Airdrieonians F.C.

Two questions.

Would you want Lennon to stick around on a permanent basis? I'm going to imagine no, given how disastrously his time at Airdrieonians finished.

And secondly, who would you want as your replacement for Frank McEwen? And is it Ian Murray?

Right, we'll take it two at a time.

I mean, maybe, maybe they'll cause a wee shock, but if County win this 5-0, I would be less surprised than I would be if Queen of the South won this 2-1.

So yeah, I mean, y- it would take a very, very brave person to back Queen of the South.

And Airdrieonians against Hamilton Academical at the Excelsior.

This could be quite tasty after Airdrie's comeback against East Kilbride.

And, and Stuart Pétrus said, "Look, our dis- our season isn't defined by what we do against Ross County or Hamilton, but I expect us to give better accounts of ourself." And I think that's probably fair.

You know, they had gone on this wonderful seven-game winning run, which still sees them sitting inside the playoff places, but, you know, that's Airdrieonians now undefeated in four, East Kilbride undefeated in four.

It's gonna be competitive around them to, to take up the two spaces behind Ross County and Hamilton, and performances like that are never great for, for confidence for Ross County.

They just, you know, plow on.

You're allowed to beat Bonnierigg 6-1, who are the lone league east, and, and that kind of builds up a confidence within.

And they've got Hearts B on Tuesday to round up their campaign.

But considering this was quite a low ebb even just a f- a few games ago, you thought, "All right, is the kind of bubble burst within the first 15 minutes against your local rivals? Is this gonna go to ton simmer once again?" But no, Airdrieonians reacted, and reacted favorably, and for 60, 65 minutes of the game looked like the better side, and could've and perhaps should've won the game.

And I think that's commendable from the position that Rankin has found himself in to be pointing in an upwards trajectory.

Yeah, why not? Why not? Right.

Let's move to our second game, and that was the match in Lanarkshire with Airdrieonians defeating Montrose by one goal to nil.

This came just four minutes after halftime thanks to a Lewis Gibson penalty that he won himself.

And tell for, looking at the highlights of this one, didn't look like the best of games.

And stale and boring, it's not gonna bring punters through the door at Cove when you've got Aberdeen on your doorstep, is it?

Yeah, the aforementioned, uh, Montrose lost 1-0 away to Airdrieonians and Ross County running out 4-1 winners in the other two games in League One.

But Alloa Athletic's consolation against Ross County from a good 10 to 15 yards inside their own half in stoppage time of the second half.

Another goal of the season contender f- from Alloa, but a strange one altogether.

I mean, Kyle MacDonald in the Hamilton game tried an overhead kick.

So evidently he...

The Airdrieonians commentator was wrong.

He does do it every week, it seems.

John's, didn't he? Oh, that sticks in my mind.

Joined Airdrie.

I'm kind of glad I didn't get that.

No big fan of Airdrie.

We'll see no more.

and his test be back

He did get on after 60 minutes, but the high flyers from Oak Hill View won again and are now eight points clear at the top of the championship.

As for Owen, he's had to drop down to the bench recently and his side have also been struggling massively, so it's no great.

Yeah, no, I find it funny that I'm looking at all the appointments across the various ages for the Scotland groups.

I don't know, maybe this is me just romanticising those Airdrie teams back in the days, but Reece McCabe getting the under-16s job, I think it is, and Tony Docter getting the under-21s.

I know back in the past, if you offered me one to be the Rafe Rovers manager, it would have been Reece McCabe, so...

Maybe that's just from what I've seen from those Airdrie teams and Tony Doherty's Ross County last season, but definitely give them, you know, throughout all the age groups, all the best opportunity and see what comes.

But we're going to be talking about the first team, of course, and the action starts on Saturday.

Very excited for that away game in Slovenia.

Which League Two team plays at Station Park?

Airdrieonians.

Who are the Scotland 21s playing next week?

Denmark.