The Ultimate Super Ayr Thread

[diegomarahenry]

Playing far too narrow, the match preview had O’Conner and Hewitt out yet we only have 4 players on the bench. No Bradley or McKenzie. 
 

huge gap between the defence and forwards. Thistle are being allowed to force us in to playing a back 6, leaving Murdoch and Chalmers in midfield. No out ball for defence and far too narrow. Big changes in the second half needed. 

[ryanayr1987]

22 minutes ago, 1nickydevlin said:

I agree the word Black needs changed .unwashed has a better ring too it .don't we have a fans liason officer who can/should be working  with fans to eradicate this problem. 

Is that Jamie Garrett? 
 

watching the stream online for the game I have a feeling we should have just kept Duffy as caretaker for a few extra games just to see how he did against teams placed higher up, this has been pretty woeful so far

[No_Problemo]

1 minute ago, diegomarahenry said:

Playing far too narrow, the match preview had O’Conner and Hewitt out yet we only have 4 players on the bench. No Bradley or McKenzie. 
 

huge gap between the defence and forwards. Thistle are being allowed to force us in to playing a back 6, leaving Murdoch and Chalmers in midfield. No out ball for defence and far too narrow. Big changes in the second half needed. 

Everyone apart from Duffy knew this would be the case before kick off. 

[Hursty]

Duffy out then ?   Peter Murphy getting a respectable point at Kelty as it stands.....

I'm obviously joking but does seem mental announcing the permanent appointment before a very predictable pumping today.

[diegomarahenry]

4 minutes ago, Hursty said:

Duffy out then ?   Peter Murphy getting a respectable point at Kelty as it stands.....

I'm obviously joking but does seem mental announcing the permanent appointment before a very predictable pumping today.

With the players in the match day squad, it’s hard to see a different line up, we could take off a defender and bring on Salkeld. Swap Moffat for Afolabi at some point. Maxell for Chalmers. 

[Hursty]

2 minutes ago, diegomarahenry said:

With the players in the match day squad, it’s hard to see a different line up, we could take off a defender and bring on Salkeld. Swap Moffat for Afolabi at some point. Maxell for Chalmers. 

Aye it's tongue in cheek - Partick have a better team than us by a mile so today isn't really unexpected.  Just the timing that's strange as Duffy could easily start his 'permanent' spell with 3 or 4 games without winning.   

[ryanayr1987]

Muirhead taking fucking corners wtf  

[No_Problemo]

14 minutes ago, diegomarahenry said:

With the players in the match day squad, it’s hard to see a different line up, we could take off a defender and bring on Salkeld. Swap Moffat for Afolabi at some point. Maxell for Chalmers. 

Umm, play the actual wide players who are on the bench, and not just defensive full backs and very slow central midfielders out wide. As well as a central defender at right back, which makes it even more defensive. It was a pathetic line up, with an entirely predictable result. 

[HMIP]

Changing the shape of the team hasn’t worked.  We looked miles better with a back 4.  Reading has probably been our best player of late overlapping with either O’Connor or Maxwell, but now looks a bit lost as a wing back.  Huge dose of reality for us all round - the board have gambled that we can stay up with what we’ve got and gone with what is surely a stop gap appointment who is only really being asked to be a steady hand on the tiller.  In reality I think we’ll need some strong recruitment in January.  

[diegomarahenry]

Oh for f**k sake. 
 

this is up there with Hopkins Arbroath result in terms of performance.

Graham just ran, surrounded by 6 Ayr players, no tackles and managed to score. 
 

Biggest defeat of the season was 2-0 before today. 

[No_Problemo]

David Smith, please appoint someone so you don’t have to make a footballing decision ever again. 

[UpInTheAyr]

Need to concentrate on getting points from the teams in the bottom half of the table. That's our level.

