And so it finally arrives, Cup Final day, and like most adventures, the journey is the thing not the destination. And what a journey it has been. Could have thrown up more varied grounds to visit, however, some memorable moments along the way, and could there just be one more twist to come? Could Queens pull off another memorable shock at Hampden, can they rock the Gers? Who knows, and maybe it is too much to ask, maybe the Queens fans had their moment against Aberdeen and maybe they will be swept aside by a Rangers team desperate to make up for recent disappointments.
Whatever happens, I am looking forward to this afternoons football feast and only hope that it completes a great adventure in a fitting and sporting manner (Novo isn’t playing after all!)
Excuse me for being a romantic (and biased) here, but C’MON THE DOONHAMERS!
From Garscube Sports Complex to Hampden Park, with Buckie, Greenock, Motherwell (almost) and Dumfries in between, I’ve had a great time, and need to thank Hawky, Jim, Greenock Morton, and Queen of the South for helping me out along the way with match tickets, without their help it would have been a much more difficult and expensive trip. Also a mention to Buckie Thistle fans, loved my visit to Victoria Park and the hospitality was great. maybe see you again next year guys!
Match report tomorrow!
Fiery Jack
FJ
Hope you and the family enjoyed the day. The doonhamers did as well as anyone could reasonably, or even unreasonably, have expected. Much has been made of Rangers’ commitments etc but the Queens were twiddling their thumbs for four weeks and it can’t have been easy for those guys to keep their eyes on the road, their hands on the wheel all that time. Even in Dumfries.
Not that I’m an expert, but I’d think that match practice (even the deflation of losing two big prizes) is still a much better preparation for a cup final than kicking a ba’ around Glasgow Green. Rangers were, in fact, lucky they had a first division team with a month’s lay off to play. I think any top 6 SPL team would have seen Rangers off yesterday.
Delighted to see you get a great splash in the Sunday Herald today. Kill those midgie bstards! Let’s get a meal and a drink in the sun!
ATB
John
Well done Bobby, you lasted the pace, not sure if your phone was working over the weekend, sent you couple of texts, what a day on Saturday, the feeling for 20mins in the 2nd half that we really could have made history was fantastic, well worth the trip, had visions of the semi final, but sadly not to be, scuppered by a striker who’d had a longer lay off than Queens… your interview on 5.30 show was excellent, even if wee louie was the background for most of it
, I’ll need to go dig up a herald from Sunday now, didn’t realise you were in it…. next year you need to start at the qualifying stages, then I suspect you’ll see some variation in stadia, watching the build up on Sky + from saturday proved that, wigtown, st cuthberts (kircudbright), newton stewart etc certainly would make for an interesting trail… you could always decide to follow Queens in UEFA and take the winners from there !! See you soon Bobby..cheers
Jim,
Love that idea about Queens in UEFA. Love it! Watch this space. I am having phone problems mate, didn’t get texts. Have a look at the latest blog of the final and let me know what you think.
thanks for helping me out mate.
Fiery Jack
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