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14 minutes ago, Thumper said:
Also, if Derek Stillie is indeed stinking the club up again, the tories will happily step in to use the taxpayer money they allegedly detest to bail out one of their own.
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5 hours ago, Thumper said:
If everyone did it the club would have in the region of two million pounds, which it could presumably use to improve the product and thus the number of walk-up customers.
For that price you could go to about 65 games at current walk-up prices. That would mean attending nearly every home match for four years. The club would be mad not to try to lock that in early. They should be offering 50 year season tickets.
Not sure they would attract sufficient walk up’s to cover for the shortfall.
Let’s say we have what 900 season ticket holders who sign up yearly. If they all go 5 yearly, we get a shit load of extra money in year 1.
We throw a load of money at the team, gain promotion to the promised land. Attract some new fans and have a couple of years in the Premier League before doing a Livvy and coming back down.
We then find ourselves back the championship, probably with a significantly higher wage bill than we have now and still have 2 years with no season ticket money coming in and crowds that are in decline because those new fans we attracted during the good years don’t hang around.
It’s all hypothetical but we definitely wouldn’t be the first club to try to throw money at it and fail…..
Maybe the 5 year tickets are capped at so many per year to ensure a more steady income stream over time.
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Not sure how I feel about a 5 year ticket.
Great that the club get the cash now and lock that supporter in for 5 years but if everyone does it, surely they lose out on future income. Seems a lot like a payday loan.
Getting money upfront for future ticket sales rings a bell, don’t remember it ending well for another club……
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1 minute ago, Finlay21 said:
Sorry to disappoint you but I believe those positions are already spoken for next season , could you adapt to play in midfield
Do tell us more….
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7 hours ago, Frosty said:
His “save” at around 1:10 into the highlights makes it look like he’s wearing mittens and handcuffs rather than goalie’s gloves.
Was that the one that just squirmed past the far post?
Got away with that, his positioning was poor and seemed slow to move towards the ball.
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4 hours ago, Peil said:
Andy Weir, also popped up in an episode of Still Game (spotty boy on the cinema desk). Occasionally credited as James on IMDB. Got his break in Braveheart as Young Hamish.
Last I heard he was out in US doing stuff. Nice fella.
I believe Andy Weir landed a job as some kinda marketing manager with one of the large whisky producers looking after North America.
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Just now, Richey Edwards said:
I'd like them both to go bankrupt and disappear from the game.
They’ll only come back……again.
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43 minutes ago, Roxanne's man said:
Nope, Dougie Ramsay went in nets for the penalty.
Mark McGeown took the player down and was red carded, Dougie Ramsay went in nets and conceded the penalty, they brought the other keeper on after that. Lost the game 2-0. Craig Brown was in the hospitality. Craig Conway was probably the best player in what was a very poor game.
According to the match report, Phillips came on a minute before Dargo scored, so I think you may be wrong.
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12 minutes ago, malkyshotton said:
Anyone remember how many budgie played for us. He was a character but can’t mind if was any good. Was also about 50 when he played for us
I think I remember him signing around the same time as Henry Smith but don’t think he ever actually played.
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48 minutes ago, GaryMc93 said:
Eric Phillips against Inverness in 2006 was 36.
That’s the one! His first touch was picking the ball out the net from a penalty.
Must’ve been Mark McGeown who got sent off.
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I seem to remember us signing some keeper from the juniors who came on for his pro debut as about 40 years of age in a cup game.
Would’ve been in the Connor, Roberts or Reid days.
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Just now, itzdrk said:
Those goals are terrible from Albinson.
He was really good in the first half so it's not like he was having an iffy game, don't get it.
Lack of concentration.
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Not great from the keeper at all.
Beaten at his near post for the first, just seemed to trundle in… then he had an absolute mare with the second. No idea what he’s thinking.
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Just now, Trogdor said:
McCall's hit rate was better than the current recruitment. I dont think that is rose tinted. A lot of that is down to the market. Ironically, signing non-league jobbers from down south, isn't even a cheap option.
It is considered sensible from a business model. Sign them on frees, a good season up here and sell them on. Make a bit of money through 'player trading'. I get the principle and maybe if 1 in every 8 is like Dipo it works?
Edit - As an aside I'd take David Ferguson at right back over Nick fucking McAllister! That's for sure.
I think the biggest issue we’ve had since McCall left is the turnover in the squads. It’s back to the old days of a full rebuild every year.
He did well to keep a quality core together so only needed to add a couple.
After Hopkin/Duffy, Bullen needed to pretty much do a full rebuild last season. We then needed to do another in the summer.
Its unrealistic to expect to be able to do this and everyone work out.
We’ve obviously had a nightmare with some of the newbies coming in on 2 year deals and flopping.
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4 hours ago, Thumper said:
This is somewhat rose-tinted. McCall also tried to redeem quite a few people who ended up being done jobbers.
We definitely look at the McCall signings with rose-tinted glasses now.
For every Laurence Shankland there is a Kris Doolan. For every Michael Rose, there is a Sam Roscoe and for every Liam Smith there’s a David Ferguson.
Then we have guys like McKenna & Nesbit who went on to have very good careers but were definitely in the miss rather than the hit column at Ayr.
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11 minutes ago, No_Problemo said:
Sam Ashford…
Was exactly who I compared him with when I first heard the name.
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1 minute ago, No_Problemo said:
Twenty six, and two good seasons in his career - both in National League North and strangely several years apart. Sounds like a Glendinning and Mathie signing…
Has scored the grand total of zero goals in the national league this year
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6 minutes ago, No_Problemo said:
A typo, Ryan One or most likely just utter nonsense…
Hopefully it’s not Ryan One. We need a striker with a bit more experience at a higher level than that.
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30 minutes ago, Scott-ish said:
Thought about doing a picture clue thing for this lady as a suggestion for the womens team but thought better of it. This is a family friendly forum after all.
Any relation to Willie Mange?
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6 hours ago, Sortmeout said:
Ayr fans love to bring Rangers into every discussion don’t they.
They are absolutely in love with Rangers.
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4 hours ago, itzdrk said:
Up ye!
no sources 1 -0 sources
Can’t win ‘em all.
Still confident something coming midweek from why I’ve heard.
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Just now, itzdrk said:
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Need more than one tree for a Forrest…
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1 hour ago, Killiefan said:
Who’s Frankie, not familiar with the lower leagues.
You and the rest of the inbreeds from KA3 spend so much time on this thread, I find that very hard to believe…..
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1 minute ago, ryanayr1987 said:
The funny thing is the people on the SRE Facebook page love it
As do the Worldwide group.
i was warned for calling him out so swiftly left.
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The Ultimate Super Ayr Thread
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Exactly my point.