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St Johnstone Vs Airdrie 23-4-05
By Chris Mac
April 23 2005
Things change in football all the time, but at Airdrie we seem to have had more than our fair share of change and disturbance and the departure of Owen Coyle to this weeks opponents St Johnstone is just another change Sandy Stewart as manager will have to work his way around.

Preview For Saturday, 23rd October 2004

St Johnstone

V

Airdrie

 Owen Coyle

 

Sandy Stewart

Just like building a new team from scratch, Using Brian Rice, Kenny Black and Owen Coyle as assistants so another challenge comes his way in finding a new assistant and building a team that will push for high finish in the first Division next season.

Three or four weeks ago I would have expected to go and watch this match and be completely bored out of my skull, matches against St Johnstone have not been the most appealing this season but the arrival of Owen Coyle could add the atmosphere as his players will be trying to impress their new boss. Sandy will be out to show the Airdrie support that he is the man in charge and put Owen in his place.

As usual though Sandy goes in to the match with injuries in his team. Kevin Christie is out with a groin injury, Mark Roberts with a Ham string injury and doubtful for this match Willie McLaren who has been suffering from a viral infection all week.

Do we need to win this one? Of course we do even if it is just for a little bit of pride in the Diamond we need to see the team performing

Match Preview by Chris Mac

 

 

Referee: Crawford Allan

Bus prices and time tables will be shown here for both A.I.S.A and West End Tour groups

 

 

 Airdrie Possible starting Line Up

 

 

 

Mark McGeown
McKenna, Alan McManus, Neil McGowan, Paul Lovering
Docherty, Marvin Wilson, Martin Hardie,
 Stephen McKeown,
 Jerome Varielle,                      Alan Gow

 

 

 

 Opponents News

St Johnstone manager Owen Coyle comes in to this game with a few injuries to contend with Kevin Fotheringham, Paul Bernard and Kevin Rutkiwicz are all sidelined for the Perth side through injury.

Owen has now been in charge of St Johnstone for five days can a team who has played the most un appealing football in the first division change in as short a period of time? We will see today. Every one at St Johnstone will be looking to impress Owen in order to  be a part of the team for the end of this season and to continue in to next.

Like everyone else I would like to wish Owen Coyle all the best at St Johnstone until of course he comes up against the Diamonds.

  

 

 Airdrie V Head To Heads

 

 

 

  
    Airdrie United wins   draws   St Johnstone wins
League 1 2 0
FA Cup 0 2 0
Total 1 4 0

 

2004/2005
Scottish Division 1 Airdrie United 0-0 St Johnstone 11-12-2004
Scottish Division 1 St Johnstone 1-1 Airdrie United 23-10-2004
Scottish Division 1 Airdrie United 1-0 St Johnstone 07-08-2004
2002/2003
Scottish FA Cup St Johnstone 1-1 Airdrie United 04-02-2003
Scottish FA Cup Airdrie United 1-1 St Johnstone 25-01-2003

 

 

  

 

 

 

 Ref Review

Crawford Allan

Games: 12 Yellow Cards: 40 Red Cards: 2

 

Crawford Allan was in charge of only one of our games this season, it was a 2-0 win over Queen of the South in December there were three bookings in that game and only one came our way and it was against Stephen Docherty.

Last season record:- Games: 16 Yellow Cards: 37 Red Cards: 2

 

 Prediction

We have managed to go through a season with out losing to St Johnstone, now that I have mentioned it though.... Nah no chance we will prove today that there is life after Owen Coyle. a 2-0 win to the Diamonds.

 

 

 

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