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Tbf there is absolutely no logic in using USH for tomorrow's game if it costs £5-£8k, that's bonkers money which would even take serious consideration if it was worth putting on for a game with crowds. I take it that was another bonkers requirement for clubs being in the premier league of the old SPL back in the day along with 12,000 capacity lego stadiums or however many it was. Brilliant logic used to make medium sized clubs like Dunfermline go nearly bankrupt to play in the top league of Scottish Football cause you need fancy criterias which outwiegh the quality of Scottish Football. Glad we never had that problem back in the day lol

Calm down lads we've not even tried to play tomorrow's game yet which looks like being a non-starter

McCardle saying Ayr have been given the heads up that if the forecasted temperatures of -4/-5 in Dunfermline turn out to be accurate then tomorrow's game will be in doubt.

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The pitches in Scotland and England do seem especially bad this winter, Leeds pitch at the weekend surprised me cause it looked terrible for a PL team. Makes me wonder if Covid is meaning budgets on pitch maintenance have been reduced and in Scotland, clubs maybe aren't getting in external pitch maintanence companies to assist due to covid bubbles etc. Back to Ayr, i'm for astro if it means a really good surface like Alloas all year to play decent silky football on. I'm also very much still for grass if the club increased the budget towards grass maintenance with a couple more groundsman and heatlamps/quality covers for winter etc. Wonder what the cost difference would be between new grass and subsequent maintenance or switching to astro....

Aye that game was honestly the last time i remember us playing that high press/intensity, fast flowing, tippy tappy football and it being a joy to watch. Since then it has just been bogged down turgid football, looks like every player has a tonne slab of concrete they're pulling behind them. Honestly think Kerr does himself not many favours by being over tactical and a bit too football manager like IMO, suppose though that's what you're going to get when his number 2 is a sports scientist. All those statistical tactics stuff, heaven for guys like McCardle.

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/ayrshire/ayr-united-support-continuing-championship-23339199?fbclid=IwAR1tEhcfU8hh1OAKsVytEx_tqOBYqAFi0syXVjxIH_NzaWoE-V6WmzTGul4 We carry on unless that muppet Lennon's full blown Trump tirade doesn't get the whole of Scottish football shutdown by the weekend

Would highly think that'll be unfeasible at times when there's zero matchday income from the gate, how must does it cost to blast on the USH even for a night or something? Plus is yours not prone for not working when attempted to be used

-3 on Friday night in Dunfermline. Ah well the unbeaten run will extend to a whole month then.....

Under Motherwell's previous manager i'd noticed Crawford had appeared to become a regular bench warmer which made me think we'd maybe be able to utilise the 3 club rule for this season and get him on loan for the second half of the season, cause he's head and shoulders above the quality of our current midfield. After it became apparent he's clearly part of Alexander's plans and if he continues to perform like he did today i can see Motherwell trying to sign him in the summer when his contract is up i'm sure. Think Jordan White on loan is probably looking more likely, a carthorse like him isn't going to fit in with the tippy tappy out from the back play which Motherwell did today, was an unused sub today i'll add.

Meanwhile in Turkey today....

Brain cells and creative thinking

When do we reckon this'll get played?, won't be this Tuesday cause forecast Tuesday is rain all day so wouldn't make sense for it to be then (wait for it to now be announced as this Tuesday night). Then for following week Dundee is consistently below zero overnight, would probably be one of these ones which is best to can down the road until start of March or something in the hope of improved weather

Both Dundee clubs managing to make themselves look like absolute tools with last minute postponements in a week is quite an achievement. Albeit Dundee's today looked debatable

With all the talk of pitches i wonder what state Somerset is in, next home game isn't for another two weeks so will have been a gap of just over a month between home games so should be plenty of time to recover. However in that time we've had a couple of weeks of hard frost and snow cover, followed by periods of heavy rain, doubt it'll be much better than Dundee's tbh, makes the case for astroturf stronger.....

Well 21 days between games isn't good, players will have lost sharpness without any games. We'd have been aswell jetting off to Dubai for a mid season warm weather training camp with 3 weeks between games

Remember we got shafted once by a junior official doing an early inspection at Somerset and postponing it based on a frozen pitch, Ayr proceeding to do a full afternoons training session on the pitch....

It's either rained hard during the week or frozen and had snow cover at some point which has thawed, regardless would have thought the pitch should have been covered all week if it was already soft to protect it from whatever elements during the week.

It does from that angle tbf, not sure if the referee this morning had a clue what he was doing or either that it has rained since or Dundee said they'd have that cleared in time, still if they'd said that it should have been followed up by a further inspection at like 12 IMO, not fucking half 1 when the match official goes out for his pre-match wander round the pitch

Raises the debate once again about why these relatively 'inexperienced' local referees do the early morning inspections instead the actual match official, i know travel will be one of main reasons behind it however would avoid farcical situations like today

Dundee confirming ref was a w****r with both clubs wanting it played

Not sure if you can see but right at the bottom under fullscreen icon there is a puddle line of water.....