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  1. Mr November
    Definitely some interesting games. Wotherspoon went off injured for Inverness yesterday, so it would be a big boost if he’s not playing on Tuesday. We’ve done very well against Raith this season, two very tight games and we’re still the only team to beat them. Dunfermline have lots of key injuries just now but they could have Jim Leishman and Sammy the Tammy up front and they’d still take points off us. It’s amazing how much better you feel about these games though after a last minute winner.
  2. Mr November
    Airdrieonians 2-1 Inverness Arbroath 0-2 Dundee United Dunfermline 0-1 Raith Rovers Morton 1-0 Ayr Partick Thistle 3-0 Queen’s Park
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    Think the last time we scored from a corner was Todorov at Raith? I think that and Watson at Dunfermline might be the only ones this season though. We’ve both been critical of Todorov but as you say, he took that goal really well. I’ll be delighted if he kicks on a bit now and proves me wrong.
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    Nikolay Todorov. Never doubted him! Watching that second half today did make me think that our best performances over the last few months have been with him up front. I'm still unconvinced by him (that miss!) but the rest of the team seem to play a bit quicker and more direct when he's on the park which stops the slow, sideways stuff from dominating too much. Even as a Gallagher stan I'd go with Todorov and McGill up front on Tuesday. Hopefully that win gives us a huge confidence boost ahead of a couple of tough but winnable home games next week. The league is so tight between 4th-10th so any decent run would really help to open up a gap.
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    If you said to me after watching Jay Riley's (remember him?) disasterclass during our first game of 2023 that we'd finish it by scoring a last minute winner at the national stadium to move up to fifth in the Championship I'd have jumped at it. Been plenty of ups and downs as usual but what a class year for Airdrie all in. Scoring a ridiculous number of goals in the first half of 2023, scudding Falkirk 7-2 in the play-offs, finally winning them, good cup runs and then despite some of the well discussed issues recently (which are still true) being a pretty competitive Championship team. Still a long way to go this season but as far as calendar years go it's been our best for a long time.
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    I fear Nikolay Todorov has cost me my home but what a good laugh that was. A massive win for us and a pretty demoralising one for QP. I thought the first half was rotten. Two poor teams lacking confidence and scared to do anything positive, if it wasn’t for Rae fouling Longridge then neither team were scoring. Airdrie looked much better after half time though, much quicker in our play and more aggressive too. That seemed to spook Queen’s Park a bit and other than that very late McKinstry shot never caused any real issues, they seemed content to play for the point. Paton was pretty isolated but it’s very telling that there’s no option for him to play beside or to replace him when he’s not in the game. Great scenes at the end, Todorov more than making up for that dreadful miss earlier. It feels like it’s been a while since we had one of them. I think come the end of the season both teams will be near the bottom so stretching that gap is massive.
  7. Mr November
    Yeah definitely a bit frosty out and about. The car park was surprisingly fine when I cut through it on my way to asda this morning (before the snow), so fingers crossed the pitch is fine. I might regret saying that in a few hours right enough.
  8. Mr November
    Rae does seem to save (most of) his bizarre moments for playing Dunfermline to be fair. He does get caught out at times playing out from the back, which will always happen at this level, but is generally very good at it and while it’s improved a lot recently his decision making in one on ones can be poor at times. For whatever reason he doesn’t do the charging out his box stuff as much against other teams. It’s easy to forget that he’s still a fairly young keeper too, I think he’ll go on to have a decent career and I do think he has the potential to play in the league above at some point. It’s hard for Dunfermline fans to fully judge him though given he does something daft literally every time we play each other.
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    Dundee United 1-0 Partick Thistle Ayr 1-1 Dunfermline Inverness 1-1 Morton Queen’s Park 1-1 Airdrie Raith Rovers 2-1 Arbroath
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    Spot on. I think 10 of the last 13 games between them have been draws after 90 minutes, with four of the last five games being 1-1 after 90 minutes. Two teams who really need a win, both very capable of finding a way to lose to the other, but get the mortgage on another 1-1.
  11. Mr November
    Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy The National - Laugh Track Lana Del Rey - Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd Deathcrash - Less Daughter - Stereo Mind Game Queens of the Stone Age - In Times New Roman... The National - First Two Pages of Frankenstein Sufjan Stevens - Javelin Barry Can't Swim - When Will We Land? Nation of Language - Strange Disciple
  12. Mr November
    Get Ian Murray playing Robert Duvall’s character in an A Shot at Glory remake imo.
