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Hope everyone has rested their eyes, exercised their fingers and charged up their phones / tablets / laptops for a day full of new manager posts!!!

Let’s take a moment and be thankful that we are here to witness this historic moment in our clubs history

A mate just text me, and he doesn’t often do it, but it just had the following in the text: Tam McManus with David Bingham and Barry John Corr

Means nothing without being there - was sooooooooooooooo looking forward to this fixture to attend in human form, but alas, I cannot shout at people in maroon from my couch

With our shambolic run coming to a halt on Saturday against Morton, and the interim management team’s second game in charge, I guessed our main aim would be not to concede. Had we lost one, heads may well have gone down yet again that path of despair. However, while there was some good play on the deck from RR, I felt that actual goal scoring chances were pretty even. RR did play better football, but not more effective, as the result shows. From an Ayr perspective, not losing is a bonus right now - our team was broken and needed a quick fix, and last night was just part of that

Happy with a point - 4 out of 6 points makes much better reading

Miss a good away day to Kirkcaldy

“Muffit” playing apparently

Mon Ayr!!!

Any other ex-killie out there?

So do we reckon it’s a 2 horse race then?

Surely someone can let it ‘slip’ on here to let us lads and lassies win a few bob off the bookies!

Who can we install that won’t end in a barrage of mockery?

Maybe we are underestimating the intent from the chairman and the amount that he is willing to invest into the club. As far as I’m aware we are debt free now, so maybe it’s gamble time?

I’m afraid for whoever gets the job

So that’s what a win feels like [emoji4][emoji4][emoji4] Brilliant 6 pointer

Don’t mess it up by winning any more games, right!

Over 70 new posts I should have known better [emoji30] Is he definitely gone?

Good squad - poor team sums us up Mix just isn’t right and really hasn’t been all season

Better to be lucky than good, and Kerr just didn’t get lucky with this team. I worry that the team isn’t good enough - not so much the individuals - but just a bad collective and mix of players. On paper, I don’t think anyone was unhappy with each signing Kerr made, and we were optimistic at the start of the campaign. On paper, we should be doing better. The fear I have is that even the best coach in the world may not get a tune out of this team and this squad. My gut is telling me we need a certain type of manager to see out the rest of the campaign, and then possibly another type to see us promoted in assembling a promotion winning squad. All of this is set to the backdrop that I am sure in my bones that Killie are going down this season, and I would give my left arm to see us in the same league again with them, and, being able to see it in the flesh too. So I don’t think the chairman can look too far ahead (although he probably will) and just get someone in to keep us up!!

Probably says much about the state of their minds than anything else....comfortable? relaxed? Plucky wee Ayr dishing out 2 year contracts? We all want fighters on that pitch - fighting their own one-on-one battles right throughout the team. When you rip Jamie Adams then Stevie Bell out of your team, that’s tough, very tough, they would literally walk through walls to win. We have replaced them, but not like for like, and that for me is a huge part of what we are missing this season.

My guess is one of 2 types of manager... Big name or Done it before Don’t know or haven’t met the chairman, but his comment about playing too flight football made me think: He wants things done and is impatient. Might want to increase the profile of the club he is clearly very proud to support. Wants someone who has done it before and knows what it takes to get promotion from this league. Step forward - Ally McCoist [emoji6]

Someone must know something [emoji848]

I think there is an overall agreement that there is no overall agreement on who is the best candidate. And I think that there is an even split across many, that are seen as “meh” appointments. Whoever is installed is going to be a gamble, and more than likely, will have failed previously. The only thing we can do when they are installed is watch with great anticipation as to how the team play and the results thereafter, and hope that we get lucky and that the fit is right. The key things for me are: 1. Attitude - someone who does not suffer fools gladly - might come across as a bit “old school” but someone who will put a rocket up some of the arses of our squad. 2. Experience - someone who has been round the course before - if we have aspirations of promotion - we need someone who knows what it takes to be a winner. 3. Style of play - this, I think has become more important over the last few years - we had become a team of ballers - swift passing, goal scoring, entertaining teams. This might end up flying in the face of “winning at all costs” and “winning ugly” but why can’t we get both? There is no way the chairman is going to know by means of 2 zoom interviews how his appointment is going to turn out - only time will tell. Good luck