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Tbh, they invested a lot of money in January, its close to being a completely different side. They'll stay up as Bonnyrigg's form has fallen off a cliff. Would have been quite funny to see Clyde go down tbh.

Just saw the Rovers ticket sales number, pretty poor from them I thought considering the magnitude of the game, disappointing to see.

Really enjoyed this episode. Thought the discussions were great and the wee videos excellent. Also, cheers for giving 'Somerset Boab' a bit of a bodying. Hope he watches and it damages the roaster's ego.

Yeah a lovely goal, we had possession for quite a while before it as well, playing it around on the edge of the final third trying to find a way through.

Beard grooming kit and a WWE subscription, imo.

If this roaster keeps up this thread has real gold potential. A very weird series of rants about p&b being middle class. Beards and pro wrestling, wit. I liked a couple of the one to one interviews on open goal back when it was first getting going. Couple decent stories and insights on occasion. But its all just far too old firm focused. f**k that. Anything where they're all sitting talking shite is painful to watch. Awful patter. Haven't tried watching any of it for a long long time. Was absolutely delighted to see their wee Lowland League project go up in flames as well, a terrible concept right up there with B teams.

Can only be a good thing I think. "Whitts", though.

Aye, League 1 doesn't tend to be much fun. Of the full time clubs in the championship, Ayr have spent more time there than anyone else in the last couple decades (albeit we were actually part time in L1) through a mix of being on the brink of bankruptcy to awful managerial appointments - the worst years of which we found ourselves in a dogfight at the bottom trying to avoid League 2. See QoS for a current example. A lot of full time clubs that go down manage to sort it out in a season or two, by making good decisions at the top level and ensuring that the relative strength in budget is utilised as much as possible - see Ayr's most recent 1 season stint or Dunfermline last season. If that's done right, it can be quite fun. The problem comes when you have folk at the top end of the club that are pretty clueless and make poor decisions from the off. That poor decision making is essentially a catalyst for the team to not hit the ground running, and for the perceived budgetary / resource advantage to quickly fade away as you come up each week against technically limited but well drilled part time teams. Just look at Falkirk as an example. Theres a lot of football to be played and ICT could well get themselves out of danger at the expense of QP, Ayr, Pars etc. Also 9th could well win the play off (I think they will). But aye, the novelty of new grounds and a 'fresh start' quickly fades when it feels like the club is sinking due to poor planning and decisions. Based on your current board, if ICT were to go down i'd maybe be a bit concerned.

Also, because we won and therefore isn't just sour grapes, that felt like a very inept refereeing performance. I don't think he had a clue.

A big win that. Very pleased. We weren't great by any stretch, but Caley though, deary me.

Well they got it right up me and I'm delighted. It wasn't vintage by any stretch but todays performance was exactly what it needed to be, and we got a huge win. We were a very tight unit and it restricted Caley's play to f**k all as they played with very little width (which considering pur fullback deficiencies, was bizarre). They were shite, yes, but don't really care with how tight it all is just now in the table. Big 3 points. Delicious humble pie. Although i still maintain that a bit of pace and width and it would have been even more comfortable. Well done Ayr.

Basically this. We've been largely okay, albeit caley have offered nothing so hard to tell how good we are as a unit. The only reason we're level is an absolutely atrocious decision from the referee.

A very meh game so far but Caley look a bit vulnerable and the early goal hopefully puts us on a good footing here. We seem relatively calm, defensively in particular, so long may that continue. We look a better unit so far today than we did against the Pars a couple weeks ago, albeit Caley have been awful and have offered the square root of f**k all. Given the pace of the game so far I maintain that we could really be have been doing with a natural winger out wide from the start. I think it would have strengthened our position as Caley seem to be relying on quite a narrow set up. With some real attacking intent, something we've not offered much of so far, we could kill this game off quite quickly. I'd like to see some more width and pace in the second half - as ICT are there for the taking based on the first half anyway. Right as i'd finished typing that, the referee gave an atrocious decision. The boy himself looked embarrassed that penalty was given. Shocking.

Might have been @diegomarahenrythat said it, about McGinty being dropped after one mistake being a sign that we're in bother. But wow, i didn't expect that to actually happen. Apologies if i have the wrong poster though. Team overall is very unbalanced with some bizarre absentees. Unless theres injuries we're not aware of. I vey much hope the team absolutely stick it to me, but f**k me that line up is a mess and i don't know how we expect to win.

Genuinely a bit angry to have travelled up having seen that line up. I would very much like the team to prove me wrong, of course. If they stick it to me, then fair fucks, i will be delighted. But f**k me. I'm very concerned.

So, the line up is out...

Is it just me that finds this kind of showboating behaviour to be very very embarrassing? For many reasons, it can get to f**k, imo.

I mind watching a game away at ICT via the pixellot stream and for the majority of the game the camera tracked the linesman's baldy head.

Is It just me that thinks the folk in the front row of seats are going to have a tough time seeing over the wall there? Probably just the angle the photo has been taking from.

Ooft. Me making everyone have to see that atrocious hair cut twice. I can only apologise.

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