Old Diamond

Hi Stephen - please accept my apologies for my idle speculation following the original posting by our now discredited "contributor", great to see the truth being posted.

As I said in my previous post, threat of legal action. Journalist receives information that prominent local businessman is being naughty, but journalist knows said businessman and decides that printing the story might result in expensive libel case if alleged facts cannot be proved so contacts said local businessman for comment and is firmly warned off. Local businessman has a pretty good idea who the source of this story is and takes action.

Agree, we need some transparency before the conspiracy theories begin to form, as nothing has been leaked either on-line or via the press I think that a threat of legal action has been made

That was amusing - what was the story about 1964 and Rovers getting booted out the league, cant remember hearing that one before but not surprised that Rangers were behind it.

Spread the word mate - we could do with a few more like you! Maybe there is a future outside the Old Firm after all!

Just had a look a the run in to the end of the season and if we are going to nick the playoff spot from East Fife we will need a really good run, I figure that we need to beat East Fife, Stenhousemuir and Stranraer and get at least a point off Montrose and Arbroath to nick it on goal difference on 52 points. Montrose have by far the hardest run, all five games are against the teams currently occupying the playoff spots and ourselves so I see than dropping points to finish below us, I reckon the Fifers will pick up about another eight points which would leave them also on 52. One slip up and we are out of it, so I am not getting my hopes up at all - I can just see us at Stranraer on the last day battling out the win but needing East Fife to draw at home to Forfar, only to hear that a late home winner has gone in at Methil - remember the 10th of May 2003!!!!

Stick the Methil pick up goods in the loop, Airdrie shinkansen coming through

It looked for a long time that next season was going to be a real tough one, with the potential of Falkirk and Partick Thistle coming down and being fairly obvious favourites to go straight back up, but things are changing - Alloa have run out of steam and QOS look to be in freefall, should these two come down and Raith accompany Arbroath in going up I think that pairing would possibly present less of a challenge. Peterhead look likely to come up and although I don't see them being a pushover i can't see them challenging at the top end of the table. All in all the league is shaping up to be a fairly level playing field which could be there for the taking!

Agree with the above, as we drift towards the end of the season man players will already be thinking about next season and quite probably a good few of the existing squad will already know officially or through the grapevine that they will be released, so where is the incentive for them to really try hard. Sure you might expect that they would try to impress other clubs but is seems in this league that everyone knows everyone else so reputations and capabilities will already be known. I am actually starting to think next season might just be as bad as this, unless Murray can persuade players with genuine talent to a club that has been stagnant for many years, has declining crowns a stadium with zero atmosphere and for all we know may still be unstable at boardroom level. Now where did I leave those pills......

Chan eil mi a ’cur coire ort (which I believe translates as I do not blame you)

OK I bow to the general opinion that we do not want relegation, I don't particularly relish it myself, but I just do not see how we get out of the mess that we are continually in, we just seem to lurch from one crisis to another.

Perhaps relegation may not be a bad thing? We have stagnated in this league for several years and have never really looked like getting out, A good run in division two might give the momentum to return to the upper leagues

I think possibly it has always been thus, but the relatives of old would have been segregated on the top deck of the old pavillion where there opinions would not have been heard by the masses

#warchest have I stumbled into the wrong thread[emoji3] #bralt

in the words of Roger Daltry ...meet the new boss, same as the old boss???

Bad choice of locomotive, that one is buggered, boiler is leaking worse than the Airdrie defence

5 November 2011 seems a long, long, time ago now!

But George I Square + George II square =5 (or V if you want)

How are these travel plans coming along?

boo boys, happy clappers, this thread is starting to read like the Airdrie threads of the past couple of seasons, thankfully we seem to be over it.

Plenty of locomotives and coaching stock lying about, see what they did in the Windimere branch. Unfortunately ScotRail no longer train staff in how to couple up and uncouple, and generally run a railway the traditional way instead of everything being units

Genuine actually - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014–15_Scottish_League_One

Not with the salary tag that he expects, for a long while I had hoped that he might return to Airdrie (where he was a legend as a player) as manager. Not so sure now.

Probably a controversial one here but I would nominate Billy McNeil, always promoted as a great guy but he was a bad loser, and downright bad sportsman - would walk off the park without shaking hands if he lost to an "inferior" team