Queen’s Park are one of the more interesting clubs in Scottish football at the moment.
Clearly they are a team with history, though for the real highlights you need to go back to Victorian times.
However, since they voted to abandon their amateur existence in 2019 the only way has been up, and this season we have seen them comfortably holding their own in the Championship.
Up to that point, there was a very real risk that they could go the way of Berwick Rangers or East Stirling.
That would have been terrible when you consider their history but it looks very unlikely right now.
Doing all this while they are playing their home games at Stenhousemuir is impressive as well, but they will be looking forward to returning to their new stadium at Lesser Hampden.
Imagine if Queen’s Park went professional at their peak
The decision to go professional was one they hardly rushed into.
Indeed, one can only wonder what Scottish football might look like today if Queen’s Park had made that decision back when they were a real power in the Scottish game.
They posed all sorts of difficulties for Caley Thistle in Inverness back at the start of the season and I expected no less on Saturday.
And so it proved.
Despite taking the lead and matching Queen’s Park before the break Caley Thistle couldn’t sustain that level of performance after the break and we can have no complaints about the eventual outcome.
While this team remains so ravaged by injuries, life on the pitch will continue to be a struggle and in-form Ayr United will quite understandably head north fancying their chances on Saturday.
Sadly, there is no World Cup break in the Scottish Championship as Caley Thistle could certainly do with a few weeks to recover and regroup.
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