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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

For the situation we are in, and hope to then be in next season, we need someone with championship / promotion winning miles on the clock. Someone who knows what it takes to navigate their way out of this league and to whom the players will have instant respect for doing so.

Simon Stainrod

Morton win Next!

The clock is ticking on our season and we sit 2nd bottom of the league with no signs of winning a game against the vast majority of our opponents in this league. We have a “high value” squad made up of highly regarded players for this division, assembled by the manager, and we have won 1 game in 9. The new owner and chairman has expressed his desire to be in the top league in the land. The two don’t fit so clearly something IS going to change. Either the owner’s ambitions - or the management team and squad.

I should have mentioned more than form, but also actual tactics, gameplay, lack of fight and leadership on the pitch - as you say, there are NO signs that we could go on a run of wins

That’s only 5% of the shit-show that this season has been

Anyone - the definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Someone different is the whole point - the Mark Kerr experiment has failed.

Can anyone name a team that just went on a winning streak after being on the form that we have been in - just out the blue - no change in management - just miraculously started winning? The signs were there from the very start of the season. Kerr has had long enough - he set it in place - it’s his team - his tactics - it’s not working - it too long down the road now and the rot has set it. Personally, I wish it wasn’t this way, but there can only be one change and that’s for him to be replaced and HOPE whoever takes over can get a tune out of this mob

1. He stays as we are judging our performances and league position on the diddy yo-yo team we were for years. 2. He goes as we recognise that we want more of where we have been of late, challenging at the top end of the league.

After all the lows that we have been through, I’ve followed Ayr loyally from the 80s, but weirdly and regrettably, I just wasn’t interested during the “glory year” of reaching the cup final and semi final. I don’t even remember why but think I went to 1 or 2 league games only! To think I missed out on that but managed to catch all of Neil Watts games!!!

Ah!, doesn’t say which year though?

And then they all left

Both teams should be given -1 for shit showing their way through this god awful season

I think it is inevitable that something has to change. Would most agree that on paper, the individuals we have are quality? It just seems to me the tactics or mix of players just isn’t right, and just hasn’t been right from the start. The quality of the individuals has certainly extended my hope of a turnaround, but then you look at the likes of Falkirk and Partick, who both went down - let’s not fall into that trap!

So are we agreed that the wise bet is lumping every penny we have on both teams to score?

From the start of the season I had a feeling that the team wasn’t going to gel well together. It was just based on how the general performance as a group came across. Nothing has really changed and we are now almost into March, so basically here are the options. 1. Change nothing. A huge gamble. Realistically, this will give us no change on how we are performing or how we will end up - relegation battle. 2. Change manager. Bit extreme and a gamble, but on occasion can have the desired effect on performances and results. 3. Add some experience. We really needed a leader in the middle of the park, which I don’t think we have at the moment. A Roy Keane type figure to whom winning is everything. Cant see this happening at this late stage. 4. Management mentor It takes a big man (or woman) to admit they are wrong or that what they have been doing is not having the desired effect, so seeking someone to come in and give some advice is not easily done throughout a season - but again, you then have to look at 1 and 2, and the manager could end up on the scrap heap after his first managerial job. What do you think? I’m crossing fingers for 4, or even 3 and 4