Tennants Scottish Cup forth round Preview
By Chris Mac
February 3 2006
The biggest game we have played in ten years takes place tomorrow and if your not up for the challenge don't bother turning up. We have to be heard tomorrow and be the teams twelfth man if required.
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Scottish Cup 4th Round
Preview For Saturday, 4th February 2006 |
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Airdrie |
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Alan Kernaghan |
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Last Result
1 - 1
(2 -3)Pens
2 - 0
4 - 0
3 - 2 |
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The first division teams in this competition have an opportunity
to put there mark on the Scottish cup, ok we still have some big teams in there
but we all have an equal opportunity on the day. The first step knock Dundee out
tomorrow.
Alan McManus returns from his five match sabbatical to lead the
defence in the fourth round of the Scottish cup, Stephen McKeown also returns
after his one match ban received for two yellow cards in our match against Clyde
two weeks ago.
The worrying thing about this match is the bookies have us a
favourites to win it, with the results shown above you can understand why but I
prefer going in to these games as the underdog.
Sandy Stewart on tonights L107
spoke about Martin Hardie going to St Johnstone and how it would be a conflict
of interest playing a player who had already signed for another club in the same
division.
He doesn't think that we have any devine right to beat Dundee
tomorrow even though we have beaten them three times, he has told the players
this and and expects them to turn up tomorrow and give 100% effort. We go in to
tomorrows match with seventeen players and every one is fit.
Match Preview by Chris Mac
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Referee:
John Underhill |
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Airdrie Possible Line Up |
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Robertson
McKenna,
McManus,
McGowan, Lovering,
McDougall, McKeown, Holmes, McLaren
McPhee. Prunty, |
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Opponents News |
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Alan Kernaghan has no new injury concerns but he
comes to Airdrie without Defender Lee Wilkie and goalkeeper Kelvin Jack both are
said to be on the road to recovery.
Dundee have gone six games unbeaten since our dramatic recovery in the boxing
day match, they have won three drawn three.
But as we all know form goes out of the window
when it comes to a one off cup match.
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Airdrie V Head To Heads |
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Airdrie United wins |
draws |
Dundee wins |
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League |
3 |
0 |
0 |
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Other |
0 |
1 |
0 |
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Total |
3 |
1 |
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Past Results
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Airdrie (old) wins |
draws |
Dundee wins |
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League |
40 |
38 |
70 |
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FA Cup |
0 |
3 |
7 |
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League Cup |
2 |
2 |
9 |
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Other |
1 |
0 |
0 |
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Total |
43 |
43 |
86 |
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Games: 14 Yellow Cards: 47 Red Cards: 2
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Ref Review
John Underhill |
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Another referee who has done us no favours this
season, Underhill controlled both our games against St Mirren and managed to
send of two Airdrie players. David Dunn in the
first and Stephen Docherty for a sheer act of stupidity in the second. |
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Prediction |
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We have got to win this to keep the fun in this season adn I'm going to predict
a 2-1 win. |
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