Bells First  Division
Preview For Saturday, 4th September 2004

Airdrie

V

Queen of the South

Where do you go after a big defeat? Well for Airdrie it has to be up the way after a 5 - 0 defeat last week it's time Airdrie stood up and were counted and tomorrows match is the time to do it.
We have already lost to Queen of the South once this season a 2-0 defeat in the Bells Challenge cup and I'm sure we won't se a repeat of that.
Sandy and Kenny have had the team in for extra training this week but we are still left with a few injury problems. Long term injuries to Martin Hardie and Willie Mclaren don't seem to be lessoning. There are also a few more players that will be given late fitness tests to see if they will make it. On that list I would probably put Neil McGowan, David Dunn, Alan Gow and Stephen McKeown, but there is no official confirmation of this.

Match Preview by Chris Mac

Referee: Eddie Smith

 Airdrie Possible starting Line Up

 Opponents News

Ian Scott the Queens manager has his own selection headache Emilio Jaconelli, Willie Gibson, Brian Reid and Eric Paton are all injured, while Craig Sampson is on international duty with the Scotland Under-21s, With so many first team players missing Scott thinks that Airdrie will have the advantage and it will be difficult to take all three points.

 Airdrie V Head To Heads

 Ref Review

We have never had Eddie Smith as a referee before and he is usually to be found in either the second or third division last season he had made a total of 26 booking and only one red card. This season with his promotion he has made 14 booking and three of them red. Prepare for the game to be start stop all the way

 Prediction

We have toget our second win of the league season and i think it will be 2-0 to the Diamonds