Airdrie boss Rhys McCabe: We let ourselves down in Queen's Park defeat

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Airdrie boss Rhys McCabe admits his side let themselves down as they crashed to a 2-0 defeat against Queen’s Park at Hampden.Goals from Dom Thomas and Louis Longridge had the Spiders on easy street inside 21 minutes, and they simply didn’t look back.Airdrie’s best chance fell to sub Chris Mochrie in 82 minutes, but his header was saved by Calum Ferrie.That left the Diamonds rooted to the foot of the Championship, while Queen’s Park moved up to fifth, a point off the play-off places.McCabe says his side have to get back to basics if they are to turn their struggling form around.He said: “I’m frustrated and angry.

I felt we let ourselves down for the first half alone.“Naturally you try to get a bit of reaction in the second half, but all the damage was done in the first 45.“I think there were opportunities for us to be better.

We certainly got ourselves into areas where we should have done better, and that’s obviously something that we need to look at, as a group.“They deserved their victory for the first 45 minutes alone.“First and foremost we need to do the basics well.

Work hard, fight, scrap, do the fundamentals that ultimately give you a platform and a chance to win any game of football.“We scored goals last season, that doesn’t seem to be happening, and again it’s a difficult one.“It’s not as if we’ve set up and all of a sudden tried to become more solid defensively – we’ve actually tried to go the opposite way, and reinforce that message with positive, attacking play from the training pitch.“The amount of times we had opportunities to pull the trigger and shoot, and we tried an extra touch, looked for a pass.