Backed officially by all 10 of his former clubs, for the third successive season Dave Halliday has been nominated for the Scottish Football Hall of Fame. The 10 clubs Halliday served as player and / or manager are:

• Aberdeen
• Arsenal
• Dundee
• Leicester City
• Leyton Orient (named Clapton Orient when Halliday played)
• Manchester City
• Queen of the South
• St Mirren
• Sunderland
• Yeovil Town (named Yeovil and Petters United when Halliday was player / manager)

Conscious that Halliday has been overlooked in previous nominations, fans who wish to add their support for the admission to the Hall of Fame of this genuine all time great of Scottish football can do so at this weblink. Despite Halliday’s fabulous achievements as player and / or manager, he remains an unknown figure to most people today since:

a) his achievements were in the pre-television age

b) despite Halliday being a more prolific club goalscorer than Hughie Gallacher, Gallacher’s 24 goals from only 20 full internationals meant Halliday is further denied recognition from he (Halliday) never collecting a full cap

A lengthy biography of Halliday is already featured on qosfc.com. To again chronologically summarise his very considerable distinctions and achievements in football including at global level:-

Queen of the South:

• 13 goals in 19 appearances at left wing in Queen’s first season in existence pre Queen’s entry to the Scottish League.

St Mirren:

• 2 goals in 13 appearances in the Scottish First (top) Division.

Dundee:

• Moved to centre forward scoring 101 goals in 147 senior games including 90 league goals (all when in the Scottish top flight).

• Top Scottish League goalscorer, 1923/24 with 38 goals from 36 games.

• Top scorer for Dundee in their run to the 1924/25 Scottish Cup Final eliminating the holders en route (the very formidable Airdrieonians team of Gallacher, McPhail and Russell)

• Capped for the Scottish League v English League in the 1924, 1-1 draw.

Sunderland:

• Fastest player in history at any club to 100 top division goals in England (101 games).

• Only player in history at any club to score at least 30 First Division goals in England in four consecutive seasons. Halliday actually scored at least 35 league goals in each of those four season.

• Outright First Division top scorer in England in 1928/29 with 43 goals. This makes him the most recent of only two players to have been outright top scorer in the top divisions of both Scotland and England.

• Halliday’s lowest full season tally of 35 league goals is better than anyone else has ever achieved at Sunderland. i.e. he occupies all highest four of the season by season top scorer slots at Sunderland

• 165 goals from 175 competitive competitive games for Sunderland (all scored in his first 168 games there). This tally includes 156 league goals of which only one was a penalty.

Arsenal:

• Eight goals from 15 league appearances including four in one game v Leicester City (ironically his last Arsenal first team game despite being on six goals from his last four games at that point).

Manchester City:

• Club top scorer in 1931/32 with 32 league and FA Cup goals and top scoring for City en route to that season’s FA Cup semi-final.

• 51 goals from 82 competitive games including 47 league goals (all when in England's top flight).

• Added to previous goals, this makes Halliday one of only 27 players to score at least 200 top division goals in England so far. Halliday’s 211 top tier goals in England currently place him 19th in that goal chart (higher than e.g. Denis Law who scored 201 top flight goals in England). Halliday’s 0.82 goals per First Division game in England is second only to Bill ‘Dixie’ Dean’s 0.86 goals per game of those 27 players.

• Halliday was 54th on the 2008 updated IFFHS world list of all-time top division goalscorers (at least four players have since surpassed Halliday’s 303 top flight goals including Christiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi). Halliday is thus likely now positioned somewhere around 58th of all time in the world.

Leyton Orient:

• Top scorer for the club in the league in his first season with 19 goals from 21 games. This is despite arriving in December.

• Top scorer for the club in his second season with 17 goals from 34 games.

• 36 goals from 56 competitive first team games including 33 league goals from 53 league games.

• This added to his previous achievements make him the 10th in the list of footballers in England and Scotland by number of league goals with 336 goals and gives him a tally of 365 goals from 488 competitive games at then senior clubs.

Yeovil and Petters United (Player / Manager):

• Top scorer in each of his first two seasons there with 22 and 47 goals respectively.

• Managed then non-league Yeovil to the 3rd round of the FA Cup v Manchester United after defeating Ipswich Town and Gainsborough Trinity.

• Three goals in the FA Cup proper for Yeovil to give him a total of 368 senior competitive goals (this excludes goals scored playing in non-senior competitions).

Aberdeen (Manager):

• First Manager to lift a senior trophy with Aberdeen (1946/47 Scottish FA Cup).

• First Manager to take Aberdeen to the Scottish title (1954/55), only since achieved by Alex Ferguson.

• In 1945/46 won the forerunner of what formally became the Scottish League Cup the season after.

Leicester City:

• In 1956/57 Halliday’s team won the 2nd Division title with 7 points to spare (two points for a win). New club records (since beaten) were set, with most wins (25), most away wins (11), fewest defeats (6), most points (61) and most goals (109). Arthur Rowley scored a club record 44 goals in 42 games.

