SUPERSOUTH Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 Next weeks match will see the visit of high scoring Brora visit Palmerston our quality and strength should see us progress a nice change from league business before playing the top two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawk Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 This is a game we should be winning but I don't think it will be that easy. They have an awful lot of experience in their team and will be really up for it. For financial reasons and with the way the ties in this round have come out we must be looking to progress. With our squad at the moment it's not as if we can make whole sale changes but I wouldn't want any silly suspensions or injuries to key players with our next two league games against Hearts and Sevco. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WILLIEA Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 I see Brora hit 7 again yesterday. We should win comfortably but I hope there is no complacency Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Brora are Highland League in name but lower SPFL in nature. They didn't concede a goal in their first 5 HL games this season, haven't conceded a goal in their last 7, and sit top, unbeaten, with 16 wins & 2 draws... GD of +78, with 85 for and only 7 against across those 18 games... Plus this has been achieved by splashing money on a lot of SPFL experience. That said - perhaps as they're used to seeing cakewalks most weeks - when they've faced decent opposition it has been much more of a struggle with narrow wins over Stenny (aet) and Edinburgh City, and a narrow loss v East Fife. For me it's the most intriguing tie of the round but with QotS being in good form and full-time, still a home win predicted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUPERSOUTH Posted November 23, 2014 Author Share Posted November 23, 2014 Queens to win by at least 3 goals???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Draw and replay in the village that time never new existed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
die hard doonhamer Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Draw and replay in the village that time never new existed. I'd be well up for that midweek trip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
palmy_cammy Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 As is being discussed in the Raith thread (in amongst all the other tedious pish) we are very good at beating the teams that we should be beating on paper. This game falls into that category so we have to feel reasonably confident. Obviously with the confidence regular success brings, not to mention the experience in the Brora side I think we can expect them to be tricky opponents. I don't think they'll have played a defence anything like as good as ours though. 3-0 Queens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRS LEFT PEG Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 Their top scorer has now hit his 38TH GOAL of the season and we haven't seen the back of November . Obviously a team with massive confidence . Playing Qos is a different level altogether for them though and as long as the attitude is 100% focused , not treating them lightly then we will march on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sloop John B Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 I'd be more wary away from home, but we should hopefully put in a professional performance and take the sting out of the tie. Worst thing would be drawing and going there for a midweek replay though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie. Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 Having watched the entertaining last round game between Edinburgh City and Brora Rangers I can see this as a close game but with a win for Queens. Brora have a lot of experience in their team and have a goal scorer in Steven Mackay who is on fire at the moment. He may well be 33 but he certainly knows where the net is. They are also a danger from set pieces. I'll be interested to hear how things go as I'll be watching Spartans take on Morton. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Tennis Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 Someone said elsewhere before, that we're a very different outfit from that which dreaded and often faltered in such games, in by-gone years. By the same token though, this is clearly no average non-league outfit either. We should win this I suppose, but I'll be relieved if we do. It's not a given. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
palmy_cammy Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 When was the last time we were victims of a "cup upset"? We blew a good chance of reaching the quarters when we lost at home to Brechin, with Buckie Thistle awaiting the winners. Apart from that I can't think of any. I think we lost to Airdrie the year after we got to the final but they were probably in the same league us as that year? Since reaching the final our SC record has been pretty unspectacular, but we've mostly lost to higher league teams who would have been bookies favourites before the game. We're a much better, and more professional outfit now as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRS LEFT PEG Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 When was the last time we were victims of a "cup upset"? We blew a good chance of reaching the quarters when we lost at home to Brechin, with Buckie Thistle awaiting the winners. Apart from that I can't think of any. I think we lost to Airdrie the year after we got to the final but they were probably in the same league us as that year? Since reaching the final our SC record has been pretty unspectacular, but we've mostly lost to higher league teams who would have been bookies favourites before the game. We're a much better, and more professional outfit now as well. We got beat twice by Highland League teams in the early 90's ( Huntly and Ross Co as they were then ) . Can't think of anything since then. I just hope we don't piss about aka Albion Rovers circa 2004 and get mugged. As you say, we are more professional now and I would agree with that . Get the job done as early as possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRS LEFT PEG Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 MT - Can you think of how many Highland League teams we have played in the SC ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacWatt Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 Ross County beat us 6 - 2 at Palmerston in the Cup when they were in the Highland League. They lost 6-1 to Meadowbank Thistle in the next round. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
palmy_cammy Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 To put that Ross County result in perspective, none of; Clark, Durnan, Holt, McShane or Reilly had even been born when that game was played. I know it's not the sort of result you forget very easily if you were around for it, but it will have no bearing on Saturday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRS LEFT PEG Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 To put that Ross County result in perspective, none of; Clark, Durnan, Holt, McShane or Reilly had even been born when that game was played. I know it's not the sort of result you forget very easily if you were around for it, but it will have no bearing on Saturday. I will tell you why it will NEVER leave the minds of Queens fans of a certain age . We drew the first game at Dingwall 2-2 after multiple postponements for bad weather . We were then expected to finish off Ross Co in the replay and got thrashed 6-2 . I have seen a few horrific displays and results in my time but that was right up there with the worst. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Tennis Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 MT - Can you think of how many Highland League teams we have played in the SC ? Not really. I well remember the ones you mention, but beyond them I'm struggling. We won at Inverness in about '94, but they were a unified league team by then I'm sure. There must be plenty I'm overlooking, but I will not check. Never. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doulikefish Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 Taking this one in as we decided the cup was nae worth the bother this season.Ive seen Brora once this season an they are a decent team but id expect Queens to win Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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