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What a day. The atmosphere was electric, with the young team in full voice and driving the noise all game (well done to them) We started brightly and created the kind of chances that should have put the game to bed before half-time. Longstaff rattled the bar with a strike that had half the stand on their feet. Liam Sole had the golden opportunity, clean through on the keeper, but his effort rolled agonisingly wide. At that point, it felt like we should have been two or three up and cruising. The story was much the same after the break – good football, more chances, but still no killer blow. As the minutes ticked away, the nerves began to grow. Queens came into it and had a double chance that, honestly, I’ve no idea how they didn’t put away. It was one of those heart-in-mouth moments where you’re just waiting for the ball to hit the net. As the game edged into stoppage time, their keeper came forward for a last minute corner. After a brilliant recovery tackle from one of their defenders, the ball broke to Longstaff just inside our own half. He looked up, saw the empty net, and went for it. Time seemed to stand still as the ball bobbled through before nestling in the goal. Special shout out to Macintyre. He was immense at the back today. Winning everything and looking more composed every week.

On the Road Again As Willie Nelson once said: "We are on the road again" to arguably the toughest test of the season so far as we make the long trek to Dumfries to play Queen of the South, one of the clubs who will fancy their chances at making the play-offs at the very least. Often a difficult venue to try and extricate points from, Palmerston will host the game this Saturday with a 3:00pm kick off. Our last visit last season saw Admin Brooks take his anger out on us as we were pumped 4-1. I believe we are a different beast this season though and barring injuries we should have enough in the locker to come away with something as long as we stay focussed on the job in hand. The feelgood factor is back at the Caledonian SarensPSG Stadium. Let's see if we can drag it down to Dumfries and keep this run going. It starts at the back, so more clean sheets will be welcome and let's get the goals our open play deserves. If you are needing cheered up, there's a comedy night at the stadium the night before the game at Dumfries. See details below ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Match/Ticket/Bus/Info Car Park for Sale: Sold KDM Trophy v DundeeB Hospitality v East Fife Comedy Night (This Friday) ⬇️ See Below ⬇️ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tickets available here It was the first outing of the new away strip last weekend and it was a successful outcome as thankfully the curse of Manager of the Month failed to materialise. LEAGUE 1 RESULTS Kelty 0-3 ICTFC ICTFC 2-0 P'Head ICTFC 1-2 Stenny Mont 0-2 ICTFC ICTFC 1-0 Alloa Cove R 0-1 ICTFC We came away with a hard fought 1-0 win over Cove Rangers at Balmoral Stadium thanks to a deflected second half strike from Calum MacLeod. That win pushed the Caley Jags up to second in the table behind the only team to beat us in the league, Stenhousemuir. Despite picking up the three points, if I can nit-pick somewhat, we disappointed on our TV debut with a less than flattering but hard grafted display. Defensively we dealt reasonably well with Cove and racked up our fifth clean sheet, which has not gone unnoticed. The part that was less aesthetically pleasing was our inability to carve out as many clear opportunities as we should have. I know, I know, it's nit-picking of the highest order, but with the quality of our options on and off the park I was expecting more. Maybe it was the fake grass or the lack of atmosphere amongst the portacabins, but we looked lacklustre from early on. Could do with Alfie Bavidge getting his shooting boots on. Are we expecting too much of him after his explosive entry last season. I'm sure it will come, let's hope it starts on Saturday at Palmerston. Calum MacLeod has rightly been getting the recognition he deserves after taking stick in his opening adventures at right back. Good wing back displays from him recently and always willing to add to the attack on occasion. Great to see him get his reward with the winner at Cove. As they say, "you've got to be in it to win it" and although there was a deflection, he backed himself to get on the end of Spoony's lay off and three points it was. Scott Kellacher has the usual script: "One or two struggling" So basically, that tells us nothing, therefore make your own team up for this one. Queens went down last weekend at East Fife with this squad. Reece Lyon headed them level just before the interval but Nathan Austin hit a second half winner just after the restart. LEAGUE 1 RESULTS Cove R 0-2 Queens Queens 1-4 Accies Queens 4-0 Peterhead Stenny 0-0 Queens Queens 2-1 Kelty East Fife 2-1 Queens Kai Kennedy is still at Palmerston but Adam Brooks is now at Crusaders in Northern Ireland. Kurtis Guthrie and Reece Lyon have three League1 goals and Kai Kennedy has scored twice. Peter Murphy was not a happy bunny after losing at East Fife hinting that they (QotS) deserved nothing from this game and simply did not turn up. I take it that that means they will have had their arses kicked and will be up for it this weekend Home advantage was an indicator last season with both sides taking full points in their home games. The last meeting at the end of March last season saw Adam Brooks hit a second half brace after we had the temerity to go ahead midway through the first half. We ended up getting thrashed 4-1 Meh! Saturday, March 29th, 2025, 3:00 PM at Palmerston Park, Dumfries. Attendance: 1,006 It was a miserable afternoon down South as the game kicked off and after the posturing was over, Ben Brannan put the first effort of the afternoon wide in the tenth minute. Alfie Stewart went even closer from distance. It had been a good opening twenty minutes from the visitors and after Keith Bray had a header saved Alfie Stewart scored into the bottom corner from inside the box. Perfect start from the Caley Jags but we were quickly pulled level when Jack Hannah headed high into the net from a Kai Kennedy ball into the box. That was Hannah's first goal for QotS. Bray had one chalked off for offside as Inverness responded to that setback but it was the hosts who were starting to look more threatening as half-time approached and Harry Cochrane went close after he latched onto a cross from the left but shot inches wide. HALF TIME: 1-1 Shortly after the break Connal Ewan blocked a shot from Kennedy as the hosts went on the front foot. Cochrane went close again and a minute later Jordan Allan put Queens in front, slotting into the bottom corner after an assist from Admin Brooks. Alfie Stewart tried his luck from outside the box but his namesake in goal saved easily. Musa Dibaga saved from Taylor Charters after a quick counter attack with Kennedy providing the opportunity. With around twenty minutes left Admin Brooks stuck the knife in lashing home from a tight angle into the top corner. Game over, but not the scoring. Kennedy was chief tormentor winning a free kick from which Luissint went close to a fourth but for Dibaga keeping the ball out. It was a bit of backs to the wall in the final moments but Admin Brooks finished his vendetta against us with a fourth in the last minute, smashing in a powerful strike to end our day of pain in the rain. FULL TIME: 4-1 Jack Hannah scored the equaliser five minutes after Alfie Stewart had opened the scoring for the visitors. Queens eventually routed the Caley Jags 4-1 with further goals from Jordan Allan and a brace from Admin Books. He really has it in for us and was a pain in the rain. Table ahead of Saturdays fixtures Formation: Queen of the South FC was formed in March 1919 from three existing Dumfries and Maxwelltown teams: Arrol-Johnston Car Company, Dumfries FC, and the 5th Kings Own Scottish Borderers. Another club, Dumfries Amateurs, said stuff that for a game of soldiers and declined the invitation to join and the other clubs agreed to the merger. Dumfries Amateurs dissolved in November 1920. National League Competitions Division 2 – Champions 1950–51, 2001–02, 2012–13; Runners-up 1932–33, 1961–62, 1974–75, 1980–81, 1985–86 National Cup Competitions Challenge Cup – Winners 2002–03, 2012–13; Runners-up 1997–98, 2010–11 Scottish Qualifying Cup – Winners 1923–24 Scottish Cup – Runners-up 2007–08 Edited Just now by tm4tj

