Barney Rubble

This.

Dunfermline game on 15th November will almost certainly be rearranged due international call-ups from both sides.

Draw was fair. We weren't incisive or clinical enough in their penalty area despite the good start, and we had plenty of openings to be so throughout the afternoon. Arbroath's keeper had four excellent saves, but if memory serves - and I stand to be corrected - all were from shots outside the box. Said at half-time that a single goal wasn't a guarantee, and so it turned out to be. Unfortunately, the otherwise exemplary Clarke was punished for his one misjudgement of the afternoon. Anyway, on the plus side, no ground was lost on St Johnstone, so at least the momentum has been maintained and not derailed.

About 15 years ago, there was a bloke whose seat in the JHS was marked 'Reserved for Moaning Git'. By any chance, was it your good self sir?

Wonderful to see Kris again on BBC tonight for Auchinleck Talbot v Cumnock. Articulate, humble and tactically informative, he remains a class act despite whatever went wrong earlier this year and his subsequent removal.. .Had to smile when the BBC's summarisers for this Ayrshire battle were both ex-Jags (kris Doolan and Billy Dodds). It's well known that Kris is from Auchinleck, but Billy being from New Cumnock has a certain irony given his most recent employment with a much more recently established football club. Also, had not realised Darren Brownlle was now with Cumnock - less than 30 months after being a bawhair away from the top division!! It was a good watch as a spectacle too.

We got schooled today. We're nowhere near the standard required to be credible promotion candidates. St Johnstone and Celtic have comprehensively exposed that to be the case. That said, I fully understand why MW went with today's team. He has faith in them and wanted to find out how they would cope with a step up in class. He got his answer. As did the players. Also, I noted three times that we had a free kick in the Celtic half where instead of pumping the ball forward to ask questions of their defence we played the ball to our back line and ended up having pressure on OUR defence. I mean, WTF, just get the ball into the opposition's box when you have a free shot to do so. Or have I misunderstood some modern tactical formula?

I know we're all pissed off at being chucked out the JHS Big Wull, but going to Palma Nova to watch the game is a bit extreme.

Sean Welsh? I've already got my coat.............

Seems it was away to QoS in December 2019 (2-1), having achieved the same feat the month before at Dens Park (3-1).

Objective achieved, but by heavens that was a tough watch. Our first eight corners were absolutely abysmal. Fortunately the ninth one wasn't, which must have been an aberration as the next three corners reverted to being ridiculously bad. As others have said, the subs changed the game in our favour, which is to the management team's credit. Wins from iffy performances like tonight's could be priceless come May, so well done to the team for keeping on and grinding it out.

Much better with the Jimmy Bone announcement tonight properly acknowledging his contribution as manager of Airdrie. Nevertheless, it's still puzzling why the announcer feels the need to drop his tone by four octaves when announcing the opposition's goalscorer and substitutions. Just grow up and announce it properly for the benefit of all spectators please.

https://x.com/AirdrieoniansFC/status/1962228738138984615?t=Ac9GMf-ujX6cQ-_3faK6BA&s=19

To add to the above, it was singularly noticeable when introducing the applause for Sammy Johnston's sad passing the failure to acknowledge that he was also a former player of our opponents on the day, Ayr United. To omit such a small gesture that would have created genuine goodwill was really poor form from our comms team. We should strive to be better than that.

Thanks elevenone. I don't ever use social media so your post is helpful. Still overpriced though.

Robbie Crawford was the best man on the park today by a country mile. And David Mitchell had his best ever game at Firhill - hat's not meant as a cheap dig - he saved Ayr from it being 5 or 6.