{"id":29918,"date":"2026-05-23T14:18:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T14:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/john-rankin-airdrieonians-appoint-former-hamilton-ayr-boss-as-new-head-coach\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T14:18:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T14:18:30","slug":"john-rankin-airdrieonians-appoint-former-hamilton-ayr-boss-as-new-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/john-rankin-airdrieonians-appoint-former-hamilton-ayr-boss-as-new-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"John Rankin: Airdrieonians appoint former Hamilton &#038; Ayr boss as new head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">John Rankin believes he has &#8220;a blank canvas&#8221; after being appointed Airdrieonians head coach.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Airdrie parted with Aaron Taylor-Sinclair, 35, following their relegation to Scottish League 1 via the play-offs and Rankin joins after a short spell as Ayr United interim manager.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rankin, who made more than 100 appearances as a midfielder for each of Ross County, Hibernian and Dundee United, had a two-and-a-half year spell as Hamilton Academical head coach from 2022-25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a blank canvas, I think there&#8217;s only a handful of players,&#8221; Rankin told Airdrieonians&#8217; website. &#8220;Everything needs built and that&#8217;s probably the point where you think you can put your own stamp on it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cy921eqxl3go?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Rankin believes he has &#8220;a blank canvas&#8221; after being appointed Airdrieonians head coach. Airdrie parted with Aaron Taylor-Sinclair, 35, following their relegation to Scottish League 1 via the play-offs and Rankin joins after a short spell as Ayr United interim manager. Rankin, who made more than 100 appearances as a midfielder for each of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29920,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29918\/revisions\/29920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}