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Not beating Section B FC when kick-it-as-hard-as-you-can had worked swimmingly twice before would be embarrassing IMO.
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Sticking to a style of play that you don't have the personnel for is sometimes a reasonable option if the assessment is that by changing the style you won't be any more successful, but will be less interesting to watch. Hull and Blackpool's stints in the Premier League are good examples. If you're going to get relegated anyway trying to shitfest it against teams worth 200 times what you are, you might as well go out and try to score four goals instead.
Airdrie probably have one of the lower budgets in this league but it's not a huge span outside of Dundee United. Other than their mysterious inability to beat the most predictable manager in the SPFL, it seems they have the personnel to play as they wish. Talking them up for it is just patronising.
Compare to Queens Park, who were playing suicideball even though they have plenty of money and did perfectly well until the final hurdle last season. Sticking with that was imbecilic and rightly resulted in the management getting unceremoniously dumped.
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Interesting in the post-match that Tomlinson's move to right back was on the urging of McGeady.
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1 minute ago, Rovers_Lad said:
After watching the highlights you should have been playing against 9 men.Goldson should have seen a straight red and Silva should have been given a 2 yellow but Willie Crumble and VAR shit it
Only in Scotland would VAR be introduced during a cup round of 16 and then only employed for two specific ties.
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5 minutes ago, No_Problemo said:
IMO, that would be a huge risk in terms of our survival this season.
Five out, and two in wouldn’t exactly be backing the new manager either - particularly given today’s tie.
At the moment it’s hard to argue that our squad has improved, our starting side certainly hasn’t and that is very poor considering the issues we have.
ETA, it’s three in - so stronger at CB.
It's the middle of February. The notion that there will be any sort of season-changing right backs or strikers waiting to get loaned out at this point (and that Ayr's somewhat temperamental scouting system would have identified them) seems unlikely.
Today's performance sounded hugely encouraging. Big move to bench Albinson and it was rewarded. It very much seems like Brown's getting people to step up.
Beat Airdrie next week and things begin to look a lot more promising, especially if Dunfermline continue to self-implode.
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5 minutes ago, The Toun Clock said:I don't think that's fair
This was precisely Partick Thistle's argument in 2020, hilariously.
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Ninth is going to the wire anyway, and could be three or four teams on the final day.
ICT would obviously be funniest. Ayr are certainly not safe. Dunfermline will be fine once their injury crisis is over.
Queens Park it is.
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47 minutes ago, D'Jaffo said:
In terms of a new goalie it wouldn’t shock me if we tried for Doohan in the summer.
I'd be awfully surprised if Aberdeen were willing to let a 25-year-old keeper away with a year on his contract without a fee. And a season-long loan is yet another banana peel which leaves Ayr in an awkward and unfavourable position at the end of the season if he lives up to expectations. (That said, yes, in a heartbeat).
Who knows what's up with Albinson, but the club has to sort it out. His gaffes aren't even systemic (save for that they seem to often occur when he tries to save with something other than his hands) and you'd think that could get coached out.0 -
gonnae no gie this p***k the time of day? Do people not actually realise who they're replying to?1 -
In fairness, getting beaten regardless of performances by 12 men is about as good a dry run for next weekend as the team could have hoped for.
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In fairness to Rose, it's still full-time football, and he's proven he can score against clubs of L1 calibre.
I really can't see McGeady starting tomorrow. If it's your first big game in your new job you're not going to endanger it by putting your older mate who is clearly done on the team sheet. It's not as if Dundee United are going to be overawed by him.
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1 hour ago, Coollestersmoothe said:
Aye. But they werent out of hand dismissing him as utter shite.
The inference of the post I commented on was that everybody’s giving Chalmers grief cos he’s been mediocre for a few games. It was 2-3 tame, half hearted comments for your best players to get back to form. Hardly, bed wetting levels of breathless exasperation.
2 hours ago, Nelson said:Chalmers and Dowds have kind of been getting an easy ride of late, so hopefully both will get a bit of a wake up call with Brown arriving. . Based on their performances over the last couple of months, you wouldn’t be rushing to offer them terms for next season, though the potential is definitely there.
I think directly saying that two of the only three Ayr players guaranteed to finish above Own Goal in the final tallies should be released is, in fact, a bit excessive.
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Good to see that Chalmers has inherited Adeloye's position as person who is described as shiftless and unimportant if he doesn't carry the entire team for two weeks.
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3 hours ago, D'Jaffo said:
Bullen chose and had final say on who we signed so you can’t say he was let down.
