wuffster

Exactly, we've all seen that interview before (too many times). The man responsible for preparing individuals and the team criticises the individuals and team. Not a great sign. I'm sure there are some good things happening around the club (not construction-related!) but it will always be judged on what the first team is doing. "Finishing second" has been doing some heavy lifting in the close season, let's hope it's not the club's sole rejoinder going forward.

Lighten up FFS. We finished 2nd! Everything in the garden is rosy!

Turn left, drive 200 yards and turn around at the roundabout. That should have been a no-right-turn years ago!

I'd love to see Airdrie, Arbroath and Queens Park all relegated. Suppose I'll have to settle for the first two and QP providing the buffer next season.

Ahh! Good for you, that's the sweetspot at the moment. I hope it goes well and you can keep doing the Ayr home games!

Good highlights from @LeodhasXD . Nice vantage point!

Hopefully a thing of the past given the last couple of match highlights. Yeah, they're a touch out of focus but totally watchable - well done to whoever is doing them. A big improvement over nothing!

I know. The shop and tickets are outsourced in the hope that they work. The club website is a shitshow.

Hush your mouth. My favourite piece of merchandise! The whole club website is a nightmare vision of the internet. Done by a volunteer though so move along, nothing to see here. Also, why is the club still using twitter?

Me too. (I felt I was a bit harsh with my last comment as well!)

Sorry Oscar. The lack of bons mots is not stopping anyone reading (or indeed commenting on) P&B. Feel free to improve the discourse at your leisure.

That was a terrible watch this afternoon. Plodding going forwards, awful in defence. The club better hope people keep buying season tickets based on blind faith because that dreck won't shift many.

I know. The lack of entertainment (at home esp.) has scunnered me. What worries me more (and not all to do with bullen) is some of the recruitment. There’s an extra layer of decision makers on the football side that now don’t leave when the head coach does. Interesting to see if that works better next season. Also makes an assistant for the head coach less likely imo.

The interviews are bizarre but who knows what's up. I did enjoy the Ayr post-match interviewer not asking the chances of Akinyemi being availble next week but instead going full Nancy Drew and asking Bullen when he knew Akinyemi wasn't fit (who cares!) Having bought tickets for both legs of the playoff semi - in an uncharacteristic fit of optimism this season - I suppose I'll mooch along. Hopefully it's the last time I'll see Bullen and a few players in the flesh.

I cannot wait for more of the same next season! Without a 20-goal striker.

Presumably he's helping out as kit man? Surely...?

They will absolutely let Bullen keep playing them. To do anything else would be 1. expensive 2. an admission that something is wrong with the setup Neither is going to happen. Some of the recruitment has been good (Akinyemi, Dempsey, Kirk, Albinson, Chalmers etc.) but some has been abject. There's also been a blurring of responsibility about who actually signs and recruits players. (No doubt some in the club see this as a feature not a bug.) Who signed O'Connor or JML when the Head Coach seems dead set against playing them or even using a system where wingers might be useful? I only see next season being more of the same in a presumably tougher division. Lots to look forward to! #weareunited

Beat me to it! Don't give Bullen any ideas FFS

Careful now. You'll take 5th place and be thankful for it. The "plan" decrees it so.

That's a fair response. I hope you are right and I am wrong.

Imagine the temerity of "supporters who hang on weekly results and performances" hoping for results this season and not at some unspecified future date! How very dare they! Some have drunk deep of the Smith/Mathie koolaid and that's fine for them I suppose. The relentless boosterism despite poor entertainment and missed opportunities is odd.

I was going to be much less charitable. I suppose we'll have a few years in the Championship (hopefully) to find out. It is hard to square the club's rhetoric with its actions. Some of the recruitment has been excellent and some has been rubbish - business as usual at this level. I am surprised at how much good faith there still is with the current management team.

I feel sorry for the analyst. I have seen plenty of poor Ayr games and I'm glad I don't need to do that this season. It will be quite dispiriting. I also Not wrong.