Airdrie United went in to this match feeling confident, a draw against St Mirren in mid week and a good performance against Clyde were all building up to someone getting a hammering but with our recent performances against Queen of the South not many thought it would be today.
Queen of the South in recent matches have chosen a defensive stance in which they have soaked up most of our attacks and then caught us with a sucker punch with the arrival of Ian McCall that has all changed. Today they decided that the best form of defence was to attack and fortunately, this played straight in to Sandy Stewart and Airdrie United hands.
From the first minute, Airdrie United went on the attack Brian Prunty and Willie McLaren combined to give Willie a fantastic strike on goal Colin Scott got down well and turned the ball round the post for our first corner. With Willie McLaren playing in an attacking midfield position just behind the front two we were pressuring Queen of the South at every opportunity.

After ten minutes, Willie McLaren returned the favour and put Brian Prunty through on goal, Brian hit the ball with the out side of his left foot and the ball flew sweetly in to the back of the net.
It wasn't going all our own way Queen of the South were playing some nice passing play from defence to mid-field the Airdrie United defence however were up to the challenge and didn't allow many direct chances on goal.
The combination of McLaren and Prunty paid off once again on twenty-seven minutes. This time Brian laid the ball across for Willie to sweep the ball under the out stretched arms of Colin Scott.
For the remainder of the first half we continued to push for more goals but it Queen of the South managed to keep us out.
Sandy made no changes at half time and to be honest why should he, we were comfortable and already worth the entrance fee.