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10 hours ago, jb66 said:
Even if hearts sell out south and east?
Why would that B trenchie, I think we will be looking at a crowd of 6k max, so probably wouldn't need it any way.
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10 hours ago, HoustonSpider99 said:
Maybe, but Crawford is capable of playing in that #10 role, giving Thomas/Turner some real competition. I always remember Crawford being the difference between Hamilton being dugmeat and being able to Nick a result.
Crawford was all the rage 4 or 5 years back at Hamilton, all of a sudden it went quiet, I always felt their was an off field issue with him, he has never got back to that level..
Spong i have watched a few times this season and was a stand out , he made you tick in the middle of the park, Welsh is decent enough but not that type of player.
Are you guys confident if getting to 40 points which always gets quoted as the water line.
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24 minutes ago, Diamonds Are Red said:
Yes they will have had to take into consideration the SFA's cut of the gate, the increased stewarding, policing and utility costs, gate halved with Hearts etc...
What is the split of the gate, it isn't 50.50 , it is not something like 45 home, 35 visitor and the rest goes to SFA.. it's not as simple as it seems, to be honest I am glad the club are trying to maximise revenue streams, I see Hospitality is in the Rowan suite, how many does that hold, it seems pretty well priced .
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34 minutes ago, Airdrie76 said:
Any word on tickets for the Hearts game (when they’re on sale or how many we’re giving them)? Games not far away now.
Don't know anything about tickets yet, heard on Saturday that Hearts will get 2 stands, 4300 approx ,, Airdrie will be in usual main stand, think expecting a crowd of around 6k.. also rumour I heard was away car park may be getting closed due to Hearts buses and the BBC broadcasting trucks.. if so we better get there early..
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Hard to disagree about the game, fair result, the game ebbed and flowed for the 90 minutes and was an intriguing watch, Thistle istill class as one our bitterest rivals, but to be fair they are the best side we have played (3times) this season, Airdrie are becoming a lot more streetwise, we had 4 potential starters out, and we still competed to a high level, a 3 week break as we go on our cup travels , after that teams will start to kick for home and the pressure in the league will really crank up.
Is the decent Partick outfit down to shrewd business and coaching by another young manager just waiting for a chance, Doolan, Rhys, Tidser (Kelty), Agnew ( Stranraer) have all been trusted by their chairmen, which really goes against the grain of Scottish Football where the same names get thrown in the bowl time and time again.... Yogi anyone....
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56 minutes ago, ExiledLichtie said:
What I remember about that season was you were in administration, and some absolute shyster (I forget his name) put together a ludicrously expensive team including Owen Coyle, and proceeded to smash goals aplenty past us, a team who had been forced to upgrade their stand, putting us in a terrible financial position. But we made the best of it, signing terrible players, and cutting our budget to the bone for the next 10 years, while Airdrie rattled the buckets, bleated about how they "just wanted a club to support", got us relegated, went bust, bought Clydebank, and bounced back like nothing had ever happened. 20 years later, they're on the Arbroath thread, talking about FFP.
It really, really gets on my wick. See also Dundee, Dundee, Partick Thistle, Dundee, and assorted others.
Edited to add, if I sound bitter, its because I had to watch a team consisting of Jim Gardner, Stevie Fallon, and Craig Feroz while bucket rattling Airdrie were off winning the Challenge Cup with Owen Coyle.
Answering your post( respectfully hopefully). I can understand your frustration been there myself your club is on its arse, and you watch teams spend money like a drunken sailor and signings decent on paper players at will,
Going back to our dark days we were in Provisional Liquidation not administration ( don't know the difference really TBH) basically we were fucked, We had a few CHANCERS Archibald being the biggest liar since pinnochio and for some reason the liquidator KPMG liked another wrong un who was linked to Dumbarton, as you say we got a stay of execution and somehow survived that season, yes we did have Owen Coyle from Ross County, he wqs over 30 and considered to be 'shot' in footballing terms, the rest of that team had some decent names but absolutely done Eddie May, Derek McWilliams, Fraser Wishart, Landry Zahani oni,Scott Bannerman, we stayed up somehow, and the following season we picked up some decent players Ian McCall was in his pomp back then, picking up Mark Roberts in the exit trials, Alan Ferguson keeper thrown on the scrapheap (knees were done though) Craig McPherson freed by Morton , big Kevin James, Stuart Taylor, Lee Gardner , Colin and Stuart McDonald a 16 man squad that punches way above it's weight, it was thrown together not carefully crafted with a warchest..
It has taken us a long time to get back to the championship, do we belong here time will tell,
One thing I will pull you up on Craig Feroz "The Bulll" he was a great striker for my local junior team Rob Roy back a few years back.