Quite an impressive result. To come away with full points at Dumfries is no mean feat. It is more evidence that we have more than one game plan and can now punch with power when needed where craft is our normal suite. Pleased to see Zimba getting a start and proving his inclusion with a goal. We need our strikers to score and today’s goal will give him, I hope, the confidence to go further. Also a reminder to our other strikers their place needs to be earned. Five yellow cards is quite a count and as DD said managing to keep the head and not get a man sent off will have contributed to the three points. Well done. A easier trip home for the team and fans tonight. bc

First class boys, well done again on the road!😀

QOS keeper has had 14 saves, need to beat him. Our 5 yellows means they will be rolling around for every tackle

I think tactics and injury niggles have come into play with the team selection. Bavidge hasn’t really got going yet and I know after he came back they were trying to work him up to full fitness. Maybe that’s taking longer than had been hoped. I’m pleased to see Longstaff starting as he’s been unlucky to just be on the bench recently. He gives us more natural wing play than Bavidge playing out of position. Big day for Zimba getting a start in the league.

And today the most northerly Scottish senior team plays Stranraer, the most southerly. (and most westerly!) Which I suppose has bog-all to do with Ross County, the title of this thread!

Happy Birthday to Scotty. Beam me up. Site creator and maintenance man extraordinaire. If it were not for Scotty what we all do in our spare time.

Try doubling it 🤣 No listen, as days out go, that was proper good 🍺

I only saw 10 minutes of the u12 girls festival. My daughter watched it and I took grandson to play for clach u12 v Buckie at Charleston. Granddaughter scored a hat trick in one game plus 4 more. They have a good team.

