— View from the dugout
PAUL HARTL I will begin by extending a warm welcome to the players, management and officials of Airdrieonians on their visit to Balmoral Stadium for what is our final League One fixture of the campaign. As has been the case in every fixture so far at this level, we are expecting a very challenging and tough 90 minutes. I’m delighted we go into it having already secured a place in the Championship play-offs. I’m extremely proud of the players for having done that in what has been the most challenging season any of us have faced. We’ve had to cope with two lock downs and a physically draining end to the season, with matches coming thick and fast. The players have taken all of that in their stride and maintained a high level of performance to ensure we are where we are now. It’s already way more than we could ever have hoped for at the start of the season, when the aim was simply to finish in eighth position or above. Making the play-offs a little more than two years after we were still a Highland League club is something the players are right to feel pleased about. Even more so because they have done it in a league that contains three full-time clubs - and have lost just one of our encounters with them so far. That is because the players just keep battling and fighting, no matter how big the challenge placed in front of them.
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