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Just now, D'Jaffo said:
We signed Chalmers out of pure desperation though. I think we’ll try and avoid spending money like that if we can.
Dave Smith said in the media broadcast thing from UWS that the last signing tended to come from the 5oo club funds and named LS and Logan as two they brought in late and were funded from the 500 pot . So you may be correct . However I'm gonna say our front line signings this summer will be well resourced .
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12 minutes ago, diegomarahenry said:
We may have been paying a % of his wage though.
I also have no insight in to the wage structure other than McInroy was offered £900 a week and was offered x3 by Kilmarnock.I believe Logan was on £8K a month at DU and we picked up 75% of that . I have a feeling ,given all the hints coming out of the club as well as the recruitment of Brown and Whittaker that the bar is getting well and truly raised this season . The wee plucky Ayr moniker may have to be consigned to the past .
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2 minutes ago, diegomarahenry said:
From what has been said, we offered Oakley a 50%. Wage raise. So if he was on £500 a week at Morton, we have offered £750 a week. Which would make him one of the higher earners at Ayr. These numbers are a guess but I doubt Morton are paying much more and we certainly couldn’t offer more than £750 a week
I think Logan blew your idea of our wage ceiling out the water last season .
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36 minutes ago, baba douche said:
You do know that Celtic aren't turning up FOC? They'll be charging you to come down - they're not daft (unlike their 'fans'). Might even be on a (large) % of the revenue generated. That's the way I'd do it.
Then you've got to actually pay for everything happening in the ground, as well as paying for facilities damage (seat and toilets especially), then there's flare insurance, industrial todd removal equipment, glass sweeping for about a 5-mile radius, and napalm level air freshener to get the stink out the place.
You'll be lucky to get £5k back after that!
(You'll get more than £5k...)
Think Broony might get us a favour or two .
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Clyde at home for Uncle Ian ...
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5 minutes ago, Peil said:
I'd like Aberdeen away, never been to Pittodrie
Think we've only been up there once in the last 45 years .
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3 minutes ago, Coollestersmoothe said:
See the tickets for the opening game of the euros at Cameron’s bar have sold out. How many tickets and how much? Over the three games, assuming they’re all sold out, that must be a decent wee earner for the club.
I'd say somewhere between 100 and 150 punters . Great idea . Nice we earner for the club . Hopefully LS gets some game time .
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Just now, kaisayr said:
Anyone know anything about the boy Warnock released by them?
Quick google of him there and it’s mentioned he’s a right winger. I’ve read a few snippets which suggest he’s a decent player.
In a world where Chalmers doesn’t re-sign (and I don’t think he will) this move seems pretty plausible.
It seems he's from Maybole and his dad has been at games at Somerset lately so maybe . The Killie boy who pops on here a lot was dropping hints yesterday but has failed to confirm .
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Just now, Jamie_M said:
Both also played more games in a season last season than they have ever done.
Not sure how proneness to injury or whatever suddenly disappears from the equation.
They are both good signings. The likelihood of neither hitting double figures is just as strong as it is them both hitting 15.
Anton will push it pretty close to 20 next season if he gets the league cup games for starters .
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Boom .................................... What a weekend .............. Dowds and Oakley .... Get in there .
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Brilliant Richey ........................
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13 minutes ago, OnlyAyrfaninTarbolton said:
I will just put it out there .....people in the town of Ayr don't support there local club enough.....it's sad asf but true ....and this absolute garbage of "I'm not buying a season ticket till we sign good players" is complete lunacy.....
Without season ticket money how can we sign anyone or pay the signing on fees .....you reap what you sow and all that...
What do you guys want us to do offer magic beans to players..???
Or expect the chairman to dip further into his own pocket???
Ridiculous....get your season ticket bought , yer new shirt and go to the games ....
Then if it's still pish you have the right to moa
Mate you are bang on here , most Ayr fans agree with you but you have upset the in crowd on here . Which to be fair is class.
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34 minutes ago, F.T.O.F.1910 said:
Plenty of cash to advertise for yet ANOTHER two, OFF field management staff tho ser... at, at least 35k a yr each. In the hope that the new venture generates the intended/required income. In a social climate and landscape, that has been changing for years. People don't host parties and go out drinking near as often as they did prior. While I know that income generation comes from match day, every second week in the form of hospitality.... the old suite used to host loads of parties and events, that are now not as common place in society. I say this, as someone whom, over the past 18 months has held two family parties @Camerons and as fantastic as they were... they weren't cheap, at all!.
