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Does it fit the trolleys at Sainsburys though?

It's not faux outrage, it's just bafflement that this is a comment made at 10am on a Thursday morning at not at 3am on a Sunday morning.

What?

I don't think it's fair to say that Rose has only been scoring against part-time teams. He was scoring against Falkirk, in a game he was playing for Hamilton; chances are both of them will be in this division next season. I get the absolute fear whenever people suggest that potential strikers might be "competing" with Bryden and McKenzie for a position. If Bryden or McKenzie are seen as a better attacking option than a given forward at this moment in time (as opposed to when Bryden arrives back from the future with a leather jacket and an eye patch as Cyber-Bryden) then that striker can be considered to have failed at their job. Comparing Stevie Bell and Jamie Adams to Nick McAllister is a far more grevious insult than comparing any given striker to Bryden.

Whittaker was much better going forward than defensively. Admittedly that wasn't at this level but bombing fullbacks who can't really defend are not really a highlight of the Scottish secind tier. Even if Ayr pick up zero more points this season it'd still require multiple other teams to massively buck their trends. Barring freakish results this weekend it should be practically if not mathematically sealed.

And crawling under floorboards etc is not exactly complementary to three hours a day running up sand dunes or whatever.

It's entirely dependent on what the job is though isn't it? Marketing consultancy is a lot easier to fit into a travel-mandatory physical job like playing football than e.g. plastering.

Even if they cover the pitch that's five days without light for the lawn. Is there genuinely no space left on Heathfield Road these days? Could they not lift the anti-traveller boulders behind Asda?

How long has the Ice of Ales been gone now? Like the Odeon Bar, a permanent memory of my childhood that I never actually got to partake in. Ach it wasn't meant seriously. Just one of these regular debates on here, which runs the gamut from "best player at the club" to "would be happy to see him turning up for Falkirk next season" (for what its worth the correct position is 90% of the way towards the former).

"Logan Chalmers is bad at football because he plays for Ayr United" is a new and novel entry to the Chalmers hater pantheon.

Going to be incredibly funny when a team who got beat four (4) times in the league by a fairly honking Ayr United get promoted to the Video Assisted Refereeing League. Livingston FC is a club built entirely out of brown envelopes, so that won't be dying down soon, and Martindale's baggage means that in the absence of footballing results he's maybe not going to get a lot of offers.

This is not a sensible argument. If all the goalkeepers were injured and Musonda was the only one willing to put on the gloves then you'd probably want to play him rather than just not having a goalie. it doesn't mean that he should be played there preferentially. Body language certainly means something but it was also repeatedly used as an explanation for why Josh Mullin would sign back on for this season. Or for why Adeloye would stay. etc etc. I know the general consensus is that dogs and baton charges are a bad vibe for the home end but there needs to be at least some culture of fear to keep feral teenagers in line.

Pretty obvious that the problem to a significant extent was what the club was willing to offer. Domestic targets knew what they could get elsewhere and so went and got it. Doesn't excuse the previous regime for signing players sight unseen.

Scott Brown has comprehensively seen me off here by being baited by Callum into complaining about the wind and refusing to do so. Also, as a late entry to the shooting-in-the-wrong end saga: perfectly sensible to want to swap ends for the first half if it means not kicking into a coastal hurricane.

And also with a continually rotating cast of forwards who struggle to score half a dozen goals a season. This is very much the year zero of any alleged five year plans (i.e. the "before" part).

Not that there weren't a few instances of goalkeepers contriving to throw the ball into their own nets, but it could easily be argued that this could have been worse. The ruinous decision to somehow worsen the fullback situation in the summer along with the no-better-than-mediocre choices available at centra half wouldn't have left Craig Gordon with many clean sheets.

A free agent whose CV has "Celtic" on it. It's not as if he's going to stacking shelves in Aldi if Ayr don't give him a deal. If he stays then it'll be the Brown effect more than anything considering that Ayr demonstrated over the last two seasons that they weren't offering remotely competitive contracts at this level.

Surely Josh Clarke is not going to be especially keen to leave Celtic to sign for a Championship side who more often than not are fighting relegation anyway? I'd be extremely hesitant to ascribe any long-term transfer strategy to Brown based on the handful of players he managed to get in when he started, which to reiterate was after the transfer window had shut.

I'm an eternal pessimist but for Queens Park to escape the playoffs at Ayr's expense they need to hope Ayr lose all three remaining games and either pick up seven points themselves (from an admittedly easier run) or get six and overcome -6 GD. This is off the back of having lost three on the bounce in which they've scored zero and conceded eight. In addition to this, ICT would _also_ need to get at least five points, and Morten at least one. I fully expect Ayr to get pumped by Dundee United and Partick and to be looking for a home win on the last day to be mathematically safe. But if QP don't pull off a really quite unlikely big win at EEP next weekend (let alone ICT needing to also quite likely beat Raith) then it'll be all but settled.

specifically this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QJoxVYTIgc (though he's opted to just dub music on instead of the usual incredibly clipped phone mic audio this time) This was 5-0 going on 45-0.

Five different scorers, two penalties, away fans gurning because they disagreed with some of the officiating in a 5-0 shellacking. Pleasing.

They should have a chat with the guy who uploads full coverage on his fucking phone less than ten minutes after every game is finished. At least his sound never cuts out.

It'll still go to the wire unless Queens Park drop at least four points in the next two games.

You'd have to be extremely brave to charge more to get into Somerset Park due to the increase in the heating bill.