No listen... We're buzzin

Watched grandson score a hatrick for county u12 v Morton, not bad, as he only turned 10 year old last week, playing up 2-3years. Then into the ground to watch RC v Queen’s Park. Kept checking our score via bbc on phone. Last check, bbc showed still 0-1 but then changed to 1-1, with clock at 90 +5. Bugger, how did we let that happen as stats showed 23 shots on goal, 16 on target and 14 saves by QOS keeper. Just arrived home to see we won 2-0. Happy days. ( a score I predicted in the prediction league. Happier days) Ps………. RC were crap again today. 2 centre backs have no pace and found out yet again. Galacher gifted Arbroath the winner via penalty last week lunging into a stupid tackle in the box as too slow and today a long ball over the top, he couldn’t catch the forward and took him down as last man, deserved the red card. I am always banging on to my grandkids that we had a centre back ( probably our best ever) who was as slow as Gallagher and lacovitti but had Meekings who was rapid across the ground covering. Strange that Roy has pumped so much money into saving RC over the years, yet he has caused their downfall by not sacking cowie at end of last season, denying Tony docherty a transfer window to get his own players in. Walking out of stadium back to car heard a few saying they think RC will go down this year and caley will pass them on the way up. Changed days after the last few years.

Today we played against the best player in the leaguecin Ross Stewart. He has been great for 12 months now and he will help queens take points of alloa and stenny. What a great result.

Exactly how I felt.

Bl**dy BBC almost had me greeting! Luis - zero to hero in the blink of an eye 😀

Well done to all involved today, on and off the pitch. That’s a big result. As well as the BBC not knowing what was going on, Sky persist in showing us as the league leaders! Maybe we will be soon.

1st time at Palmerston, worth it

Apart from scoring at the end, Longstaff was the only outfield player in our starting line up who was not either booked or subbed! That can't happen very often. I was a bit concerned when none of the back 4 who were all booked in the first half were subbed when QOS needed to chase the game. Credit to them that they all stayed on the park and we got another clean sheet.

They cocked up! 0 - 2

I hope so.

We are top again, at least for now, as Peterhead have equalised. I’m nervous as we look to have been well on top but only have one goal to show for that, whilst both Savage and Devine have been booked. The next goal is vital and we need to get it.

We were top until Stenny scored! Very tense chez snorbens today, since madame snorbens comes from a Stenny-supporting family And we're top again, now that the Blue Toon have equalised

Mckay benched but so is Bavidge. Surely Bavidge should be starting up front.

☔Take yer umbrella ella ella eh eh

Aye, belated birthday greeting young @Scotty hope you had a fantastic day. I celebrated the big 70 on the 14th so vision was a little impaired for typing up greetings. 😁

Now also paid for Mitchell Robertson Home Shirt.

Excellent write up tm4tj as ever. I’m not sure which way I lean on this match. Be cautious as this is a tough place normally for us to get an any result. Keep it tight as we have been getting great plaudits and we might be ‘full of ourselves’ ready for a fall. Leave with not loosing, (Draw). Or Time to show everyone we a team on a mission with the best players, a stable and prominent new owner in A Savage and looking to achieve promotion as champions with a convincing victory. My heart says the second. My head says the first. Close by saying I’d to see Zimba be giving a starting berth soon. bc

Unfortunately, I am not able to attend, but it should be a great night. Now that we have management at the club that actually welcomes the support and enthusiasm of the Supporters Trust, it would be great if this event could be a sell out. The Board of the Trust are doing a fantastic job and really deserve the backing of the wider support. I look forward to hearing feedback from the night.

I know I'm a day to late but I'm sure you'll forgive me @Scotty as I'm 40 now (was on August 12) 🤣 but I hope you had a good birthday 👍. I know I've caused issues on this forum in the past but one thing I'll always be greatful for was your patience with me and the pep talks you gave me which I probably needed at the time so I owe you a dept of gratitude for being so supportive or firm when needed 😁. I enjoy coming on here and engaging in the threads, especially the Gringo NPL prediction league so keep up the good work and pour yourself a wee dram 😉.

Cheers - one and all. Much appreciated. Lets not also forget @Gringo who had a milestone the day before me, and Uncle Albert's wife @Guzz who shares the same day as Gringo but would have had a more subdued birthday this weekend. There are a flurry of birthdays in my family - both ICT and personal - around the 14-15 September.

And MacIntyre!

Five now, Chalmers and MacIntyre too.

We have 3 yellow cards Savage, Devine and MacLeod.