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19 minutes ago, Airdrie Minded said:
Yeah agree with that. Hope he does well but was really disappointed with him last season. Hopeless for most of it.Well that's us padded out the squad with the part timers, There is nothing we have signed or resigned that makes you think the new season will be any different than the last umpteen seasons... We still need a minimum of 8 better QUALITY full time players to compete and get to the playoffs.
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Chris O Neil showing his ambition and signed for Stenhousemuir . Decent enough player could have still done a turn would have thought he would have stayed in league 1 though.
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Getting back onto the here and now, that's another rival signed quality Part Timers Forfar signing Jordan Kirkpatrick, and relegated stenny signing Liam Buchanan. Both of these players would have improved our team greatly..... Pre season training starts in 4 weeks, not panic stations yet, so far nothing to get excited about... I would expect a statement of intent soon on the playing front, especially with season ticket renewals around the corner.
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36 minutes ago, Pesadilla said:
Three words;
Javier
Sanchez
Broto
Hutton has had some decent saves but seems to have been elevated to God-like status after a save at Parkhead.Was thinking the same myself, decent enough keeper, I actually think Scott Gallagher is or was the better keeper of the two. (I don't know if he is a guid rangerz man though).
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1 minute ago, leomessi1984 said:
New strips are cracking
Never mind the bollocks, who are the 6 signings that are to transform the future of Scottish football.
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Well done on your deserved playoff victory, never been to Broadwood since you beat Airdrie about 12 years ago, Pat Clarke getting the winner that day.. Clyde have a good manager and a somewhat unexpected United support, which you could see the players respond to, something which is sadly lacking at Airdrie. . League one is a funny league, we have struggled year in year out with good players other teams the same, If the players keep up the energy and roll with the punches next season you could do all right. Well that's our New Years game sorted out anyway. Good Luck and welcome to the seaside league.
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2 minutes ago, Chapelhall chap said:
I was at it and it was a fair turn out in number terms. I missed last year in Stadium and I suspect more were at the one I went to 2 years ago. As said David Hutton/Josh Edward got the awards and stressed that they were also disappointed at missing out/not achieving what had been sought. The highlights of the evening were seeing most of the 1975 Cup team whilst players of a later era were there as well. There was a good Q/A with the 75 Cup team and manager Mr McMillan. It was a tribute evening to Ian who spoke of his 60+ years involvement with the Club.George Caldwell and Norrie Anderson inducted into the Hall of fame with Norrie saying more about how much he valued his time here until Ally Mcleod sent him on his way ( only to reappear 6 months later as Ayr boss!) . The meal itself was very good and the Bar was always busy! It managed to avoid the sense of the differences between the Trust and Board.
Any signing rumours , will Hutton resign surely someone asked him.
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13 hours ago, sirscottyoung said:
I felt that Ben McKenzie was absolutely shit at us, and not any better at Airdrie. I don’t feel that he would push Brett any more than Terry and McDowell did.
If he strikers Duggan and Mackin surely the only likely targets from that. Jackson will stay at an Angus team I think. Rest would be an unreal coup and great show of intent if we got one as you say!To be fair Ben McKenzie did fine at Airdrie, Came to the club when Scott Gallagher blew his knee in the first league game, his replacement David Hutton came in and did ok, then he got injured and Ben played a good number of games and was arguably better than the two before him, The one notable mistake was a poor kick out against yourselves, and the rest of the season was spent riding the pine..
