Diamonds_Are_Forever Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 Craig Watson is always horrible when he plays in a four plays alot better in a 5 back hope ballantynes injury isn’t as serious as it sounds 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CumbyDiamond Posted April 22 Share Posted April 22 21 hours ago, Mybitchunderprotest said: I thought the surface at Firhill looked pretty good especially at this stage of the season and the piss poor weather we've had over the past couple of months. I'm also fairly certain I was watching the players warm up pre match and half time with the sprinklers on. Pitch definitely watered both before match & half Time Watched the highlights back this morning and can only hope the loud mouth behind me who was giving the linesman pelters at the 1st goal and for about 10 minutes after, noticed that the goalscorer started his run from his own half. Looked offside at the time if you were following the ball not the man but hindsight is a wonderful thing as was the run (for them) both Dycey & McCabe were arguing offside. Exposed our slowness to react at the back we need Cammy back for that killer tackle. We've looked shaky at the back with the back 4 after our better performances with a 3/5. Megwa and Hancock at least yesterday were still trying to get down the wings but we were completely lacking cover for them when they did go forward. Ideally have Ballantyne back for play offs even if it means managing his minutes in the last 2 matches. Would right off last two & get/keep as many key players fit as per the Edinburgh City game last season. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Kenny_m Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 And so it begins with the 1st departure rumour that is Josh Rae to Dundee United. Could see that one although his current injury may affect the situation. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJ77 Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 6 minutes ago, Kenny_m said: And so it begins with the 1st departure rumour that is Josh Rae to Dundee United. Could see that one although his current injury may affect the situation. Be a great move for him, not sure if he's ready for Premier league football just yet, don't think another year in the championship with us (presuming we don't go up) would hurt. Would make sense as well pretty sure the keeper they have just now is loan from down south so must be unlikely they can get him back for next season. Feel like a lot of lower end premier league clubs could be looking at our younger guys for next season i.e Megwa, Rae, Hancock, Mcstravick etc 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenny_m Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 7 minutes ago, AJ77 said: Be a great move for him, not sure if he's ready for Premier league football just yet, don't think another year in the championship with us (presuming we don't go up) would hurt. Would make sense as well pretty sure the keeper they have just now is loan from down south so must be unlikely they can get him back for next season. Feel like a lot of lower end premier league clubs could be looking at our younger guys for next season i.e Megwa, Rae, Hancock, Mcstravick etc It's all if's and but's at the moment regarding contracts although Megwa still has another year at Hibs to go and it would be a major coup if we retained him. (perhaps another year loan paying his full Hibs wage) Rhys has already said the club plan 6 months ahead so there will be deals already done both in and out but not yet announced as is pretty normal and you could tell the club weren't happy with Arbroath for leaking. Even our contracted players are not guaranteed to be here next year as they wouldn't cost a fortune if someone really wanted them. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJ77 Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 50 minutes ago, Kenny_m said: It's all if's and but's at the moment regarding contracts although Megwa still has another year at Hibs to go and it would be a major coup if we retained him. (perhaps another year loan paying his full Hibs wage) Rhys has already said the club plan 6 months ahead so there will be deals already done both in and out but not yet announced as is pretty normal and you could tell the club weren't happy with Arbroath for leaking. Even our contracted players are not guaranteed to be here next year as they wouldn't cost a fortune if someone really wanted them. Yeah if you seen Rhys speaking to the record about Gal last week he said himself we like to keep things in house so i'm pretty confident there's a good few guys signed up for next season. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenny_m Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 Ah, the match preview for tomorrow night mentions that both the manager and Murray Aiken are hopeful of seeing some game-time prior to the play offs. This would be a boost but probably unfair to expect too much from Murray. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr November Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 Play-off dates confirmed, nothing unexpected CINCH PREMIERSHIP PLAY-OFFS Tuesday May 7 cinch Premiership play-off quarter-final, 1st leg 4th in Championship v 3rd in Championship Live on BBC Scotland, kick-off 7.45pm Friday May 10 cinch Premiership play-off quarter-final, 2nd leg 3rd in Championship v 4th in Championship Live on BBC Scotland, kick-off 7.45pm Tuesday May 14 cinch Premiership play-off semi-final, 1st leg 3rd or 4th in Championship v 2nd in Championship Live on BBC Scotland, kick-off 7.45pm Friday May 17 cinch Premiership play-off semi-final, 2nd leg 2nd in Championship v 3rd or 4th in Championship Live on BBC Scotland, kick-off 7.45pm Thursday May 23 cinch Premiership play-off final, 1st leg 2nd or 3rd or 4th in Championship v 11th in Premiership Live on Sky Sports, kick-off 8.00pm Sunday May 26 cinch Premiership play-off final, 2nd leg 11th in Premiership v 2nd or 3rd or 4th in Championship Live on Sky Sports, kick-off TBC 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airdrieman Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 A shame there’s no Saturday afternoon games but I was expecting that to be the case. Winning at Firhill and Kirkcaldy on a Friday night and Dingwall on a bank holiday Sunday will be fun regardless. