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14 minutes ago, D'Jaffo said:
It’s the first game of this season but how many times did we put these kind of performances in last season or the season prior.
It’s becoming a trademark of a Lee Bullen side to be soft against more street wise or experienced teams.
Exactly, we've all seen that interview before (too many times). The man responsible for preparing individuals and the team criticises the individuals and team. Not a great sign.
I'm sure there are some good things happening around the club (not construction-related!) but it will always be judged on what the first team is doing. "Finishing second" has been doing some heavy lifting in the close season, let's hope it's not the club's sole rejoinder going forward.
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18 minutes ago, D'Jaffo said:
I won’t apologise for not immediately jumping on Bullen last season. At the end of the day he met his remit and more in getting to second place.
Lighten up FFS. We finished 2nd! Everything in the garden is rosy!
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9 minutes ago, D'Jaffo said:
The damning pattern of Bullen’s tenure is that I don’t think there has been one single game at this level where we have dominated the midfield and sometimes you need someone to stand up and calm things down and play from there. Morton had two hugely experienced players in Power and Gillespie doing that and it showed. We’d rather try and dig in and defend 1-0 for half an hour away from home.
In Bullen’s tenure we have been far too naive at times and end up playing the game in the way our opponents want us to. Think this stems from us having very little gameplay ourself which was a common occurrence with McCall as well.
We’ve got Inverness next week which is already shaping up to be a must win but if we’re going to be gifting three goals to teams that we should be at least on a par with then I’m not that hopeful for this season.
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16 minutes ago, Kenny*******Powers said:
Turning right at top of mccalls avenue is a ball ache too
Turn left, drive 200 yards and turn around at the roundabout. That should have been a no-right-turn years ago!
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I'd love to see Airdrie, Arbroath and Queens Park all relegated. Suppose I'll have to settle for the first two and QP providing the buffer next season.
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4 minutes ago, LeodhasXD said:
I've got the unfair advantage that I'm remotely controlling my camera
Ahh! Good for you, that's the sweetspot at the moment. I hope it goes well and you can keep doing the Ayr home games!
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Good highlights from @LeodhasXD . Nice vantage point!
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15 minutes ago, UpInTheAyr said:
Those highlights are pish by the way
Hopefully a thing of the past given the last couple of match highlights. Yeah, they're a touch out of focus but totally watchable - well done to whoever is doing them. A big improvement over nothing!
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4 hours ago, Finlay21 said:
The club shop website is run by an outside company same provider as match tickets
I know. The shop and tickets are outsourced in the hope that they work. The club website is a shitshow.
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36 minutes ago, Trogdor said:
Fair doos. I hope you're not buying more of those howling llamas.
Hush your mouth. My favourite piece of merchandise!
14 minutes ago, wullieaufc said:Anyone else think that the online club shop is due an update, looks like an amateur teams not a team that has ambition for the Premiership
The whole club website is a nightmare vision of the internet. Done by a volunteer though so move along, nothing to see here. Also, why is the club still using twitter?
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1 hour ago, Coollestersmoothe said:
Ach, maybe I was unfair. Guess I'm just hungry for the red meat of actual news
Me too. (I felt I was a bit harsh with my last comment as well!)
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13 minutes ago, Coollestersmoothe said:
I'll have an ask about. I'm sure the same David Bangala joke, inane down the rabbit hole chat about how football teams pay wages, and speculation about speculation about speculation would sit low on the list.
Sorry Oscar. The lack of bons mots is not stopping anyone reading (or indeed commenting on) P&B. Feel free to improve the discourse at your leisure.
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That was a terrible watch this afternoon. Plodding going forwards, awful in defence. The club better hope people keep buying season tickets based on blind faith because that dreck won't shift many.
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18 minutes ago, JohnGAYR said:
Think you will be disappointed about Bullen. He needs an experienced assistant with the balls to tell him when he is wrong. Sandy Stewart is out of work………!!
I know. The lack of entertainment (at home esp.) has scunnered me. What worries me more (and not all to do with bullen) is some of the recruitment. There’s an extra layer of decision makers on the football side that now don’t leave when the head coach does. Interesting to see if that works better next season. Also makes an assistant for the head coach less likely imo.
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2 minutes ago, No_Problemo said:
Just seeing Bullen’s BBC interview - it doesn’t make any sense to me that Dipo tried to train with a bug and then travelled to Firhill to watch while unfit to play due to being unwell. Bizarre!
The interviews are bizarre but who knows what's up. I did enjoy the Ayr post-match interviewer not asking the chances of Akinyemi being availble next week but instead going full Nancy Drew and asking Bullen when he knew Akinyemi wasn't fit (who cares!)
Having bought tickets for both legs of the playoff semi - in an uncharacteristic fit of optimism this season - I suppose I'll mooch along. Hopefully it's the last time I'll see Bullen and a few players in the flesh.
