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Ayr United are pleased to announce the pricing for next season. Season tickets will be reasonably priced at £350 and the walk up price will be £25. As a statement of intent, we’d be delighted to announce the signing of Jack Fucking Sanders and his mad bag of tricks on a 3 year deal.

He’s out of contract in the summer so Celtic won’t give a f**k. If hes not been signed up by now, he’s a free agent in 3 weeks. Brown had a week to bring players in based on Glendinnigs advice and his contacts. He had earned the grace to have a summer window to build a squad the best he can. A couple of good signings early could settle some nerves.

If you were to put together a montage of the biggest f**k ups of season 2023-24, Jack Sanders would be the star of the top 5 he was faultless for the first time against Morton. Today he took the ball under no pressure in the first half, stood next to it for maybe 10 seconds and then lost possession in the most dumbfuck defending I’ve seen in a while. Clark, I’d be ok with signing if our other option wasn’t poor.

Eh? it was a bizarre situation. Folk have argued that Willoughby shouldn’t have taken the ball from Dowds. folk have argued that neither of them should have overridden Murphy to take it. I’ve not argued any of that. I don’t see it being a controversial to suggest that one of our players shouldn’t try and distract a penalty taker in his own team to the point he needs to be physically restrained. This being a penalty at 0-0

Willoughby had picked up the ball, told Dowds he was taking it, turned round and told Murphy he was taking it, placed the ball and at this point, Sanders thought - NOT ON MY WATCH. If an opposition player did what he did, he’d be getting abuse for it. He had to be restrained by Dempsey. I’m counting the sleeps till he’s not an Ayr player any more.

For me, it is the way we play and Dowds that is the problem. If Dowds was capable and able to find space for crosses, or we were a free flowing team, he’d be able to hit players in the middle. As it is, Dowds will be covered by 3 players in the middle and the only player Chalmers will be able to pass to is a midfielder on the edge of the box or a fullback 10 yards behind him. 9/10 times we lose possession on the edge of the area without getting a shot off. Chalmers and Murphy both have to cut inside to try and create more angles for a cross.

Chalmers is a great player that plays off confidence and freedom. I’m not sure we have been the best fit for him since Christmas but if you look at his goals scored and goals created, I’m sure he’s kept us off 9th place so far. if we can’t accommodate a player who is a bit special then we need a style of play that has a working formula, I’ve not seen one yet under Brown, down to injuries and players available to him. Chalmers and Murphy are our most creative players. Murphy will be a year older and doesn’t play 90 minutes. Unless we sign really well in the summer, I can see us missing Chalmers next season.

I’m not bothered if players who back themselves to score them are arguing about taking them. Especially when they then score them. Sanders running 40 yards to square go a player in his own team, who’s already spotted the ball ready to take one is perhaps something we don’t need. the massive gormless fanny

Fair fucks to Willougjby. Fought off Dowds and Murphy to take the penalty, survived Sanders berating him before he hit it and managed to score it. same to Dowds, he wrestled the ball off Willoughby, argued with Murphy and then scored it. bit of a shambles but both were scored.

Dempsey played really well today, McCallister was absolutely fine verging on good today which is a big leap forward for him.

Good performance without really getting in to any flow, Arbroath broke most of our play up and the game was very scrappy Stone wall penalty at the first, I have no idea what Sanders was doing but he is clearly the most stupid footballer I’ve ever seen. Running from the half way to have a go at Willoughby for taking the penalty off Murphy. Musondas goal came from a good pass from Dowds and Willoughby doing something that Dowds struggles with, turning in the box with his back to goal and getting a shot away, good work from Musonda to follow up. McGeady came on and his first 5 passes went to the opposition, great through ball for Chalmers though. 4-0 you hope he’s going to come on and put on a show. 5-0 and a clean sheet in a game we had so many players out and didn’t look like conceding a goal, while not being great but professional all the same is a good sign. Inverness winning was probably the worst result for us, Airdrie winning wasn’t ideal either, Dundee United will look to win the league at home next week, which may put a lot of pressure on them. We then play Thistle who will need the points to stay third. We may be playing Dunfermline on the last day to secure any place between 5th and 9th.

Scrappy game with no fluidity from either team, stone wall penalty settled Ayr down a bit, the second just seemed to kill anything off from Arbroath and Ayr scored another 3 without Arbroath really putting up a fight and Ayr struggling to find third gear. We did the basics well today and never looked like conceding, A really comfortable afternoon. Arbroath looked done from kick-off. Can only hope you have a good rebuild in the summer.

If the season ticket goes up a tenner, maybe £15 you can expect that with inflation. More than that, with no added value is just taking the piss.

