Quote Originally Posted by jardi View Post
Fatfan, you and I have not always agreed, but I'm 100% on the page with you regarding desire, fight, controlled aggression etc. My main point though is that although Queens will never have the budget to bring in a team of Stephen Dobbie s, we can put together a squad of Patons and if they all pull together and give 100%, they will tend to beat the team of better players who can't handle the high press, chase every ball until the final whistle attitude. ........it simply wears them down. You won't win every game with that mentality, because occasionally the team with the better players will 'click'.
Give me a team of tryers who are hungry for every ball and a manager like Marvin who will expect nothing less than 100% and you will have a team vying for promotion without putting the club in financial jeopardy.
Alec Wilson......what can I say? An absolute legend, and like Garry Lineker, he was simply voicing his opinion, which happened to be the same as every Queens fan in the ground. Was it simply human error leaving the mike on? Probably, - and if so, surely a reprieve should be in order? Shouting "dive, dive" is hardly a sack able offence, despite it being extremely embarrassing for the BOD at that precise time.
With the benefit of 48 hours to dwell on the rights and wrongs of a simple slip, surely Alec should be given another chance....... If he wants it?
30 years is a lot to give to leave under a cloud for simply stating what everyone was thinking. If he'd used foul and abusive language, perhaps questioning the parentage of the Falkirk diver, ....(sorry player,) then some sort of sanction might be merited, but anyway.....food for thought folks.
A statement from Alex on the Doonhamer Chat Facebook site : -

"All things come to an end... After 30 years of extreme highs and extreme lows it's time to hang up the announcer's microphone at Palmerston... nothing to do with any pressure on my style of "humour" over the years it's just that I have more pressing musical engagements to fulfill in the future... hopefully, I'll still be able to attend home matches... it was nice to sign off with a victory and what I thought was a humorous jibe at diving cheats, too prevalent in the Scottish game... Up the Queens!"