diegomarahenry

January 25

Sums the man up

January 25

31 minutes ago, callum-ayr said:

Ayr closer to Dundee than what Inverness is, but would imagine this has been in the pipeline for a while.

Not really a position we need, sure he is a winger.

He played through the middle in Moffs testimonial, that and he is Rudi Vatas son are the only things I know about him.

January 25

9 minutes ago, Iain said:

Are we playing Fantasy Loan Targets again? This never ends well.

The only fantasising I’m doing is seeing teams around us signing players and wishing it was us

January 25

Apart from the oddball behaviour exhibited and the apparent ease in getting in to a hospital and finding scrubs in a cupboard, the weirdest thing about this story is the picture of the guy.
A knock at the door-

Who is it?
It’s a reporter from the Ardrossan Herald

Cool, I’ll just grab my phone and f**k all clothes.

https://www.ardrossanherald.com/news/24067580.fake-crosshouse-hospital-doctor-anthony-adams-jailed/

January 25

3 minutes ago, No_Problemo said:

Trying to think of other contacts: the only player I could really think of was Ryan Duncan at Aberdeen who can play across the attacking midfield positions. You’ve obviously got Connor Smith at Hearts, but seems St Johnstone are interested in him…

I had a look at Kelly at Livingston in the hope that he’s kicking about on the bench but according to Wikipedia, hes been playing regularly.

I’d prefer to sign someone outright as it’ll give us continuity next season and means it’s business we don’t have to try to do in the summer.

Signing Chalmers and Dowds now would mean it would be potentially 2 more loans we could make domestically.

January 25

Rocco Vata would be a realistic loan I guess but Celtic have a lot of injuries in that position so it’s unlikely. Hopefully there will be a few players in the premier looking to go, Livingston must be due a fire sale to get some better players in, same with Ross County

January 25

5 minutes ago, Hawk89 said:

Hopefully whilst we have some peace, what is the general consensus around the positions and number of players we'll be looking to bring in? My assumption (pessimist in my view) is we'll land with something around the £450-550k from gate receipts, prize money and tv money.

I reckon from that it is probably worth 5 or 6 decent quality players over half a season (if we are going all in on survival and based upon who's left so far) between loans and free/nominal transfers. We absolutely need to address LB and RB given the lack of cover and general weakness in those areas. With Brown mentioning additional firepower up top, my guess is a strike partner for Dowds and maybe a wide man and an attacking mid?

Hopefully that would let Bryden get out on loan for some much needed game time and confidence.

I think that with the time left and the talent available, we will be lucky to get two in. Unless they have targets identified, and even if they do, the quality may be questionable and most likely loans.
Ideally we would get people in that can play a couple of positions. Strapp would have been one. Kerr another. We can’t have 4 centre backs or 3 right backs (ignoring Watrett) on our budget but having cover at left back/right back and CH would be.

January 25

We could start a new thread in the NSFW forum under a weird title, like Kilmarnock man fucks dogs, actually that’s not that weird….anyway…..and move the chat there and see how long it takes for him to find us.

January 25

Queens Park have moved us from Half of half the main stand to a half of our own.
initially I thought this was because they would expect a larger than normal Ayr crowd coming to see the new manager.
I realised this morning that it’ll most likely be a load of Celtic fans coming to see Brown.

January 24

Just now, shizzlemanizzle said:

Nice touch with the edit @Sortmeout

Are you suggesting that after boring the Kilmarnock fans in to leaving the site with his shite patter.......and most Ayr fans having him on ignore because of his shite patter.....Sortmeout has resorted to creating an alter ego to fool people in to talking to him?

Interesting.

January 24

Kevin Thompson was on the Scottish football podcast, He said that when Brown was announced, he had a look at where Ayr were and they weren't in deep relegation trouble. He thought that when Bullen was sacked and Ayr were 9th, they were in a worse position than they actually are. Maybe it was a bit harsh to sack Bullen so early.

In translation, I know f**k all about Ayr, I had a quick scan at the table prior to recording this.

