Ayr_United_1910

I’d take that to be honest.

Fingers crossed! I’ve been unable to work the last 2 days due to the weather & had to stop early on Monday for the same reason. That strip down the stand side touch line that always gets frozen will be really bad just now. Personally, I don’t think there’s enough time between now & Saturday for it to be playable. Just got a feeling.

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. He played in the same boys club team as my younger brother here in Ayr & I was asking after him the other day. “Think he’s at Forfar” - so I thought I’d check in. Very injury prone. I think that’s been his main problem throughout his career.

Loons fans…..quick question….. Is Jamie Ness still playing for you & when was he last in a match day squad?

So we're a few weeks in now, what's everyone's thoughts on AEW? Personally, I am really enjoying it & on the Thursdays where I am off or have a late shift, I've been staying up & watching Dynamite live. It's a lot less polished than WWE, but I really like that. They are very much going through a ''getting to know'' the roster type phase at the moment & are slowly building up characters & story lines. I honestly can't see anything other than it going from strength to strength. On the EC3 chat........as you've said djchapsticks, the guy seems completely & totally gone, in terms of being invested in his work & at present is just going through the motions, running down his contract. Whether a release can rejuvenate him remains to be seen, but we do know how good he is. I'm going back a few years, but his run in TNA/Impact with Dixie Carter as his Aunt etc was great & at a time where I really enjoyed Impact. I've actually been watching a bit of it recently & I've been enjoying it. It certainly lost its way for a while there, but they seem to have found something again & hopefully they continue to improve. Another company I've watched a lot of recently has been NWA & their new Powerrr episodes on their YouTube Channel. Very old skool feel to it, but thoroughly enjoying it too. Loads of choice out there for wrestling fans at the moment. Apart from watching highlights of NXT on YouTube & highlights of PPV's, I can't remember the last time I sat & watched a full episode of Smackdown or Raw. In a way, WWE is like Ayr Utd. So much potential but ran by numpties.

100%. I don't think it is unique to the Championship though, I feel that the standard of the game, as a whole, has gradually declined. I would also agree regarding the pricing. +/-£20 to watch this level is too expensive.

I disagree, it's a great game & I don't think enough people in this country know about it.

Pleased to see Futsal included in this, will hopefully give the game much needed exposure in this country especially. A very under appreciated & almost unknown game here.

Would like to take this opportunity to congratulate our friends from Arbroath F.C. on winning the League 1 Title, a fantastic effort from start to finish. Should a disaster occur & we don't win the Play Offs to gain promotion to the top flight, then I can at least look forward to my trip there next season. I look forward to playing a wee round at the pitch & putt & going to the amusements.

Hello Bairns fans, Just a couple of questions. 1 - How pish are you? When McCall took over at us, we were 8th or 9th in League One, confidence at an all time low. No direction, game plan, understanding or togetherness. However, within that squad, we had a core group of players who are still pivotal members of our current team. Do you have a similar situation? 2 - Was Mackinnon a popular choice? He's had one good season at Raith, but apart from that he's failed to deliver. Do you think he is the man to make you a force again in this league?

I recently started a blog, which highlights mainly the council run courses in my area. I will also write about some private members clubs, but mainly it'll target golf courses that are affordable to Joe Public etc. https://affordablegolf.sport.blog/ Enjoy.

It's been over a year since I followed WWE on a weekly basis. I just felt they were going round in circles with the booking/story lines & there was nothing really fresh developing, especially with the main event scene. It wasn't just WWE, kinda grew tired of all wrestling, but have just renewed my Network subscription & will begin casually watching again to see if it can capture me again.