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1 hour ago, KD1711 said:
Looks like he is going to reject, will shock a lot of people who he signs for if he goes where I'm hearing.
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7 hours ago, Housecaptain said:
I remember being at an Airdrie game approximately 15 years ago and they were going round with plastic buckets asking fans to contribute to prevent them going bust, a few weeks later they did.
We will give you the 32 pence back next to time you visit Airdrie if you want..
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1 hour ago, Jack Reed said:
Good on you just hope it's a happy Monday ,
1 hour ago, Jack Reed said:Good on you just hope it's a happy Monday ,
Now we are talking Happy Mondays, the early 90s were a great time to be an Airdrie fan and also for the Manchester music scene, what a time to be alive...
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24 minutes ago, Diamonds are Forever said:
I get what you're saying but this is the same St Johnstone who appointed Steven MacLean who had precisely zero management experience at first team level. Same with Robson at Aberdeen, with Naismith at Hearts, Hammell at Motherwell, and that's just the last 2 years. Numerous more guys who have been given jobs with no criteria other than 'played for the club' and some vague 'highly thought of' nonsense due to taking a youth team. Or being the beneficiary of a new manager bounce when standing in for a few games.
If all of the above can get those jobs it's bizarre that someone who has actually got a CV (albeit quite short) with some achievements on it is seen as a risk.
That said, I don't disagree with you that that is how clubs would view it, but it just seems weird to me.
The Premier is just a massive clique, as you say St Johnstone appointed McLean a total disaster , everybody knew it, same with Motherwell when they appointed Hammell and Ross County the same with that maniac Adams.. They seem so ingrained in just getting the money, I would like to see those chairmen try and make their club competitive on 100k prize money a season, that we had to do for years in League 1.
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3 hours ago, airdrieman said:
What a brilliant day Saturday was. I wasn't that excited initially after the draw was made, but on the day itself it was fantastic having what felt like, and ultimately was, a big(ish) cup tie at the stadium. And as others have said, a fully deserved win against an established Premiership side. Nice that that's becoming a bit of a habit! Frizzell was the best player on the park, Telfer and Hancock were outstanding as they have been for months, Fordyce was never troubled by that big dumplin' Kimpioka or Stevie May and shoutout to Watson who ably replaced Megwa* and McMaster who came into the side after a few weeks out and strolled it. When we take a lead and maintain our shape I'm not sure I've ever seen an Airdrie team look so comfortable on and off the ball. St Johnstone never looked like scoring and I'm not sure Raith, Inverness, Morton or Queen's Park, penalty aside, did either. I'm buzzing to play Hearts. We shouldn't get carried away. It's the most difficult tie we could get outside the Old Firm but, they're not infallible and I'd fancy us to give anyone a game at home. More than anything else I'm looking forward to the sense of occasion it will bring to the town and the stadium. Hearts have never played competitively at New Broomfield so should bring a big crowd through. I just hope it's Saturday at 15:00 so we can really optimise the crowd and that sense of occasion. I could tolerate Saturday tea-time but Friday, Saturday mid-day, Sunday or Monday would be shite.
My only worry after Saturday would be I hope Gabby and Gal's knocks aren't too serious. If they are then we'll need to bring in another forward or hope Lyall can play upfront because if we have to rely on O'Connor for any length of time we're goosed.
Class to see Megwa at our game and celebrating with the players at full-time rather than up at Forfar*.A lot of talk of the Hearts game being on the box, 24k you get for it, If it is somebody said a Monday night is a possibility also (BBC showed last season on that night). It would highly affect the crowd, I am hoping a for a 3pm Saturday and get a big crowd in, 24k is worth roughly about 1200 fans, you would lose more than that off the crowd on a Friday or a Monday..
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7 minutes ago, AJ77 said:
If we stay in the league quite comfortably, I'd be surprised if he was still here after the summer. Unless he is desperate to carry on playing of course.
Rhys is doing and has done a fantastic job, I just don't think the bigger clubs would take a risk on someone doing something completely different, they are too set on their ways of survival and negativity, look at St Johnstone a poor negative side who could easily finish 7th in the top league this season..
Hopefully he is here for a few more years , enjoy this time being an Airdrie fan, look at the next 3 games, Partick at home, a televised Semi final at Raith and a possibly televised Scottish Cup 5th round tie at home to Hearts, it sure beats Clyde, Peterhead and Montrose respectively..
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1 hour ago, David W said:
Nowhere near, £24k per team. Same for Viaplay.
Prize money for getting knocked out in round 5 is almost £50k though, in comparison to the £20k we will just have got.
Maybe I am getting mixed up with the old sky money... 24k is nothing special if you play on a Friday or Monday night...