January 24

He seems to come once a year, like a shite santa

January 24

32 minutes ago, General dissaray said:

Ayr can't afford any of them or the wages it will be U21 Scotland guys if he can swing it and maybe one older guy he has maybe played with who knows thumb maybe back from Mandurgh as a personal favour if he has his fitness

We can sign anyone who is within our scope and a 33 year old who has sat on his arse since 2021 while attracting zero interest from other teams is well within our grasp. Because it would be a horrific risk to take.
McGeady was in a similar scenario when we signed him although he was played more frequently over the time period and he’s hardly been fit.

f McCarthy was interested in playing, he’d have worked out a deal at Celtic in the summer. I’m sure he’s happy getting pain £10k a week to jog round Lennoxtown 5 mornings a week.

January 24

55 minutes ago, Richey Edwards said:

Did they not give him something ridiculous like a four year deal?

5 I think. He arrived injured and hasn’t played much since. They tried to shift him in the summer but I don’t think he was willing to rip up his contract and Celtic wouldn’t pay him up.
A loan based on what we could pay isn’t going to put a dent in Celtics outlay to him.
And I certainly wouldn’t pay anything close to over the odds to sign an aging, injury prone player that has barely kicked a ball in anger for the last 3-5 years

January 24

2 minutes ago, Hawk89 said:

Only thing I've seen so far is a pie in the sky suggestion that we'll go for James Forrest on loan. Nothing so far that would stand up to any level of scrutiny.

James McCarthy as well…played about 10 games in 5 years and is somehow still contracted to Celtic I think

January 24

There was. Brutal headline in the Daily Record above an article about Inverness Duncan Ferguson helping to shovel snow off the Inverness pitch in which it called him - former Rangers hero.

We are going to get a lot of that patronising shite while he is manager, so it would be good if we didn’t make it worse for ourselves.

January 24

2 minutes ago, Scott-ish said:

Ok Graeme, you can stop it now, you've been found.

1 minute ago, itzdrk said:

Sure thing, Graeme. #weareunited

It’s some cover story I’ve been setting over the years

January 24

10 hours ago, diegomarahenry said:

It is important for some of the support to realise that we have signed Scott Brown the rookie manager and not Scott Brown the Celtic player.

I would like to state for the record that I am not Graeme Mathie

January 24

When the last four managers were appointed, it would only have been the local papers that showed up.

January 24

8 minutes ago, No_Problemo said:

I’m imagining “doing the Broony”

To the tune of do the funky gibbon.

My arse has just cramped at the thought of the level of cringe I’d feel at that

January 24

1 minute ago, Andy_AUFC said:

6 likes, one comment

January 24

3 minutes ago, callum-ayr said:

You skim 300 odd a game for 18 games a season, that's a lot of wonga not going to the tax man. It's been said for a good few seasons now the attendance figure hasn't matched what the crowds have looked like.

The club has on line ticketing that you can’t pay with cash. So they aren’t basing the attendance on turnstile clicks any more.
So there would be little chance of them dicking about with attendance. The attendance might not include comps though.

January 24

3 minutes ago, Thumper said:

There's an electronic ticketing system? There is no advantage to anyone for the club to understate the crowd?

The centre portion of the stand was busy, but most of them would be press, comps and season ticket holders. The family stand and the away section were almost empty.
In the Somerset road end, most folk moved from the front, back the way due to the rain coming in so it might have been more compacted rather than busy.

January 24

6 minutes ago, 1nickydevlin said:

Heard boabs trying oot a welcome song for brown .

Between Boab writing a song and Bill McWilliams breaking down, a welcome to Ayrshire must be an eye opener

January 24

Last night, we made a double substitution, one player jogged off from the middle of the park, new player on. Board went up for the second substitution, player jogs from the centre of the park, new player comes on.
I wondered why there was no announcement and looked at the touchline. It looked like he was out with a pen and paper, writing the name down of the subs. He did the announcement once play resumed.

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