I hope you continue to improve DD. When I started playing again I thought I'd just pick up my clubs & instantly return to the same player I was when I was younger. It took me longer than it should to realise that it wasn't going to happen. I kept saying ''couple a rounds to get into it & then it'll come'', but it never did. It wasn't until I left the past in the past & just went forward with the attitude ''this is where I am, lets improve'' that things started to get a wee bit better, however, like you've described above, I would get to about the 12th/13th/14th in very good shape, have a bad hole & it would all go to pot. 1 bad hole would completely ruin my day, I got so angry, frustrated & couldn't put it to the back of my mind & move on. Sometimes my temper would ruin my round completely. It all came to a head one medal Saturday. I started off with an eagle 3 at the first, chipped in from off the green. I followed this with a par at the 2nd, par at the 3rd, birdie at the par 3 4th, par at the 5th & tap in birdie at 6. I then began to think as I approached the 7th tee ''well even if I have a couple of bad holes today, surely this first 6 holes will stand me in a good position. All I need to do is hit a straight drive here & even if I get a 5 that's it out the road''. The 7th at the course I describe is a dog leg with an elevated green. The medal tee is in an elevated small patch of ground surrounded by trees on the left, trees on the right with a pedestrian path & a burn. The trees on the left stretch right down to the dog leg & there is very little room on the right until after the bend either & as the laws of gravity go, everything kicks right off the sloping fairway too. Conservative players chip a 5 iron to before the dog leg, chip it over the dog leg hill with a wedge or 9 iron & then go for the green. However, if you are playing well you can drive it off the tee, carrying the dog leg. Of course, as I was playing well, I get the driver out, think I was playing with a Ping G5 at the time, loved the shaft in it. Anyway, I slice the first drive right & into the burn. I then tee it up again & do the same. So I go off the tee to my bag, get my 6 iron out & decide to just knock one onto the fairway, the conservative approach. However, by this point I was boiling, absolutely boiling. Hands were soaking with sweat, I could barely look up as I had the other 3 players in my 4 ball looking at me. That much time had passed the 4 ball in the group behind were also waiting. So I keep my head down, walk to the tee, tee it up &.........grip slips out my hands, ball goes straight left into the trees, club releases from my hands & nestles in the long grass/tree area to the left too. I tell the 3 guys to go on, swap score cards etc & walk the pedestrian path from the woodland area, heading in the opposite direction from the clubhouse, but a route that would eventually lead to my home. I had a brief look for the 6 iron, but never found it, might even still be there. I was absolutely embarrassed beyond belief. ''I used to be no bad at this game, really quite gid actually. I f*cking hate it now, I'm never playing again, that's me finished, I obviously don't have it any more'' (I muttered stuff like that to myself all the way home). It took me about a fortnight until I picked up a club again & afterwards I told myself that I would not take the game so seriously ever again, would just enjoy it & see where that led me. I can honestly say, the moment I adopted this attitude was the moment that my game began to improve. If I have a bad round I don't really bother anymore. I get upset, but I then put it into perspective. Could be that I've not played regularly leading up to the round, haven't practiced etc. However, when I prepare for a tournament or whatever, put the time in & take 1 shot at a time, I tend to do ok. And any time I ever find my blood reaching boiling point I try to just laugh & think ''that's golf, it'll try and do that to you, you've just got to smile''. This season I hardly played at all, but I've done enough to maintain a handicap, that's slightly went up. I have began Caddying full time at Turnberry, have a 3 year old daughter & play Football a couple of times a week, so I haven't really had as much free time to dedicate to golf. I've told myself that I'm really going to knuckle down next season & see where that takes me. My football/futsal career is hanging by a thread (knee is like glass) so I think I'll pack that in at the end of the season & make golf my only past time.

There's a shop in Kilmarnock recently opened stocking Subbuteo stuff I hear. I keep meaning to nip up for a look. I've still got the majority of my collection, unfortunately I've no one that's interested in playing it with me.

Expatowner, the secret to getting to single figures is not thinking about it. As long as you continue to improve, it will come in time. The secret is not to wish it to happen, that's when it doesn't happen. Golf is a funny old game, progress & success come around when you least expect it. All I can really do is go from my own personal experience. When I was younger I was single figures, I then didn't play for many years & took the game up again properly (i.e. joining a club, playing weekly etc) a couple of years ago. I had played sporadically through my early 20's, but didn't play any competitive games etc from 18 till I was 27. I thought I'd just pick the clubs up again, post my 3 cards for my handicap & be given 7 or 8. That didn't quite work out & I was given 14. For about the first year, I was absolutely obsessed with getting back to single figures & it just wasn't happening. I then spoke to a friend of mine who does a bit of golf coaching etc & he said to concentrate on 1 shot at a time, all of the time. We went out for a game & he took me through his wee process thing. Previously, I was a 1 hole at a time guy, but when I had a bad hole, I found it very difficult to forget about it. Anyway, I tried his method with him there & it worked, I shot a 74 scratch. It took me 4 or 5 rounds for me to manage to fully get into this mode when on my own, but when I started to do this & stopped thinking about my total score, the bad hole previously etc, I started to see a wee bit of success. I'm not saying it'll work for you, but give it a go & see how you get on.

