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If you can’t get on board and excited about a random 2 footed and tall attacking midfielder being signed up then there’s no hope for you tbh. He’s either going to be absolutely ganting or a swashbuckling cult hero and I for one can’t wait to find out which.

No it isn’t. The best thing about pitch invasions is everyone’s too caught up in the moment and ecstatic to realise how ridiculous it actually is, football just does things to folk and it’s magic

My neighbour has chickens too. I like them. They eat stuff I'm throwing out and are generally soothing to watch. I find chickens soothing to watch, too. The way they go all golden-brown and crispy over the course of 90 minutes in the oven.

Attended as a neutral tonight. Thoroughly enjoyable game. QP probably deserved their lead at halftime although Ayr had a couple of good chances, blazing one. Over the bar and pulling out an excellent save from the QP goalkeeper. Early goal in the second half gave Ayr the platform to go for it and in fairness they looked good at times in the second half. QP were very negative in the second half and the manager must take responsibility for that as he set them up to hold a lead rather than push on and try to win the game. Great reaction from the Ayr fans both when they equalised and then got the winner. Best of luck to both teams for the season ahead.

Could've avoided all of this if he'd clarified there was supposed to be a comma after "other"

Two down at HT, and scoring a last minute winner is prime pitch invasion territory.

Ayr have a decent result > following week, same team because it will surely work 2 weeks in a row regardless of the opposition. Same happened today, totally ill prepared to face Queens Park, they were pedestrian and didn't look a good team but strolled the first half without breaking a sweat. Second half, Bullen decides to play O'Conner who he just doesn't seen to like despite him being one of the only forward motivated players we have and brings on McKenzie, a player so far out the picture he must have thought his time was up. He obviously had a point to prove tonight. The two of them made us play with a higher tempo and we got at Queens park in the second half and it paid off. Next week, we will start with O'Conner and McKenzie because that worked this week, It won't work next week and we will drop points. We are so predictable it is unreal. There will be noises from the post match interview about character and belief and hard work etc but we need to be better week after week and not pretending we are moving forward when we are in fact marking time. I should be pleased we won via a late penalty after being 2-0 down but the first half was so bad it made me angry and we have performances like that once a month. There are plenty of positives to take out of tonight, we appear to have hit decent corners for the first time this season, Dipo scored and converted a penalty and will hopefully relax in front of goal now. We were also as bad as we have been, gifted goals and looked soft as puppy shite in the first half.

Zero complaints. Ayr deserved to win that in the end. Dreadful from them in the first half and we took advantage of it. It’s not enough for us to look tidy and mildly entertaining, though. We need aggression and we showed f**k all. From the moment they scored, they were dominant. Thought Akinyemi was superb and absolutely tortured our awful defence. Even Fox was miles off it. How Lee Kilday is playing full-time football is beyond me. Nowhere near good enough. Fair play to the boy giving it the big one at the winner. You give it out, you have to take it back. Not necessarily my immediate reaction at the time, but football is nothing without shithousery? Think Murray gave it a bit at the goal to the Ayr fans as well, which I wholeheartedly approve of. Biggest sickener in many a year. Probably not felt a punch in the baws like that since Rovers scored two late ones at Hampden to draw after we’d murdered them. Big wake up call for us. Time to toughen up.

COME ON AYR!!!! Had to watch on Bet365 and be updated from mates. Unbelievable result. How did we score 3 goals? And a big thank you to Mr Bet365! COYA!

They could have just kept this bit and it would have made for a much better view...

Ffs Dylan. *swoons*

Davidson probably doesn't even realise what happened at Kelty, since he sprinted off to the dressing room and left his players to take the heat. Tommy Wright and Manny Fowler would have been last up those steps. As for when it started, that's a good question. I think folk were underwhelmed by the window last summer but obviously results would have dictated whether that actually became an issue. We were alright up until the end of October, then even November, there was mitigation. The performance at Dundee, first game in December, probably set the ball rolling, as there was no reaction to it before the break. Next few months (despite Kelty) just became about staying up, so it was put on back burner but, although I saw the case after Kelty, the 7-0 defeat at Celtic was probably when I knew I didn't want him as manager any longer. Like many others though, I decided to give him a chance this summer but he fed us a load of flannel about all these changes, whilst arrogantly just ploughing on in the same furrow. There is no way back now.

10/10 for Friday. Was fairly sure of all but one answer.

