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36 minutes ago, ++Ammo - Airdrie++ said:
Ayr to win, as hopeless as Ayr have appeared in the last few games against Airdrie, they've had our number and ruthlessly punished some atrocious mistakes.
I've got a funny feeling this Friday will be the same story, a disjointed performance, sloppy defending and poor mistakes.
Obviously my predictions in the championship have been horrendous so, happy to be proved wrong. I'd take a draw in every game between now and season end tbh
I’m the same. I’ve went for a draw but have the fear it’ll be a humbling defeat with Anton Dowds gifted another goal.
We actually played pretty well going forward in the last game against Ayr, just incredibly naive at the back. We’ve been a bit more direct since then though, as well as starting to figure out how to play away from home and also bounce back from conceding the opening goal, so hopefully this is the game we finally beat Ayr this season.
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Ayr 1-1 Airdrie
Arbroath 0-2 Dunfermline
Dundee United 1-1 Raith Rovers
Morton 0-0 Queen’s Park
Partick Thistle 2-1 Inverness
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1 minute ago, A Diamond For Me said:
I've said it before, but I don't think I've ever seen an Airdrie team so comfortable defending a one goal lead. The control this side can exert on a game is incredible, absolutely rock solid.
Spot on. I wasn’t nervous when we went 2-1 up as I just knew we’d see it out. TNS had loads of the ball of course but even then, we held our shape incredibly well and limited them to a few crosses which Fordyce will take all day. Being able to do that in any game, but particularly big games, is a great habit.
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Currently sitting 4th in the league, last 16 of the Scottish Cup, only team to win all their group stage games in the League Cup and now Challenge Cup winners. Still a long way to go in the league but what a season it’s been so far!
I’ll no doubt post more about the game itself tomorrow but today feels different to the play-off final win. That was a release of 10 years of frustration at being stuck in League One purgatory, a rare moment of pure joy after years of the club going nowhere. Today, and this season as a whole really, feels like a club really heading in the right direction under McCabe and Fordyce. I’ve said it before but I don’t think there’s been a more fun club to support in the country over the last few years.
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26 minutes ago, ++Ammo - Airdrie++ said:
End of story.
That defence have conceded fewer than a goal a game since then and overall have conceded half the number of goals Arbroath have
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50 minutes ago, A Diamond For Me said:
McStravick must surely be signed uo for next season at least. Hard to see us paying money for a player to have him for less than a full season.
Someone mentioned a while ago that McStravick, Hancock and McMaster are signed up for next season but we’ll never know for sure until May.
I suppose the benefit this season is that with another win or two we’ll likely be safe and know that barring a freak play-off run which should allow us to plan better, whereas the last couple of seasons players will have wanted to wait until they knew whether we were in League One or the Championship.
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11 minutes ago, Passionate said:
To be fair, to the keeper, he saved us just before the equaliser when one of the many misplaced first half passes by Fordyce was intercepted , crucial save that could have put us 2 down,
I thought we really missed McCabe today for this season. With Rae out we couldn’t have the keeper as involved at the back and McMaster is a lot more conservative, so you’re left with Fordyce as the main playmaker back there which is never ideal. I’d like to see McCabe back in next week if he’s fit.
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Another very important win. If you’d offered any of us the chance of being 8 points ahead of 9th at this stage with a game in hand, never mind having that while sitting 4th, we’d all have jumped at it.
Bit of a mixed performance today. Like the last few home games we gave away some daft goals but thankfully we were able to get around it. I thought both Megwa and Hancock were uncharacteristically poor for the first half hour but once we changed shape both came into the game.
On the shape, I thought the 4-1-4-1 didn’t work at all. Todorov was quite isolated and the ball never stuck up top. Lyall, Frizzell, Telfer and McStravick were all fine but got in each others way quite a lot, with the wide players coming inside and taking up similar positions as Telfer and Frizzell. Once we switched back to the diamond we started to click with Lyall, Telfer and McStravick looking really good and as mentioned the full-backs getting forward again. Lyall in particular had his best game yet, a real shame he won’t be available next week.
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14 minutes ago, cb_diamond said:
Hahaha was it? I'm awaaaay up at the other side.
I’m pretty sure it was a bunch of wee guys there with the mascots who were related to Gavin Gallagher. Think they were even singing “no Gavin, no party” at one point before he came on.
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That win at Dunfermline looking even more important and even more impressive now.
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Dunfermline 0-2 Dundee United
Airdrie 2-1 Arbroath
Inverness 1-1 Ayr
Partick Thistle 1-1 Morton
Queen’s Park 2-2 Raith Rovers0 -
2 minutes ago, CJB said:
Anyone had any problems getting their tickets for the Cup Final next week? I've not had any email with the actual ticket yet and presume the email should arrive pretty much automatically - don't recall anything on the website about them being issued closer to the match day.
Have you checked your junk emails? Mines went there.
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2 hours ago, David Fernández said:
Would imagine we'll get another keeper in as even during the play off semi final and with a 6-2 lead, McCabe didn't trust Hutton enough even for the second leg.
