Airdrie v Ross County: Diamonds will go 'full throttle' in Championship bid, says Wilson
Airdrie skipper Aidan Wilson insists they will go 'full throttle' in the Championship this season after their disappointing exit from the Premier Sports Cup.
The Diamonds were top of their group heading into Saturday's showdown with rivals Alloa, but the Wasps grabbed an 89th minute winner to win 3-2 at New Broomfield and send the Monklands men crashing out.
Now, Wilson has to pick his side up for Saturday's Championship opener at home to Ross County.
And after surviving relegation through the play-offs last term, Wilson says they must hit the ground running.
The centre-back, who netted a stunning strike to make it 1-1 early in the second half, said: 'We are gutted to be out of the cup. It's disappointing, especially when we go 2-1 up in the game.
'I think from there we need to do better and see the game out. We can't be conceding three goals to Alloa, which all due respect to them.
'Fair play to them for winning the game. They defended really well, made it difficult for us, sat in a low block, but we've got to do better.
'It was a very good cup campaign up until this point. We'd won all our games and we were sitting in a very good position at the top of the group, thinking we'll go and get the job done in the last game. Unfortunately, we never did that but we can't dwell on it.
'We've got the league campaign coming up now and we'll go full throttle at that. We'll be looking to the game against Ross County to get back on track.
'Last season we didn't win enough games and we were down at the bottom for a reason, so this season it is about learning from that and going full steam ahead with a new group.
'We won our first game last season against Raith and we were in a bit of a rut after that. We lost loads of players to injury - a lot of players who would have started - so hopefully we get a bit more luck with injuries this season.
'We want to get off to a good start because the Championship is such a tough league.'
On the challenge facing them on Saturday, Wilson said: 'They have been in good form and scoring a lot of goals.
'They were obviously a Premiership team last season so they will be a good side. We just need to dust ourselves down, get a good training week in the legs and go at it.'
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