Keano strike saves Queens
Queen of the South Supporters Trust - Palmerston Park, Dumfries >>

Those who advocate summer football were keeping Hardeeply quiet as the bus turned into an amphibious vehicle as it floated towards Moffat. Luckily, as well as the heavens opening, once we arrived in Airdrie, so did the bar. As well as keeping one eye on the Aberdeen Celtic game, talk ranged from bets being placed on whether Tosher would ever come to the realisation that applauding the referee while grinning inanely, was third in the top ten list of ‘things not to do when a referee has just booked you’, just behind ‘giving him the V sign’ and, top of the charts this week, ‘punching his lights out’, to whether the gypsy caravans seen in Tesco’s car park earlier in the week, did in fact, contain the cost cutting content of the mystery striker. The mystery striker is in danger of becoming cemented in Queen of the South folklore, alongside the two new stands and Steve Tosh going through a season without getting sent off as ‘things never likely to happen’. Having said that, given the financial situation the club finds itself in, it’s testament to Davie Rae that adding to the squad is even being gossiped about. If only Mr Bosman hadn’t allowed the Dobster, who, after all, had his career rehabilitated and rescued by Queens, to go to Swansea for nothing, then Chis might have found himself with more than just moths and IOU’s in his pocket.

To the game itself. If we’d only known beforehand that Right Said Fred had given up trying to hit the charts and, with their young cousin, had started refereeing games under the pseudonym ‘The Collinis’ I’d have dug out my ‘I’m too Sexy for New Broomfield’ CD. Mind you, they did turn out to be just a tad better than both the blind guys who refereed the Bristol City vs Palace game and the complete twazzock who, despite only one late tackle in the whole game, managed NINE bookings and two red cards during our first home game against Raith last week. I think, apart from the glaring luminous outfits they were wearing, and their poor singing voices, the only criticism I can throw at the ref was him taking no action when Bob Harris was attacked in the second half in a tackle which, down English St on a Saturday night, would have seen the Airdrie player in the clink for the night. We’ll skip the first half and most of the second as, basically nothing happened. In fact, at one stage, I thought the stadium announcer was going to apologise and tell us we were going to get our money back, but since we couldn’t make out what he was saying anyway, he might have and we never noticed. Keano came on and within minutes took up a great position in the box and from a free kick from the right nodded in to put Queens one up. After that I certainly expected the South to push on and take the 3pts but Airdrie had obviously had an extra shredded wheat and with some Queens players looking as if the strain of full time training was taking its toll, the Diamonds deservedly scored and took a point from one of the worst games I’ve seen since last week. Let’s hope for some better fayre against both the Pars and the Jags in the coming seven days. words by RobinhoBack