• This marked the beginning of Leicester’s longest period in the top flight (12 seasons).

• Kept Leicester in the top flight the season after at the expense of ex-club Sunderland.

• Signed the young Frank McLintock (Scottish Football Hall of Famer), one of Leicester’s greatest ever players

With the school holidays just around the corner don't forget that we are running our popular Soccer Camps at various locations throughout the summer.

The camps will take place as follows:

1 - 5 July at the QoS Indoor Arena, Dumfries
22 - 26 July at King Edward Park, Lockerbie
29 July - 2 August at Threave Rovers, Castle Douglas
5 - 9 August at the QoS Indoor Arena, Dumfries
12 - 16 August at the QoS Indoor Arena, Dumfries

The five day camps, Monday to Friday are priced at £80 per child or if you only want to attend, Tues, Wed and Thursday the three day camp will cost £35.

The camps are great value as not only do the kids receive coaching from 10 am - 3pm daily, every child attending a camp will receive a free Junior Blues Season Ticket for season 2019/20, a medal and certificate.  In addition every child who attends for five days in a week will receive a free 2019/20 home top!

Application forms are available from the Club Shop/ Office within the QOS Arena during normal opening hours. 

With the first competitive match of 2019/20 just four weeks away, we are today launching an appeal for volunteers to spruce up Palmerston ahead of the visit of Motherwell in the Betfred Cup.

This year’s annual clean-up will take place on Sunday 30^th June from 9am and we are looking for as many people as possible to come along to help with litter-picking, sweeping and painting amongst other things to get the ground ready in advance of the new season beginning.

Community coach Dan Armstrong who is organising the clean-up added “If you have some time to help your local team then we would appreciate your support. It doesn’t matter if your available for an hour or available for the duration, any help is welcome. We will be offering refreshments for those who are willing to lend a hand.  There will be lot of work to be done as we want to make the ground as appealing as possible”.

For more information email Dan at [email protected] or phone the office on 01387 254853.  Alternatively pitch up at Palmerston, 9am on the 30^th of June.

Palmerston is still experiencing problems with the phone lines and it is not currently possible to telephone the club offie or stadium. We will get this addressed as soon as possible.

Email is still working on a sporadic basis so the club can still be contacted that way. Apologies for any inconvenience.

Following discussions between the clubs we are pleased to confirm that a standard pricing structure has again been agreed across our Betfred Cup group. All fixtures in the group will be priced the same.

£12 Adults

£6 All Concessions including Juveniles.

With season tickets for 2019/20 now on sale, we are pleased to report a steady sale so far.

For regular supporters purchasing a season book is still the cheapest way to watch our home league matches.  Prices have again been frozen, therefore an adult ticket stays at £285 which works out at under £16 per game, a saving of £39 per season. Concession tickets are available for £160 saving over £1 per match and of course the Junior Blue ticket for our young supporters up to the age of 16 remains at £18, that's just £1 per game, a saving of £72 per year on those paying at the gate.

Our season ticket prices are:

Adult - £285

OAP / Concession - £160

Student - £90

16 - 21 year olds - £90

Under 16's (Junior Blues) - £18

Pre-school kids - FREE

Accessible season ticket prices - which includes one assistant in the price.

Adult - £100

OAP / Concession - £56

Student - £35

16 - 21 year olds - £35

Under 16's (Junior Blues) - £18

Pre-school kids - FREE

Season tickets cover all our scheduled Championship matches.  Fixtures for the next campaign will be released on Friday 21^st June.

We are pleased to announce that the Club have taken over the running of Lochmaben Community Centre.

Chairman Billy Hewitson said “We are delighted to have secured the centre in Lochmaben which will offer similar facilities to what we have at King George V. But, as we spread our Community commitments, as a club it’s important that we offer facilities out with Dumfries and that’s exactly what this  allows us to do”.

As part of the take-over we will be running a Thursday night football club for Primary School children. There will be two, one hour session priced at £3.50 per child, the first takes place from half past three for the 4 – 7 year olds, with the 8 – 11 year old age group starting at half past four.

Our weekly Wednesday and Friday clubs continue at the Arena before they take a break for the Summer Holidays (last clubs 26th & 28th June). 

Pre and Primary school kids can come along to the Arena for coaching sessions with our Community Team on a Wednesday afternoon.  Pre-school sessions for three to five year olds kick off at half past three until quarter past four for the cost of £3.50 per child per session. With the 90 minutes session for the P1 - P7 kids starting at 4pm for £5. 

And on Friday its our GIRLS ONLY club between 4-5pm.  It's open to girls of primary school age to give them the chance to take part in coaching and games. It's for all levels of ability, so it doesn't matter if you are new to the game and have never kicked a ball before or if you have been playing for a while, all girls are welcome to come along for an hour of fun for £4 per child.