Glenmavis Diamond
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Really enjoyed it yesterday. To win 4-1 and not have really played as well as we can was good. Scrappy game at times and you could tell we miss Gallagher. Roy is a different type of player, wants to run into passes, where as Gallagher is much better at holding the ball up and bringing others into play. Roberts was superb. His pass to get Smith away and then to get up the park and onto the end of it to finish the move with a lively dink over the keeper was excellent. Special mention to Smith too. Worked his socks off again and his return pass for Roberts goal was beautifully threaded between two defenders. Captain Crichton really responded well after the OG. What better way to redeem yourself than with a couple of thunderous strikes that any forward would be proud of. Great day.
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The very best of luck to Clyde FC in your upcoming game against East Fife. May you horse them, utterly destroying their confidence, and take all 3 points.
Yours gratefully,
Every Airdrie fan.
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But how shite is Connor Salmon though? I mean seriously.
Talk about an overpaid waste of space. The only real damage he’s done this season is to your wage bill.
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9 hours ago, el Gringo said:
Sitting editing highlights at 11:30 on a Saturday night is normally a bit of a pain in the arse, but on days like today I wouldn't have it any other way. Pure filth.
Good job my good man.
Can you answer me one thing though that I cant tell from the highlights. See Crichton’s shot over the bar towards the end, he was appealing for a corner and I too thought their defender got a crucial touch to deflect it over the bar. Can you tell if he did or not? Cheers.1 -
Clyde 2-1 Peterhead
Dumbarton 2-1 East Fife
Falkirk 2-3 Airdrie
Montrose 1-1 Forfar
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16 hours ago, She who dares gins said:
At the risk of interrupting the thread with my complete lack of interest in Bohemians...
Thoughts on Dumbarton game on Saturday? For me it has to be a good performance and a win and we start putting the inconsistency behind us. Going for 2-1 Airdrie that will come back to haunt me... will be my first game since Clyde
Not exactly a ‘must win’ game, more of a ‘we really need to start winning’ kind of game. Agreed we need a decent run and to shed the inconsistency. It’s a tight league and we are still in the mix. It’s early days but sooner or later a team will put a good run together and move clear at the top. I want it to be us for a change!
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18 hours ago, Bohemian said:
Going around in circles here mate, we fielded or reserves for a very valid reason. We have way more important games..
Which begs the question, why sign up for a cup in which you have no legal requirement to be part of if it’s not that important? Just don’t join.
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Let’s not get our knickers in a twist about the reserve fixtures FFS.
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3 hours ago, Back Post Misses said:
Airdrie fans conclude we are shite, garbage and horrendous. All true and they still didn't have a shot on goal all game that trouble either of our keepers.
I really wish we were as good as them.
You already are.
Short of your drubbing of possibly the worst Dumbarton team in recent history, you’ve been poor. So have Airdrie.
You have fans who think you’re better than you are and wonder where it all went wrong since ‘the glory days’. Snap.
You’re in League 1. Snap again.
welcome to mediocrity.
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13 minutes ago, ShineOnYouCrazyDiamonds said:
Is that a back 6 or a back 7 we're starting with?
Don’t be fooled. Kerr is starting up front after his 3 goals in 2 games for the youth team........
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2 hours ago, BairnBrainBrian said:
I would go 2-3-5 every week against these pub teams.
It’s this sort of arrogant smugness that makes me look forward to the end of the season when you’ve fucked up your promotion chances, have to spend another season in the seaside league and suffer financial difficulty due to over spending on and being stuck with full time players who think they’re better than they are.
2-1 Airdrie
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On 06/08/2019 at 09:25, Glenmavis Diamond said:
Week 1 - Hibs
Week 2 - Falkirk
Week 3 - Peterhead
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Good luck with Page. I see he’s off to a flier eh?
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6 minutes ago, Stevo1968 said:
My god that was tough to watch, back 4 done well, the rest...
no comment
The back four? Kerr was awful. Poor passing and some dodgy attempted clearances.
Agreed though that it was tough to watch. Performances like that will not put bums on seats. Especially at £17 a pop.
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Week 1 - Hibs
Week 2 - Falkirk
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30 minutes ago, waysider said:
Last year Murray inherited a team that wasn’t his. He improved the team and ensured safety. Yet I was not entirely at ease with him. He seemed to never know what his best team was and changed it every week, often playing players out of position.
At the end of the season we had a massive clearout and signed a lot of players including many “promising” youngsters. With every signing, we got hit by propaganda by the Club as to what a good player we had signed. For all I know some of these new players may indeed be good but I have no idea what their position is. More importantly, neither has Murray! A different team every week and various players rumoured to be out of position. Back to the same old nonsense as last season only this time it is his own team.
The start to the season has been poor. Clyde was ultimately unconvincing, QP was rank rotten and Saturday was even worse . 2 shots on target at home! The only part of the season that has been hopeful was the first half v Hamilton.
I’m not shouting for Murray to be sacked yet but I’m certain he’s not the man to get us promoted.
I used to be what some would call a happy clapper. No more. Now I’m a pessimist.
I will nonetheless be delighted to be proved wrong.
I’m confused by a couple of points you’ve made.
1. You say the club hit us with propaganda every time we signed a player by saying they were good. Did you expect them to say they were shite or just bang average? Find me a club that doesn’t sign a player because they think they’ll be a good addition.