Think the new hospitality suite is following the St Johnstone model . Which is more conference based .However I dare say they'll not refuse a wedding or two either .
So many doubting Thomas's on here ................
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18 minutes ago, diegomarahenry said:
Kind of chicken and egg. We have been turgid for a few seasons now and other than some Ayrshire post quotes, there is absolutely nothing to say this season will be any different at all or that season ticket money won’t be spent on another winner from the Ginsters pasty league south 2. None of that says, pay for 18 games up front because you’ll definitely want to be at all of them.
The had been no hard sell of season tickets, not even a rallying cry from the captain, manager or CEO which is the bare minimum that is normally rolled out.
They have sold seasons based on people wanting to sit in the new stand but very little on what’s on the actual park.They need to do a lot more in that respect.
Boring .
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9 minutes ago, muZZa__44 said:
depends really if Rose leaves which i assume is likely and Bryden goes out on loan to get guratneed first team minutes (less certain on that) i could see a options of Dowds-Oakley-McKenzie-McRoberts strike force +maybe one other
Think you just about nailed it there .
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Just now, D'Jaffo said:
I’d be delighted if our two strikers were Dowds and Oakley.
100%
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1 hour ago, muZZa__44 said:
Seen Queens Park have let Tommy Robson go, upgrade on Reading?
Would prefer Scott McMann . Is that a bit much for plucky ayr ?
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2 minutes ago, Superhursty7 said:
Apparently there is a full media area in the new stand so id assume it's been built into the plans
Isn't the camera platform on the far left as you look at the stand from the front ?
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1 minute ago, Finlay21 said:
Think some of the many irons in the fire could be coming out soon
Would Airdrie being out of the play off's be significant ?
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2 minutes ago, F.T.O.F.1910 said:
Hopefully Glen-D will be patched for more traditional scouting, regardless if that's from any of the home nations or abroad. I think it was used to support L.B. who didn't seem to have built a network like Uncle Ian (or various other managers) had. I just hope this time isn't wasted and although I'm apprehensive around recruitment, I'm excited to see what happens....
At the Pars game Mathie said "Scottish players with Championship experience".
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1 hour ago, diegomarahenry said:
Glendinning recommends players based on data and the club then decide if they sign them. It’s not like Glendinning is wandering about public parks in England and the. Shipping players up that Ayr have to take like I think some people think.
The problem has been that there is no traditional scouting. They will get a report, watch some clips online and then get them up for a chat. In a lot of cases, the players have just been poor in Scottish football or played out of position.
If you were signing someone like Robbie Crawford, you have evidence of what he can do, you could phone someone at a previous club and find out what they are like as a person or chances are, one of your team may have played with them.
The loans Brown brought in were via contacts at short notice so the scouting was maybe sketchy.
This window may be different and Brown may be more sceptical of the players recommended than Bullen, or he may sign any old shite from down south. It’ll still come with more risk than signing someone who has performed at this level or above.
Its also prudent to mention that Glendinning doesn't exclusively work for Ayr United .
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4 minutes ago, AUFC 1910 said:
wish we would kick off the rebuild with a bit of a marquee signing that will turn a few heads and a few further players our way.
Now, I know this doesn’t always guarantees success, but what does in the championship other than the biggest budget?
I feel it would be good for the fans and create a nice buzz that would get a few more season tickets sold.
Yes , like when the Moff and Geeg's returned from the Pars . Was buzzing for the season to start after those two came back .
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39 minutes ago, Coollestersmoothe said:
Musonda is an excellent player at this level. He’s at the top of my list of players to keep. Him, Stanger, Mcginty and, if we sign him permanently, Sanders give us very solid options. He’s got plenty of cover so I’m never bricking it when he’s out injured or away on international duty.
It’s the lack of cover at full back that’s the issue at the back.Frankie is decent and maybe could be a first class sweeper if we go 3/5 at the back . He deffo has the touch and passing skills to play in behind two big lumps who like smashing everything . Its the missing 50% of our games that is the issue .... I guess we'll know how Brown feels about that pretty soon .
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3 minutes ago, THEHonestman1910 said:
Think that was Liam Smith when we went to Dundee United
Thistle did the dirty with Doc as well . So we them nowt .
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