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Innes Murray has scored for Alloa , not Cameron as of half time

Unfortunately neither can I , compensation could be the deal breaker , wouldn’t totally rule out McElhone though , will need a bigger back room team when academy returns to normal

Partick trying to get all our released players ? Geggan last week and this week Stevie Bell on loan

Train there every week day apart from Wednesdays

Just teasing mate , looking to see reactions even before he is announced

You don't sound to excited at the prospect I am happy with him , he will drive us forward

Should do ok

Managers who applied would have a rough idea of salary and budgets , they would not have applied if they thought they could not work within those perimeters , don’t think he will be going with cheapest option going by his ambitions

Could this be the reason it’s taken so long as Morton have been working in the background to replace McElhone, I find it strange they have announced a new manager tonight and we are announcing ours in morning

Think you could be right there

He left them due to club’s financial difficulties to save them a salary was the rumour

I think if Hopkin is coming it could have been agreed with Morton that they don’t announce McElhone leaving until tomorrow ,so that it’s not obvious to press that Hopkin is going to Ayr before Smiths announcement

Anton has been kept on but demoted from assistant manager as Andy Millen has been announced as new assistant manager , does that then change things ?

Same situation as yourself , will support whoever it is as obviously Smith thinks the guy will take the club forward

Think the announcement will be early , as he will likely attend training to meet players which starts around 10am , was Kerr not announced about 9am before training ?

Great that no one really knows , Smith keeps business very close , everyone at club being told at same time , no leaks from within can only be good ,

Could it be down to new managers assistant being the issue ? I also think papers are pre judging , I think the decision had still to be finalised yesterday evening

All Ayr players and officials are tested same day , goalie never arrived on time on Friday last week ( his St Mirren test ran out yesterday ) and that’s why he missed tonight as had to wait to Ayr’s next test day which is Thursday , led to believe club must carry out his test and report it to SPFL/ SFA

On Monday morning it did not look like happening when McIntyre went from 4/1 to 1/2 that was my basis of prediction

That’s what I was told as he will be getting his Covid test at club Thursday morning before meeting press and team

It might not have came front he club though, could be from Hopkin himself or someone close to him Definitely not the club ,

He was 1/2 yesterday, just goes to prove no one knows who it’s going to be , Hopkin was still getting bets this morning , just goes to show that it’s all guess work by the bookmakers

Nothing confidential being giving out , there are only my views ( at no time have I said I had information from club) I have no contact with anyone inside club , no one in the club apart form the directors know who is getting the job and no one will know until the announcement, going by snippets you see online and betting in the process behind my thoughts

Did not rule him out 100% , talk at that time was 60/40 against , just that I would not expect him to get it

I see David Robertson is in running for Aberdeen job at 14/1 ,