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Ayr haven’t ruined my weekend purely on the fact I didn’t watch the game and on recent form today wasn’t the worst result small wins

I’m on a work Christmas Day out today and have just checked on here to see how the game is going. I can recommend not giving a f**k for the first 70 minutes of an Ayr game. It makes your afternoon so much better

It was a rangers fan that grassed him in, wrote a blog about other players gambling and how Black was targeted, screenshoted Moffats twitter where he posted pictures of his coupons and one where he said he didn’t want to watch the Queens speech on Christmas Day. he then sent them to the SFA

That’s exactly why he’s been banned, like Moffat being banned for gambling, Ian Black got off lightly and Moffat got hammered. It comes down to the public clamour for action, they can’t punish high profile or old firm players because of the backlash so a player from a smaller team will get the brunt to prove they aren’t a soft touch. I think Moffat got a longer ban but didn’t bet against his own team where Ian Black did

I think the chairman said he owns it but the profits will go to the club. At face value that is good, he has created something that is burden free and will create revenue for the club. There will always be a concern that someone in construction, particularly in house building, owns the land. There wasn't with Barr, he built the hospitality and did some improvements to the ground. Smith has built the hub, put the new wall round the pitch and renovated the interior of the main stand. I don't think that Smith is likely to make us homeless and bulldoze Somerset any time soon. Kilmarnock had the Hotel. That was split from the club by agent Johnston a few years ago and Billy Bowie (I think) bought it back. There are always worries when the owner splits assets between him and the club but it happens all the time, the only difference here is, we know it is separate. He has said that we have a bigger budget than last year and it is a top 4 budget. His recruitment is at fault for that rather than his financial backing. The silence from the club also started after he took over. There may be pride involved, maybe a little bit of embarrassment or frustration that he is spending a fortune and his twitter lights up every Saturday tea time. Building the walls higher between the club and the support is not going to make it better. The pressure will be on him to spend money in January. If he spends money bringing players in and we still stink, the pressure will still be on him to sack Duffy If he doesn't spend money, the pressure will be on him If he spends money and results improve, the pressure will be on him to get a good replacement for Duffy. This is where having good PR and being able to lead fans in the direction you need to take makes these processes easier. Cameron explaining why Roberts got a 3rd year bought him time, he could basically kick his heels until Roberts passed the point of no return and it saved him paying him off. Explaining that every penny is a prisoner and unless Roberts failed he couldn't sack him let fans know the situation.

We won’t score first. We tend to piss about with the ball at the back with a huge gape between the midfield and defence. the defenders will be left with chipping high balls to whoever is up front, which won’t matter because they won’t win them anyway. Once we concede, we’ll either concede again within minutes or we’ll abandon defending our 18 yard line and play some football, which has a 40% success rate of being effective. if Morton go a goal up and sense blood, they could win comfortably. If they go a goal up and shite it, we might….MIGHT salvage a draw. if Ayr score first, I don’t know what will happen because it’s been so long. I would look for occasions where Morton have been embarrassed by Ayr over the years but I cant Be arsed

I think this game could go either way, almost first goal is the winner. Either team will cave if they concede and could end up getting thrashed. Our early season “at least we’ll be good at the back” evaporated pretty quickly and we are poor all over the pitch. 3-0 to come c**t

On Saturday, McGinty looked like he had zero confidence, rather than taking a touch and then putting his foot through the ball, he was just smashing it in whatever direction he was facing as hard as he could.

This game should offer a support group to those affected by David Hopkin before the match. Maybe one for those affected by Jim Duffy afterwards Gove people a chance to talk about their pain and suffering with an understanding audience

Afolabi could go back, if Duffy had played Moffat earlier he could have been back at Celtic in September. He obviously doesn’t rate Bradley much because he’s getting used sparingly. I quite like him but if he’s not getting a game then send him back. Maxwell is hit and miss but out the 3, I’d keep a hold of him.

I’m sure there is, looking for guys with 6 months left on a deal, trying to prove themselves tends to work. But I think Duffy will only have loans available to him. I don’t think he’ll have any fingerprints on the team beyond game 36. I am hoping that Smith will have someone in place before the end of the season and they will have identified who (if any) they want to keep and offers will be made so that we are not in a situation of scrambling together a squad in early August again.

Unless at some point in the first few days of January there is a signing that genuinely excites people, it’ll be a tough window for the club. I get the impression that after Hopkin left, Smith was left with a choice, pay off 3 coaches or hope Duffy proved he was up to it. You couldn’t fault Duffy in his first 3 games. It was maybe a relief to Smith that Duffy made a positive impact in the early days. As soon as the ink was dry on his promotion to manager it all went tits. Duffys remit will now be to keep us up but I’m not Sure Smith will want to bail him out other than to take the pressure off him. I am concede that we will repeat McCalls first season in the Championship and bank on other teams out-shiteing us. We need an overhaul and Duffy doesn’t look like the man long term, so what would the point be in him signing anything other than a few loans.

