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13 minutes ago, Nelson said:
Being 2 down inside 10 minutes to a Dunfermline side that could barely get 11 players on the park pretty much summed up where we were going.
I was in Ayr for a home game for once and took one look at the weather and flatly told myself I was staying in. Even managing to rescue a draw that day didn't prevent me feeling happy with the decision.
On the 13th of January Bullen thought all his Christmases had come at once after managing to get a clean sheet in a shit 0-0 that meant Ayr stayed off the foot of the table. Twenty points clear now.
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9 minutes ago, AUcal said:
Aye its something you just don't get at bigger clubs. I mind celebrating the League 1 title victory in Harleys with the whole squad. That was fucking class.
Think it was the second time that Reid got promoted that the team bus drove straight to Cactus Jak's? You don't get your Old Firm posing with giant plastic statues of John Wayne.
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12 minutes ago, ryanayr1987 said:
Remember when mathie first came in, there were comms every few days. Think the focus on that has really been lost, hopefully it improves significantly next season
I've got about as much faith in the club signing a proper head of communication or media as in them signing two experienced fullbacks, but I suppose both are within the realm of possibility.
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12 hours ago, D'Jaffo said:
Right Back
Nick McAllister, Dylan Watret
Left Back
Paddy Reading
Watret needs another season at a lower level to bed in. Reading and McAllister need to find clubs at a level that suits them, which isn't the Championship.
5 minutes ago, FergR said:Feels like they have given up on comms. Needs a reboot.
Comms have been garbage ever since McCall left and for a club that wants to think of itself as professionally run it is simply unacceptable.
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Genuinely impressed this has happened again.
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16 minutes ago, Hazbart said:
Not sure they would attract sufficient walk up’s to cover for the shortfall
I have never ever seen a club lamenting selling too many season tickets and therefore impacting their matchday revenue.
Any theoretical disaster spending in the event of getting promoted is irrelevant. Everything the club is doing off-field is in theory aimed at permitting promotion to be a reasonable leap. If it happens at all it will be an enormous impact for a generation. Also, if Derek Stillie is indeed stinking the club up again, the tories will happily step in to use the taxpayer money they allegedly detest to bail out one of their own.
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Prices at Somerset might have inflated but it's not like Freddos, which were still 5p when I was in high school.
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On 23/04/2024 at 05:07, Hazbart said:
Great that the club get the cash now and lock that supporter in for 5 years but if everyone does it, surely they lose out on future income.
If everyone did it the club would have in the region of two million pounds, which it could presumably use to improve the product and thus the number of walk-up customers.
For that price you could go to about 65 games at current walk-up prices. That would mean attending nearly every home match for four years. The club would be mad not to try to lock that in early. They should be offering 50 year season tickets.
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4 minutes ago, ayrunitedfw said:
Club in being shite at advertising something shocker.
Could the club make season tickets out of breeze blocks perhaps?
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1 hour ago, muZZa__44 said:
This would be a lot more convincing if VOR hadn't had every single player, janitor and boot boy queuing up to suck Bullen's dick re: workrate and desire as well.
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1 hour ago, Richey Edwards said:
The club seem desperate to manufacture an academy to first team success story, hence why both he and McKenzie are in the first team despite neither being good enough for the Championship.
Ironically this is something which, like with Alan Forrest, would almost certainly have been helped by Ayr being relegated.
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3 hours ago, railwayend said:
It’s the trips to Africa twice a season . Is that something Brown will put up with ?
Scott Brown is not going to do something as fucking tinpot as demand his players stop accepting international call-ups.
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6 hours ago, GuyIncognito said:
On the last day Inverness play Morton who have nothing to play for, Queens Park play Airdrie who will likely rest players ahead of the playoffs, while we play Dunfermline who themselves wouldn't be safe under this scenario
If on the last day Dunfermline and Ayr both know a win would send the other to the playoffs then this is great. At least it isn't fucking Morten for a change.
7 hours ago, Richey Edwards said:The past four seasons have been a test of endurance with a light sprinkling of good results to keep us hooked.
At least the brief patch of glory under McCall resulted in the Tannadice Massacre. Even during Akinyemi's golden era it was blatantly obvious that most games were being won because of him alone.