  13. Mr November
    Aiken playing for at least 45 minutes: W4 (Partick Thistle, Inverness, Raith, Morton) D1 (Queen’s Park) L3 (Dundee United x2, Ayr) Aiken playing for less than 45 minutes or not at all: W1 (Arbroath) D2 (Raith, Morton) L6 (Dunfermline x2, Arbroath, Inverness, Partick Thistle, Ayr) I think it’s more because of the lack of pace and mobility without him but we really shouldn’t be so reliant on one loanee for that.
  14. Mr November
    I thought Telfer was fine last week, probably our best midfielder, but yeah he struggled today. I think that was largely down to his position rather than fitness though, he’s too immobile to cover out wide the way he had to today.
  15. Mr November
    Today wasn’t quite as bad, which says a lot about that game, but I’m blaming you for summoning the spirit of Dumbarton 0-1 Airdrie during lockdown last night.
  16. Mr November
    Does anyone know why we seem to refuse to have a tall player marking opposition strikers at set-pieces this month? It might have been going on longer but we had Megwa marking Diack in the Thistle game which cost a goal, McCabe (I think) marking Dowds last week and completely losing him which also cost a goal and then today we had McCabe marking Muirhead at long throws and corners. We do have a pretty small team so are often going to be outmatched in these situations but it feels quite an odd setup to me.
  17. Mr November
    I thought the midfield was our biggest issue today. Defensively we were largely fine, usual couple of dodgy moments but no real complaints. Telfer and Frizzell were a bit too slow to play wider roles in a diamond last season and that was the case again today, Frizzell in particular had plenty of opportunities to carry the ball forward in wide areas but always chose to turn back inside. McMaster had a fairly poor game and while McStravick had some nice moments, as a whole they never controlled even parts of the game. I thought Gallagher and McGill were alright in the first half. Definitely not great but both worked hard and McGill looked better as a nuisance forward who could win high balls and push their defence back a bit. He looked better there than as an outright winger which he’s had to be throughout this season. O’Connor did nothing when he came on and while Todorov won a couple of headers I never felt we were going to score.
  18. Mr November
    Fair play to Morton, we’ve only had two 0-0’s under McCabe and both have been against them. Not the best way to spend a Saturday afternoon. There was no real quality in the first half but I actually quite enjoyed it, as much because of relief that the game was played at a fairly decent tempo and wasn’t just 70% aimless Airdrie possession. I think @Dunning1874’s summary above is spot on. The second half was pretty dire though, felt like if either team showed some quality they’d win it but nobody really looked capable of anything spectacular. Definitely not Airdrie’s worst performance in recent weeks but still the same issues unfortunately.
  19. Mr November
    The gameplan does seem to be balls in between the centre backs and full backs but quite funny how we’ve moved to a narrow diamond for the first time this season after reading this.
  20. Mr November
    That Raith v Partick Thistle game was far too entertaining for a Friday night BBC Scotland game, very much back to normal here.
  21. Mr November
    Was talking about Ryan Donnelly the other week. What a six months that was. Can’t believe Allan and Coogans got their big moves and he never.
  22. Mr November
    Quite funny/sad how we can predict non-Scottish signings without them being wild guesses. I remember recognising McStravick’s name as soon as he was announced purely because I spent the summer studying the Consilium list. More fun than seeing people suggest bringing back Jordan Allan right enough.
  23. Mr November
    Yeah all very fair points. I think we’re both in agreement anyway that the main issue isn’t really the strikers themselves, it’s the attacking players around them not being creative enough.
  24. Mr November
    Has Todorov shown that he can get goals here though? He’s had some great chances late on in games, Queen’s Park and Partick Thistle particularly, and hasn’t taken them. I think he played fairly well when he started against Dundee United and Raith to be fair to him and have him credit at the time. I’ve always said I don’t think his hold up play is that great (Chris Hamilton beat him to every header recently) but if we had wide players who could get crosses in he’d be a real threat, unfortunately we don’t really have them. I’m not desperate to get rid of him, just don’t think he fits how we play and McCabe doesn’t seem keen to adapt for him, rightly or wrongly.
  25. Mr November
    I think those are the obvious three. I don’t think there’s too much wrong with the rest of the squad, just lacks a bit of quality overall. McGill to Raith would be a bizarre move, he just hasn’t got going at this level and Murray seemed to suggest he wanted pace out wide which he doesn’t really bring. I think he’d be a better fit in Murrayball than our patient style at this level but even so, it would be a strange signing. I’ll always be fond of him for last season but he must be on a very good wage and he hasn’t justified it unfortunately. I do think Todorov hasn’t been helped by our style of play but even then, he hasn’t really taken his chances when he’s had them. Another probably on a decent wage who hasn’t justified it. I doubt O’Connor is costing us too much but probably best for everyone that he goes out on loan to a League One/League Two team.
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