LATEST MATCH SUMMARY

Mathieson
McCaig	Rowe	Aitken	McAllister
Townsley	Cleeland	Leslie	Weir
Mallan		Adams

SUBSTITUTES
Bailey -	Caldwell -	Bryce 70 mins

Tommy Bryce made a surprise return to Queens today, for the third time, with an appearance on the bench at Alloa. The fan's favourite returned from his brief spell as manager at Partick Thistle when he signed on Thursday night.

Todays game was another cracker with Queens stringing together their fifth win on the trot, the first time they have done this since 1985. Despite Alloa being a bit of a bogey team for Queens and Terry Christie's undoubted tactical skills at closing down teams the scoreline did nothing to flatter Queens.

Queens started brightly with only a goalmouth clearance denying Charlie Adams from opening the scoring in the first few minutes, the breakthrough was not long in coming though as Queens domination was pressurinsing the Alloa defence. In the sixteenth minute Jamie McAllister swung over a sweet cross from the left hand side which was met by big Derek Townsley who had the easiest of jobs to nod home, surprisingly for such a tall player Deggsie doesn't score a lot with his head. Against the run of play Alloa managed to snatch a goal back in the 40th minute but normal service was quickly resumed with Charlie Adams turning sharply in the box on the stroke of half time and cracking the ball into the net for his third goal in as many games.

The second half began as the first half had finished, Deggsie crossing, Charlie Adams heading down and Stevie Mallan cracking the ball into the net in style. At 3-1 you'd think that you were home and dry, but Alloa are not the divisions leading scorers without some justification and back they came to take the score to 3-2.

Time for Deggsie to take his usual rest and to welcome back midfield maestro Tam Bryce in the 70th minute. This immediately lifted the tempo of the match and within five minutes Queens had scored another two, firstly Mark Weir sent in a lovely cross from the right which player manager George Rowe met with some power in his header to give the keeper no chance, then barely a minute after a long ball out of defence found Stevie Mallan, who ran on despite the Alloa appeals for offside and lobbed the keeper to round off the scoring spree for the day. Alloa managed to pull another back a couple of minutes later but in truth Queens were never really threatened.

Other results were not too bad today with Stirling losing, so we leapfrog them into sixth place and now lie only a single point behind Thistle and two behind Alloa, having said that we are only three in front of Arbroath and two in front of both East Fife and Stirling. The season is not over yet but the signs are promising.