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2 minutes ago, Aufc said:
We seem to have a good relationship with Celtic so hopefully we can get some more decent loans from them (apparently keeper already on route)
Ah loans, touchy subject!
I always feel loan players need to be starters in our strongest 11 which is something that was a bit mixed last season. McInroy, Paterson and McGill to a lesser extent were but Macdonald, Devenny & Afolabi rarely contributed much although Jon did wake up in the play offs.
Of course the other side of that his how much they cost.
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12 minutes ago, Tory Boy said:
I think he's a better centre half than a fullback.
Perhaps McCabe thinks so too as you'd imagine Ballantyne would be first choice RB.
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1 minute ago, Mr November said:
Don’t forget Ally Roy who was going to score “at least” double figures at Queen of the South.
Pleased to get Watson signed up. He had a very good season overall and seemed to up his game when MacDonald came in after a drop in form, so hopefully having Ballantyne there is great competition for him. You’d be doing well to have two better right backs in your squad than those two in this league.
Can obviously cover at centre back as well and also provides some much needed height.
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8 hours ago, 1320Lichtie said:
He’s the best right back in L1 and has a good career behind him
I'm sure Alloa fans would strongly disagree as thet believe Scott Taggart is but hey ho is all a matter of opinion.
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9 hours ago, Passionate said:
It's been a funny old week, Murray leaves for Raith not unsurprising our maverick Dylan Easton follows him, at this point I am led to believe that discussions were taking place for Agne w to takeover the managers role and McCabe his no2,, Agnew then was asked to become Murray's full time no 2 at Raith, which he accepted...I
After that McCabe was asked and ultimately promoted to the position of. Player Manager with Club Captain Fordyce himself promoted to Assistant manager
It has been implied that virtually no one was willing to sign on initially, were they lowballed money wise, are they signing due to increased terms of the money saved from the previous management team a figure around 50k.. Will the difference saved by wages be put into an increased player budget,,, Have we a budget to compete in this league.?????
Cammy Ballantyne from Montrose was signed today, Good player and a bit of a coup, he is a clear Murray signing as he had actually agreed terms about 10days ago, another player that Murray wanted and more or less agreed terms was Scott Brown from Peterhead, unfortunately now the lad looks like following Murray to Raith, we(Murray) had also enquired about Grant Savoury of Peterhead although obviously someone else would have to resurrect that deal...
A pretty savage release list dropped this morning and all these players were rubber stamped by Murray last week, leaving us with. 2 signed players Smith and Sal, and a maximum of a further 6 of last season's squad being offered terms...GK coach, physio and data,analyst have all left the club also.. Is that enough to constitute keeping the team DNA etc together, I struggle to understand how we made such a quick appointment when there were clear qualified experienced managers looking for a gig..
This could turn out to a complete masterstroke by the club, but currently we have a manager, assistant manager and a first team coach and we don't have a coaching badge between them, therefore no games even if we wanted to can b played at this time, it feels a little of the Stevie Findlay time and who could forget Willie Aitchison who baled us out, due to Fitzy being at a wedding and no other qualified coaches in that derby against the Rovers...
we have just had the season of our life 72 points, , 2nd in the league, 20game unbeaten Club record , Football and goals not seen for generations.....I
Time Will tell if this is the right road to go down, if not it will unravel pretty quickly, it's takes many years to build a club up, it just takes a,wrong decision to lose all those years of hard work..
Some good points but i assume the club statement below includes addressing the qualified coaches situation and backroom staff.
"We will ensure that a fully comprehensive support structure is put in place to support Rhys and Callum in their managerial journey at Airdrieonians"
With regards to Rhys taking the reigns i think it's fair to say it's a big risk and having a scan around it seems fans of other clubs don't regard it as a positive move with most citing it as a cheap option. Perhaps the philosophy is based on strenthening the budget on the playing side which i would be in favour of. It's all about what happens on the field!
Rhys did point out in his interview that "player talks" in some instances had been going on for weeks or even months so I would think you are bang on the money with regards to Ballantyne, Brown and Savoury and obviously this would apply also to our free list.
Certainly an interesting time but Rhys does seem to be a right cool customer.
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11 minutes ago, Chapelhall chap said:
The "but" which followed suggests it's not beyond a possibility? All good fun reading both views.
Ah you noticed!
Anyway, i do think we will sign another striker as Gabby (if he signs) & Smith seem to be utilised in wider postions quite often which really only leaves Salim (fitness ???) as the only other out and out centre forward.
Of course we have a new manager and perhaps he might look to play a different system although i'm one for signing good players and worry about the system later.
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28 minutes ago, Diamonds are Forever said:
I'm not claiming Gallagher is anything special, or that he is going to lead us to a title
That's exactly the point i'm making.
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6 minutes ago, airdrieman said:
Great to see Gal sign on again! I wonder what the situation with the captaincy will be this year? Will Fordyce remain captain now that he's assistant manager or will we get Captain Gal? I don't think it's a huge issue but just a curious position to be in.
McCabe must go!
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12 minutes ago, The Moonster said:
it was only laterly that Aitken played him up front and his record was good there
Stats don't really back that up but will leave it at that.
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13 minutes ago, Mr November said:
He's also part-time and I think lives in Glasgow, so there isn't really a better League One team who can offer him a part-time deal. I don't think he would do anywhere near as well in the Championship but as far as League One strikers go, he's been one of the best for the last four seasons now.
If we have any aspirations of winning the league then Gal cannot be our No 1 striker, simply we will need better.
Dunfermline have Todorov, Wighton, O'Hara & McCann and perhaps made add to. I'd take anyone of them over him.
I've long believed that to win League 1 you need to have 4 or 5 players that could comfortably play in the Championship.
