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Just now, Bowl-of-chilli said:
The brilliant thing is that post with me getting accused of being a Rangers fan, has 6 upvotes.
In an Ayr United thread.
Wow.
Mate, just let it go. Your reaction just means it will keep going.
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Right, who's next? I'm assuming McGeady was the starter, where's the main course?
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Ohhhh, Ed Davey
For those who haven't seen this it's honestly like something from Iannucci's mind.
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It is the sort of proven player I've been talking about. The injury situation is a worry but he has an off the field role as well.
Hopefully it will also see an end to the too little and too poor argument trotted out by some on here!
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7 minutes ago, Roxanne's man said:
Begins with M
Good cameo for Robbo there.
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If he can stay injury free he will be a great addition at this level. It's a big if mind you. Murphy on one wing and McGeady on the other. We just need that front man to link it together!
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11 minutes ago, No_Problemo said:
Let’s hope we all look a bit silly soon, with an imminent double signing!
I'd bite your hand off for that.
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2 minutes ago, No_Problemo said:
I’m fully expecting us to be saying this with a week to go, with the way things are looking. I think there’s pretty much zero chance of getting four in within the next two weeks either. My prediction is two after the Alloa game - which leaves you with your focal point having not played with anyone.
Imagine we don’t get a striker before the league starts though
That is a thoroughly depressing thought and doesn't even bear thinking about.
I am curious what the delay is, it can't all be part of the 'plan' because we're beyond the point of integrating so many into the squad successfully for the first league game (1 or 2 I could understand).
Have we missed out on our primary targets? Are players holding off until nearer the start of the season (I can sort of understand that for loans but not for those with no contract). There really hasn't been many rumours either (except for the fantasy tries at signing Graham and McKay).
I need some signing excitement and not more construction porn.
Come on Ayr, do something!
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1 hour ago, Highlandmagar said:
Oh I get the ULEZ thing, but it's not as if it was a huge majority to overtake. I think Labour became complacent, thinking it was a shoe in. Still it's nice to see crestfallen faces on both Labour and Tory.
I wouldn't underestimate the vitriol towards the ULEZ and its expansion. There is no solace to be found in Uxbridge for the Tories. Their candidate (now MP) basically campaigned on local issues (opposition to the expansion of the ULEZ).
Unless something catastrophic happens they are on course to lose the home counties to the Lib Dems and the 'Red Wall' back to Labour. I'm pretty sure there are signs of tactical voting as well as the electorate are fed up of the Tories. If you average the three results it's in line with the overall polls where the Tories are 20 points down.
The Tories are toast. Expect them to pull every culture war lever they have, attack migrants, bribe the electorate with tax cuts and rail against green issues (like ULEZ). It's the only trick they have left.
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10 hours ago, Suspect Device said:
BBC really taking the pish tonight on the 10 o'clock news in the feature on the bye elections.
Unless there's been an earthquake and we've lost half the north west.
Did the share the wrong info graphic?
That looks a bit like a rising sea level scenario to me. Odd that it only affects the North West right enough.
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What an absolute riddy this whole thing is:
Banks are duplicitous arseholes
Forage is a duplicitous arsehole
They are welcome to one another.
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57 minutes ago, Richey Edwards said:
Gies a FriYay please Ayr United.
Surely to f**k? First league game is two weeks tomorrow. Not long to integrate 4/5 starters into the team.
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28 minutes ago, Rb123 said:
I mean at the time McCall had Murdoch, Kerr, Docherty and Crawford all who would have walked in to most teams midfield in the championship then.
Do remeber the games where it was a 4 man midfield of CM's lol
Aye Uncle Ian loved playing a CM out wide. You are right that we had very strong options in the centre of midfield. I don't think we ever really played Crawford where he is best. Does he play CM for Morton?
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It's not quite as straightforward as that though. Crawford was constantly played out of position and didn't really impact the game. I blame Uncle Ian for the stick Crawford got tbh.
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Happy World Chess Day!
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35 minutes ago, AyrAtlanta said:
Liam Smith signed for Cheltenham
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2 minutes ago, D'Jaffo said:
Lee Bullen will continue this trend when he is appointed Brazil manager ahead of the next World Cup.
You've confused Bullen with this guy, easily done.
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46 minutes ago, Roxanne's man said:
Would be nice to think we could compete with Dunfermline for his signature
These are the sort of players we should be looking at imo. A bit of quality that can go straight into the starting 11.
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1 hour ago, BukyOHare said:
How can you be so sure of this and what then would that calculate our average wage to be?
Genuine question.
A football's club product is effectively payroll, its the team. There are very few regular businesses that are comparable in that regard. Every club's single biggest expenditure is payroll.
In terms of the 70% - Financial Fair Play is supposedly bringing in a cap whereby player payroll is capped at 70% of turnover.
It's hard to know for our club as we don't publish the detailed data. The top league has clubs running at rates of 80%+ through to mid 60%. There are some exceptions to this but broadly that covers it. Again that is only player payroll (so won't include non-football staff).
In this league you'd have to check certain clubs, Partick publish more detail. They ran at 75% to year ended of May 2022 (that's total payroll so not just the footballers). Given they were a bawhair from running out of money this season I'd imagine that has gone up. I'm sure Dundee United ran at well over 100% last time in the Championship as they wanted back out (they had a loss of £3.8m or something like that).
Any shareholders of the club will know as they get an Income & Expenditure statement and can do the calculation.
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This fucker is ruining MVB, for me!
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3 minutes ago, AuAl said:
"They're no listening to each other"
"Its the fucking left back"
SpoilerI see you Paddy!
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16 minutes ago, Thumper said:
Ah. Fair enough. But getting back to the original point, not only did the club allegedly bring in 1.4m last season, they're made at least 300k more in prize money this time along with whatever Akinyemi got sold for, plus (allegedly) the bar receipts (and it's the fucking dearest bar in KA8). And the vast majority of any club's outgoings are wages. And even if you split it completely evenly, a million quid wage bill would be enough for every player in the first team to be making more than 40k, and a third of them are still school-aged.
For financial year to end of 30 June 2023 it's not unreasonable to expect our Turnover to be closer to £1.8m due to the points you have made wrt. increased prize money (from 8th to 2nd in league & Scottish cup).
The Akinyemi sale won't be in the next set of accounts but the one after. As it was banked after 30 June.
Either way, there should be the funds available for 4 quality signings.
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2 minutes ago, Thumper said:
https://pomanda.com/company/SC005950/the-ayr-united-football-and-athletic-club%2C-limited
VOR is mistaking turnover for gross profit.
This is literally public information fwiw.
It's not public information because the club lodge small company accounts with companies house which don't include an Income Statement, they only have a Balance Sheet.
If you look closely at the Pomanda data those are all estimates for the P&L rather than actuals. The Balance Sheet is actuals (as this is publicly available).
You can check companies house, the club don't publish turnover:
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/SC005950/filing-history
I think VOR is right on this one.
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The Ultimate Super Ayr Thread
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That's some attention to detail. I didn't even notice that.