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Paddy
I was asked by someone at Palmerston today to ask you this question.
What was your favourite goal for Queens? The fact we were playing
Airdrie today brought back obvious memories of a goal at New Bloomfield
in a Challenge Cup Match a few season's ago. (to be honest, it's
the only one of your goals that springs to mind, although I see
you actually scored a few :-).). The reason this guy wanted to ask
the question through was that he remembers being at a reserve match
at the Chrichton when you scored and tried to claim goal of the
match and man of the match awards, even through Emilio Jaconelli
scored 9 in that game!
So, did that beat the Airdrie goal? :-)
That is correct I did score a goal against
Airdrie in the cup away.. It was a little bit special as some people
reffered it to a goal scored by Archie Gemmil for Scotland against
Holland.What also made it special was that Airdrie had all these
so called top class spanish players at the club ie Fernandez (now
at Celtic) and we were just in a team building period at the time.
We got beat on the golden goal rule and what a goal it was for Airdrie.....Goalkeeper
kicked the ball, Andy Martin (our centre half) headed the ball and
Fernandez volleyed the ball into the roof of the net after it had
hit the bar, bounced on the line and then up into the roof of the
net. Thsi all without the ball bouncing once.....Cup exit bah!!!!
But when I think back all my golas I scored for Queens were special
to me, like the one against Clydebank in the last minute at Palmerston
which went in the top corner. My friend Rob Mckinnon called me a
jammy git after the game but there was nothing jammy about it as
it was a very good build up leading to the goal and a nice finish
to top it off. Oh and how can I forget my goal against arch rivals
Stranrar away...It was a little bit windy and I said to John O'neil
before the game I will score from a corner today if the wind stays
like this..10 mins into the game we got a corner to our right and
as I tee'd the ball up the wind was just perfect to whip it towards
the penalty spot so that the wind would bring it towards the goal..I
could not have asked for a better finish to the corner ball inthe
far top corner, keeper in the back of the net right in front of
the large travelling Queens fans..... Happy days but unfortunately
we drew 2-2 that day..
You always came across as a bit of a joker and someone who liked
a prank or two. Are there any classic stories that you can tell us
?
Good luck for the future and thanks for your time at QoS.
DEX_Doonhamer
You are right on that one I always liked
a laugh and also had wind ups with the other lads. One in particular
sticks to mind...When I used to travel up to Palmerston with Kenny
Crighton (physio) in the club car. Scotty (the manager) who was
working for Warren Pearson at the time left his digital camera in
the car so me and Kenny decided to take a few photos on his works
camera. I think we took about 30 photos ie Me and Kenny with a cow,
Me and Kenny with a sheep, Me and Kenny with a farmer, me and Kenny
with a crowd of strangers waving, naked bums etc. anything we could
think of....I think it took us 3 hours to get back to Newcastle
that day..Scotty was not too pleased the day he downloaded them
on his computer at work and his boss was
leaning over the top of him.
I will let you know others if requied..
thanks for the support
When I did my original reply to you, I checked to see if you played in the Challenge Cup Final, but see you were left on the bench. How annoying is it that with Queens 2-0 and cruising the manager couldn't just give you a 10 minute run out, or do you just take the professional view of whatevers best for the team?
Stuart to be honest I had been suffering
from a hematoma in the calf muscle (blood trapped in the muscle)
after a nasty tackle I received in the Morton game. Don't know if
you can remember it but it was the same game Shaun o Connor received
that bad tackle straight afterwards. I made the semi-final against
St Mirren but it still wasn't fully healed and to make matters worse
I received another whack exactly in the same place.
We had been struggling in the left hand side of the team for a bit
so John Connolly asked if I would move to the left back slot after
playing so long at right-back..This gave him a chance to sign Robbie
Neilson who turned out to be a great loan signing, however he did
a great job and I was fighting with fitness to make the final. But
a week to go before the final I was fit & was wondering if I
was going to make the bench after being out for 4 weeks.
It was a proud moment to be named on the bench and the result made
up for not getting on for 10 mins, so yes I am often praised for
my professional attitude and having a good squad of players allows
you to get on whatever the result.
Hope this answers the question