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10 minutes ago, Jan Vojáček said:
We still haven't replaced him with anyone half as effective, and our fans said exactly the same about him being easily replaceable when he left.
He's awkward and ungainly to watch. But he's a very consistent goalscorer at this level. You'd be mad to let him go imo.
Don't disagree but clearly a league 1 striker as his stats in the championship with St Mirren and yourselves are not great.
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3 minutes ago, Diamond Oracle said:
If all players not mentioned sign up we’ve got the following foundations of a squad:
Fordyce, Watson, Frizzell, McCabe, Gallagher, Kouder-Aissa, McGill & Smith
I’d be delighted with that. Gives McCabe plenty room to bring in his own players to improve the team.That's 14 players in total departed including the loanees.
Watson, Frizzell, Gallagher & Gabby McGill look like being offered new terms.
Busy period coming up from the pen of Stuart Mathie!
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6 hours ago, Trump said:
Picking a management team with no managerial experience to try and get you promoted from the third tier. Where have I seen this before?
Yes but were they not better than Sheerin & Rennie?
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3 minutes ago, cb_diamond said:
Did they or did Max decline an offer?
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7 minutes ago, G_H said:
This is turning into a very underwhelming close season.
Club need to clarify what's going on with the playing side of things instead of telling us about new pitches being laid and sponsors.
Murray said in his Raith interview that he had player meetings last Thursday at Airdrie so obviously the club haven't had much time to move forward, i'll moan with the best if the players that come in are mince!
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6 minutes ago, Kenny_m said:
He's incredibly entertaining with a skill level majority of SPL players don't have, quick over 3 or 4 yards and works extremely hard.
Negatives are that he can over do the stepovers at times and physically is not very strong but i'm sure he will be played to his strengths therefore the positives vastly outweigh the negatives.
If anyone seen him playing with Kelty last season he is about a stone lighter.
Forget to say, he gave away the penalty that cost us promotion but such was his standing amongst the "nice" Airdrie support, he got off with being abused, not many would have.
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16 minutes ago, Wildrover said:
Good player guys, how do you think he'll do in the championship?
He's incredibly entertaining with a skill level majority of SPL players don't have, quick over 3 or 4 yards and works extremely hard.
Negatives are that he can over do the stepovers at times and physically is not very strong but i'm sure he will be played to his strengths therefore the positives vastly outweigh the negatives.
If anyone seen him playing with Kelty last season he is about a stone lighter.
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1 hour ago, RRFC_Liam said:
We’ve got 19 players under contract, 6 of them youngsters, 3 of which hasn’t had much game time if any Bow, Mahady, Masson, bow is getting released from what I’ve heard, Mahady might be as well as he struggled at Burntisland shipyard, Masson might be loaned.
so that 3 spaces to fill plus our out of contracted players not all of them are going to re-sign, so there’s a lot more work to be done than what people think
Other than Easton & McCabe i doubt he'll want any of the others but as someone said earlier i'm pretty sure he'd go after Kerr McInroy although all 3 mentioned are midfielders.
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1 hour ago, Mr November said:
He had a decent season but would imagine he’ll be much more of an assistant at that level rather than playing regularly. Not a huge loss on the park and whoever comes in as manager will probably want their own man in anyway.
It’s quite funny that one of the reasons he left East Fife to join us was the travelling from Ayrshire to Fife was too much for him and now he’s back up there.
No loss on the park but in fairness EF were part time but he's probably full time at Raith.
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5 minutes ago, Tory Boy said:
Could end up with egg on my face here but to be honest other than the backroom staff I can't see there being many.
Probably most would agree our 5 best players would be McCabe, Easton, Frizzell, Fordyce & Smith. Smith is under contract so unless Raith are willing to pay a fee I don't think he'll go. Will Fordyce transfer up a level again at his age? I'm not so sure. Which leaves the 3 midfielders. He might go for 1 or 2 but I can't see him going for all 3.
Potentially he might try and sign one of the Celtc loanees, Kerr McInroy or Brody Paterson. Also he always spoke really highly of Kyle Turner (Thistle) who was with us the season before last, could make a move for him.Agnew looks like going but not sure about the rest of backroom staff.
Tend to agree with regards to players but imagine he'll have a lot of competition for Easton.
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Just now, Passionate said:
FFS really liked Josh and wish the lad well in his career, that's him and Max away so far this evening, is this the night of the long knives..
Interesting that the 2 p!Ayers have baled out this early contracts up on 31st... Only a few days away I know, time to appoint a new gaffer and see if you are impressed with his vision etc.... Unless they have heard of the Go w / Rankin mash up and said f**k this...... Interesting and slightly worrying situation developing..
Pretty sure that the guy's not being offered contracts would have been finalised a few weeks ago, probably best for a new manager bringing in his own players.
Having said that, i would have kept Josh but his injuries are a worry.
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9 minutes ago, Mr November said:
Pretty much my thoughts too. I’d have kept him as while he had his faults, he was a decent keeper for this level. I suppose he hasn’t really developed much over his two seasons though.
Assuming he stays part-time, I wonder where Currie will go as there isn’t an obvious bigger or sideways move other than Montrose or maybe Alloa who both need a keeper.
I'm not saying they were blatant errors but i do think he could have done better with the QP goals in open play.
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4 minutes ago, Diamond Oracle said:
If we are going to go for a rookie manager, Rankin is the outstanding candidate IMO.
Wouldn’t be disappointed with Mackinnon or Kettlewell.Sandy Clark could assist, let's go for it.
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Another early exit from the league cup beckons. Edinburgh city again!
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The Official Airdrieonians Thread - 2019/20 and beyond
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Just to emphasize this point. Craig Watson just tweeted that he "signed months ago"