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Thanks C Gall. If he'd gone full time I've have kept him, but he needs part time football and the Diamonds are moving on up. I've loved watching him and will miss him being part of our Club. Red Lichties - you've got a great player.

If you can have an emphatic 2-1, that was it

Surprised Rovers seem to stand off us in the 1st half. We were patient and several times passed through them. Rovers seemed to match up in the 2nd and it worked better for them but we swopped to attacking on the break and bringing on McGregor against a slowing RR defence, who were probably knackered trying to track Gabby. Lewis's goal was lovely. Injection of pace to get past the first man then another as he approached the box. From behind the goal it looked as if he'd might have gone too wide but what a finish. Our new 3 man defence is working very well and I like the odd feature of using 2 rights back (Jannie and Cammy) in a back 3. Jannie, by the way, has improved immensely in this role. Earlier in the year he looked uncertain in a centre half role but now he and Fordyce are an excellent unit.

Congratulations Stennie from an Airdrieonian

Contrasting views of the goals from the Airdrie stand. For the first you could see it all unfold. Frizz waiting for Toddy to get to the back post, the ball looping over the goalie and the certainty that Toddy would win it; a man and ball challenge. 2nd goal from a distance was WTF happened. Now seen it on DTV and it was a cracker, but what was the Pars centre half doing. Gabby strolled away from him, controlled the ball kind of, turned and then took his time to get his foot over the ball, all untroubled by any challenge. Anyway it'll be in the mix for goal of the season and great to see Gabby fit enough for a run of games.

Tila taka beastie boys made me laugh

'Putting bodies on the line'. Overbliwn even by football's standards. That is what people in Ukraine and other forlorn places do. Footballers defend and block a ball.

If teams play deep against us at the moment we're reduced to sterile passing in central defence in the hope they'll do what they're set up NOT to do. Also this means no space for the likes of Gal to drop off and leave space as hes just adding to the congestion in the middle of the park. Need the wide players to threaten more which happened early on the left and later 2nd half on the right but that needs to be more potent. Thought both full backs at fault for Ayr 's first goal

Has to improve the defending bit of that role. Lewis has come on leaps and bounds in that role while mcstravick was exposed easily at the first University of Stirling goal.

My take on this. Wingers wide is to create space, so not a waste of a jersey at all. They also defend well and enable fullbacks to get forward. When Gal comes short (which is the best addition to his game compared to his previous talent of standing off side most of the time!!) Gabby often moves into the space Gal has created and becomes the CF. All this rotation is mesmerizing. The goal (magnificent goal) involved a pass from McGregor (right winger at that time popping up in midfield) to Gabby (left winger at the time driving infield) to Gal and goal. And all this started knocking the ball about in front of our own goal until space opened-up/was created to move the ball forward. The idea seems to be to draw the opposition to our goal , so they start to press and leave a gap. Whatever we win or not this is a golden age of football for us. It is way more exciting than always lumping it forward and then competing for the second ball. Remember whose coaching was some combination of 'second ball' and 'stop the cross?'

But it is nicer to win nicely and to try to do so. Prefer that to aimless hoofball and tactics that amount to win the second ball or stop the cross

Inittowinit

Are any of those who feel we need some older aka experienced and perhaps (??,) more talented players the same folk who strongly felt Rhys needed an older more experienced assistant in the dugout last season? I so want Rhys and Dycey to succeed I really hope they can continue to prove some folk wrong. Looking forward to seeing our new young team.

Loving the comment about weans; mcmaster Devenny, Aiken are no bad. I'm loving the vibe about taking young players with potential. Seems to be working on and off the pitch

And the goalie got a nasty bang to the head in the first half