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Looking forward to revisiting old grounds,a new one in Kelty and some good,decent priced grub compared to what we had to suffer the last 15+ years home and away bar a few exceptions. As for the football,the club are still at war with the fans and vice-versa, so it could go any way.The way the club has been mismanaged from Alan Maitland and McGowan sees us where we are and we could sink even further. I was looking forward to seeing some of our fantastic Under 18's who are the best in the land,won The Elite League thrashing the Old Firm in the process but one has joined Leeds(Josh McDonald)another about to join Norwich(Gabe Forsyth)and Ryan One also touted for a move. The only certainty is the incoming transfer fees plus that for Ryan Fulton,if he goes to Portsmouth won't go into "The Football Department". Oh how I wish we could get rid of these leeches and get Owners in who care about the club and the fans and just be a normal Football Club again.

If he had not moved to Larne for a piddly £10k,we would not have been relegated. Larne are in European Competition and have just won the League,so I would be surprised if he moved anywhere at the moment.

Imrie was a regular at McGowan's Poker Nights above The Bay Horse before the Ownership changed(an Accies fan runs the Pub now). One of my friends is a Professional Poker Player, so who attended these nights was regularly relayed to myself and a few others. Main issue is the contradiction here: Charities at the ground against Gambling all for show,but quite a few well known football celebrities including Mr "wherez the burds" were at these nights with a LOT of money changing hands. A lot more went on allegedly which i am not going to post on here and one thing in particular was the main reason why he never got the Manager's job at Accies at the time and went to Livvy.

Every game I have watched Imrie is always there as I think he was in charge of most of them at under 15/16 level. The one who gotaway.com

Watched quite a few of their games and tonight was an average performance but we got the job done despite The Well getting two penalties which puzzled nearly everyone. Loads of Scouts at these games and sadly McGowan will probably try to punt any he can to make up for the drastic shortfall in income. I expect to see quite a few of these guys in the first team next season.

A couple of Thistle fans I know were at the game supporting Accies so they obviously don't all share this viewpoint.

The amount of Accies fans who didn't go because of The Board puzzles me. Biggest game in 25 years and folk not going because of their hatred of The Owners. The team needed them yesterday.I hope they are all happy today.

It's not the relegation that is the big issue,but how low will these fcuks in the Boardroom take us that is concerning. I feel our club may fold with these chancers running the show as we have been here before and suffered plenty relegations but this feels different. We all take the piss out of each other,but no way would I want any other club on here to fold like Third Lanark. Not knowing what the future holds is the big issue.

Cash Gate at both ends as is always the case through here. Been told you guys had sold 1500 by last night,1200 at our end which considering most Accies punters pay in on the day is better than I thought so far. Not got a ticket yet myself,so Cash Gate it is.

Three days on from McGowan 's fairy tale diatribe, the comments are flying in thick and fast still. No one is talking about the game as it is still Club Politics with now Ex Director Alistair Duguid pointing out the fallacies of McGowan's Speech To The Nation.

Very common which is why we are where we are.

I felt Rankin gave Airdrie the initiative by moving to one man up front start of the second half as it allowed the ball to move quickly against us. Subs were a bit meh and if you are going to bring Tiehi on,you give him more time and put balls in the box for him. As for Airdrie,they should be looking for the first goal Saturday as our powder puff strikers won't score 3. However,if we score first I would be very confident of getting the job done. All to play for and a big,big performance needed for sure.

The Accies Double-Decker Bus,the Del Boy Reliant Robin,The Cruyff Court,The American Diner, The Bobby Sandsesque Mural...take your pick.

I was right next to what went on and the only shouts I heard were against The Board.

I presume The Commercial Manager will be one of those banned for abusing fans/wanting to batter individual supporters along with Gerry Strain/Martin Milligan aka The Iceland Employee from Burnbank? What a shower of self-serving cants we have running our club.The Players caught in the middle between the continuing war between The Board and the fans. Perfect way to prepare for our biggest game in 20 years against a Club with a United fanbase,Management and Directors all singing from the same hymn sheet.

