Gordon Chisholm mixed his pack again with three changes from the side that lost narrowly to Falkirk on Tuesday night. Craig Barr and Scott Robertson dropped out altogether with MacFarlane dropping onto the sub bench. In their places came Tom Parratt at right back, Stephen Simmons in the holding midfield role and Michael McGowan on the right of midfield. David Weatherston returned from being cup-tied in midweek to take his customary place on the bench and was joined there by Paul Burns returning from ankle injury. Interesting to note, only four months on, just four of the starting side played in the Scottish Cup Final! The home side retained Peter Cherrie in goal after recent good performances but fielded a fairly young side anchored by the experience of Billy Gibson and Gary McSwegan. Referee was Mike McCurry.

Clyde started the brighter in blustery conditions. McKay tested Bell from a tight angle in 6 minutes and then the resulting corner was scrambled away by Harris. Queens first effort at the other end arrived in 12 minutes when Kean almost latched onto Dobbie's flick but was denied by a last ditch challenge and the ball ran loose to Arbuckle to fire over the top from just inside the area. A minute later Kean's close in drive was blocked out for a corner as Queens sought to take control. The half petered out though with very little incident. Billy Gibson had picked up a knee injury in an early clash and, though he soldiered on for half an hour or so, he finally accepted the inevitable and was replaced by Mark Brown on 35 minutes. A minute later Gary McSwegan tested the referee's patience too far with pushing at a Clyde throw and picked up a yellow card for it.

Four minutes before the break Harris fired in a deep free kick and Sives found himself in space in the Clyde box but, stretching for the ball, he could only divert it well wide for a goal kick. As the half time whistle approached David McKay went sliding into a terrible challenge on Parratt, catching him on the shin, and was fortunate to only see a yellow card. Parratt was able to carry on though.

The second half kicked off at a by now rainy Broadwood and was only sixty seconds old when Paul Emslie collected Clyde's third booking for a cynical challenge on Gary Arbuckle. Emslie it was though who, in 57 minutes, had the first decent effort on goal, though his 25 yard effort sailed over the crossbar. The deadlock was broken on 54 minutes just as David Weatherston was set to come on in a bid to change things. No sooner had the winger been called back to the bench when Simmons won possession in midfield and fed a fine ball out wide to Dobbie. Dobbie turned Lowing inside out before sending over a cross that was nodded clear but not far enough and fell perfectly for Gary Arbuckle to slot home into the bottom right corner against his old side.

Arbuckle and Harris celebrate the opener

The lead was doubled within a minute when Simmons cross was nodded down by McGowan into the path of Stephen Dobbie six yards from goal. He needs no invitation and forced the ball home despite the attentions of a defender. John Brown immediately made his next change with MacLennan replacing the tiring McSwegan. Stephen Simmons had more than played his part in his first full start but was obviously tiring so he was replaced on 64 minutes by Neil MacFarlane. Three minutes later Paul Burns replaced Dobbie, with Arbuckle going up front and McGowan switching wings. At the same time Clyde brought Trouten on in place of Mark Brown who had only been on half an hour!

Dobbs forces the ball home for the second

Neil MacFarlane should have doubled his goal tally for Queens on 71 minutes when the ball fell to him at the edge of the box and he was presented with time and space to pick his spot but Cherrie parried his effort out and no-one could get to the rebound before it was cleared. The lead almost became three shortly after when Sives headed Tosh's free kick into the back of the net but despite no appeal from the home defence Mr McCurry had seen a push apparently. Certainly that's what he indicated as he awarded Clyde a free kick instead! Another free kick on 80 minutes caused even more chaos as Harris bent in a delivery that was flapped away from the top corner by Cherrie and deflected into the side-netting via Paul Burns. It was all Queens now and from McGowan's cross Arbuckle headed goalward and Cherrie tipped the ball onto the crossbar. It wasn't all good news though and on 83 minutes Craig Reid replaced Bob Harris with the latter holding his groin awkwardly as he left the park. Could be another on the injury list? There were no further near things though and Queens will go into a big top of the table clash with Livingston at Palmerston next week in good heart.