You may well be right but I'd like to see Brechin play a few more matches. At moment they have 4 games in hand over Queens and are potentially are closest challengers. Saying that I don't think they will reach the total number of points we already have but untl it is mathematically...

That would be fantastic JR but given the games that Brechin have in hand - and when they are scheduled for - it is unlikely. They now have another one from today.

A win against them on Tuesday would be helpful - if the game is on !

I am still predicting Alloa (A) on 23 March but perhaps Brechin (H) the week after if they win their games in hand.

I am not certain, but I think historically as teams get nearer to winning a Title one or two unexpected results pop up.

Hopefully we can buck that trend.

Hammer as you say it would be great if we could clinch the title v Ayr at Palmy in front of, hopefully, a decent crowd but with only 4 home games left and 7 on the road I think we might be crowned champs away from Palmy.
Alloa points potential 78
Brechin points potential 83
but neither of them will reach that. In fact
big Homer could, like yesterday, do us another
favour when Arbroath play Alloa again on
Wednesday night.

the title will be won at arbroath the week after the ayr game lol

That's the 9th March theory out of contention with Alloa beating Arbroath tonight ... I'm going for the Saturday home match with Brechin(the week before the Cup Final)for the title clincher (I hope!) ...

Brechin will still have 30 points to play for after the Arbroath match.

I've built in a bit of "leeway" in my calculation of March 30th against Brechin because I think we'll drop the odd point between now and the Cup Final ...

We could well be in for a good game against Ayr. They won 4-1 away from home so surely they will have high confidence and have a go at us . Far preferable this to having to be up against a deep sitting side. I am looking for a crowd approaching 2 thousand for this one .

A win tonight for Ayr at home to Brechin and a result at Palmy and the Honest Men still have a chance of reaching the play - offs so could be a cracker on Saturday.

Or, even worse, without kicking a ball, virtue of Brechin
drawing or losing a midweek match.

Here's hoping tomorrow's attendance is affected too much by the cold & wet weather forecast and dare I say it the rugby being on at 2.30pm

according to ayr forum only one mini bus from maybole coming to palmerston so this coupled with the miserable cold, damp weather forecast and the rugby on tv cannot see crowd anywhere near 2000 but hope am wrong

Where were McKenna and Young today ?

That was another comfortable 3 points on a difficult pitch but the championship is getting closer.

Nice to see Ayr player manager Mark Roberts shake the QOS players hands as they left the pitch at the end, a nice touch.

Hope Ayr can string a few results together and make the play-offs but its going to be difficult for them.

I must agree it was a really dissappointing crowd .I hope that players and managers are not put of staying by a perceived lack of support.Those not there missed out on absolutely dominant display.
I don't know the stats but we seemed to have hit a few timely goals before the interval and Lyle's bundled header was just in the nick of time.He was odds on to score with his kids as mascots.The goal was just reward for our possession even though the chances were not that plentiful.Reilly was having some joy in the left channel,Danny probably should have scored,Higgins looped a header of the post and Lyle was knocked of a headed chance before he outmuscled at the front post to put us 1 up.
I thought we tried to get the ball forward quicker in the second half and Ayr found the going a lot tougher.A marauding Holt was again prominent and the left provided the goal as i think Lyle crossed for Danny to cleverly head back for Gavin to cleanly slam home the second.That was game over as Ayr struggled to get out of their half.Nicky was unlucky with two headers especially a diving header from Guffs cross after some fine football.Smiths backside stopped a Danny pass from putting in Gavin and our young hotshot was dragged back by the left back in what looked like a goal scoring chance that brought a sympathetic yellow.The second half had some great possession football from the entire team topped of with a relentless pressing game.Ayr seldom had a choice of pass.
Ayr obviously missed the attacking threat of Moffat but i didn't see their game plan.They were admittedly more dogged than earlier games but i can only recall a Roberts drive around 70 minutes on target.Roberts in particular was not great with a spell in the first where he seemed trying to get sent off.
For Queens i thought the whole team played well with the two in the middle of the park sparking memories of the halcyon days of McKenna and Young.I thought Burns had the energy and drive of a younger version of himself.Basically the whole team can play football and had too much for Ayr today.Also good to see the discipline of no bookings for a third game.
20 points clear from one of our best sides ever.

"i heard McKenna was on parental leave."

That may possibly explain the "rocking the baby" celebration from Nicky Clark and McKenna after the second goal at Methil?