Airdrie boss Rhys McCabe won't change his side's style next season - even if they're not a surprise package any more

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Rhys McCabe knows Airdrie won’t be a Championship surprise package next season – but has no intention of changing his style, and will continue to give young talent an opportunity.The Diamonds gained a lot of admirers by playing their way through the second tier from a play-off winning start, reaching the Premiership play-offs and winning the SPFL Trust Trophy in an impressive season.McCabe says that has also resulted in bigger clubs falling over themselves to get game-time in his team.And the New Broomfield gaffer reckons that shows they’re heading in a good direction.“There are more eyes on us, we’re not these wee minnows that people look on and think ‘it’s wee Airdrie from League One’,” said McCabe.“If we had said at the start of the season that we’d achieve what we did [we’d have taken it] – the play-offs, a cup win, going toe-to-toe with arguably the best teams in the league, and which we have done, I think.“We’ve not lost to Raith Rovers, we’ve beaten Dundee United, Partick Thistle, and we took them to the play-offs, it was end-to-end and tightly-fought over the two legs, and that’s all I can ask of my players.“One thing I can’t control is the result.

What we try to control is the performance, and the way we play.“We will get it right, we’ll get it wrong, that’s part of football, but we’re not going to change our style and our ethos.“I’m a big believer that the way we play will get us more results than the negative ones.“If you ask any footballer, regardless of how a team plays, they want to play football, touch the ball more, play in an attractive style, so when you come off the pitch at they end you’ve actually enjoyed the game.“There have been games that we’ve lost that have been enjoyable to play in, because we