Same Again As Ten Years Ago Please

Scottish Cup fever is back at Palmerston tomorrow evening as Montrose head south for a third-round replay.  The sides fought out a goal-less draw at Links Park on Saturday and now go head to head for the right to play Partick Thistle in the next round.  Queens' manager Gary Naysmith said: "I said after the game on Saturday that I thought a draw was a fair result from a somewhat scrappy game and having reviewed the 90 minutes, I still stand by that. Neither side did quite enough to merit winning the game and therefore we go again. We made a few bad decisions when we had the ball on Saturday and as time gets on in those games you can get a wee bit anxious because you know that one error or one lapse in concentration can see you knocked out of the Cup."

Naysmith's side are on a bit of a run at the moment and he is looking the extend that tomorrow night. He went on: "For ourselves it was a second consecutive 0-0 draw in a cup competition, we are now unbeaten in eight games in regulation time and what has really pleased me is that we have had five clean sheets in those eight games. We will be tested again tomorrow, I have no doubt about that. Montrose are full of confidence at the moment and have only been beaten in two of their dozen league matches so far."

With the festive season looming, The Doonhamers have a very busy few weeks ahead of them and are ambitious to win as many games as possible. The replay is an unwelcome addition to the fixture list but - as Queens want to replicate their Scottish Cup run of 2008 - needs must.  Naysmith said: "We’ve got a Tuesday/ Saturday schedule for the next two weeks now but if you want to be successful then a busy fixture list is part and parcel of that. We want to progress as far as we can in every competition we enter but obviously this is the big one for teams like us. We went all the way to the final in 2008 so we need to approach the competition thinking we can do so again. Obviously you need a wee bit of luck with the draw along the way but you also need to be on top of your game when you play well organised football teams like Montrose. I have told the players we will have to better than we were on Saturday to get through to the next round. The fans turned up in numbers again on Saturday, the amount of away games and distances involved in recent weeks must have put a real strain on the purse strings for everyone of them, so we can't thank them enough for their backing. I'm sure they'll be out again for the replay and I hope they can roar us on to victory."