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3 minutes ago, eez-eh said:
On Bullen - he’s just said he was really pleased with the way we played. f**k me.
I cannot wait for more of the same next season! Without a 20-goal striker.
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6 minutes ago, No_Problemo said:
I’m getting back towards the overwhelming negativity stage - that is embarrassing.
Presumably he's helping out as kit man? Surely...?
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8 minutes ago, Thumper said:
It was the backroom team's decision to hand the entire squad proper contracts. I agreed with this on the basis that the previous situation (nickel-and-dime shit that would see the club limping to the next window) is not how a club moves to the next level. However the situation now is that there are five or six players on the books, most of whom get game time every week, who are barely good enough to be in this division in the first place, let alone challenging for promotion in it, and unless some moron like Paul Hartley or whoever is stupid enough to panic-sign John Hughes next takes them off of Ayr's hands then they'll still be there drawing a wage next season.
The question is whether the board decides that it is worth spending a significant amount of money bringing in replacements for players who can't be offloaded (making Ayr's first team look sort of like a sort of shit parody of Chelsea's) or whether to just let Bullen keep playing them.
They will absolutely let Bullen keep playing them. To do anything else would be
1. expensive
2. an admission that something is wrong with the setup
Neither is going to happen. Some of the recruitment has been good (Akinyemi, Dempsey, Kirk, Albinson, Chalmers etc.) but some has been abject. There's also been a blurring of responsibility about who actually signs and recruits players. (No doubt some in the club see this as a feature not a bug.) Who signed O'Connor or JML when the Head Coach seems dead set against playing them or even using a system where wingers might be useful?
I only see next season being more of the same in a presumably tougher division. Lots to look forward to! #weareunited
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1 minute ago, Iain said:
Wouldn't be so sure
Beat me to it! Don't give Bullen any ideas FFS
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2 minutes ago, Honest_Man#1 said:
Yet another huge missed opportunity. We could say the same thing every week. This league is utter dogshite and even a semi-competent outfit with Dipo up top would have walked it.
Careful now. You'll take 5th place and be thankful for it. The "plan" decrees it so.
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4 minutes ago, BukyOHare said:
You're entitled to your opinion as am I.
Similarly if you don't think there's a bigger picture that's upto you. Fans, myself included, rightly or wrongly, get too fixated on week to week performances and results, that's the short term nature of football.
As a club, I think we're generally on an upward curve but understand not everyone will, for whatever reason.
I suspect you'll have your own personal reasons for feeling as you do and would have no axe to grind with you because of it.
That's a fair response. I hope you are right and I am wrong.
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5 hours ago, BukyOHare said:
Scottish football, from top to bottom, summed up.
I get Dipo's importance to the group but what's to say plans aren't in place, if/when he leaves, to try and find ways of replacing him, I have no doubt about that.
I was very critical of the club in the past of not profiting from our better players when they left us, we're now in a position where we can. It takes time for that trading model to start working and we're getting there but it takes time.
That's not what supporters who hang on weekly results and performances want to hear but that's the reality.
Before July of last year, nobody even knew who Dipo was. Just let that sink in for a minute.
His replacement or replacements, are out there. We just need to find them before anyone else, not impossible.
Imagine the temerity of "supporters who hang on weekly results and performances" hoping for results this season and not at some unspecified future date! How very dare they!
Some have drunk deep of the Smith/Mathie koolaid and that's fine for them I suppose. The relentless boosterism despite poor entertainment and missed opportunities is odd.
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4 minutes ago, diegomarahenry said:
He won't be first choice, but he will be a regular.
3 minutes ago, Trogdor said:A bit harsh on McKenzie, lads. He's had a good season and deserves an extension for me. He has been a good foil for Dipo at times and makes a real nuisance of himself up top. Not to be played out wide.
3 minutes ago, itzdrk said:He's been a good foil for Dipo mostly and (while we don't see it) the manager thinks he's versatile.
I was going to be much less charitable. I suppose we'll have a few years in the Championship (hopefully) to find out.
It is hard to square the club's rhetoric with its actions. Some of the recruitment has been excellent and some has been rubbish - business as usual at this level. I am surprised at how much good faith there still is with the current management team.
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6 minutes ago, itzdrk said:
The analyst can only present the data to the coaching team. If they choose to be stubborn and ignore it nothing can be done.
It's worth remembering we've been hoofing it all season, it was just a wee bit nicer because Chalmers was there doing wee bits of magic earlier on.
I feel sorry for the analyst. I have seen plenty of poor Ayr games and I'm glad I don't need to do that this season. It will be quite dispiriting.
I also
1 minute ago, itzdrk said:I'd go as far back as Kerr's covid team and suggest it's how the club wishes to play football.
Not wrong.
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