Jeff Venom

This really should be an excellent appointment for Clyde but some things to bear in mind from his time at Ayr: He inherited a dreadful state of affairs from Mark Roberts with Ayr heading straight for L2. He made several signings immediately but we still only stayed up on the last day with a win at Forfar. The following summer he built a quality L1 squad that was still 'PT' but went 14 games unbeaten between mid August - end November, eventually taking us up via the playoffs behind a strong Dunfermline team. Once he managed to get us returned to full time football he built a ridiculously entertaining team (for us, relatively speaking). He's quite reliant on players who played for him in the past. Which can go either way because you can tell players want to play for him but it depends where they are in there own career; he plucked a guy like Jamie Adams essentially out of amateur football who went on to become one of our most important (and loved) players over a few seasons. We also had Paul Cairney and Gary Harkins who didn't work out. I'm not sure who is still around who would fit that profile. Craig Moore is still only 29 and at Darvel and if he's over his injury problems it wouldn't surprise me if McCall tries to get him...injury-free and on his day he's probably still too good for L2 and McCall absolutely loved him at Ayr. I'm not sure how significant this'll be at L2 level (with respect) but it's important he gets his coaching team right. If he nails that then he should have you absolutely humming, eventually.

That's great, like that's possibly once in a lifetime stuff.

Same, absolutely zero success.

Fair enough, wyscout says 6.

I'm not trying to talk down Akinyemis impact, I'm showing it, with context. I said it's lazy to discount the contribution made by everyone else, while saying that Dipo being exceptional and others taking up slack can both be true. I don't know where you're getting your data but what I'm looking at says he got 6 assists in the league, with videos to go along with those. I've never mentioned the cups anywhere.

He had 6 assists in the league, which is less than Jack McMillan, Kyle Turner, and Dom Thomas (obviously not their teams top scorer), and one more than Brian Graham (Thistles top scorer). I don't know if 6 assists is a 'ridiculous' number of assists or not, but he's in and around the same numbers as Simon Murray and Brian Graham.

That's correct, but only one team had two players reaching double digits in the league, Queens Park. Grant Savoury was their second top scorer, a midfielder. Mullen was ours. To make it remotely fair taking away Dipos goals you'd need to strip out all of the goals by each other teams top goalscorer too and see how the results would've landed. I.e., it's a fucking pointless exercise but the data is out there for those inclined to make an argument out of it.

Ayr had 17 different goal scorers last season, same as Dundee and Partick. Yes Dipo' total was more than Graham, Robinson and Murray, but it's pure laziness going back to the well over and over again that Ayrs 'success' last season can be reasoned away just by Akinyemi being a class apart. Both can be true: Akinyemi was class, and the rest of the squad all played their parts. Albinson had the joint most clean sheets in the league last year. Must've actually been Dipo in a mask.

It was painful watching us play one of the worst football teams I've ever seen at this level (Morton) and the only plan being get the ball to Chalmers and hope for some magic. Mortons two league wins have come vs Ayr.

Yeah and it's also okay to not want to be a manager, being in the limelight and the firing line 24/7. Even if he is management material.

If shop staff are getting abused then it's time to name and shame and get them the f**k away from the club.

I don't know why whether a football manager is hard as f**k or not has anything to do with anything. There's plenty wrong but ma da could batter your da isn't it.

Ordinarily I'm not that keen on players taking interim charge but you'd think Murphy and McGeady between them would be able to get a better tune out of this team than Bullen. I think we could have Dundee Utds defence and still concede at a hilarious rate.

Maybe throwing the players under the bus last week wasn't a great idea Lee.

Dunno what bubble I'm living in but I didn't think this would come true for all to see inside 24 hours.

It's completely possible to remember and be grateful for those who had no choice while not buying in to the present-day weaponised performance of wearing a cut out piece of red card.

Clearly it would never have sold out but when Ayr played Killie at Hampden in league cup semi, the starting line for sales was...wait for it...the segregation fence in the north stand at the half way line. Why can't similar be done here? If so inclined one might think it's a psychological trick for the teams coming out of the tunnel at the neutral national stadium and seeing a wall of opposition fans. On tv the SPFL gets to showcase these big big huge huge clubs as their only selling point when scrambling around to find anyone to sponsor our competitions despite brands probably being turned off associating with brazen displays of bigotry.

Wasn't there a chart flying around recently showing that Scottish football has by far and away the highest per capita supporters attending professional matches, in Europe? Like by a country mile? It's class that the governing body never does anything to piss off all of these supporters.

It's embarrassing, nevermind any logistical requirements or impediments for supporters of other teams.

That there's still a "Rangers end" and "Celtic end" at the neutral venue is a laugh in itself.

Quite possibly. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle but his instinct to protect his opponent whether it was he or Rey who messed up, or neither, was quite impressive to me.

Noticed a bit of online content praising Logan Paul for saving Rey's life at that spot off the ropes. At the time I thought f**k sake fucking youtuber in the wrong place nearly killing one of the goats, given on the balance of probabilities the 48 year old veteran who can be put in the ring with anyone probably was the one who executed the move correctly. Either way though, fair play to Paul for reacting. Regardless of who got it wrong he reacted, caught him, and transitioned pretty seamlessly it into another spot. That's experienced veteran stuff that and I grudgingly doff my feathered hat to him (unless of course there's the third option of it was a carefully crafted work to generate even more online content for Paul ). Eta: I flip back and forth with Logan Paul. Detestable POS who in normal times should be absolutely nowhere near a wwe title belt. He's a heat magnet, huge online reach, and is way, way better than he has any right to be. Plus he clearly loves it. And he's having top stars in the ring with him, so he's obviously doing and saying the right things backstage to get himself over there too. I will never, ever buy a bottle of Prime.

There's guy on the Facebook thread who has basically told the Zambians you're too poor for these jerseys anyway, after originally getting the country wrong, and doubled down on it. It was so predictable as soon as it hit there'd instantly be a small pocket of misery projected on to something so trivial, but that has taken the biscuit for me.

LOYALIST emblazoned on a flag right opposite the TV camera was near enough it for me.

Ah well, same old stuff in the end. LA Knight demonstrates he deserves to hang with the top guys though, whether or not he remains there is another thing.