[diegomarahenry]

McCallister,  Chalmers and Afolabi are not good enough. Fjortoft and McGinty are barely good enough. 
 

we knew we’d toil once we played better organised teams that would counter all our shortcomings and that happened today in style. 
 

need to get improvements lined up for January 

[HMIP]

I think Smith will do good things for us off the park with infrastructure etc, but you have to be honest and say we’ve been an utter shambles on the park since he took over.  3 managers in 9 months with a 4th probably required by next summer at the latest.  Total short term thinking all the way really.  At our level, a director of football type role seems like an extravagance, but Smith badly needs some help on the football side of things - I presume he’s a busy guy outside football as well which probably doesn’t help.  

[UpInTheAyr]

Brett "Shooter" McGavin just scored a 92nd minute for King's Lynn.

Bring him home.

[Trogdor]

15 minutes ago, diegomarahenry said:

Oh for f**k sake. 
 

this is up there with Hopkins Arbroath result in terms of performance.

Graham just ran, surrounded by 6 Ayr players, no tackles and managed to score. 
 

Biggest defeat of the season was 2-0 before today. 

I'm not there today, unfortunately.

However, that is inexcusable - 6 Ayr players and that cathouse runs through them with no challenge? FFS

[diegomarahenry]

2 minutes ago, HMIP said:

I think Smith will do good things for us off the park with infrastructure etc, but you have to be honest and say we’ve been an utter shambles on the park since he took over.  3 managers in 9 months with a 4th probably required by next summer at the latest.  Total short term thinking all the way really.  At our level, a director of football type role seems like an extravagance, but Smith badly needs some help on the football side of things - I presume he’s a busy guy outside football as well which probably doesn’t help.  

I don’t think a lot of today can be blamed on the appointment of Duffy to be honest. 
A big part of recent weeks has been O’Conner, we were missing Bradley as well which meant either Moffat or Salkeld coming in. I think everyone would agree that Moffat should have started today. 
like the Raith game, under pressure we sit too deep and the defenders in midfield drop back meaning we invite pressure. 
the lack of changes in the first half can be put down to Duffy. I don’t understand why Maxwell doesn’t start and Mcallister isn’t a Championship wingback.
 

[diegomarahenry]

6 minutes ago, Trogdor said:

I'm not there today, unfortunately.

However, that is inexcusable - 6 Ayr players and that cathouse runs through them with no challenge? FFS

Not through them, they kind of escorted him across the park, standing off him, allowing him to pick a spot in the bottom corner. He didn’t need to beat any of them. 

[HMIP]

2 minutes ago, diegomarahenry said:

I don’t think a lot of today can be blamed on the appointment of Duffy to be honest. 
A big part of recent weeks has been O’Conner, we were missing Bradley as well which meant either Moffat or Salkeld coming in. I think everyone would agree that Moffat should have started today. 
like the Raith game, under pressure we sit too deep and the defenders in midfield drop back meaning we invite pressure. 
the lack of changes in the first half can be put down to Duffy. I don’t understand why Maxwell doesn’t start and Mcallister isn’t a Championship wingback.
 

Not blaming the appointment of Duffy as such, though he did change the shape of the team today and we went from looking solid enough defensively in recent games to being an utter shambles - think he needs to take responsibility for that.

My point was more about general short termism. Hopkin has left a mess and we need to set about fixing that - not sure how we begin to do that when there is no commitment to Duffy beyond next May.
 

[Hursty]

5 minutes ago, diegomarahenry said:

Not through them, they kind of escorted him across the park, standing off him, allowing him to pick a spot in the bottom corner. He didn’t need to beat any of them. 

To be fair to them it would feel a bit weird if Brian Graham played against us and didn't score so fair enough. 

Biggest worry for me today is actually the Dunfermline result- Peter Grant surely won't survive that and its a big 3 points for QoS.  Bottom 3 will almost certainly be between Ayr QoS and Morton - thankfully Arbroath with main men missing got a late equaliser at Cappielow.