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Hoping for a decent draw which will allow us to progress further. It's all money in the bank for the club.

My thoughts on the bottle launcher from our championship thread Brainless and clowns aren't the words I'd use to describe the type of character who can indiscriminately launch bottles into a well populated bar and then run off. The fact that he's on video doing it and only pulls his hood up as he runs off hopefully makes it easier for him to be identified and dealt with. No doubt had a great laugh with his mates afterwards as they reminisced about how fucking hard they all were but will now be shiting it from every knock on his door. As far as the match goes that was a thoroughly deserved victory for the Diamonds with us having by far the best of the chances created and our passing play being miles ahead of the saints. Not a lot of difference in terms of actual possession but we did far more with our share of it. I fully expected going into the last 15 minutes one goal to the good to be under bombardment from balls being launched forward into our box and yet there was relatively little in the way of threat to our defence and keeper. St Johnstone looked like a side who were utterly bereft of ideas. Hopefully we can get a good draw for the next round to put the cherry on top of the weekend.

These c***s aren't representative of the support in general and I imagine that any of our support who post on here if they've seen the video of the cowardly fucking c**t launching bottles into a pub from the doorway will be as horrified as I am. Anybody who can do that without a thought for the safety of innocent people trying to enjoy a bit of lunch or a lunchtime drink deserves the fucking jail and I hope they fucking get it. Sorry if that doesn't fit with your narrative. I don't know who it is but I'd have no fucking problem putting their name out there if I did.

That's your 6 points gathered already. Hopefully be able to get something from EEP as well next week.

I think you pretty much nailed the answer to your first point about the tone of the criticism with your second point about us being dominated in terms of possession (I also can't be arsed looking at stats). I don't believe we have tightened up in defence, the frailties were still evident yesterday it's just that Morton in my opinion were as inept as us in an attacking sense. We have descended from being a team who were able to move the ball around quickly and effectively to a team who can't string 2 passes together, a defence and midfield who don't know where the forwards are thus leaving them so isolated they feed off scraps or are having to drop deep to win the ball themselves. I said at the start of the season I'd be happy with 8th and recent form suggests that is the area where we are likely to be however finding some sort of form which fans know we are capable of would ease some of the anxiety felt by the support although I can't think of anyone who would agree with McCabe's earlier suggestion that there was no reason why we couldn't be competing at the top!

Well if that's what you took from the post so be it.

McMaster is a decent player, he's shown that previously and his best performances have been alongside Aiken at the start of this season or previously with Devenny. For whatever reason he doesn't seem to perform quite as well when McCabe is also playing and that could be down to him deferring to McCabe when in possession or just his role being adjusted on McCabe's instruction. Either way this calling him a waste or a coward or whatever else has been banded around is absolute nonsense. There is always one player who some fans just don't take to and for some on here it's clearly McMaster. I'm more than happy to admit that for me it has been Telfer although equally happy to admit that his more recent performances have shut me up somewhat but I'm not going to start chucking praise about just yet. I watched the Raith highlights this morning and that goal from Easton for me sums up a major part of what is going wrong for us. Since he left we've asked Frizz to take on that role and while he's not the same player he got away with it a bit more in league 1 however in the Championship more often than not he's trying to do too much and ends up losing possession. I'm not having a go at him as he's clearly working his socks off on the pitch but it's evidently not working in that role and it's time we tried something else. McStravick while we are persisting with him as one of our starting 11 could perhaps be deployed in that role although due to his age and lack of experience I'd much prefer to have seen him have a gradual introduction to the first team but that doesn't seem to be on the cards. Gallagher is still the most natural finisher at the club and the difference this season, other than the step up, is the lack of Smith and McGill either side of him to create more for him to feed off. McGregor, O'Connor and McStravick haven't quite done that from those positions and while O'Connor doesn't seem likely to be the one to change that there is still time for the other 2 to do something. Pleased to hear McCabe say that he does have a "wish list" as it were and can only hope that he's backed and that they can bring the necessary changes come January. Would still like one of them to be a centre half.

I'm more inclined to take the word of the 2 posters who say he's fine, given who they are.

Bloody non synthetic football pitches causing no end of injuries. The sooner we're all playing on plastic the better.