A lot of our former players will play for McCall before they will play for us again

For probably the last 10 years, we have had a continuity, Guys like Forrest, Crawford, Devlin, Moffat and Docherty stuck around and developed with the club through tough times at the club, we had guys who were there developed and then left like Shankland, Smith, Rose and Harvey and we had jobbers that did well for us. The summer of 2019 was pivotal for us, Players we knew we couldn't hold on to left and McCall started to complain about budget cuts, putting pressure on the chairman, it all looked like we had reached the peak of the chairmans ambition or financial limit. From summer 2020 we have almost lost all continuity, Moffat is still there but he's getting on, Murdoch has been a one man midfield and Reading is the only player we have that could be an asset for us. We have almost turned a full 180 and gone from a team of mostly developed youth and players with a bright career ahead of them to a team of disposable jobbers. The new owner looks like he is prioritising off field development over on field to make the club more sustainable long term. The downside of this has been bad recruitment and terrible results. The lack of communication from the club has created a bit of anger towards him and a resentment towards the off field development. The owner seems to be not listening to or registering criticism and there is a gulf being created between the club and the support. We currently have over 20 first team players, of which I couldn't really care if any left, In recent years, most of the players who have left have gone up the way. Currently I doubt if any of our squad would move to another full time club, some could go straight to junior. Sustainability long term would not count as being in a mess, but we have an owner who is 2/2 on bad managerial appointments, he may be tied to Duffy and the staff because of the cost to have a clear out. We have a manager who doesn't seem interested and his post match interviews are full of clichés and never address the problem. We have a playing squad with very little ability, very little interest and zero redeeming qualities. There are probably clubs in a bigger mess right now with a clear pathway out but we have the potential to become the next Falkirk, relegated and have an owner/board who keeps making mistakes.

Tragic waste of time regardless of how long it took. I didn’t know Morton had won the Scottish cup because I don’t give a f**k about Morton. yet here you two are

Spending your morning creating a graphic to post on here is measurably more desperate.

Saw the Burnley v Spurs game was called off. Remember that mad time we set up a strategic partnership with them. What was all that about ?

McGinty hammered everything that came to him as hard as he could today, even under no pressure he just lumped the ball away from himself as hard as he could. He's obviously on confidence at all. Afolabi doesn't know where is first touch is landing, how he is rated at Celtic I have no idea. O'Conner was lively but has pretty poor. Salkeld shat out a 60/40 in his favour and almost cost us a goal. So many players look like they lack confidence yet it has never improved since the start of the season. We have a coach that specialises in mental health of players but it is hard to see any motivation or improvement in body language or performances.

Duffy played Moffat today and after he set up one and scored the other, said he brought him because of his experience. Obviously he thought he could wing in in the previous 6 league games. Duffy hasn’t changed the style since he started, he’s obviously trying to bring in players to make it work rather than try and make something else work with the players he’s got. You’d think a guy who had been over the course as many times as Duffy would have worked out how to adapt but he’s really struggling

I’m not one to write of players before they have had a chance to prove themselves. that being said, if this is the level we are shopping in, we are fucked we are as well just accepting relegation and taking the rest of the season off so we don’t have to watch it.

We’ll lose Chalmers to someone like Falkirk to free up space for an incoming player. McCall will announce just before the next Partick v Ayr game he’s signed Reading and Murdoch. We’ll bring in a new centre half and wide player. we’ll bring in 2 more loan players that turn out to be shite. we won’t replace Chalmers and have Murdoch and Muirhead as our only central midfielders for the remainder of the season.

Looking forward to see who we are linked with in January. seeing the first name

It’s still a bit strange to tweet he drops out the match day squad, even if there was a fallout or he turned up steaming, it would be normal to just say he’d picked up a knock rather than a nudge and a wink that something might have happened.

Must have been, the clubs tweet was a bit vague, it said he had been replaced and drops out the match day squad, saying he picked up a knock would have been easier and been less open to interpretation

Game was dreadful, Albion Rovers had us worked out and kept us quiet without really threatening. We continued with pitching high balls to Afolabi and it was heading to be a familiar result. The only bright spots were when we decided to play football on the deck rather than treat the ball like a live hand grenade, this happened maybe twice in the first half. There is so much apathy, only about a dozen folk boo’d at half time which Muirhead took exception to. If he thinks that recent performances and being second best to Albion Rovers isn’t worthy of booing, then you are part of the problem. The goal we conceded was a defensive shambles. There were several defensive howlers today but we only managed to concede from one. Against another team we’d have lost 3-4. After Albion Rovers scored, it looked like they changed from stopping up play to trying to see out the game, this benefited Ayr and we started to use the overlap more and play football. We were still rotten but at least we were trying to play positive football. Maxwell and O’Conner were frustrating to watch, so many wrong choices and bad final balls. Afolabi is surely not better than McKenzie. We looked better once Bradley came on. Moffat showed he’s still got it though, the space he was making and his intelligence is something we have missed this season. The reaction at the end summed up how things have been going. Hardly any applause, no booing, folk kind of just turned and left.