2. You’re not shouting for Murray to be sacked, yet you’re ‘certain’ he isn’t the man to get us promoted? Slightly contradicting don’t you think? So You’ll back him even though you know he won’t get us promoted?
Murray is he best manager we’ve had in a long time and with Stuart Millar supporting him, I am confident we will do well this season. So we lost the first game. Wish we’d won but I’ve seen us play so much better before Saturday and I’m confident we will see a winning team soon.
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You could very easily say ‘typical Airdrie’ as many have.
You can just as easily say ‘typical Airdrie fans’ after reading some of the reaction on here and FB.
Sack Murray? Aye, that’ll help. Let’s waste money on paying him off after ONE league game and then pay to get someone else in so we can then say ‘it’s not his team’ whenever he loses a game. How many managers have we went through in recent years? How’s about giving the guy a chance to build something.
It was one game against a good team. They were better than us on the day. We also shot ourselves in the foot by gifting them a goal. If that doesn’t happen, then it could have been a very different game. Yes, could have. Nobody knows.
What’s different to this season from last is that there’s players waiting in the songs to get their chance. And after yesterday’s performance they will get just that. Changes will be made.
Preseason created optimism amongst most fans and rightly so with some promising performances. That shouldn’t just die based on one game. The season is not just about one game.
I’ll revisit this post in a while once we’ve won a couple of games on the bounce and everyone thinks we’re amazing again.
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3 hours ago, Diamond legend said:
Wedderburn is absolutely a liability playing to deep to slow can't close opposition players down can't head a ball pretty similar to Conroy.I hope you are right to make playoffs is vital this season.I think referees Love give penalties against Airdrie same last week against Clyde.Disagree about Wedderburn. Yeah he’s slow but his passing is solid, rarely misplaced, and he wins pretty much every header he’s up for IMO. Miles better than Conroy.
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30 minutes ago, Jack Reed said:
You should have known better ,not be so good now , good defence???!!!!
A dodgy penalty let them back in. Then they should’ve been down to 10 men but the ref bottled it and only booked the guy for a two footed, off the ground challenge? 2nd penalty was fair enough and last goal a decent strike but think Hutton May be disappointed to not have saved it. Got a hand to it but still dipped in. Hamilton got lucky today and the ref was shocking. Shame we lost but I saw enough today to be confident for the league.
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Aye this defensive football is just awful to watch.
Imagine only being 2-0 up on Accies after 25 minutes.....
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On 23/07/2019 at 13:37, DiamondOwl said:
Mmm….Nobody cares whether I come back…. Seriously, this is the sort of attitude coupled with a real lack of entertainment on the park that has caused our support to steadily decline over the past few years. Whatever you think of me, if you are a true fan you should want as many people as possible paying to watch the team and for car parking, food, etc. Surely, it is vital to ensure that the club continues to be viable.
You’re challenging me on being a true fan but talking not attending games yourself? A tad hypocritical don’t you think?
We’ve started the season quite well with some decent new players signed and played some promising football.
There’s been plenty of good attacking football and the players signed indicate we’re setting up to go win games.
cant ask for any more than that at the moment.
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30 minutes ago, DiamondOwl said:
It's one game. But it all sounds wonderful. Maybe I should rush back on Wednesday and be thoroughly entertained.
Oh wait a minute.... I've just noticed your comment over on the Clyde thread: "We, Airdrie, didn’t play that well today either to be honest....”. So it's a mile better, but we're not playing well?
Anyway, good result for the diamonds (even if it was still, by your own admission, not great to watch).
Nah; Nobody cares whether you rush back or not. You remain bitter and thinking you know best by not bothering to turn up and see for yourself, yet continuing to sprout how defensive the team are going to be.
At what point did I say it was not great to watch? I believe I said we didn’t play well but we weren’t terrible either. Really good for 60 mins, but being a 90 min game, we didn’t play well overall.
However, winning and scoring 3 goals, which could have been even more, whilst not playing that well? I’ll take that. Knowing we can play even better and can potentially destroy some teams this season? Superb.
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I’m confident the team will only get stronger and better with every game. There’s good competition throughout the squad so if someone doesn’t perform, then they drop out, so everyone has to be on their toes. We’ve not had that level of competition for a good while. Yes we need to iron out some blips but in my opinion there are Good times ahead.
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On 20/07/2019 at 00:05, DiamondOwl said:
I take your point. I am a real fan, have been for over 35 years, as previously stated. I know that at times I’ve been pushing it quite far to try to get a reaction and have people think critically. Of course, I could well end up being wrong. But I’ve been seeking to get the happy clappers to take off the rose-tinted glasses and see that the probability is that they are going to be watching a defensively minded brand of football and that they are going to be disappointed yet again. I know most people don’t want to hear it, they would rather stay somewhat deluded, which is perfectly understandable, as in the past, I would have been right there with them.
What utter nonsense. 3-2 today, hardly defensive. We’ve signed several strikers and attacking wide players who look to get on the ball and take their man on. We have a stronger bench than we have had for years. That’s a mile better than the sh!t we’ve watched in seasons gone by. If thats your idea of a defensive minded manager, I’m fine with that.
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Predictions, Saturday, 11 January
in Scottish League 1 General Chatter
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Dumbarton 1-2 Clyde
East Fife 1-3 Airdrie
Forfar 2 - 1 Raith
Peterhead 1-3 Falkirk
Stranraer 1-2 Montrose