Great effort.

Best show on the tele. Having to wait a f*cking week for the next episode is a crime.

What channel is this on nowadays?

Spot on. Big E & Xavier Woods currently in that New Day set up don't seem to be going anywhere yet again. Going with the success of the Shield & Wyatt Family, they could have done something with them by making them a credible force, but they already look like a black version of 3MB. I feel absolutely gutted for Kofi Kingston, he's one of my favourite wrestlers to watch, expected so much more from him & he's been the victim of WWE Creative yet again. On the subject of the Wyatt Family just briefly, does anyone else think they missed the boat with D.Bryan joining them that time? What I mean by that is, do you not think they should have developed the story for a lot longer period? This would have then made the climax where he turns on Wyatt absolutely fantastic. I mean the pop they got in the steel cage when he did turn back to a face was great, but imagine if this had been done months down the line and it all came to a head at a PPV, it would have been much better. I sometimes feel that along with absolutely killing some story lines & wrestlers with their planning, they also are guilty of not giving a story enough time to fully develop and suck the fans in. That particular one sticks in my memory as being a missed opportunity. Anyone else agree?

Aye.

I was talking to a few wrestling fans at work about Neville. One of them said 'aye he's IC level at best', while the other thinks he'd be better as part of a tag team. I would like to see him doing well, but think due to the mic skills being poor, he'll not really do much at all. Being the size he is, you really need to be able to back up your ability with mic skills to make it in the WWE. They have shown in recent years that they are willing to go with the smaller guy (eg Punk & Bryan) but that in order to succeed they need to be able to back up their in ring ability with great mic skills. Bryan & Punk are both good at this. Neville has the disadvantage of not being American & having one of the broadest British accents around which in turn will go against him. As for the rumours that there going to give him a new gimmick before stepping up, yes I'd welcome that, so we'll see what they come up with, but their track record recently has been really disappointing...........New Day, Fandango to name a couple. Then you look at the recent graduates from NXT to the main roster and look at what they've done and the answer is not much. Big E started well, but his mic skills or lack of got the better of him, Bo Dallas (who I thought would do well) has sort of disappeared in recent months, Fandango hasn't really worked out how they'd hoped, the list goes on and on. Only one really, from the top of my head, that's done well are the Shield 3, with Reigns looking like the one out of those guys that creative seem to be pushing heavily. And that annoys me, cause I think he's the worst out the 3, both in ring and on the mic. However he has the advantage of ''the look'' which, especially in WWE, can take carry you a long way in the right direction. To be completely honest though, the main roster shows need a good shake up as recently they have been utter garbage. I actually look forward to the NXT episode the most out of that, Smackdown & Raw these days & I've been like that for probably most of the year.

Was sitting at home on Saturday night & thought, I wonder if I can get a chance to watch the 2hr special, as normally the 2hr episodes are only on the WWE Network. I follow the weekly episodes on Sky Plus. Anyway, much to my delight, I'm flicking through and notice that before the repeat of Smackdown, NXT was on, checked the details and to my delight it was the 2 hour special from Thursday. Anyway, watched it and thoroughly enjoyed it. Devitt's entrance (Finn Balor) was tremendous, and went back to his regular indy entrances. Thoroughly enjoyed his tag team match, the Divas match (which is unusual for me as I usually flick past them) & the main event. On a observation note, did anyone see the crowds reaction when Kenata (Heido Itami) set up Konnor/Victor (can't remember which) for the GTS? Place went nuts, but then the move was stopped by a reversal. He was the original wrestler who used this move? I didn't know this until I flicked through YouTube. At the time, I wondered why all the fans got so excited when he put the Ascention member on his shoulders & clicked as soon as I seen a YouTube video titled ''Kenata - Inventor of the GTS'' (or words to that effect). Was an interesting moment.

Brilliant!

Paige winning the Divas title in her first match haha great.