David Fernández

Only change I would make tomorrow would back Badley-Morgan coming in for Bruce which seems a bit harsh on Bruce as he did have his best game for us last week but it allows Hancock to play further up. I liked the look of having Aiken, Gallagher and Frizzell in midfield last week as I felt that it had brought more of a balance to the team. Agree with @AJ77 I'd start Reid and McGregor up front together. Although the jury is out on Aaron Reid like a few of our other signings on whether they are Championship quality or not, ultimately he has double the amount of goals as Ben Wilson has in the league and receives double the amount of criticism. Ben Wilson looked excellent in the League Cup but his contribution in the League for me doesn't merit him getting a start, think he has to earn it. The other reason I'd start Reid and McGregor up top in a back 3 would be that if we have both Hancock and MacDonald playing as wing backs, that's where I see us being most threatening up front and if we took Reid out of the team, we'd be back to passing the ball around or 18 yard line again which would lead to us gifting goals to the opposition.

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If we put in a turgid display as bad as we did against Falkirk and Morton on Saturday maybe a little bit? Tbf to McCabe he did stray a bit from his philosophy on Saturday playing with a back 3 and we had a lot less chaotic moments passing the ball around our 18 yard box. I did see enough from the game to think we'll turn it around, it's such a crazy league that a few wins can get you shooting right up the table. Our start to the season has been dire, but we lost a lot of key players and it'll take a while for a new team to gel together. I think staying in the league and starting to establish ourselves as a Championship side will be a good enough achievement, considering we were in League 1 for 10 years.

I was encouraged by the performance yesterday, especially compared to the last few weeks turgid displays, I did see a good bit of fight in this team. It's already been said but going with a back 3 made a massive difference, made us look more solid with two wing backs who looked threatening. I thought both Cammy Bruce and Sam Graham were excellent, two players I haven't been convinced by, but I thought both had their best games for the club yesterday. I think if we stick to this system, put on that level of performance consistently and start to get players back from injury I think we'll be fine this season. Plenty of positives to take from that game such as McDonald's cross and Reid's finish, as well the negatives. As much as it was a great strike from Shinnie, Mochrie was sleeping and at least one of our defenders could've came out to try and block the shot. Our support were as vocal as they've been all season, felt the 300 odd Airdrie fans really got behind the team and that translated on the pitch. Would like to see this level of support next week vs Dunfermline, our atmosphere at home games is dire and has to change imo.

Mental that we gave Hugo Faria a two and a half year contract in League 1 purely on the basis that he played in the same youth team as Cristiano Ronaldo An accusation of bullying and having only played a grand total of 14 game, he disappeared and went back to Portugal. As for the game tomorrow, 6 players out with injuries and suspensions with our best striker available but will be playing with a broken hand, what could possibly go wrong?

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With our injuries and poor form at the moment, I can only see this resulting in a home win unfortunately. Our two most experienced and important players 'McCabe (our manager) and Aidan Wilson look like they are injured long term which means we are relying on a very young squad with no leaders on the park and it's likely that Livi will bully us. Are we calling this one the 'David Fernández' derby?

Probably unrealistic but I find it strange that Kerr McInroy still doesn't have a club yet. He's experienced enough at Championship level and I thought he would've signed for the likes of Raith or Thistle permanently. With McCabe and McMaster put long term we are badly missing a defensive midfielder, McInroy has also played in the diamond formation with us previously so would be perfect. Another one is Stevie Warnock, we don't actually have any wingers and I'm surprised he doesn't have a club yet either, not someone with a lot of experience but he could offer us something different to what we already have. Other than that we'd probably need to have a look at the loan market and I genuinely don't know who we could realistically bring in.

Judging by some of the reactions on social media, one extreme is 'sack the manager' and the other extreme is 'we will come good after we get players back from injury' I think both of these opinions are pretty wild. I wasn't at the game yesterday so can't comment directly on the performance but most of the posts have already hit the nail on the head regarding the recruitment issues, having multiple midfielders who are similar players, a lack of pace, physicality and we look pretty powderpuff up front. (Attributes that both Todorov and McGill have). It's also interesting to compare both Murray and McCabe as managers too. I think Ian Murray's recruitment/signings have been better as it was the majority of his signings who played a massive role in gaining us promotion and also helping us achieve a 4th place finish last season. But I do think McCabe is a better coach and is better tactically than Murray, it really highlights the strengths and weaknesses of both managers. When we've been on bad runs previously I've always seen signs that we aren't too far away or that it'll turn round as we were always competitive in games but this time I'm a bit more concerned, how does the manager fix it other than to bring in a couple of experienced signings, which seems unlikely.

Bobby Wales is the only one I can think of at the top of my head, he looked really good for Alloa and I think teams in Italy were having a look at him. Had a quick look at who's still a free agent on transfermarkt, the likes of McInroy, Adeloye, Grimshaw etc and although they'd need to drop whatever their wage demands were in the summer to get a club, I still can't see us go for any of them.

I think this is the biggest test of McCabe's managerial career so far. McCabe inherited the vast majority of Ian Murray's team who really should've got promoted that season whilst making a few tactical tweeks and minimal signings. Last season we managed to keep the core of that successful squad together whilst again only making minimal signings and a few tactical weeks which made us punch above our weight and achieve an excellent 4th place finish. This season feels like there's been far too many changes that have happened at the one time, guys like Fordyce, McGill, Telfer and Ballantyne were not only the spine of the team but the heart of it too. I'm all for trying to produce young players in the hope of selling them on to make us more sustainable as a club, but if you want to succeed at this level you need the same blend of youth and experience like we did last season. This is starting to feel a bit like Queens Park under Veldman for me and I think we badly need some experience in the midfield and attack.

Fair play to Falkirk, completely bossed us, 2nd to every ball and it was 2-0 going on 10/11. 2nd half was completely one sided, probably the best I've seen an opposition play against us since Hearts in the Scottish Cup last season, very impressed with the way you pressed us all game. As for ourselves that was absolutely dreadful, probably the worst game I've seen from us since McCabe has been manager, teams have sussed us out far too easy and we have no plan b whatsoever. First time I've had concerns about how McCabe will be able to turn this around.

Happy enough with a point to stop the bad run of defeats, I'd have been particularly unhappy if we hadn't taken anything from that game at all. I thought it was a very poor game of football, the two goals that we conceded were extremely soft again and it's obvious that the 4231 formation without any wingers isn't working. My comment about Aaron Reid got slaughtered by some on here but he has to start games up beside Wilson, he should've really been subbed on after we went 1-0 down. I haven't seen enough of him to determine whether he's the answer to our problems but surely given the circumstances he deserves a chance? He changed the game and took his goal very well. Accies were there for the taking today and although we have numerous players who are injured, I think with the team that we have, we are much better than what we showed today. Although we are a brand new team and it'll take a bit of time to gel, if we lost today I'd have been concerned where the next points were going to come from. Overall I'm relieved that we didn't lose but I am slightly disappointed as I believed it was our best opportunity to grab 3 points.

DTV are showing a stream for the game tomorrow for viewers abroad/outside of the UK, here's the link for the stream. https://dtvlive.airdriefc.com/

Does Serif Zengin have an Oasis performance at half time lined up with those prices?