I wouldn't be against swapping Gallagher for Donnell and playing McStravick in a more advanced position in behind Todorov, still doesn't solve our mobility problems, but that sounds slightly more mobile than a Gal/Toddy front two.
Darren Jamieson being summoned in to play one game in the play-offs despite being four goals ahead is a very underrated bit from last season’s antics. We probably could have played Hutton and still kept a clean sheet right enough, given it was literally just 90 minutes of long diagonals to Liam Henderson. I don’t like to go on about Falkirk as much as some Airdrie fans but still very funny that in a game that had to score at least four goals, they spent it punting long balls while Airdrie literally just stayed in position and then waited for Brad McKay to inevitably make a mistake at the other end.
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2 hours ago, airdrieman said:
Anyone know if Ballantyne will be back for the final? Just remembered Megwa is cup-tied. Could be without Rae, Ballantyne, Megwa, Lyall, McGregor and Gabby. Not ideal!
Biggest concern with those players missing is that we’d lose a lot of mobility all across the park. You could still put out a team of first team regulars but it feels a bit slow.
Hutton/anyone else
Watson - McCabe - Fordyce - Hancock
McMaster
Telfer - Frizzell - McStravick
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4 minutes ago, Jack Reed said:
Quick recovery to Josh but not looking good,manager will know what he has to do maybe get some word on McGregor and Aiken ,
I heard McGregor was out for 4-6 weeks before the Dundee United game, so possibly still a month or so until he’s back.
I keep forgetting about O’Connor but he might have to start alongside Todorov next week if McGill is out, as I really think both Gallagher and Todorov are too slow to play together in this team and I’d be reluctant to change shape from what has worked really well.
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25 minutes ago, David Fernández said:
I'm sure he played for Hibs B in one of the earlier rounds which would make him ineligible to play in the cup final, with Josh Clarke out on loan at Ayr I genuinely have no idea who could come in on an emergency.
5 minutes ago, cb_diamond said:Can't have more than 3 from the same team so we're gubbed on that front
Both very good points. I was talking about Johnson not being an option recently because of us already having so many Hibs players on loan but it completely slipped my mind there. Looks like the only Consilium keeper in Scotland that isn’t Josh Rae or already out on loan is Zander Clark, so we might have to think outside the box here.
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1 minute ago, David Fernández said:
Just a pity that Dean Lyness is currently Hamilton's first choice, he would've been the perfect emergency keeper for the run in.
A terrifying thought. I guess Murray Johnson is the obvious choice for a rolling emergency loan if Hibs are willing to let him go but might be tricky since he's their third choice and they already have a keeper out on loan at Arbroath.
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That’s a decent point, especially given the circumstances of Hutton playing. Eight points from a run of three away games and a home game against an improving Queen’s Park team is a very decent return.
I’ve been away so I’ve missed the last four games, as well as the win at Kirkcaldy last month, but managed to be at the three defeats in between. Might have to stop going now if this is what happens.
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Stenny have basically won their league already, time to get Darren Jamieson on the phone.
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Of course Falkirk have finally became good and Edinburgh City are struggling to pick up points without us in the league.
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Looks like the Friday night Championship games from April onwards will just be whoever is home to Raith or Dundee United. I've been expecting it for a while but I guess our home game against Dundee United will probably be moved, which would be a shame as it would cut down the crowd a fair bit.
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Dundee United 2-0 Arbroath
Inverness 1-1 Airdrie
Queen’s Park 1-1 Partick Thistle
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1 hour ago, Ghost of Prague said:
Turns out playing on Tuesday nights was all we had to do to fix our away form.
Great result and good to see Morton lose as well. Definitely in the mix for the play off spots.
Feels a bit bizarre that Morton have went almost half a season unbeaten and yet we can go above them if we win our game in hand. I’m still looking over the shoulder rather than upwards but a few more wins like that would be fantastic.
I’ve missed the last two away games, maybe I should just stop going if this is what happens!
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8 hours ago, Salvo Montalbano said:
As long as its a cracking own goal like that trialist did when Airdrie played us a few years back. Think it was Airdrie anyway? Trialist came on, got announced as a trialist on the tannoy, scored a brilliant OG, got announced again ad a trialist on the tannoy, all within about 5 minutes. Quality cameo.
This seemed vaguely familiar to me and turns out it was all the way back in 2009, as @parsforlife says I think that was when we lost the play-off final to Ayr and were relegated before Livingston were punted to the fourth tier and we had to make up the numbers again. Couldn’t remember who the trialist was but turns out it was Thomas Nolan. He got an assist in the previous game but was let go after that cracking own goal and doesn’t appear to have played senior football again after that. What a legacy!
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Airdrieonians 23/24 Championship Thread♦️
in Scottish Championship General Chatter
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Don’t think I’ve seen anyone mention it yet but Cammy Ballantyne’s slide tackle during injury time yesterday was sensational. Full force and timed to perfection. Celebrated that like it was a goal.