JAMES Grady and Allan McManus are delighted with the players they will be leading into tomorrow's match against Airdrie after a bright week of training leading up to the Cappielow encounter.

Having taken charge after the departure of manager Davie Irons on Monday, they have had nothing but praise for the attitude of the squad.

Grady said: "As I have said, the players have made it easy for Allan and I." Training yesterday was at Cappielow, and Grady continued: "The standard was superb. We have a team in mind and we were working on the formation. The boys are happy with it.

"But it's players who win games at the end of the day. We have been working on our passing and technique, and that has all been coming to the fore again. Now we have to translate that onto the pitch.

"We can have no complaints about how the boys have reacted. We just hope they can take that onto the pitch with them and I believe they can.

"We know Airdrie will work and not give us a minute. They can also pass the ball and it is up to us to match them." As for whether or not Grady himself would be in the starting line-up, he laughed and replied: "I'll either be on the pitch or in the dugout. There's an argument for saying that if you're on the pitch you can communicate quickly, and there's an argument that if you're not on the pitch no one listens to you anyway.

"But seriously, if players deserve to start ahead of Allan and I then they'll be in.

"If they're not in, they'll be told why not and what they have to do to rectify that.

"No player is happy to be left out but everyone will know why they are in the team or not." Definitely in the dugout will be former Ton goalkeeper David Wylie, the only survivor of the management coup.

And definitely out of the running are injured duo Dominic Shimmin and Brian Wake.

Peter Weatherson, Brian Graham and Ryan McGuffie have all been feeling the effects of a virus, but Grady has his team in mind. Now it's just the simple matter of collecting the points.