D'Jaffo
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4 minutes ago, UpInTheAyr said:
Anyone worth pillaging from ICT?
I’d still take McKay tbh. Think he’s got another season in him at this level. Cammy Kerr as well.
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33 minutes ago, Branch Ton said:
Well if you had looked at Oakley’s background you would see he is approaching 29, has played less than 200 games to any standard and has scored around 40 career goals. Hardly prolific and don’t forget that when you saw him live he was up against Paddy McGinty and his fellow goats. Buyer beware.
So you’d be happy to lose him?
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1 hour ago, The Ghost of B A R P said:
What a gang of utter fkn weirdos.
Morton fans for ye.
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14 minutes ago, Nelson said:
Kerr McInroy will be available in the summer. And I wouldn’t have the slightest interest in signing him.
I’m not watching the game but is he effectively playing out wide on the right? I’m surprised Doolan thought he could fill in there for Lawless given how slow he is.
I still think if you played him in midfield then you can get the best from him but I’d guess Thistle will make the move permanent.
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“We’re Ayr United, we sign who we want”
As long as they’re a moderately average Championship player from a joke outfit.
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3 minutes ago, Branch Ton said:
Depends how you define “financial backing”. Unless it’s in the. Form of shares funding is still the club’s liability and likely to bite you in the arse at a time of your creditor’s choosing.
It isn’t.
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2 hours ago, The Ghost of B A R P said:
None of that is true, but thanks for playing.
Christ they’ve even rolled out the virginton tribute for this one.
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8 hours ago, M0rtonfc said:
Aye? I would be very surprised if we are not in for him, he would suit us well I think but if the teams you mentioned are possibly in for him then we can file that enquiry directly in the bin.
I’m fairly certain we’re only signing Oakley because we can’t pay Dowds what he wants to stay. It’s unlikely we’ve pursued Oakley over him given how much Brown rated him.
For that reason alone I’d say he’s away to someone like Raith or down South.
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3 minutes ago, itzdrk said:
He has not.
Isn’t showing up for me anymore.
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Just now, callum-ayr said:
In my overreaching analysis, Oakley has agreed to sign for Ayr and hasn’t told Morton yet and your boy Dodds has found out and broke the news and this is Imrie finding out…
More thank likely this is all just smoke and mirrors and Oakley hasn’t actually signed and the last 5 pages or so have just been hilariously pointless.
You’d have thought that the guy was told by someone at the club as is usually the case with local journalists.
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He’s un-retweeted it if that makes sense.
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4 minutes ago, Replays said:
Jordan Houston has signed for Clyde tonight. Sounds like a potentially decent signing for League Two and obviously McCall and Kerr know him. Should he do a job for us plodders down in the basement league?
Aye will be fine in that league. Hope he does well. He struggled defending in 1v1s but it’s unlikely he’ll be up against anyone good enough to seriously trouble him in League 2.
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1 minute ago, Colkitto said:
And Partick too....
Could be an early indication that Ayr are going to throw silly money about to get promoted next season.
Great for the fans of course, but rarely ends well
Nowhere has it said we have outbid Partick.
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Just now, ayrunitedfw said:
“One down, now announce the signing of Lewis Strapp as well”
They seem to rate Grant Gillespie for some random reason. Sign him and make him serve drinks in the new hospitality.
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Think folk need to remember that George Oakley wasn’t some international superstar before Morton. He signed for them off the back of a woeful six months at Caley when in doubt he had any other offers at this level. The contract he would’ve been on probably said as much.
Now that he’s out of contract I can imagine Morton will have offered him more money as is needed given the turn he did for them. We don’t need to be offering a huge amount of cash just to be outbidding Greenock fucking Morton.
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Just now, Jives Miguel said:
We finished ahead of you, got to the Scottish Cup quarters, and had a game against the Old Firm in the League. Similar attendances. So it's very likely we've earned more than you last season. And yet you're able to comprehensively outbid us on contract offers for our own players.
I don't think "we aren't being backed hugely in terms of the playing squad" really lives up to scrutiny, if we're being honest.
Which is fine, we did it during the Rae era. But pretty concerning that Ayr, Raith, Livingston, Inverness, and possibly Partick and Dunfermline, are all paying more than they could afford without a financial backer.
We also played an Old Firm side and from what I know, have most of the money sitting from a sale we made last season which was over £250,000.
As it’s been said, we’ve made sensible investments into our infrastructure which should see us more than double our hospitality takings. We’ve spent cash off the field in a smart way which should see our playing budget increase.
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I don’t think you can accommodate Dowds and Oakley. Think Oakley will play up himself with a number 10 and two wingers behind him. I’d imagine we’ll also sign another striker of a different style so we can switch it up a bit.
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16 minutes ago, Thistle_do_nicely said:
Did they not get a reasonable, if not quite eye watering, fee for Akinyemi? Might still have some left from that.
Don’t think we’ve actually spent any of it tbh with you. Then we’ve got the Rangers cup money from last season.
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Can we not just take Strapp as well?
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5 minutes ago, North Terrace Gazza said:
If Thistle are serious about gaining promotion why would they even consider looking at Oakley?
He’d only be backup to Graham. In terms of second choice strikers I don’t think you’d get better than Oakley (or Dowds).
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13 minutes ago, Jamie_M said:
Because like most fanbases, we also have our fair share of mouth breathers.
The rest of us know that Morton have arguably the smallest budget in the league whilst Ayr are bankrolled.
Bankrolled he says when we missed out on pretty much all our first, second and third choice targets last season.
Besides the investment into the ground I’ve seen no suggestion we’re bankrolled and we certainly aren’t backed hugely in terms of the playing squad.
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1 hour ago, Jamie_M said:
We'll talk... when there's something to talk about.
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Talk to me about George Oakley.
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I’ll take him as he knows the league but I’d be wanting someone else in as well. Would assume that’ll happen as we’ve lost Dowds AND Willoughby.
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We’re about to pay George Oakley double that according to some folk.