Also, "Bullen was let down by his recruitment" seems... historically inaccurate?
Unless the argument is that Musonda, Kirk, Chalmers, Akinyemi etc were all Bullen but then Ghastly Glendinning took back over to force him at gunpoint to sign the rest.
This window looks like another big mess and obviously punting the manager mid-window didn't help with that, but if Rose is going out on loan it's because Scott Brown doesn't want him at Ayr.
40 minutes ago, Roxanne's man said:There seems to be a massive difference in recruitment from the days of McCall to now under Mathie and Glendinning
McCall had some shiters but always had a player in mind before hiring. Jamie Adams for example, signed from lower leagues to become an invincible cult hero. He filled positions with players with potential.
This is somewhat rose-tinted. McCall also tried to redeem quite a few people who ended up being done jobbers.
McCall has had decades in the dugout and had to make use of his own network to do what he could with very little real money. Of course recruitment's changed. "Go back to how McCall did it" is not really an option you get without, y'know, having McCall. Maybe you'll see Whittaker turning up with a notepad on a Tuesday night to take in League One games every week. Who knows. But it's not going to happen overnight.
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6 hours ago, Trogdor said:
The communications from the club have been a bit ham fisted of late. Obviously still grieving behind the scenes. It's totally understandable and we should cut them some slack.
Much like when Liz finally popped her clogs and no bus shelter could advertise trainers for about a month, this benefits nobody.
A football club that can't run away buses is basically not fit for purpose. If the opinion of the owner is that fans should watch away games from the pub that he, rather than than club, owns, then he should be run out of town.
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4 hours ago, AUcal said:
While obviously the above is tongue in cheek and would be a complete other level
People blow their own limbs off accidentally in Scottish coal mining villages with improvised explosives on about a weekly basis.
4 hours ago, Scott-ish said:The last thing I want is to be at an Ayr game with either folk who have Ayr as their 'wee team' or Celtic fans just there to noise up Rangers.
A non-trivial percentage of most clubs' normal home crowds would be up the road if they could get tickets. This isn't even a Scottish thing.
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The "infiltrated by Celtic fans" stuff is a bit odd. The reason Old Firm games get as they do is because the away side has a substantial allocation who don't need to pretend they're there supporting someone else. This is surely far more appealing than being wedged into a tiny wee corner and spat on for 90 minutes by the mutants in the Govan Front.
The revenue the club makes is dependent on total ticket sales, so even if one isn't going (because as noted it will be fucking horrible) it is obviously a good thing if Ayr sell out their allocation. Indeed the appointment of Brown is by itself going to boost the home support (and means Police Scotland will have a fun time checking them all for home-made hand grenades on the way in) and thus make Ayr more money.2 -
6 minutes ago, shizzlemanizzle said:
Maybe all he had to do to achieve the optimism off the pitch was to buy us all a couple of pints.
Wasn't that what Hubgate was all about?
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55 minutes ago, shizzlemanizzle said:
3 wins on the trot, undefeated in 4 scoring 7 and conceding 1 and Scott Brown confirmed as the new manager. I’m trying to not get to carried away but when do people think we will win our first of many Champions Leagues. 2026 might be a bit tight so I’m going with 2027.
You been on the Millions?
4 minutes ago, Richey Edwards said:Stand. It's the North Stand.
The Terrace is the bit you stand in. The Stand is the bit you sit in. What a brilliant language.
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19 minutes ago, Stuntiethumper said:
Overall Ayr were the better team on the day and you got the 3 points. Just a pity from our perspective the officials made mistakes that had a big bearing on the outcome of the game.
Compared to the absolute horrors getting visited on the SPL every week by VAR, the odd pish call by an official at this level looks like Pierluigi Collina at his finest.
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McKenzie's rapid transition into Jack Grealish is certainly welcome. Would be nice if the club could find a way to inject the ghost of Cafu into the fullbacks by next Saturday.
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You'd think it was a late penalty the way QP fans are going on about this free kick.
If McGeady was still remotely bothered about playing football it'd have been 3-1. Then that free kick wouldn't have mattered.
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27 minutes ago, diegomarahenry said:
I don’t think Brown will tolerate Callum’s approach judging by this
Such a difference in body language between someone who actually wants to communicate and be asked tough questions vs someone just looking to have the next soundbite teed up.
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I always believed in you my son. Make me proud.
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The Ultimate Super Ayr Thread
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Wasn't given 9 when he signed but he's still a 9.