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1 hour ago, ryanayr1987 said:
Mcallister pissed me off today, he was a red card waiting to happen and was flying into tackles left right and centre.
It's difficult to define the difference between indefatigability and recklessness. Or I mean it would be, were it not for the comparison two days ago between McAllister and Jamie Adams.
12 minutes ago, rgreig said:I know that Partick will want momentum going into the play-offs but I hope that their players will be holding back a bit to avoid injury at this stage of the season.
Partick are more than capable of scudding this squad on 50% anyway, most weeks.
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Does it fit the trolleys at Sainsburys though?
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35 minutes ago, diegomarahenry said:
He signed for Ayr when our forward options were Rose, McKenzie and Bryden. Akinyemi had left and we were desperate. We signed a guy who wasn’t good enough for a team that finished below us in the league last year and didn’t hit double figures in goals until this month, three of those came in the same game. I don’t think it deserves your faux outrage to suggest that he wouldn’t be a regular in some of the teams in this league.
Dowds needed games and we had no other viable options. It was a perfect storm.It's not faux outrage, it's just bafflement that this is a comment made at 10am on a Thursday morning at not at 3am on a Sunday morning.
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47 minutes ago, diegomarahenry said:
He’s lucky he ended up at Ayr at the time he did because I’m not sure other clubs would have persevered with him at this level.
What?
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- I don't think it's fair to say that Rose has only been scoring against part-time teams. He was scoring against Falkirk, in a game he was playing for Hamilton; chances are both of them will be in this division next season.
- I get the absolute fear whenever people suggest that potential strikers might be "competing" with Bryden and McKenzie for a position. If Bryden or McKenzie are seen as a better attacking option than a given forward at this moment in time (as opposed to when Bryden arrives back from the future with a leather jacket and an eye patch as Cyber-Bryden) then that striker can be considered to have failed at their job.
- Comparing Stevie Bell and Jamie Adams to Nick McAllister is a far more grevious insult than comparing any given striker to Bryden.
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3 hours ago, Superhursty7 said:
We also have Whittaker who was a very good defender in his day
Whittaker was much better going forward than defensively. Admittedly that wasn't at this level but bombing fullbacks who can't really defend are not really a highlight of the Scottish secind tier.
2 hours ago, ComradeDiego said:Must be the only one
Even if Ayr pick up zero more points this season it'd still require multiple other teams to massively buck their trends. Barring freakish results this weekend it should be practically if not mathematically sealed.
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35 minutes ago, Rodders1910 said:
is much better at passing the ball out from the back than McGinty is
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14 minutes ago, ExiledLichtie said:
Sparky innit?
And crawling under floorboards etc is not exactly complementary to three hours a day running up sand dunes or whatever.
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15 minutes ago, TheScarf said:
That's what I was thinking. Full time footballers only train for 15 hours a week. Unless he's a one man band I fail to see how he can't delegate when he's at training every day.
It's entirely dependent on what the job is though isn't it? Marketing consultancy is a lot easier to fit into a travel-mandatory physical job like playing football than e.g. plastering.
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Even if they cover the pitch that's five days without light for the lawn.
Is there genuinely no space left on Heathfield Road these days? Could they not lift the anti-traveller boulders behind Asda?
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42 minutes ago, Ayrutd1910 said:
Stood in the Prince of Wales
How long has the Ice of Ales been gone now? Like the Odeon Bar, a permanent memory of my childhood that I never actually got to partake in.
4 hours ago, AyrExile said:I see this word hater getting thrown around. Please feel free to highlight any examples as almost everyone rates Chalmers on here
Ach it wasn't meant seriously. Just one of these regular debates on here, which runs the gamut from "best player at the club" to "would be happy to see him turning up for Falkirk next season" (for what its worth the correct position is 90% of the way towards the former).
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The Ultimate Super Ayr Thread
in Scottish Championship General Chatter
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Probably because, as repeatedly discussed, the club barely tweets to say that there's a fucking home game on a given day and yet somehow finds the time to make fully 50% of all content on the website articles blaming the fans for something. (That the fans are indeed to blame for various things is not the point.)