Passionate

3192 apparently at the game on Friday night...

Murray was the same at Airdrie, at no point did you feel he knew his best team, he won games , but don't know why he doesn't go further, do you think he can make the step back up to the Premier or is this his level..

Airdrie will definitely rest the majority of starters, the likes of Gallagher's, a Murray Aiken, McCabe himself, ATS , Dunlop will probably play, weakened yes but still decent players.. I have found our 2 home games against QP were very tight games which could have went either way, a little surprised you have ended up at the wrong end of the league.... The player who impressed me most was the big RB from Celtic, McPherson is he one of the reasons for your drop off, he was quality..

He still has 2 years left on his deal apparently, and f**k no, for other reasons...

Hats off to the Dundee United fans thats the East Stand sold out and now have an additional 3 sections of South stand behind the goal, looking like 3k , impressive stuff.. looking like 4.5k not bad for a Friday night on the box

Silly season starting with transfer rumours, not heard this one but somebody on our thread mentioning our GK Josh Rae will be heading Tannadice way, decent keeper although your boy Walton is arguably the best in the league..

In the 90s we were getting decent crowds at old Broomfield, Home supports were never great we then as we do now rely on large away followings to swell our average.. I would say looking back maybe 2.5k max home support in those days in the Premier League, although the old firm games tended to be very busy with a fair few old firm ending up in our end swelling our numbers..

That crowd was quoted don't know if that was a turnstile number or. An online sold number , I had heard we had sold 7800 a couple of hours prior to kickoff, apart from North Stand and section at Centre stand for hospitality the rest was pretty well full, give or take a few randoms ..

The crowd debate comes up now and again, (don't mention Falkirk FFS) main reason is finance, we have the lowest crowd in the league 1814 ? ISH, good for us from where we have been, sniggers coming from the clubs who constantly post crazy losses and are in the same league, enough of the points scoring.. Airdrie can blame the old firm, why our crowds are low etc,I think it's irrelevant everybody has a choice , I would say most towns in Scotland could throw that line out it's been done to death. We had 650 or so diehards when we were struggling in L1 and even they were on the drift, crowds now being 1300est home fans and there is signs of a little apathy creeping in now as well IMO.. We are punching way above our weight and could still although unlikely be in the Premier next season,, and need to build again to compete next season Onto next season with Falkirk probably going to spunk OUR money like a drunken sailor and no Part Time possible ringer in the league it is going to be cut throat... Let's never forget what we have achieved this season, staying in the Championship year on year is going to be very tough for Airdrie moving forward ..

Looking like this will be our highest league attendance in our final league game, around 2k tickets sold to United, hopefully we can break 3.5k. Need home fans to turn up though.. Another live game on the TV , to be fair to the much maligned BBC they provide great coverage of our league and Falkirk cannot mean either.. they have the ALBA Saturday teatime slot pinned down..

How is the gate money split from the up coming playoffs are all games pooled or are they split gates per game... Hearing that both ties will be on BBC Scotland Airdrie home on the Tuesday 7th and return leg on Friday 11th at Firhill..

As I say target achieved, do we down tools and have half an eye on the beach, with the sun beating down yesterday, maybe a few did, Rhys is 100 %right in publicly calling out his players, he will no doubt get criticised for it, We are not a dirty side, but all season we have broke up play got organised, tackled and basically fought our corner, I will leave you with this damning statistic over the course of 90 minutes we committed 3 fouls and had no bookings...... Is it any wonder Partick Thistle rode us.....

Airdrie have qualified for the Premier League playoffs with 2 games to spare, let that sink in for a moment, I will be honest I never expected it, we are a team with plenty of weaknesses..... Now for the half assed autopsy, i will throw a couple of names out there, Graham, Dowds, Oakley, Muirhead, Diack they are the name's of big physical strikers who have had plenty of joy against our defence, every one of those players have used their physicality to bully our defence, The only ones who count now are Graham and Diack,, 37 year old Graham first to react to a spill by the keeper and could easily have had a hatrick, Diack who scored on his debut at Firhill last time put the fear on our eyes when he ran at us, Basic isn't it, not great at all, are we better in the playoffs bringing ATS back into the team, Our faults can be cruelly exposed at at times, Megwa who is a good player,.not as.good as people make out, he was got at second half by Fitzpatrick and Milne, where was his cover McGregor didn't do the hard yards, McMaster who should be able to see issues develop was knowhere and they ran through us at will, 2 young players who were schooled today..... Credit to Partick a side who man for man are a better side all over the park than us, which I can accept, that doesn't mean you cannot beat them if you excel on the day yourself...... Onto the playoffs we need McCabe, Frizzell and Ballantyne back, especially McCabe who is still one of the best players in this league, if we manage to progress further it will be on the back of Rhys, who will stand up to the challenge with him, after today not many.... Love to be proved wrong....

Is this years Player of the year presentation happening at the 1924 dinner or the usual on the park after the last home game.., not heard anything though..

MacCabe was my favourite as a boy, John Flood was a good partner he scored plenty as well ... What about Kenny MacDonald. Was he under rated..