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3 hours ago, Kenny_m said:
Of course they are but the fact remains whoever made the comment has not been identified by the police or the club. I wonder if the player and his Dad who alledgedly reported the incident are appearing at the tribunal, awkward if he's still at the club.
It's possible but probably only in the context of establishing whether the club contacted the person who witnessed the alleged event for their account and what info was shared.
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1 hour ago, Kenny_m said:
M'mm don't think he was invited but regardless, are we mean't to check criminal records at the turnstiles before someone enters a football stadium. Ludicrous that this was brought up, nasty bunch them briefs with the exception of the one on here of course.
Maybe you have more direct knowledge than the guy who posted the explanation on P&B but that's pretty much exactly what he said - they invited Robinson to accompany them to the game. He turned up for the 1st half and then left.
I don't recall anyone claiming that he should have been barred from the game but folk did ask why a handful of Airdrie fans were so excited by his presence that they felt the need to post a video in which they sing about it. Some inferred, not unreasonably, that it was because they also supported the right wing politics for which Robinson is a famous proponent. Some claimed, much less reasonably, that this was representative of the views of the club and the support in general.
Anyhoo, given that everyone else is doing it I'll speculate too by suggesting that Quitongo's lawyer is referencing those incidents to demonstrate that there are reasonable grounds for believing the allegations of racist behaviour in the support at the QP game were true, enabling the tribunal to then focus on the question of whether PH dealt with the situation in a way that was fair to Quitongo.
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23 hours ago, Kenny_m said:
He was attending the trial of Mark Meechan (the Coatbridge guy and now very succesful youtuber who had the nazi pug dog) and decided to go to the local football match.
Pretty sure that he was invited to attend the match by a few regulars, according to a P&B post at the time by someone who knows them. Possibly the same 4 - 5 guys who then appeared in a video on social media, in which they were standing with him and singing his name.
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16 hours ago, BullyWeeStonehouse said:
Who’s Ron Broadwood?
Hey, Cumbernauld. You stay classy.
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1 hour ago, Passionate said:
You never know if he fired us to promotion, he might get the freedom of Airdrie.........
What are the perks? A free Christie's iced bun each week?
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19 hours ago, FLDiamond said:
Without seeming a bit paranoid, THIS is what worries me most about missing out on promotion. Yes, bigger teams have noticed Murray’s success and surely there will be at least 3 management changes in the Championship over the close season. And obviously Falkirk are out looking… so, let’s state the obvious. If we get promoted, there’s a 99% chance Murray is the manager next season. And there’s a 95% chance he’ll retain all the best players for that campaign(I hope). But if we don’t go up then I’m sure Murray will still see Championship football or, even worse, he goes to Falkirk, takes all the best players with him (and he would) and keeps Airdrie down, again. Too doom and gloom, right? But face it, it’s reality for us in the close season for us if we miss out. BUT, if the BOD could bankroll the team and give Murray the support he needs then MAYBE he would stay. Keep the well oiled machine in place for one final crack at the L1 title. Who knows. Praying for a playoff win. For those old enough to remember liquidation, feel like we could have avoided such a fate it had been us who won the league that year. We came close….. not talking about us going out of business but these events can drastically change a smaller teams immediate future. I’m ready for Championship football….
Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after you.
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22 minutes ago, Mybitchunderprotest said:
Also as had been said the monetary value of us getting the three points cannot be judged as yet but if it were to turn out that these three points won promotion then the whole issue is a moot point.
Get the fans in, generate some atmosphere and roar this side on to a win.
Which seems to be the point the OP is completely missing. I'm pretty sure the strategy here is to increase the chances of a win by trying to get a solid support behind the team. If it doesn't work, then the club gambled with a few thousand quid and lost. If it does work we'll be in with a stronger chance of winning outright promotion and making it to the "riches" of the 2nd tier of Scottish Football.
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1 hour ago, Kenny_m said:
It's still there, thread started by Darren Orr on 13th March and ended with admin turning off commenting. Two sides to every story of course but a fans page stopping comments. Poor in my book.
It depends how heated or sweary it gets. Facebook will automatically shutdown a group if any posters breach T&Cs.
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5 minutes ago, Kenny_m said:
Differences of opinion on the attendance numbers and why some fans won't return because of Paul Hetherington. Everyone entitled to their opinion of course but a bit disappointing that comments were disabled on a fans page.
Can't say I'm aware of the #teampaul / #teamnotpaul chat. I would have thought that low attendances are likely to be a post-COVID thing more than anything else.
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7 minutes ago, Kenny_m said:
I take it you never read the facebook page the other day where comments got disabled?
What happened?
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3 hours ago, Kenny_m said:
I thought someone would have asked this perfectly reasonable question.
Because Celtic aren't playing on Saturday .... there, I've said it.
