QoS preview with Craig Brown
Craig Brown previewed the Queen of the South replay tomorrow. To watch his press conference in full please click here.
"The latest news on the injuries is that we might have a couple of recoveries. Michael Paton trained today and Daniel Uchechi is training today. Hopefully we will get one or both of these guys in the squad and Kari Arnason is back after suspension so he will be fresh and ready for action. That apart I counted at the weekend we had a full team that was injured. A very strong team.
"This is the worst injury crisis I can ever remember in all the times I have been at football teams. I can't recall a time when we had 9 or 10 first team players injured.
"Clark Robertson's injury is not as bad as we first feared. It is more a twist in the knee. At first we thought he had done cartridge or ligament damage but thankfully he is walking about today and might be fit for the weekend. The fact the game at the weekend against St Johnstone is on a Sunday gives everyone an extra days rest.
"Chris Clark though, his injury is worse than first feared. I think he will be out for at least a month. It is a deep tear he has in his hamstring.
"Mitch Megginson played very well on Saturday and he will be in the frame again. If we had Mitch on one side and Daniel on the other side the team then looks as if it has more penetration with two flare players. We will have to see how Daniel does in training today. We will not be risking him if he is not 100% fit.
"This will be a very difficult game. We go down there though in a very positive frame of mind. We enjoyed most of the possession in the first game and I will if we do that again we will create chances and score.
"A lot of their players are very experienced and have played at the highest level so they can raise their game for a one off occasion. This game will be a cup final for Queen of the South. We have to make it a cup final for ourselves as well.
"Their manager has worked at a higher level than he is working at the moment and had great success so he is a very shrewd tactician and is astute. His tactics were sound up here but we should still have done better with all the possession and corners we had. We had more than he enough of the play to win the game."

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