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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.

The concrete was in place before Brown arrived and even if he hadn't specifically complained about it every week it's very very clearly had a massive effect in several games since. The effect is going to come off the sea which the ground is almost perpendicular to. If anything two higher stands on either side might make it worse.

I'd take paying off my mortgage over a vague unspecified sense of dread tbh. Also it would be at the expense of Morten, thus earning at least one point of revenge.

You can't get an emergency full back. This leaves you looking at players without a club or those currently in off-season. Putting it mildly, managers who have tried that in the past have seldom found league-winners.

And Scott Brown didn't come to Ayr to eat his mince and tatties and play the same 4-4-2 every week. The defence is a mess because injuries and dreadful recruitment have left it so. The manager could simply rack up a run of defeats and blame them on injuries, or he could actually try to manage his way out of it. Admittedly you're going to get more joy out of this approach if you get results from it, but you sometimes make your own luck. It's as uncomplicated as it is embarrassing, both personally and for the human race.

In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king. Probably the same people who were booing him when he was literally still an Ayr player tbf.

Do you go out and throw bricks at ambulances that you don't feel are driving fast enough as well? Literally the only place I've ever seen a medical situation being dealt with promptly and without any confusion is in a mosh pit. Unfortunately most football fans (especially the one currently suggesting that the paramedics were waiting for this poor person to die) make for poorer crowds.

Medical personnel famously do not give a shit about people dying. They should make people solve some sort of block puzzle or other test before going through the away turnstiles in order to weed out those whose IQs can comfortably be counted on their fingers and toes.

QP's problem was almost certainly too much preparation for the oncoming season. Arbroath were never going to be able to replicate that season as even an enormously increased prize money payout wouldn't see their overall revenue compete with the bigger teams going forward, never mind attracting a lot of high-calibre players to play in a pontoon suspended half way into the North Sea.

Commentators also correct that even a McGinty punt is a different creature now to what it was for so long, even if it would have been nice for the camera to actually track it for the allegedly sublime flick-on Bryden gave it for the third.

In fairness the audio stroboscope effect that sounded like Callum was absolutely correct about the first Thistle goal.

Honestly beside myself that the club actually charges people to listen to a stream where the audio is of comparable quality to Alexander Graham Bell holding his new invention up to a cat being drowned in a bath.