Bolton, Fulham and Birmingham, all of whom were either beaten or held by lower league opposition. With the arrival of Junior club Linlithgow Rose on Saturday, Queens step into the unknown.

A side with over 100 years of history, a trophy room bulging with every major honour the Junior game has to offer and ex Hibs star Gavin Rae as Assistant coach, if the Rose are taken too lightly, there is no doubt this is a potential giant banana skin waiting to happen........................

First of all, news of our Junior Blues Christmas ‘Win a Wii’ competition. The lucky winner was Vicky Boa from Moffat. Vicky was presented with her prize by the Supporters Trust Vice Chair, Louise Currie before yesterdays match against Clyde.



Vicky Boa receiving her Wii from the Trusts Vice Chair Louise Currie

It’s not often that Wayne Rooney and Stephen Dobbie have something in common, but the entry of both in their respective matches this weekend, turned the games in their teams favour. Dobbie’s entrance in the 56^th minute, brought greater penetration and his goal, which brought Queens back into the game, was a typically sublime piece of control in the box with a volley to finish off. From then on Queens stormed forward with yet another goal from Paul Burns and a penalty from Steve Tosh saw the South run out comfortable winners in the end. Clyde fought well for the first hour with Kevin Bradley a stand out.

Although things did not go according to plan on the the pitch, off the field our 3rd Home Junior Blues Free Raffle proved to be popular.............. Read more

�Edition 5 of the Queen of the South FC Junior Blues is complete and will be heading out to around 500 Junior Blues within the next couple of weeks. The big interest for members of the JB club is the chance to win a Nintendo Wii. Also in the latest edition are regular slots such as Dougie's Diary and the Junior Blues Book Club but there's a lot more pack in to our Supporters Trust published 12 page bundle of fun.........................

Supporters Trust Increases Share Investment

The Queen of the South Supporters Trust has increased it’s share in the club to just over 400 shares.



Over the past 2 years Supporters have helped fund various activities, including donations to help during transfer windows, player sponsorship, Shirt draw sponsorship, the U-15’s NI Milk Cup team two years running, ball boys training kit and even a new pair of shoes for our club mascot, Dougie the Doonhamer. The most recent investment, was £1500 in the form of a £750 sponsorship of the Club’s training kit, plus a further £750 investment via share purchase, some of which will go towards the training kit cost and the rest towards the community work carried out by Jim Thomson.

picture courtousy of David Gow

Queens came up trumps at Cappielow

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A top result for Queens as we beat Livingston 1-0.

Another poor performance on the road.

Gutted..... this was a game where 3 points were ours but in the last couple of minutes Saints pulled a couple of goals back to take an undeserved point back up the road to Perth.

Muskys Report       Queens 3 Saintees 3

Last Saturday saw supporters follow up a kind offer from local businessman John Dowson to try out a Queen of the South Stall on Dumfries High Street.

JT came along for a look on what was a busy day for all the volunteers involved and thanks to Eric Fisher of the Queens Mad Board website, Mark Jardine and Ewan McNaught we have sponsorship to allow us to continue the stall for the rest of the season. A great gesture by all three gentlemen.

Queens put in a fine performance at Palmerston this evening to beat local rivals Gretna 2-1.

Queens 2 Gretna 1

Musky.

The big news tonight is that Queens have announced the signing of Scotland’s U-20 World Cup and former Clyde player Brian Gilmour.

Neil McGowan and Brian Gilmour

Gilmour was part of the U-19’s European Championship squad that reached the final last year against Spain and the recent U-20’s World Cup Squad. Having started at Rangers, Brian recently wrote an article in the Daily Record, stating that his gamble to leave the Gers had paid off resulting in his inclusion in the Scotland squads. Certainly the reports of his performances with Clyde seem to back this up. At 19 years of age, with international experience under his belt already it’s a positive signing for the South as we look to improve on our last 2 seasons in Division 1.

The 4th Edition of our Junior Blues magazine Blue & White is out. This month we have news of all our competition winners, Dougies Diary, spotlight on Jamie Adams and news of an exciting competition for JB's who sign up for the Pound a Game season ticket for this season. At £18 it's a bargain for all young Queens fans. Junior Blues click here

Queens are off to the North East of England to play a team who have changed their name five times since their inception in 1988. Newcastle Benfield will provide stiff opposition having lost narrowly 1-0 to York City in last seasons FA Cup.

Queens retained the Scottish Brewers Challenge cup at Galabank Annan today when they defeated Stranraer on penalties following a 1-1 draw.

Andy Aitken picks up the Scottish Brewers Cup at Annan.

Musky.

We've run several competitions over the last year or so,

either via Blue & White or via free raffles at various events.

 Last months Blue & White offered 16 Junior Blues

the chance to train with the first team squad.

 It turned out to be by far the most popular

competition we've run so far with double

the number of normal entries.

The Supporters Trust have been working on the Junior Blues Summer Programme to promote the Junior Blues Club and the 'Pound A Game' season ticket. From Calside and Georgetown School Fayres to the Guid Nychburris 5-a-sides the Summer programme has got off to a busier start than last year. With a lot of help from the DoonhamersTravel Club around 1000 Junior Blues Club's forms were distributed at this years Guid Nychburris 'Big Parade'.

Three young queens fans names have been drawn out to win Student Season tickets for Palmerston next season...........................

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Last Saturday the Supporters Trust, Jim Thomson and Dougie the Doonhamer went along to Calside Primary School Fayre. Although the weather was a bit damp and breezy there was a large turnout, and our stall was kept busy throughout the morning. Many young fans came along to have their photo taken with Jim and Dougie. Dougie also spent an hour in goal raising funds for the schools Parents & Friends Association. As well as picking up ‘Pound A Game’ Junior Blues Season ticket forms, youngsters took part in our free raffle to win autographed footballs.

We would like to thank Headmistress Mrs Hume and Calside Parents & Friends Association for their help and support.

Junior Blues should also note that they will all receive their Junior Blues Club Season ticket forms along with their ‘Summer Holiday Special’ edition of Blue & White, which will be out shortly. Once again the ‘Pound a Game’ season ticket is a bargain at £18. Any youngsters wishing to join the Junior Blues for the first time can pick up a form from the office at Palmerston Park.  You can also download it here

Queens were not long in finding a replacement for departed Manager Ian McCall. And the new man Gordon Chisholm who has been at Palmerston as assistant Manager since last October was revealed at a press conference on Monday. Chis is a popular choice with the Queens support and we all wish him well for the coming season. Further good news from Palmerston is that Jim Thomson,Eric Paton and John O'Neil have all signed new contracts. Talks are under way in a bid to keep hold of Jamie Adams and Stevie Murray from Kilmarnock as well as highly rated keeper Jamie MacDonald from Hearts.  Musky.

The first Annual General Meeting of the Queen of the South Supporters Trust took place on Tuesday night, January 23^rd at Palmerston Park.

We’d like to wish all Queen of the South Supporters a very Merry Christmas. We would also like to thank our friends at Digitl for supporting us this season and those at Palmerston who have worked with us this year to make things happen.

A new edition of the Junior Blues Blue & White magazine is out this week as well as the Supporters Trust news. The Trust edition contains a review on what's happened since the July edition was published and is being sent out to over 200 Queens fans across the globe............

The Queens Trust is delighted to announce an exciting new joint venture with the Dumfries based IT firm, Digitl.

Digitl, a dynamic company offering many IT services, including web design, have agreed to sponsor, design, and maintain, our new-look Queens Trust website.