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11 hours ago, Old Diamond said:
+1 for Jackie Stewart as worst manager with Bill Munro as a close second, best again Alex McDonald with Bobby Watson in 2nd Spot. (Ralph Collins was in charge when I started attending Airdrie matches)
The list on Wikipedia from 1905 is
- Andy Walker (1905–10)
- John Chapman (1910–21)
- William Orr (1921–26)
- David Martyn (1926–37)
- John Morrison (1937–41)
- Hunter Hart (1941–43)
- Robert Ferrier (1943–45)
- Alex Ritchie (1945–50)
- Willie Fotheringham (1950–54)
- Willie Steel (1954–63)
- Archie Wright (1963–67)
- Ralph Collins (1967–70)
- Ian McMillan (1970–76)
- Jackie Stewart (1976–78)
- Bobby Watson (1978–82)
- Bill Munro (1982–83)
- Ally MacLeod (1983–85)
- Ian McMillan (1985–86)
- Derek Whiteford (1986–87)
- Gordon McQueen (1987–89)
- Jimmy Bone (1989–91)
- Alex MacDonald (1991–99
- Gary Mackay (1999–00)
- Steve Archibald (2000–01)
- Ian McCall (2001–02)
- Sandy Stewart (2002–06)
- Kenny Black (2006–10)
- Jimmy Boyle (2010–13)
- Gary Bollan (2013–15)
- Eddie Wolecki Black (2015–16)
- Danny Lennon & Kevin McBride (both 2016 - as acting head coaches)
- Mark Wilson (2016–17)
- Gordon Dalziel (2017 - acting head coach)
- Stevie Findlay (2017–18)
- Ian Murray (2018–)
You missed out Willie Aitchison
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1 minute ago, foreverarover said:7 minutes ago, Passionate said:Thanks for your input, but you are talking pish, the seaside league sounds great initially, a few away days somewhere different, teams you haven't met for a while.. The long and short of it is , it is bloody hard to get out off as rait h are finding out, the football from most sides is mind numbingly boring and you get skinned 16notes for the privilege... Therein lies the problem, A couple of years back the Raith stand behind the g o a l would have been nearly full. Tonight probably about a th ir d full, Next year probably le ss again same as ourselves, Death by a thousand cuts scenario, depressing yes, Factual He ll yes..
good luck at Palmerston by the way.Over the last 3-4 years the support hasn't dropped that much. The issue is the two men and a dog away supports that greatly reduces the average attendances. We also have Fife flyers in the town to compete with which doesn't help.
Fair enough, Airdrie doesn't have that excuse, no real interest in Ice Hockey, but I am sure the Section B would find a use for the hockey sticks if the need arose.
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12 minutes ago, foreverarover said:1 hour ago, Old Diamond said:It will, the longer you stay down the more they will stay away, cant see Raith going up next year either
The reason your crowds dropped is that you stole another clubs identity and place in the league. Simple as that.
Thanks for your input, but you are talking pish, the seaside league sounds great initially, a few away days somewhere different, teams you haven't met for a while.. The long and short of it is , it is bloody hard to get out off as rait h are finding out, the football from most sides is mind numbingly boring and you get skinned 16notes for the privilege... Therein lies the problem, A couple of years back the Raith stand behind the g o a l would have been nearly full. Tonight probably about a th ir d full, Next year probably le ss again same as ourselves, Death by a thousand cuts scenario, depressing yes, Factual He ll yes..
good luck at Palmerston by the way.
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12 minutes ago, airdrieman said:
Thought this was a good interview with Stuart Millar. Insightful and clarifies some more details about the Chris O'Neil situation, who's been offered deals and what sort of contracts are on offer and why MacDonald and Stewart are on the transfer list.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/local-sport/airdrieonians-qa-dof-opens-up-15672153
This is also just the list of which players have been offered what - https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/local-sport/airdrieonians-full-list-diamonds-who-15670800
Also, since there hasn't been a rumour posted for a while some boy on the Thistle thread is linking us and Morton with Kris Doolan.
The Doolan rumour was in in the "sun" this morning, we have also been linked to Austin at caley and numerous other players taking part in the playoffs according to the press, we are a gullible bunch and love a bit of speech play coming Ou r way from our DOF. Always good to be linked to this type of player, but real istically must be out of our price range. So I fully expect a couple of stranrae r and Ea stFife to sign on to improve our squad.
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14 hours ago, tongue_tied_danny said:
Looks pretty cool to me. I'm also kinda glad that they're going for blue shorts and white socks.
The only thing that will spoil the official team kits will be the SFL sleeve logos that sit between the V on the sleeve, it did in Airdries kit and looked silly,nice kit though and expect good quality..
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2 hours ago, port-ton said:
I feel its only fitting to bookend this glorious failure of Falkirk's season with a recap before they leave us for threads with three responses a week in them.
Feel free to add your own that I've missed.