Just watched the highlights. The space which Wotherspoon was afforded in the box was absolutely criminal. Fordyce gets his back to goal and is in a position to see him progressing into the box. McCabe is just strolling back and can see in front of him that Wotherspoon has all the space in the world. There is no urgency to get back and support the defence, in fact he expends more energy stamping his feet and waving his arms when the goal is scored than he did in tracking back. No doubt it's someone else's fault for not stopping the cross.

Ayr v Morton working fine. Raith v Dunfermline also working fine. ICT v Airdrie, f**k all doing.

I have ask though, seeing as our other players on the edge of the box went with Ayr players in that routine why was Frizzell left with Dowds? Bit of a physical mismatch that one so I'm going to suggest that our marking was so bad that they weren't sure who they were picking up or the routine was so effective that the player who should have been picking up Dowds went with someone else leaving Frizz to pick up the pieces.

Rather than posting on a fans forum looking for "anyone from the club" maybe go to the "contact us" page of the club website and try from there. They provide an email address for the commercial dept that is probably worth a go commercial@airdriefc.com

I'll be anyone's friend. * unless they're a nazi sympathiser, far right extremist, conspiracy theorist, sectarian, gender woo woo believer and other lunatic ideologists. Maybe more, but other than that generally pretty easy to get along with.

No worries, we all have different opinions, enjoy your moral high ground.

"act of cowardice"!? I get "despicable" and I previously used inappropriate, I'd also say unacceptable but you're going a bit far with that first one. In relation to setting the wrong tone by putting him in the first team squad for the Saturday that's a football decision by the manager and would no doubt have been made after discussion with the owner about the sending off incident. They maybe didn't see the need to deal with it beyond the outcome of their internal discipline procedure and the automatic SFA ban. I'm not placed to know what these discussions were so I'll leave it at that. Maybe we could get the laddie put in some stocks for the next home game and you can throw rotten fruit at him if it makes you feel better about it.

It did happen. The club have dealt with the matter internally and he served his automatic suspension in respect of the red card, although it may be the case that a disciplinary committee at Hampden look further into the nature of the offence due to the language used. From what I gather the laddie was absolutely distraught immediately after the match for what was a throwaway comment which he accepts was entirely inappropriate and has put his hands up and apologised. He's a young boy and while there is no place for language such as that used I don't see any need to hang him out to dry for it. Some of us courtesy of education and upbringing know the sort of language that should never be used, while others perhaps need a bit of help to understand that. I'm not saying that this is necessarily the case here but let's not jump to the stage of offering the boy up as some kind of sacrificial lamb given we don't really know him. Hopefully he's learned from this.

St Mirren fan who conveniently forgets that we beat their side last season when we were League 1. A well balanced report on the game.

My understanding of the rules has been that at this stage only loans from clubs higher in the pyramid are permitted. This also seems to be the thoughts of The Press and Journal reporter discussing Ferguson at ICT bringing in players. I don't see how both scenarios can be correct. This is one of the times that the @Skyline Driftersignal needs to be shone into the night sky.

Hopefully a comfortable Airdrieonians demolition of the bigoted fucks in front of a suitably sparse crowd. Looks like it'll be a midweek rearranged date to accommodate those c***s too.

Any particular reason this thread cannot be pinned to make it easy to find on a Sunday night/Monday morning?

Right back at ya, chum.

Because a manager has never come out after a match and talked of a game in such a way that it barely resembles the 90 minutes watched by fans. No bother. We were not well in control, it was a pretty even match if you were to look at possession and although they had more shots, more on target we scored and they didn't which is the only stat that matters. So forgive me if I'm more inclined to believe what I saw rather than the words of a manager.

There is absolutely no way that we were "well in control" of the game. There was very little between the sides in terms of possession and as far as chances created they definitely had the upper hand. That's not even including the long range shot off the post. Josh Rae had to be lively to get down to his left to turn away another shot from distance. I was also very concerned at that early first half challenge from Dycey that looked like he may well have taken the man before the ball when the Raith boy was running through on goal. I will be extremely happy take the 3 points though. Thought that Hancock did very well at left back but still have serious concerns about the centre of our defence and can only hope that the new laddie from Hibs can do a job there. Aiken and McMaster continue to excel in midfield and should be our first choice there going forward unless one or other has a massive dip in form or injury.

From that article, the writer's thoughts on him at centre back aren't filling me with hope in which case that's yet another right back.