Rallying Call

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Once again we need the Dumfries public to come along and support their hame team regardless of last Saturday's performance and result. The new management team, as called out for by many, is in place so expectations should be high of a much improved performance this time under Magic having had more time to work with the squad but the team still need the fans to be fully behind them as we aim to continue in the play offs. If we cannot overturn this deficit against Montrose then simply we have not been good enough-period.

Your post Spike has reminded me of something I wanted to write down last Monday. How many times in recent and not so recent times have Queens fell flat on their face when playing in front of a larger than usual crowd . I am kind of thinking it like a 'Queens curse' . I can still recall a very impressive crowd for our home SC game with Dundee United in 2005. We were terrible , never got going at all and even normally very reliable keeper Colin Scott let in a soft one . McCall's team strolled it. That just one example as since then there have been too many to mention with last Saturday's being the latest example.---------Going back a lot further , we played Rangers in the SC in 1976 at Palmerston in front of an incredible crowd of 18,700. We got flattened 5-0 and this was the game after our famous SC win after Ayr in a replay. The Standard reported it as a stroll for the Light Blues when there was a lot of anticipation of a close game.