• Scrapped your academy to spend more money on the first team budget
• Sacked Paul Hartley
• Ayr Utd's Manager refused the opportunity to manage you
• Tapped up Morton's unhappy manager illegally
• Knocked out of the Irn Bru Cup by Welsh Part timers
• Brought your own security to Cappielow for the safety of your fans
• THAT Ray McKinnon photo
• Took seven matches to gain your first points of the season
• Won your second game of the season in November
• Falkirk Board accuse fans of being racist towards their own player
• Lose tribunal and have to pay SFA fine for tapping up Morton's manager
• Got rid of most of your squad and spent big bringing in players to save your season
• Signed Morton's best player on a pre contract
• Celebrated a 38th minute equaliser against a team your fans don't care about by invading the pitch (No pitch invasions the following week when you beat Ayr)
• Celebrated an injury time winner against QOTS with another pitch invasion, only for QOTS to score an 96th minute equaliser because of it
• In order to make up with the Morton board, you decide to pay them compensation for McKinnon despite insisting that we were not due it
• Got within touching distance of safety then lost to Morton, Alloa and drew with QOTS when it really mattered
• Complete a full season of matches against Jonatan Johansson without winning one of them
• Beat the league champions on the final day in glorious dramatic fashion only for the result to be meaningless
• Relegation to Scotland's third tier
• Kicked a board members car as they left the stadium
• Morton's best player's pre contract becomes null and void due to relegation
• The crushing realisation you spent over £100k on a manager who ultimately took you down
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44 minutes ago, Supremesons said:
Will we have a new home and away kit this season or just a new home one?
How do you find the Joma kit, we have just signed a 2 year deals with Football Nation....we had Hummell the season past top quality but not interested in the smaller teams..
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12 minutes ago, Diamond Oracle said:
I found that part of the announcement very strange. Why would them being in the last year of their contracts (which most players are in League One) have any relevance to being transfer listed?
Surely you’re either wanted by the club and therefore not available for transfer, or not wanted and on the transfer list?Agree was a very unusual statement regarding Stewart and MacDonald, Carrick is under contract next season and he hasn't been mentioned anywhere......
According to the Arbroath thread. Ryan Wallace is rumoured to want to return FT to Airdrie, upgrade on what we had if true
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Lost a 'll sympathy for O Neil being released, his wee maw has been giving it large all over Facebook saying the usual offered a pittance not enough for petrol money etc. This i snt under 10s we are dealing with here, the lad is 22 ffs... Get over it and get yourself another club ffs.
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Foley 47, Great post you have just described my team in a much better way than I ever could......
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Personally do not understand the furore over O Neil he was steady enough, but that calibre of player has made Airdrie a consistent league 1 side, The directors want better, what's left of the fans demand the return of the glory days. Better quality players is the only answer for the club to progress. Next season is pivotal (say it every season). Falkirk , possibly Raith and QOS and the rise of the Angus teams could make the campaign perilous, Massive summer ahead.........onwards and upwards as the guvnor used to say.
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Duffy still has a touch of class about him, would score plenty in a good side with an energetic midfield and wide players that know what to do... Sadly not that Airdrie side. Hopefully a major clear out is happening have my doubts though.
Any signing rumours apart from Austin at Caley.
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A bit of paper talk going around that we are chasing big Fash (Austin), would be delighted if we could get him, not heard any rumours down here, what's the word on the street in Inverness. Would imagine he would be on a decent wage as well, we are apparently ambitious if you read press reports so you never know.
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Calling Tapping always had a touch of class about him, Although seems to have his fair share of injuries, Cox always thought he was better as an impact player 100% guaranteed. Always find stenny an interesting club, seem very well run, what's the secret.....do you have a Supporters Trust.
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Looking forward to the Falkirk games next season, word of warning do not underestimate the league, it is difficult to get out of, well Airdrie make a meal of it every season....
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Interesting that half the proceeds of the End of Season presentation night have been ring fenced for a charity (fantastic charity). PH wanted all proceeds to be split down the middle, Trust and Football Club, this was to be discussed by the Trust. So the decision has been made not to split the funds, has the club been informed o r just hearing through the traditional social media channels. I
into the football if we can manage a victory down at stair this afternoon, be might just miss out by a couple of points again for the playoffs, surely next year is Our year...........
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The Queen's Park 2018-19 Thread
in Scottish League 2 General Chatter
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He has signed for the mighty Airdrie, that's good you rate him highly, if it's any consolation i think Clyde could be next season's dark horse in league 1, good signings especially wide players and Saint Daniel at the helm, do not ask about our Hybrid system i do not know how it is to work and I don't think the club do yet either.