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What is the BBC TV game worth these days still about 80k
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8 minutes ago, Diamonds are Forever said:
Great draw I think. Outside chance of an upset, will be near enough a sell-out and potentially a TV game too.
Good draw, Hearts maybe bring 2.5 k was thinking the same possible TV game, although Hearts were on it yesterday against Spartans.. The old firm will get the other 2 TV games as normal.
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22 minutes ago, HoBNob said:
It was the game talked about a few pages back with regards to Cardle signing a pre contract. He won a penalty near the start, we had to sub our right back after half an hour because he was getting absolutely rinsed. After the game McIntyre told the Airdrie manager "Glad we won't have to play against him next season!" and that was how the Airdrie gaffer found out we'd signed McDougall and Cardle on pre contracts.
Was a good goal by Bayne to win, the draw for the next round had already been made and it was Aberdeen at home.
Right, so Dunfermline fans have spent hundreds of pounds on Airdrie scarves, to then burn them after the game? Christ.
I remember the bother, I can't say I remember the scarves burning.
Remember back in those days we struggled to get scarves ourselves in the then under stocked club shop, they must have been acquired by fair means or foul, it was hardly a funeral pyre FFS, did happen though, irrelevant now right enough, just things you remember.
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Was running late to the game yesterday and decided to pay at the gate, joined the queue and somebody in front shouted, this is the pie queue pal, halfway to the main gate, might seem joking now, but I had to have a double take... Which brings me on nicely to the catering, why oh why do we only have one stall open for near on 1700 fans, Back in League 1 when sides brought 50 odd they quite rightly had the pie stall open for them, why not for our own fans, a one point at half time yesterday one of the queues was doing the eightsom reel.. reading the saints thread they were far from impressed with the catering and service also.
Maybe something for the SLO to bring up..
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34 minutes ago, Diamonds are Forever said:
Can't remember the Dunfermline game either. But I remember the Spartans game, the pitch was completely waterlogged for the whole second half, not sure how the match wasn't abandoned, it was farcical.
I seem to remember it was a midweek game after a typical postponement back then, we lost 2 - 1 to a looping Graham Bayne header late on, There was a bit of bother after it in the car park across the road, I seem to remember some Airdrie scarves being burnt by the busload of Dunfermline fans, didn't go down too well ....
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31 minutes ago, BigMadMental said:
In any case it’s maybe a bit out the road if the club are trying to grow their fan base. Would imagine some people may not attend as regularly if the stadium isn’t as handy for the motorway and closer to the city, decent transport links and easy to drive to.
Were the plans not for the Colin Weir Training ground to be in Kirkintilloch anyway at the old water works down from the stables pub restaurant.
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8 hours ago, BigDi@mond said:
The choice of highlights for Sportscene was embarrassing.
It was very hard to do, but sportscene made St Johnstone look The better side., lol... And not many excuses given by the pundits, although McFadden wasn't on it..
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On 18/01/2024 at 20:32, Kelheart said:
Brody Paterson confirmed on loan , meant to be decent
Remember Airdrie signed him on loan from Celtic in January window 2 years ago, very good going forward, lots of potential seems to have lost his way when down at Hartlepool, would think he would be a solid signing and he probably still has a chance to play at a higher level, think he is a Kirkcaldy boy but don't hold that against him.
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4 minutes ago, PauloPerth said:
Cheers, what was the attendance?
Not having a go but I thought there would have been a bigger home support. Was that about typical home support size? Airdrie have been going well and must have fancied their chances beforehand.
1672 Airdrie, our crowds this season are up about 30 percent than recent seasons, averaging about 1300 home fans in League games, last couple of seasons round about 1k roughly, on paper it's not great, but on our dark days of 6 or so years ago we were lucky to get 650 home fans.. like yourselves it's a modern 10k stadium and smaller crowds make it look worse,
A few of our fans including myself felt we could get a result today,
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So the Saints didn't go marching in then, all quirks aside , both sides have as good as each other in the pre match banter stakes..
1032 St Johnstone fans today, really impressive support and your team let you down, it's not easy or cheap to follow football teams these days, hats off..
Good luck for the rest of the season and hopefully relegate Ross Co and that moron Adams,
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I remember the last time we played St Johnstone at home in the Scottish, our first season as United, it took a last minute mishit Mark Baxter cross to save their skins that day at Airdrie, with saints beating us on penalties in the replay...... At a wintry McDiarmid Park, it's only taken us 20 years for payback, I was gutted that night travelling back..
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Airdrie v Hearts
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Are Hearts liable to sell 4300 tickets ( roughly). For a game at teatime on BBC on a Sunday, if so, hats off. .