edinburghhonestman

Compared to last week when everyone stood up, too many below par performances for us today. Coupled with reverting to the long ball after the first goal, it was back to the Duffy days. Probably should have made the changes earlier as well. Plenty for Bullen to work on during the week.

It's great that Bryden is getting his moment in the limelight. I imagine he's even more motivated to push on now, not that he seemed to lack desire. What I really like about the coverage this has been getting, though, is it sends a message to every young kid and, more importantly, their families. If you join Ayr's academy you'll be given every opportunity to make it and the club wil back you. If that helps us get even one young player who might have gone elsewhere and who makes the first team, it will have been worth it.

Can't agree with that. I remember the Thistle game and I thought Moff really looked his age that day, but yesterday he did everything asked of him. In the first 30 minutes when we played our best football he linked up well with the midfield.

Thought that might be his best performance in an Ayr shirt. If the midfield work that hard, it takes the pressure right off the back four. Baird and McGinty looked to be really communicating about who would attack the ball.

Not the greatest game of football but Ayr worked really hard. I thought the 5 across the middle really put in a shift. Murdoch in particular needs to be offered a new deal now. Having the midfield work so hard it just took so much pressure off the back four. Look like we can defend again. Even Baird and McGinty seemed to have an understanding. As for Arbroath, too reliant on Nouble and final ball abysmal.

Hopefully as long as it takes to get more than a stop gap in. If that's until the end of the season I'd pay him a bonus if he keeps us up. At least he'd put the best 11 on the park

Anyone who isn't Jim Duffy or David Hopkin. Please!

No chance a Duffy-led Ayr will take anything from the next 3 or 4 games so this is the time to sack him. I don't even care who we get in as we've just had two of the worst managers in our history.

Why wait?

Tend to agree. We are really missing Bradley and O'Connor who are both good going forward and we don't have cover. I suspect most sides have sparse cover for most roles. I think the other key point in your post is that it takes time to build up to £5 for a pie and Bovril and that is only sustainable with a degree of on field success. Both on and off the park need to be in sync to really build something.

Agree to an extent. The Championship has invariably been decided by who has the biggest budget. There are sometimes exceptions when a manager is a clown (Grant at the Pars) or gets significantly more out of his squad (Campbell at Arbroath). Otherwise the higher spending teams tend to be at the top and the lower spending ones at the bottom. The challenge is to generate more income so you can increase your expenditure without going bust. I'm hopeful that's the path Ayr are on. It's just frustrating when the product on the pitch is lagging what's going on off it

And to use the term I hate when applied to football teams - that's a 'project'. And a project needs vision, as well as some stability. That's not Duffy. While he might be getting more out of a limited squad than Hopkin he's not the answer and at some point we're going to have to identify who is.

Didn't think Bradley would be fit after Tuesday. He'll be missed.

Don't think I've ever found it too wet. Usually just stick on the hill walking gear if it's really tipping it down. The view is so much better than from behind the goal.

Think we're seeing the hand Duffy has been left by Hopkin and his unbalanced recruitment. O'Connor aside, that's more or less our strongest team and it has 6 defenders in it. We lack creativity. Bradley looks a bright spark, so hopefully he'll improve with game time.

Stupid challenge

Why would we need lights? The sun always shines at Somerset.

Good half and pretty much what you'd want for a derby - pissing down, 90 miles an hour, chances at both ends and stats exactly even.

This is a decent game so far.

I was always impressed by the way they duffed Kilmarnock up to make it look as good as it did on The Scheme.

In the game at Palmerston when you put 5 past us Dobbie got 4 goals, but Dykes was clearly the difference between the teams. He completely unsettled what turned out to be a very decent defence.

Rikki Fleming, Spud Murphy? It's a tough one. Rikki was my favourite ever Ayr player but I went with the ones who'd achieved most in their careers (except Alan McInally - I still don't know how he managed that).

Stevie Nicol (5 English titles, 3 FA Cups, 1 European Cup and 27 Scotland caps) Davie Stewart (1 Scotland cap and a losing European Cup final) Robert Connor ( 4 Scotland caps) All did pretty well after they left us so might bring them back. Two came through the boy's club. Dick Malone and Johnny Doyle just missing out.

Big difference when Bradley came on. Afolabi waits for things to happen, Bradley's involving himself to try and make them happen.

Bradley for Afolabi needed.