It’s amazing that Dundee United let Chalmers go and kept Middleton

He have had so many wingers that haven’t fit in to Scottish football or the system we play. So either we are not willing to accommodate wide players by tweaking the system or the players we are bringing in are poor, meaning we can’t tweak the system we play to accommodate wide players….or both. Since McDaid and Forrest left, we’ve had a series of duds. Gondoh, Zanatta, JML….Chalmers and Murphy have been the break in the chain, Chalmers doesn’t do the spade work Brown wants and Murphy doesn’t play a full 90.

From an outsiders point of view, he’s inherited a team that has been Dick Campbells project for an eternity that he had struggled to get a tune out of and only had a Christmas window to get players in. He’s an experienced manager and deserves a pre-season to put his own mark on the team and try and build it up again. But I’m not watching him Every week. He may well be yesterdays man, like Duffy or Hughes and has no idea how to manage in this environment.

If Ayr win, what result is best for us in the other game? Inverness defeat or a draw. Probably the worst result would be an Inverness win. A draw would mean a better chance at a higher placed finish for the £££ but that wouldn’t be guaranteed. An Inverness defeat would put 7 points between us and them with 9 still to play for, meaning we could afford to lose 2 of the last 3 games if worst came to the worst. Hopefully Thistle and Dunfermline will be on holiday by the time we play them anyway.

Ayr broke their win one lose one streak on Tuesday and seem to have came out of the shitslump of terrible performances and are walking slowly to safety. Injuries have meant there are a few players playing out of position and it didn’t hurt us too much against Morton. Obviously that doesn’t mean it’ll work two games in a row. Arbroath have a chance to kick off a Hail Mary on Saturday so it could be a nervy afternoon. Surely to f**k well win this? It’s our only game left against a team currently below us and Queens Park play Inverness. 0-0 with no shots on target, no bookings and 3 players injured for both teams.

It all depends on what he’s like behind the scenes, if he’s a poor trainer generally but a good performer on match days, he just needed a few games, or he’s had his thumb up his arse for 8 months and suddenly realised he was coming to the end of a full time deal and has started less games than the amount of strips the club has released. I remember slating him after a couple of league games, saying he didn’t do anything, someone pointed out he’d scored 2 and assisted in another 3 goals in his brief appearances. So he seems to do a lot in short bursts but maybe not enough for the way we play. I don’t think he’s played a full 90 all season or started two games in a row very often.

These will most likely be smart goals, or should be, that will be directly linked and provable through data. So that it can’t be a case of your manager giving you a poor review because they don’t like you. With the scouting data available, it would be easy for someone to have a look at the way people perform and know who should stay or go. But like any walk of life, if your pish both your manager likes you, you’d probably be ok.

I don’t know the answer to the first bit, I’d hope there would be a check of some sorts or there would be a load of 40 year olds going in with a junior season ticket. The second part, they posted at the start of the week that you can pick your seat in the new stand when you purchase a season ticket, you can move from the main stand if you want to as well. The full details will be out tomorrow.

I’ve seen some of the other theories to it and they don’t really hold up. Like the pitch is maybe better that end….for warming up? It’s better for stretching on? They’d prefer to attack a plowed field in the first half? The pitch is in good condition. The weather, it’s more sheltered that end? Nope. Maybe we’ll get to ask someone at the club once they break cover on Friday to ask for season ticket money.

Dowds effort against Morton that came off the bar is a prime example, I’m not sure most folk in the SRE knew it hit the bar. Had they done, it might have raised the atmosphere a bit. Other managers have talked about the benefit of playing that way in the second half, it can give the team a lift and can “suck the ball in to the net” Brown or whoever has decided they don’t need it, at a time when the support are displaced. There is no clear reason why. Maybe because the away form is better, they are playing as the away team in some weird Gary Caldwell style act. It’s not really changed anything since it’s happened either.

Strapp and Crawford are out of contract at Morton. There will be other players we could be using from the Championship released as well. We wont though. I don't think there will be any forwards available from the Championship or the arse end of the Premier that would be worth a gamble. I expect we will be signing Clark to replace Albinson.

Aye, I can understand why. I've had a season ticket for years, I even had one when I was working abroad and made one game a month and the club was on its arse. I've missed maybe 3 home games this season, two I managed to see via stream because I was away and one I watched on Tv in the house because I couldn't face going and watching from the Somerset road end. The view from the SRE and the fact the club feels a million miles away from the support just now added with, its been a hard watch post covid means I am considering not buying one. The only reason I have just now is, if I didn't get one, I would go to less games if we continue being rotten to watch. £280 in the summer is forgotten when you are heading to watch an inevitable defeat in the pissing rain as opposed to logging in to an app to fork out £22-24-25 on the day. I'll end up renewing but this is the first season I have ever thought - Maybe not.