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2 hours ago, Old Diamond said:
Agreed - the point I was trying to make is that they seem to be free of a lot of the baggage that the older clubs have so a larger proportion of their income (wherever it comes from) can be thrown at the playing side.
It's a complete guess on my part but I'm going with the hypothesis that they have owners with a cash to spend / the ability to offer other perks like part time jobs.
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1 hour ago, Old Diamond said:
If we do not get out f this league this year, I fear that barring league reconstruction we may never get out (not in my lifetime anyway). The great experiment that is the pyramid system is working, the dead wood from Division 2 is getting culled out and replaced by ambitious lean teams like Cove and Kelty, unfortunately their ambition is not resticted to just division 1, they want to go as high as their limited stadium facilities allow, which is currently the Chamionship. I fear that as a result the so called "Seaside League" could soon be renamed the "Graveyard League" with more "big" clubs that have been used to Championship/Premier status and having the burdon of larger Premier standard stadia finding themselves down at this level. We have found it a real struggle to get back up, Falkirk are now experiencing the same pain and there is every chance that next years Division 1 could feature any two from Dunfermiline, Morton, Ayr or QOS. That would give a potential league (just for example sake) of Dunfermline, Morton, Airdrie, Falkirk, Queens Park, Dunbarton, Kelty Hearts, Clyde, Peterhead and Alloa. Given the ambition of Kelty and money being poured into Queens Park, they will want to challenge for promotion and keep the others down, then potentially adding others like Ayr and Hamilton. Life definately is not going to get easier in this league.
I get a wee bit cynical about the use of term like "ambitious" as a synonym for "minted". Let's just call them what they are - relatively well off teams - and stop implying the less well off teams are just unambitious.
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1 hour ago, Stevo1968 said:
Had a look on the Falkirk thread and there seems to be an uproar over a potential goodwillie signing.. personally I’d have him in a heartbeat at us putting his past to one side. Could be the difference in the second half of the season…
It was Raith Rovers at the weekend, with Val McDermid saying she'd withdraw her sponsorship if he was signed .... or is that story now dead?
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51 minutes ago, Glenmavis Diamond said:
Again, that doesn't actually state that he heard it himself. As has been said elsewhere, it may have been another players parent who believed he heard it and then informed Rico and the club. And as far as has been reported, that person remains the only person to come forward and say they heard anything.
"I was subjected to racist abuse ....".
He's in no doubt that it happened.
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13 minutes ago, Glenmavis Diamond said:
Find one bit of evidence or communication that states Rico actually heard it himself. That's all I'm asking for. It's an assumption everyone is making and even portraying as to what happened. Yet I don't believe that's actually been said anywhere.
Link to the post that started it all.
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14 minutes ago, Glenmavis Diamond said:
Find one bit of evidence or communication that confirms Rico heard and reported it. I'll wait.
So just to be clear, you want evidence that he heard it and evidence that he reported it, or is it just the reported bit after having heard it?
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26 minutes ago, Spanish Armada said:
Cannae be racists if no one was racially abusing him?
Any proof of that?
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10 hours ago, Diamonds Are Red said:
Maybe not the same player but the one who did react to chants was horribly racially abused.
Just to be clear, I wasn't attempting to suggest that he wasn't.
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8 hours ago, Diamonds Are Red said:
We lost 4-2 at Broomfield on a Tuesday night before the return game in England the following month. Airdrie fans thought they would beat Bury quite easily, as at the time they were in a lowly position in the bottom tier. Notable for a Bury player getting booked (sent off if I remember correctly) for gesticulating to the crowd for giving him...racial abuse.
I remember my pals and I giving one of their players pelters as he took a shy and he reacted by telling us to "f*ck off". Imagine being triggered by a squeaky-voiced bunch of 9 year olds shouting "haw mister, you're rubbish".
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59 minutes ago, Ballboy said:
What would happen if this song was started about a player today?
Probably nothing as long as the player said they were happy with the song.
"Davie Dodds, the Elephant Man" on the other hand .....
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2 hours ago, G_H said:
I'm not interested in joining any pitchfork brigade without actual evidence
If they're carrying pitchforks how will they will manage to applaud Rico.
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6 hours ago, Spanish Armada said:
I'm not saying that what I'm saying is everyone blames the B for everything bad that happens also folk that were at the game heard f**k all racist abuse
I've missed anyone blaming the B over the past few pages but if you say it happened then of course it happened.
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The Official Airdrieonians Thread - 2019/20 and beyond
in Scottish Championship General Chatter
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The schools started back in North Lanarkshire this week and a lot of kids discovered that their bus wouldn't be running due to lack of coaches / drivers. It seems to be a fairly widespread problem.
Anyhoo, what's the QOS intel story? It feels like you turn your back for one second and another rumour pops up while you're not looking.