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Playing on different days has a habit of coinciding with this. Obviously it's happened a few times this season in the top flight as well. The only real pity is that (as with the top flight) the rest of the division are all either total pish or even bigger bottle merchants, so there is zero chance of a third party sneaking in.

What has been learned from the recruitment strategy is nothing. The usual thing has played out: a rookie manager who spent lots of time in the English lower leagues fucked things up by believing that English lower league jobbers would automatically be better than Scottish Championship players, and then he was replaced by a rookie manager who spent lots of time in the Scottish Premiership, who believes that any random loanees retrieved from the top flight will automatically be better than Scottish Championship players. It is correct that the _owner_ has focussed his attention on the new stand, and that will change once it's finished. Given that right now he's likely to be inaugurating it with a matchday 1 home league defeat to Kelty Hearts, that doesn't really bode well for anyone on the current coaching staff. Stanger on left wing, McGinty in nets.

Raith used up all their fate points on all those ridiculous late goals early in the season. Jim Goodwin contrived to get beat by Darvel while managing one of the largest teams in the country. He is simply quite bad at football management.

The last several years have shown that some Ayr fans will clap literally anything, so don't stop dreaming.

Home win. Ayr are gubbins this season but even Bullen had little difficulty with this National Front tribute.

An alternative reading is that people try to experiment in this league all the time. It typically leads to the end of their careers. I haven't watched the post-match yet but Brown has been pretty straightforward thus far. Presumably someone will be able to confirm whether a) he blamed a darts-board selection and a dogged determination to stick with a strategy he didn't have the players for on a sudden injury crisis, or b) he didn't.

Picking Ayr United for that purpose is an incredible move considering Ayr's incredibly successful record of ensuring that any manager they sack for the last two decades has either been forced out of the business altogether or has managed about two seasons in League Two before ending up in the juniors.

I think "demanding communication" is a wild overreading of _trying to be polite_ about the situation. If I pished on the floor in McDonalds and the staff said "excuse me sir, can you explain why you have pished on our floor" the right avenue for discussion would not be about the temerity of McDonald's to demand answers about my toilet habits.

This is a totally normal reaction to someone saying that it's weird that the home team warmed up in front of the away fans.

Is this not a rather dangerous approach in general given that the owner's expertise lies very much in the commercials and that the sponsors are, if not through direct evidence in some cases then at least by inference, his actual friends?

It also sounds like the title of a Big Bang Theory episode.

It's possible that Ayr United have the worst sudden onset of snapped ankles in the league and that the club's policy of omerta on who is fit at any given time (recall that the number of unfit players in the squad five weeks ago was, per the manager's own words, zero) just makes this hard to deduce. But on the balance of things, the seeming ability for players to vanish from the team sheet entirely every other week has already happened far too often for this to 100% be the cause.

Wasn't the praise last week for somehow contriving to win a game after some alky down the pub won a bet which decided the team sheet? This isn't desperation. It's tinkerman shit combined with either the most short-term mysterious injuries every week or Brown having somehow already managed to fall out with half the squad.

Scott Brown will manage somebody to the Champions League title one day. But he will be sacked by Ayr United first.

Walking Down the Alexander Brown Plumbing Fitting Specialists Road...

I know multiple people who lost their life savings on that shit, for which I have congratulated myself on having never bothered to accumulate any life savings.

Does any sponsorship do anything? I very much hope nobody was stupid enough to ever put money into Bitcoin Cash.

McDonald's (like fellow sponsors SpecSavers) runs a franchise model. It's not as if the matter of who to play at right back for the rest of the season is making the central board's minutes every month in Chicago.

I do love some of the absolutely random sponsors. Can't be many clubs who have the fullhearted support of their local boiler insurance firm.

Assistant manager for the 21s does not sound like something which is normally a full-time position. Plenty of good managers over the years have moonlighted as managers of the adult national teams at the same time as they've been full-time club managers. International duty simply does not require or indeed even provide the opportunity for work for most of the year.

A whole lot of people reacting to it as if it was, though. At least the Burnley U23s nonsense was started by the club, as opposed to a dozen people leaping on something literally labelled as conjecture in the post that brought it up and running with it as gospel.

Almost as if this wild hearsay about the actual livelihoods of young people was irresponsible! For what it's worth, considering the form he was in it's perhaps best that friends and family weren't present for a day which could have been considerably harsher on the visitors.

Sadly I need to tackle the indescribable horrors of Dutch electricity and plumbing if I'm to be punted to the garage outside of the summer months.

I've told my wife there's a game anyway so i don't get Daddy's Special Alone Time taken back off me.

That they exist helps. Imagine being a fucking temperance town as the world ends.