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PALMERSTON STADIUM, DUMFRIES
24TH APRIL 2004
KICK OFF- 3:00PM
CURRENT POSITIONS IN LEAGUE:
Queen Of The South- 6th
Brechin City- 10th
LAST MATCH:
QOS: Inverness 4-1 QOS
Brechin: Brechin 0-1 Falkirk
PREVIOUS RESULTS
Brechin 0-1 QOS
QOS 1-0 Brechin
Brechin 2-1 QOS
ONES TO WATCH:
Sean O'Connor- Sean is top scorer for QOS this season and there is no doubt he can play at SPL level. The big striker netted in the 1-0 win against Brechin at Glebe Park in October. He'll be a real threat to the Brechin defence on Saturday.
Steve Bowey- The midfielder has been instrumental for QOS this year and has been the engine of the team, Steve's tireless performances have made him a favourate with the QOS support. He was on the scoresheet against Brechin in the last meeting, but Brechin edged them 2-1 as Charlie King and Gavin Beith cancelled out his early 2nd half strike.
TEAM NEWS
David Hay, Steven Hampshire and influential midfielder Grant Johnson will all be ruled out of the match, they also missed last weeks loss to Falkirk at Glebe Park. They are most likely to be replaced by Kevin Budinauckas, Colin Boylan and Kevin McLeish respectively. The rest of the squad should be all available for selection.
QOS VIEW:
Queen Of The South are currently sitting in mid-table in 6th place, well above 7th placed St Mirren, Raith Rovers, Ayr United and Brechin City. They have had a fairly decent season and were favourites with the bookmakers at the start of the season to go down, John Connolly and his men have certainly proved many people wrong with great results and terrific performances.
BRECHIN CITY VIEW:
Brechin look down and out and look to be playing 2nd division football, but like usual, Dick Campbell and the team are determined to fight for every point available. It is possible that Brechin could be relegated on Saturday. Brechin will look to improve on the string of poor results lately as they have lost 4 games on the trot, and not scoring a single goal in the process.
HISTORY:
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| 2003/2004 | Sat 14 Feb | Brechin City | 2 - 1 | Queen o.t.S. | SCD1 |
| 2003/2004 | Sat 13 Dec | Queen o.t.S. | 1 - 0 | Brechin City | SCD1 |
| 2003/2004 | Sat 04 Oct | Brechin City | 0 - 1 | Queen o.t.S. | SCD1 |
| 2002/2003 | Sun 20 Oct | Queen o.t.S. | 2 - 0 | Brechin City | SCC |
| 1997/1998 | Sat 14 Mar | Queen o.t.S. | 1 - 1 | Brechin City | SCD2 |
| 1997/1998 | Tue 03 Feb | Brechin City | 1 - 1 | Queen o.t.S. | SCD2 |
| 1997/1998 | Sat 22 Nov | Queen o.t.S. | 0 - 0 | Brechin City | SCD2 |
BCR'S PREDICTION:
Queen of the South have collected 2 wins and 3 draws from their last six home matches. The goals for column just outweighs the goals against over this period, 6 to 5.
Brechin City have an average recent record on the road, seeing them win just 1 and draw 2 of the last six. While the City have hit 6 goals, 15 have hit the back of the wrong net.
Queen o.t.S. see themselves just below half way in the Bells Scottish Division One, showing a record of 46 points from their 32 games played so far, Brechin City find themselves stuck right at the bottom of the division. Their 32 games have yielded only 22 points.
QOS 1-0 Brechin