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    The Official Airdrieonians Thread - 2019/20 and beyond

    in Scottish Championship General Chatter

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    13 minutes ago, Jack Reed said:

    Back to usual, play offs  not with this man in charge  

    Clearly we aren't making the playoffs at this point.

    When the split comes and we end up in the bottom half, surely a change of manager at that point would allow whoever comes in to work out who they want to keep, although I don't have much hope for them considering the teamsheet appears to be dictated by the McKay family.

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    The Official Airdrieonians Thread - 2019/20 and beyond

    in Scottish Championship General Chatter

    Posted · Edited by G_H

    5 hours ago, FifeSons said:

    Have you finally accepted Murray is The Special One?

    No, he's still pish.

    Great result, very much needed and hopefully shows the team what they are capable of achieving if they put their minds to it.

    Team need to start turning up every game, not just when they feel like it.

    McKay #2 needs to f**k off back to chesterfield.

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    Dumbarton vs Airdrie

    in Scottish League 1 General Chatter

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    1 hour ago, Jan Vojáček said:

    Based on last night, and the squad you have, Airdrie are a far better side than Dumbarton. And are certainly nowhere near the worst team in the division. Given all the doom and gloom I'd read on here, and their recent form, I was expecting a clone of us/last season's Forfar team to turn up. But they certainly didn't.

    We have a dozen or so players and a manager you are more than welcome to.

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    The Official Airdrieonians Thread - 2019/20 and beyond

    in Scottish Championship General Chatter

    Posted · Edited by G_H

    5 hours ago, Spanish Armada said:

    SM the Great "Airdrie man" this great guy has actually made us worse than last season he's supposed to have this superior knowledge in the game the guys an absolute muppet just as shite a DOF as he was a manager and a player 

    It's been all Murray's team since the restart, we've doubled our McKay's, and have no points to show for it.

    Clearly, I have no knowledge of the inner workings of the club, but the last 3 games have been pathetic, and don't necessarily have SM as the common denominator.

    It's a results business, not a hype business. Murray needs to get gone.

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    Peterhead v Airdrie

    in Scottish League 1 General Chatter

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    What I would field:

     

                                         Currie

    P McKay     Fordyce      Crighton       McCann

                             Turner        Sabatini

    Robert                                                         Connell

                            Gallacher      Carrick

     

    What we will probably get because it's Ian Murray

     

                                         Currie

    Fordyce      Mbayo      Crighton      Richie

                                        P McKay

      Thomson               Turner                 O'Reilly

                              Roy               J McKay

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    The Official Airdrieonians Thread - 2019/20 and beyond

    in Scottish Championship General Chatter

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    19 hours ago, Mr November said:

    I think most Airdrie fans would happily see him leave at this point, though I'm still a bit unsure whether that would be a good thing or not. 

    I was really excited when we appointed Ian Murray. He obviously had a very poor spell at St. Mirren but the job he did at Dumbarton was outstanding and I hoped he could have a similar impact at Airdrie. When he joined us we were sitting 6th after the first round of fixtures, albeit only two points off bottom and 11 points off top. We were a bit of a mess at the time, Stevie Findlay had signed a new team of average League One jobbers on seemingly decent contracts but they never really clicked. When Murray came in we had lost four of our last five games and were generally a bit of a mess. The football under Murray that season was pretty awful, there were a few games where we were fantastic but on the whole it was pretty stodgy, solid at the back but nothing going forward. After a mixed start he consistently stuck to a 5-4-1 formation that season given how poor we were defensively, the aim generally seemed to be keep things tight and sneak a goal rather than going out to attack teams. We almost snuck into the play-offs but ultimately we just weren't good enough and lost far too many games at home, generally without scoring. 

    He had a pretty poor start to the 2019/2020 season. Whereas previously he'd staunchly stuck to the same system he flipped between a back five and back four for the first quarter and the team were a bit all over the place as a result. Eventually things clicked in a game up at Forfar where Nat Wedderburn had to come off injured, Kurtis Roberts came on and suddenly we looked a much better team. I'm not sure whether Murray had actually planned this when he made the change or it was just a fluke but either way, we finally looked like a good team. Including that Forfar game, we went on to win six games in a row, playing some great football throughout and even going top of the league at one point. The rest of the season was pretty much a mixed bag, some good performances, some not so good but we were on course to finish in the play-offs with a reasonable chance of going up given our record against Falkirk that season. 

    Unfortunately, there hasn't really been any progress this season. It's very much been a case of continuing where last season left off, a mix of great performances but also some very poor ones. Overall, I think Murray's done a decent job at Airdrie, albeit not as good as I had hoped. The club had been a mess for a good few years before he came in. We've had seasons of having a very young (and not very good) full-time squad, a team of youth players and then experienced League One jobbers but Murray has turned us into a solid play-off level team, which is more than can be said for most of our recent managers. However, he's also been well backed by the board with a move to a hybrid setup, the biggest squad in the league two seasons in a row (albeit a lot of those players are young players who never played) and a new contract last season at a point where he didn't really deserve one yet. It's hard to judge him in terms of recruitment given we've had a Director of Football throughout his time here and more recently links with certain agents but our recruitment has very much been a mixed bag.

    We've consistently had the same issues under Murray which I think is the most frustrating thing. He's still very young for a manager but he's pretty experienced now and should really be learning from his mistakes. We've lost 14 home games throughout his time here without scoring a goal, 10 of which we lost 1-0. It's generally always the same story of being ok defensively but being completely unable to break teams down. This has been the case for teams lower down the league as well as teams at the top and ultimately is what has cost us in all three seasons, Raith beat us 1-0 three times last season but only finished 5 points ahead of us. 

    I'm not necessarily against Airdrie keeping him on for next season but I can't say I'd be upset if he left. In each of his seasons he's pretty much performed to the minimum level expected but nothing more than that, though on paper that's certainly more than a lot of other managers have achieved. I think he'd do fine at Ayr, he'd certainly keep you up but I'm not convinced he'd do much more beyond that. I don't think he'd take it but in terms of managers in this league Stewart Petrie would be a much better choice.

    Well, he's certainly not a failure on the level of Gary Mackay, but realistically, as a manager his approach to the game is very 2 dimensional, and pretty much everyone has him found out at this point other than Clyde for some reason.

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    The Official Airdrieonians Thread - 2019/20 and beyond

    in Scottish Championship General Chatter

    Posted · Edited by G_H

    4 hours ago, Passionate said:

    Why the hate for Jack McKay his goal record stands with the current tripe who don't get the same abuse,

     

    have a look at yourself ffs

    Are you mental? Here's his record:

    Years Team Apps (Gls)
    2014–2016 Doncaster Rovers 4 (0)
    2015 → Ilkeston (loan) 4 (0)
    2016–2017 Leeds United 0 (0)
    2017 → Airdrieonians (loan) 15 (1)
    2018–2019 Cardiff City 0 (0)
    2019 → Chesterfield (loan) 4 (0)
    2019– Chesterfield 15 (2)
    2021 → Blyth Spartans (loan) 0 (0)
    2021– → Airdrieonians (loan) 0 (0)

    Not to mention that we will be stuck with this clown starting every game due to the same nepotism that has rendered Paul undroppable.

    Thank **** they weren't triplets.

    If it makes you feel any better, here is a glowing review about his abilities regarding his signing on twitter:

    https://twitter.com/AllTownArentwe/status/1358886042850504706?s=20

    "One of the worst players I've ever seen at Chesterfield"

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