Folk just love to overreact. We're not a good team, obviously. We need a couple of players in, obviously. But keep the fucking heid and support the team. Bryden, McKenzie, O'Connor etc are not regular match winners but they can play and they're clearly giving their all. They'll have shite games and we'll lose plenty this season. But constant bitching and moaning brings nothing positive to the table. That result has put a smile on my face and it will continue to do so all weekend. That's what football is about. Come on Ayr!

I don't think Bonnyrigg are in anyway 'outliers' in terms of a team being promoted form the LL to the SPFL. They're exactly the kind of bigger ex-junior club that everyone knew would eventually be able to rise up and compete with the lower end part-time SPFL clubs consistently. Kelty are the only ex-LL outliers because they've basically been turbo-charged by investment. I seriously doubt there's anyone here who didn't always think there were a group of clubs outside the SPFL who could easily replace a group of SPFL clubs. People have been saying this for years.

Tickets bought for the away leg. Fuckin dancer, Holland here we come

Sibbald had the cigars out last night. An incredibly mature and accomplished performance.

Guessed the currency to finish the week with a 10

That's Jayden, Hayden and Shayden. Sounds like ned triplets.

I asked the bald c**t in the grey suit, who I'm guessing is an official club representative if he just couldnae take the fact his shite team got beat to which he responded by inviting me into the car park "to talk about it". Wow.

Was she even pregnant before them penalty? Cudos if not.

Friday night football is brilliant. Fair sets you up for a great/stress free weekend.

Off the top of my head, Rae, Ballantyne, Jamieson, Mochrie. Four players who have signed for direct League 1 rivals. All a quantifiable upgrade on what we currently have in these positions. We have signed 12 players (excluding kids), Airdrie and Dunfermline 11 combined, so the budget argument does not hold any weight either. All about opinions, but the three most recent signings feel like massive gambles. Given the complete disaster that befell the club in the summer of 2018, the ramifications of which are still being felt 4 years on, it is completely understandable for Falkirk fans to be highly sceptical of players of this profile. In fact, it's the only approach, and there need be absolutely no apology for it.

We’re a dugmeat L1 team working on a budget. Exactly who did some people think we were going to bring in? Apart from the hilarious and ridiculous shouts of Adam Rooney and Scott Allan. We were never going to be able to bring in anyone who would ‘guarantee’ goals or have a really good pedigree behind them so we were always going to have to take risks and we’ve got to trust that McGlynn knows what he’s doing and knows how har he’s spending his budget on.

Yes, when I was seven.

It's gone full Trump. The basic concept that who gives a f**k about how offensive or outrageous you are, provided you other your opponent to the point whereby there's enough of 'us' to ensure victory over 'them', why the f**k would you give a single shiny shite about the 'them' or how repulsive your behaviours and actions towards them are? I totally get what you are saying about politicians of the past as I was going to post something similar myself. The difference is often put down to 'convictions' versus the current lot just being a load of self-serving charlatans who are entirely out for themselves, but I don't think that adequately covers it. Ambitious politicians have always had a streak of ruthless self-interest, but that was tempered by an understanding that when you govern you are governing an entire electorate, not just pandering to the ones you know will back you. Trump showed that no matter how ridiculous you are as a human being, no matter how ridiculous your policies, provided enough of the electorate are ridiculous enough themselves to agree with you and vote for you, you're on pretty steady ground. I know it's not as simple as 'the people who elect these idiots are fucking reprehensible idiots themselves', but there is undoubtedly a degree of that at play both in the US with Trump and with the Tories of the past 5 years. Remember when Cameron went to lengths to try to rehabilitate the Conservatives reputation as being the 'nasty' party? Well all of that has gone out of the window and we're now at a point where they have surpassed anything that happened under the 'bad old years' of Thatcherism. The inherent right-leaning tendencies of the English electorate have encouraged and emboldened the swivel-eyed right in the party of governance, to the point whereby they've managed to convince England and Wales to commit and egregious act of self-harm by voting to leave the EU, they've managed to legitimise complete fucking morons as PM candidates by indulging in continual dead-cat ruses, lying to the point of ridiculousness, and telling a sizeable minority of thick, bigoted morons exactly what they want to hear. The problem is that minority is enough to permit the Tories to hang on to absolute power, which they then use not to govern the UK in it's own best interest, but to abuse for their own ends. I'm genuinely surprised that none of the original candidates in the Tory leadership race attempted to open up a discourse on the return of Capital punishment, because as unpopular a position that is with the wider electorate, it's exactly the sort of thing that goes down a storm with the people these folk are pandering to. I mean, who gives a f**k about a policy that is overwhelmingly unpopular if you are talking about the electorate as a whole if it's still hugely popular with a minority that is still large enough to get you elected thanks to a totally broken system you can abuse? These politicians are caricatures. Vacuous ideologues that would have been ridiculed as joke-figures even ten years ago, but that's another stunt the right of the Tory party pulled. They made the environment and debate so toxic and idiotic that every last one of the 'decent' moderates thought 'f**k this' and either left the party or left politics altogether. It's not even unique to the Tory party. Look at how the Labour Party has completely imploded and self-immolated since the New Labour farce. That's not because New Labour isn't really a thing any more, it's because Blair abused the same cult of personality shite to dumb-down politics himself, abandoned everything that actually held the Labour party together in the first place, filled it with the same vacuous, self-serving careerists that the Tory party is now full of, and left it a pointless, directionless husk when he finally fucked-off into the sunset to do the lucrative speaking tours. This omnishambles didn't start with Johnson, or even May or Cameron. It started with Blair, and it's most of the reason why I despise the c**t with a fire that I can't even work up for Thatcher.