I've heard from an unnamed source in his organisation that Zengin wants full control at Accies within the next two years. To be fair,he was the one Director trying to get the fans banned for social media comments in January back in the ground.We banned the guys who run The We Are Hamilton Facebook/Twitter(like the Airdrie Board banning the excellent Airdrie Fans TV)because they found out that one Director(let's call him Martin Mulligan lol) had set up a fake account to abuse supporters. Today's nonsensical statement by Allan Maitland(missing in action all season) added to yesterday's by The Commercial Manager wanting to better fans highlights the divide between the fans v the Board. I was part of the Campaign to get us back in the town during our homeless years when over £6million "disappeared" leaving us with £ 650,000 to build a ground.Thus,two Stands and a Gazebo when the original plans were for 4 Stands and a sliding Roof when we got the extra £2million overage money 2 years later from Hamilton West Retail Park.I Airdrie's fantastic attacking football you could say deserve to prevail but from an Accies fans viewpoint, we go down and will go down again and again as McGowan and Associates have run the Club into the ground and we could go out of business. This is the lot who made fans jump through hoops for Cup Final tickets, have banned fans resulting in hundreds of us watching games in local Pubs on dodgy streams a la above and who want the Stadium for "Charity" and other activities. The Football Club comes way behind squirrelling money away for vainglorious projects such as their planned Drugs Rehabilitation Centre in The Away Stand. The last two days by Accies Officials on Social Media have only increased the divide and the atmosphere will be poisonous if Airdrie win easily. Supporttheteam nottheregime is the Accies supporters motto.

Not to worry as our players won't be out bevvying till the Wednesday a la Challenge Cup. Play as we did in that game over two legs and it will be too tight to call but I would be very confident.However,play as we did for 3/4 of the season and it will be all over Wednesday night.

I'm detecting a lot of interest in these ties as folk who have rarely attended I know are going and HAFSWO are running as many buses as can be filled. We had a decent support at Alloa,so quite a few more after yesterday.

To be fair,that was always because the Accies stank out the bottom divisions post war up to the last 15+ years while both Airdrie and Motherwell were getting to Europe and mostly in the top flight.

Saying that if we play as we did in January for that spell of games,I would be very confident against any League One team as were playing well then but changing the formation ruined us for months.One of our subs was a left back coming on as a striker as we only have two fit strikers. If we shut the door at the back,I am confident but refusing to play our first choice Keeper Fulton because he is joining Portsmouth for over £100k is crazy as it would cost more if we go down. Same scenario as letting Andy Ryan join Larne in January as his goals would have kept us up.

Accies were dead men walking, but funnily enough the fans going mental at The Board seemed to galvanise the team as the pressure was all focused on the Owners/Board and not the Manager/Team. We only have two fit strikers and both hadn't scored for months up to today but after we got the goals you could see confidence coming back into the team. There is still an undercurrent of anger at The Board and Airdrie winning the tie easily will bring that back to the surface. Airdrie will start favourites as scoring for fun, but Accies and Play Offs have brought success in the past,so who knows. If we win, we will probably be in the same position next year as have only three players in contract and five of our fantastic under 18's(about to win the League,unbeaten against both Old Firm teams)are also out of contract which Shows how badly we are being run as in our top League days,there were never more than 4-5 out of contract every season.

That will never happen trust me. In my 47 years of support, once once have we been run by Owners with the best interests of the club at heart. Remember,over £6 million "disappeared" from the sale of the old Douglas Park leaving us with two Stands and a Gazebo. Today was weird,Alloa may feel the Keeper should have been off,but I think he went for the ball first. A part-time team down to the bare bones with 10 men were always going to concede eventually, but I never expected four goals in quick succession. At 5-2 we made a few subs and kept possession.Main thing though is confidence returning to a team who have been playing with fear.Guys who couldn't score now have confidence back. Airdrie will be favourites but I said months ago we would win The Play Offs if we end up there,so not changing my opinion even although it is a minority view.

Accies have been dreadful for months,but once those goals went in,you could see the confidence coming back in the team. Guys who couldn't score in Hamilton Palace at quarter to three suddenly were shooting and scoring from all angles-albeit against 10 men.

New Owners,currently being done up I hear.

Peak Accies with no Stadium Bar tomorrow as it is pre-booked for a Holy Communion.Apparently,they arranged the booking without checking Play Off dates.