D'Jaffo

Lawrence Shankland trying to decapitate the Airdrie goalie at Somerset.

How close was he to actually leaving last summer? I know we offered him what he was after but I always presumed he did that just to force your hand and give in to him. Not sure if we’d go back in for him this summer if he leaves.

1-0 Caley win. Arbroath to be mathematically relegated at Somerset next week.

I think right now we are the definition of inconsistent. We haven’t won two games on the bounce since Whites last game and Browns first game and that was in January. The good thing is that if carry on with this form then we’ll be fine but at some point we’re going to get beat twice and with a double header coming up against Raith and Morton (two teams we have barley laid a glove on) there’s the fear that we could lose both. FWIW if I had to pick one game to win I’d take the Morton one. They are closer to us in the table and I’d rather we started getting more home wins together. There’s a fair chance that if we win all our home games we could find ourselves with a very good chance of getting fourth.

To think we nearly appointed him… twice.

Think if Caley beat them then it’ll be a 12 point gap with 4 games to play so it’ll be all but done. We’ll just be making it mathematically impossible for them to come back. Just a shame it’s not Dick Campbell in the dugout.

If we can do enough in the next two games to pretty much rule out finishing in the bottom two then I’ll be delighted. We’ve been so inconsistent under Brown but find ourselves top of the form charts in the last ten games which demonstrates how mental this league is. If we carry on with the form we are on then we should be comfortably finishing 5th with probably leaving ourselves too much to do for a playoff spot. I think if we managed to find ourselves in the top four then it’d be an even bigger robbery than finishing second last year and you’d imagine Morton would feel pretty hard done by if they missed out.

I’d imagine we’ve already made some sort of offer to him but he’ll be holding out as most players do.

The club update seemed to suggest that Dempsey will be back in the squad for this one although I’m not sure I’d be starting him. Syla went off against Airdrie although it looked like cramp so I’m hoping he’s okay for this one. My main worry is Murphy. He did a power of running in the last game and played the full 90 minutes so I’m hoping he has come through it okay. We could conceivably have to play a back four of Tomlinson, Sanders, McGinty, McAllister.

Christ two posts in one day from the club. Good to see we’ve found the Twitter log in details.

On the face of it his goal scoring record for us has been pretty decent. Then you remember that he’s only scored 4 goals against teams that aren’t called Airdrie.

The regularity with which injury updates are given suggests it’s easier than you are saying. I get the need for private information to be kept private in the workplace but a club is well able to say “X player is not able to play this weekend due to injury”. You won’t find a footballer in the country that would kick up a fuss about that. The club have struggled with communication for the last few years. It got better when the team were flying but as is the case at most clubs, when the team is losing then everything goes quiet. It’s as if they are afraid to tell us anything whilst we are losing games. When the team were PT in League One we got a match preview that always outlined the fitness updates of players. There’s no reason why that can’t be issued in the same tweet as the one that has the link to the press conference.

Here was me thinking they just enjoyed winding folk up.

Did the club tell us why we’ve switched ends though?

Reading only got injured in February.

Fair chance we won’t see Reading or Murdoch play for us again.

Where did I say it would work in every game?

If Brown is looking at these fine margins and thinks that it’s paying off then fair enough. Anything that gives us an edge is good enough for me especially given our squad isn’t good enough to match most teams in this league.

There was nothing mistimed about it. He flew in, two footed and flying off the ground. He was obviously frustrated at how little Airdrie had a grip of the game and lashed out but he could’ve very easily broke McHughs leg. If the roles were reversed you’d be hoping McCabe was critical of the ref.

They went very direct on Friday night. They can’t play the “right way” without McCabe and even then that just consists of playing long diagonal balls to the corner flags.

Maybe if your manager didn’t have a policy of signing midgets you’d stand a better chance against us.

By my count I don’t think we’ve lost to this lot since 2017. Of course they spent a large amount of that time floundering about in the seaside leagues which is embarrassing enough really.

Are you overly familiar with said test?

This sounds like a great laugh. FWIW I’d fancy Fraser MacIntyre to batter the full Airdrie board on his own.