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Talking of "hysterical guff" - fact check - she was NOT murdered.

Has anybody else been charged multiple times when the screen said "server error"? I've found three loads of charges on my credit card bill and clearly due to the problems I found above. I know others were having similar server error issues and obviously going to complain and get refunds but just wondering if part of a wider problem before I start that. Or is it just me?

Sure, but the lack of perspective does sometimes get wearing. Most fans just have a visceral reaction to the last couple of results, but that's football for you. It's supposed to be an escape from the hum-drum every day, where you can shout and sing and cheer in public and nobody thinks you're a nutter. The fact that some of those at the games are nutters you just have to accept. Hopefully visceral is another belter...

If somebody else had kicked it onto your hand that is reaching straight out towards the sky above your head nobody would even be questioning it was a pen. If you are such a hopeless footballer that you kick it onto your OWN hand in a similar position suddenly it is not a pen?! WOT?

What are his fitness stats though? To be honest he looks like he might get bullied off the ball at bit, but - hey - needs must. Tell him to bring his boots Friday...

Try this https://queensparkfc.co.uk/tickets-for-ayr-united-game/ and hit the Away option. That said, I've tried twice now and both times I get a server error on having completed my card payment details so haven't actually managed to buy any myself so far! Sigh.

But logically he is correct. You claim you can discount success and count failure but they are opposite sides of the same coin. If your Cup successes turn to League failure then - unless the rest of your League were all Cup successes - the failures must be improving. It's a zero sum game. For sure, no fan is going to happy at what we have seen thus far but I'm not going to take a hell of a lot of notice unless and until we are a couple of months into the League. If we are bottom three then, well then I will join in (some) of the criticism. But those writing off some players on the basis of a couple of games is ludicrous, as is calling for managerial heads to roll before the League season as even kicked off. But that's football fans for you.

Agree with most of Wattoo's assessment other than regarding Kirk. Yes - a big strong boy with good pace, control and a great long throw, but defending he looked all at sea. Seemed to want to get rid of the ball very quickly when QotS were in our final third, and when he did so gave it away in some very dangerous areas. Looked largely responsible for the goal that McGinty seems to be getting the flak for. Cannot be too harsh on his first game, and he will be inconsistent but to me looked like what he is - a player with only 12 senior games under his belt with a lot to learn still. And learn at our expense. Hopefully he can quickly be what you saw "raw but could be a big player for us" but I didn't see enough to share your optimism yet I'm afraid. Musonda was the biggest disappointment to me; was my MotM on Saturday but last night looked naive, too casually dispossessed and shirked a a fair few tackles. Hopefully just an early lesson not to believe his own hype, and maybe thinking he can just walk this Scottish League stuff, and he'll knuckle down again. I think if we have found a good new defender it is most likely to be him.

Apart from he wasn't. Smith delivered all the corners from one side and Reading from the other, all game. Your general point is sound though, we need more quality options for set pieces and more attack from midfield. Agree Albinson was excellent, not just the one-on-one but being ready and willing to come out and collect, tackle or clear a ball as required. I like McAdams, especially his shot stopping but there is more to keeping than that, and God does he like to stay on his line or what? For me, Musonda was Man of the Match, read the game really well, strong and pretty fast and for cutting out danger before it had even manifested itself. Also a decent ball carrier - I thought he looked very promising but early days all round.

I would suggest finishing Top 4 will be the target Bullen is set, and if we achieve that it will be a qualified success. As much depends on the manner in which do that (or not) and the progression of some of our long term signings as the actual position. Being in the relegation mix again all season will clearly be an abject failure. Finishing 5th through 7th would be a bit meh and likely to bring down a storm of dissatisfaction on the management but, for me, a few solid seasons of being a Championship fixture are needed whilst we gradually increase the financial firepower of the club. Ultimately it all depends on sustainably increasing the financial strength of the club. That may not be glamourous but it is what is needed after a few decades of going backwards, off the pitch anyway. Rome isn't going to be built in a season or two - the key is never going down until we are ready to go up.

Yeah. Worrying times...

Slow Joe has already been declared the winner but, on the basis of the single game in which I saw him, Efe Ambrose might have otherwise been in with a shout. For a former international who was playing regularly in the Scottish Premiership this season, and has had a very decent career, he has to be the most technically limited defender I have ever seen. That his team beat us in that game says as much about Ayr Utd's lack of composure as anything. I was just genuinely surprised at how poor Ambrose was - he seemed terrified of receiving the ball. A jobber for sure, just not top jobber amongst a League full of them.

f**k you, Shakespeare. Not.

Yeah - you have to get there via England? Great link - I think not. Anyway, nobody based in Edinburgh is going to go to Dumfries over the nearer options that are just as good or better. End of.

There are three issues though with Palmerston, only two relevant to this thread. The crappy ancient artificial pitch pretty much ensures a poor game It's a bugger to get there from Edinburgh Ayr Utd's inability to ever win there no matter how poor a season Queen of the South might be having

I'm a Londoner - and was writing for a Swede. Okay your steak bridie was great but now only seem to contain a wipe of gravy and no meat. Maybe the ones in the town are better but in the ground they 'aint what they were.

Ola, I live in Edinburgh, despite my team up here being Ayr. Would certainly recommend either Hearts or Hibs in Edinburgh when you're over. Hearts is probably the better atmosphere. Otherwise, grounds I would recommend within a relatively short drive/train of Edinburgh would include Alloa Athletic and Stenhousemuir (nice wee lower league clubs) , Dunfermline Athletic (although the legendary steak bakes are sadly a shadow of their former glory), Raith Rovers (about as far as you might wish to drive though) and non-league Berwick Rangers (lovely scenic train ride, interesting historical town too). Stenhousemuir was always a decent away day too for some reason. Would give Cowdenbeath and Albion Rovers a miss (shite hole towns and rubbish grounds) and dodge Stirling Albion, Airdrie, Livingstone and Falkirk (soulless plastic modern grounds) if I were you. Arbroath and Partick Thistle are two of our favourite away days - combination of good grounds and great local food (fish and chips and curry respectively) - but neither can remotely be regarded as handy for Edinburgh.

I guess I'm biased - my Dad was on a troopship en route for the invasion of Malaya when the War ended. He was understandably delighted with the sudden conclusion!

Well, it was for those on both sides that were still alive - the War ended without having to invade Japan with another million casualties..

I agree with you. If you had quoted the whole of my post, it would have been clear I thought it didn't make much sense, given the results and irrespective of the rationale you have come up with here.

I guess he feels a full time team with bigger budgets and deeper quality resources of their bench, like to pluck a wild random out of thin air Kilmarnock for example, might be favoured with a rule allowing sides to field more subs. Killi have made enough of a hard job of this League so far to suggest there is not much in that believe.

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Fan consultation is almost always a good thing. You don't need to slavishly follow what your fans are telling you - ultimately the owners decide as it's their money - but it can't be a bad thing to know how strong the fans feelings on an issue might be.

TBH I think some of us were trying to convince ourselves that it would not be the car crash it would inevitable become with Hopkin, McGinty has been okay particularly since Bullen came in but I'd rather we had not extended his contract. To be fair, we didn't extend McGinty's contract - he did. He had the option baked into his original contract, after a certain number of appearances, and took it. Given where we were at the time, that may be instructive but, hey, we've all got to make a living and put food on the table. That said, with a half-decent midfield in front of him he now seems to be fine at this level.

Despite what my footer below says, right now I was grab a turgid 0-0 draw with both sweaty hands, such is my trepidation about this afternoon. Hoping, against expectation, that Ayr don't tamely go a couple of goals down before we start playing...