shizzlemanizzle Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 1 hour ago, AnonGuy7991 said: For Ayr to progress to the next level, they need to appoint a proper coach with philosophy and style of play drilled into the players. Bullen is quite a good manager, good with people and generally well liked and respected but is tactically limited. He’s clearly unable to solidify a style of play when the going gets tough that doesn’t extend beyond raw hard work and relying on individual brilliance/luck. If Bullen was to embrace the ‘managers’ role and appoint a coach like Alex Ferguson did with Carlos Queiriz to do the work on the pitch tactically and drill a style of play into squad it would balance out his tactical deficiencies. THIS. If anyone from Ayr is reading pie and bovril (we know you are) this ^ is the post you need to read. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roxanne's man Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 22 minutes ago, ayrunitedfw said: Is it Coleraine? They are due to play Hamilton Has Ashford played against Hamilton and not scored? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superhursty7 Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 12 minutes ago, shizzlemanizzle said: THIS. If anyone from Ayr is reading pie and bovril (we know you are) this ^ is the post you need to read. There is no doubt he needs a experience coach/assistant it's easy to forget that just because he's in his 50s this is his first gig as a manager if he was 37 at the end of his playing career no way would he not have an assistant. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyrExile Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 2 hours ago, AnonGuy7991 said: For Ayr to progress to the next level, they need to appoint a proper coach with philosophy and style of play drilled into the players. Bullen is quite a good manager, good with people and generally well liked and respected but is tactically limited. He’s clearly unable to solidify a style of play when the going gets tough that doesn’t extend beyond raw hard work and relying on individual brilliance/luck. If Bullen was to embrace the ‘managers’ role and appoint a coach like Alex Ferguson did with Carlos Queiriz to do the work on the pitch tactically and drill a style of play into squad it would balance out his tactical deficiencies. Does the managers role exist at Ayr? I thought Bullen was employed as a coach and some of the other duties split amongst the backroom staff 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UpInTheAyr Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 1 hour ago, callum-ayr said: Ahhh you’re Ashford da. All makes sense now. He’s rotten. We'll see if he keeps commenting after Sam's gone. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 24 minutes ago, AyrExile said: Does the managers role exist at Ayr? I thought Bullen was employed as a coach and some of the other duties split amongst the backroom staff It was made clear last season that he'd tried to pull in a number of assistants but for a variety of reasons we couldn't get them, so we were definitely looking for someone. Going off on a a tangent, I've had to access from a different source tonight (while half jaked) and it chucked me back to 2018, it really is quite amusing reading some of the posts (and most of us are involved) where we wanted Forrest punted, Doc punted etc, etc.. I'm not getting at anyone because virtually all of us can look back and have a laugh at ourselves, so it just goes to show we all just call it as we see it at the time but there's a reason we all do real work for a living and aren't turning up at some European footballing giant's football ground for training tomorrow....... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonGuy7991 Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 Bullen is a head coach by all accounts, and is assisted by Davie White, who is the academy director. Unsure of his coaching qualifications but as far as the input goes goes it’s more corner boy carry on genuine tactical coaching. Could argue he mirrors Bullen rather than contrasts him. Traditionally a head coach reports to the DOF and isn’t really responsible for recruiting players etc with primary task coaching the players provided to him 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonGuy7991 Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 57 minutes ago, Superhursy7 said: There is no doubt he needs a experience coach/assistant it's easy to forget that just because he's in his 50s this is his first gig as a manager if he was 37 at the end of his playing career no way would he not have an assistant. Would second this. Get the feeling he would be a very good assistant manager and believe he carried this role out successfully at SWed whilst constantly overlooked for the main managers role. Perhaps quite telling if you’re overlooked 2-3 times for the main gig but kept around for other jobs within the club. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedEd Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 2 minutes ago, AnonGuy7991 said: Bullen is a head coach by all accounts, and is assisted by Davie White, who is the academy director. Unsure of his coaching qualifications but as far as the input goes goes it’s more corner boy carry on genuine tactical coaching. Could argue he mirrors Bullen rather than contrasts him. David White is Head of Academy, rather than a director. He has a UEFA A Licence. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaryMc93 Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 Personally never real bought the idea that he needs an experienced assistant. A dedicated full time assistant manager for the first team, yes. However enough dinosaurs exist in Scottish football that experience doesn't guarantee anything, the issue is finding someone that can balance out Bullen's weaknesses but they could have retired from playing yesterday for all I care. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvilScotsman Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 9 hours ago, AnonGuy7991 said: Would second this. Get the feeling he would be a very good assistant manager and believe he carried this role out successfully at SWed whilst constantly overlooked for the main managers role. Perhaps quite telling if you’re overlooked 2-3 times for the main gig but kept around for other jobs within the club. He managed the under 23 side for a number of years, with a couple of caretaker stints with the first team. He's still incredibly popular down here. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComradeDiego Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 What’s Sandy Stewart upto? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUFC 1910 Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 3 minutes ago, ComradeDiego said: What’s Sandy Stewart upto? Probably keeping Ian McCall company - both seem to be in hiding 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
United1973 Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 1 hour ago, AUFC 1910 said: Probably keeping Ian McCall company - both seem to be in hiding Was Stewart not with Owen coyle 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawk89 Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 10 minutes ago, United1973 said: Was Stewart not with Owen coyle Yeah they were together at Queens Park last season. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
United1973 Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 (edited) Whats ts Neil scally doing now Edited August 23, 2023 by United1973 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diegomarahenry Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 1 hour ago, GaryMc93 said: Personally never real bought the idea that he needs an experienced assistant Of course he doesn’t….he’s 52! If he had an assistant and that assistant offered him advice, there is no guarantee he’d take it, so it would be an expensive waste of time considering that he says he doesn’t really need one. he’s been in the job too long to need a mentor, maybe that’s whet he meant when he said he was old. His biggest failing is making changes mid game, especially in big games. I’m not certain that an assistant would fix that 100% 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rb123 Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 (edited) The AP has us linked with the square root of feck all... Confirms Chalmers can't play this weekend and Murdoch is out for the season Edited August 23, 2023 by Rb123 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arachnophile Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 3 hours ago, ComradeDiego said: What’s Sandy Stewart upto? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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