It is the club's responsibility 100% to have a suitable stadium to play at. If Edinburgh Leisure are not willing to provide that ground at Meadowbank then the club should not have agreed to play there.

It's this thing where you finish bottom of the league (as Aberdeen have, multiple times) but, instead of being spared on account of a ludicrous technicality like Brockville not having their rows of seats in alphabetical order, you actually go down to the Championship with a bit of class and decorum left in tact.

@Death in VegasI'm outside the ground now where are u?

Or the appetite for Davidsonball………

Given the fact that the guy has been on trial for a week and they have jumped at the chance to sign him up, bodes well...the 2018 lot were not even seen by the manager before signing

That's true, I just wondered how you communicated in reality. Because every post makes you look weirder than the last.

Three concurrent and active game threads running. Box office.

Deserved for Mathews, player that puts his all into every game and is a bit of an unsung hero. Loyal player also.

A simple no would have been fine, you didn't all have to embarrass him with the facts. He's had a tough week with us winning last night, and his big team getting pumped on Tuesday

His record since January was 5 wins in 23 games (only 4 wins from 23 in 90 mins). There was a fair bit of chat about Alexander over on our thread yesterday after a statement was released on his behalf by the LMA in England. The consensus is pretty much that he's salvaged a fair part of his reputation by leaving when he has. Davidson's right in so much as the Sligo games cost Alexander his job but it was very much a "final straw" situation. Burrows was keen to point out that while the board were planning to discuss the manager as a result of getting bodied out of Europe it was actually Alexander that came to the board last Friday AM and it was that conversation that expedited his leaving and it's definitely a mutual decision rather than a straight up sacking. The word of the day last Friday was "toxicity" in so much as it was apparently the toxicity towards Alexander from the fans that prompted him to mutually consent. Which is fair enough, he'd clearly realised that he'd run out of road and it was pretty sensible reputation management on his part. Tbh, I'm not sure that the Motherwell fans reaction was any more "toxic" after Sligo than the reaction from Saints fans after Kelty but it seems like Davidson's been more willing to dig in while Alexander's definitely seen the bigger picture and realised that he'd no room left to manoeuvre (possibly even with the board). It's been interesting reading the parallels between Alexander with us since January and Davidson with you guys since...actually I've no idea how long it's been.

Scrolling through the Dutch press and found this cool piece on Guido van de Kamp... https://nos-nl.translate.goog/artikel/2439360-praktisch-vergeten-prof-in-nederland-maar-eeuwige-legende-van-dundee-united?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp

Would you like to point to where the online banking touched you?

Dundee United 1-0 AZ A Dutch team playing in Dundee, obviously I couldn't miss it. Atmosphere was excellent and a fully deserved win for the Arabs.

Fantastic result tbf. Reading the match report on the BBC, never knew the tie was played at Ibrox.

Next week in Amsterdam..

would probably do a job over Williamson tbf

Mind when folk said he wasnt what we needed now he’s bossing it against AZ Alkmaar in Europe lol

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