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diamonds Are Red Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 No sour grapes from me but no Airdrie players nominated in the PFA Championship list, it comprises Dundee Utd, Raith and Partick players. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chapelhall chap Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 May is going to be busy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chapelhall chap Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 2 minutes ago, Diamonds Are Red said: No sour grapes from me but no Airdrie players nominated in the PFA Championship list, it comprises Dundee Utd, Raith and Partick players. The four top scorers I think, and as it's players who nominate they see the value of strikers. That's a pity on the often more talented providers and defenders. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1320Lichtie Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 Any other Airdrie players that might go or are part time? Or is it now just a fully full time thing Gallagher is coming to us? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr November Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 2 hours ago, 1320Lichtie said: Any other Airdrie players that might go or are part time? Or is it now just a fully full time thing Gallagher is coming to us? I’m not expecting many players to be released in the summer to be honest. I think Gallagher is currently the only part-time player, others like Watson have been part-time previously but I think they all moved onto full-time contracts at some point. It seems like a natural end point for everyone really, no point training in the evenings for one player if he’s not starting and best for Gallagher to move on and not be the only player in a different routine. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJ77 Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 11 hours ago, 1320Lichtie said: Any other Airdrie players that might go or are part time? Or is it now just a fully full time thing Gallagher is coming to us? Gal was our only part time player basically kept the hybrid system in place to accommodate him, would imagine we'll go completely full time now, not sure if anyone else in our current squad would drop to part time unless released. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rio 2 Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 Liked Tony Watt, when he played for us, but why the f@ck was he not booked tonight? Outplayed them tonight, but lacked the killer touch. Odds stacked against us in the playoffs and heavily in favor of the premier club 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr November Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 Enjoyed that performance. Thought we started well and grew into the game after the first 10 minutes and other than a couple of short spells in the second half we controlled the majority of it. There’s still that issue of not being clinical enough when we’re on top but Walton made some good saves and it’s hard to be too critical after that. The usual suspects of Megwa, Hancock, Telfer etc all played really well and I thought Lyall had a great game too. There’s a lot to like about Lyall, he’s got a bit of dig about him and he’s very brave at taking the ball in tight areas. His decision making is really lacking and you can tell he’s not played a lot of first team football but I suppose that’s why he’s here. I’d play a full reserve team next week, not arsed about the result if it means we can rest the usual starting 11 for the play-offs. Given it’s a game against Queen’s Park there’s every chance it just ends up 1-1 anyway. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Fernández Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 Thought Airdrie were excellent tonight, completely dominated for around 70 minutes of the game. I felt our subs weakened us but can't really fault anyone tonight. I really like the look of Arron Lyall, has the potential of turning into a really good player and I'm hoping he's one that we are considering offering a contract to for next season, regardless of what league we're in. Some of the football in the first half was some of the best I've seen us play this season, although we lacked a cutting edge up front, it was throughly enjoyable to watch. Fly out to Spain tomorrow, absolutely gutted to be missing out on our 1-1 draw with Queens Park at Hampden but shall be back for the play offs! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Reed Posted April 27 Share Posted April 27 9 hours ago, David Fernández said: Thought Airdrie were excellent tonight, completely dominated for around 70 minutes of the game. I felt our subs weakened us but can't really fault anyone tonight. I really like the look of Arron Lyall, has the potential of turning into a really good player and I'm hoping he's one that we are considering offering a contract to for next season, regardless of what league we're in. Some of the football in the first half was some of the best I've seen us play this season, although we lacked a cutting edge up front, it was throughly enjoyable to watch. Fly out to Spain tomorrow, absolutely gutted to be missing out on our 1-1 draw with Queens Park at Hampden but shall be back for the play offs! BBC pundits saying D united just not up for it,hard to play your best when you can't get a kick of the ball,a goal or two would have been the icing on the cake,A lot of our moves certainly merited at least a couple of goals ,Can't remember when we played passing football like that last night , 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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