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5 hours ago, Richey Edwards said:
Never watched the film, but the book is in my big "to be read" pile.
It's extremely short IIRC. Worth powering through. The film (Sheen and Colm Meaney's performances aside) was a wild attempt at making it a feel-good summer movie.
The Clough estate is fair enough in being irate that it portrays Clough as being completely psychotic but considering that he directly led to a player's death they can all join him in hell tbh.
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1 hour ago, Caledonian said:
A position achieved over 36 matches cannot be defined as a fluke. There were stretches of the season when we were top.
Yes, due to an unlikely miracle signing who was unplayable for the first third of the season.
It was not literally random chance but the team's consistency went entirely out of the window after Halloween (after which they never returned to the top) and on the last day they were two minutes from finishing fifth.
2 hours ago, ayrunitedfw said:- Do we know how much we actually lost from lack of hospitality this year? Surely income from the hub, prize money from finishing 2nd and our money from the trip to Ibrox should have more than made up for this.
This is almost too stupid to respond to, but do you realise that had the club had the Akinyemi money, and the Ibrox game, and significantly higher matchday revenue, that it would have had more money overall? That the SFA didn't arrange for Ayr's cup results based on their missing a stand?
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33 minutes ago, F.T.O.F.1910 said:
I can't believe a clubs aim, after finishing second, was just to stay up. Okay, It was one goal away from 5th and we were very unlikely to go on a promotion crusade... But surly the ambition was at least to secure mid table, rather than just stay up!? After L.B. fucked it, then left... at that point, it was just about staying up, but not at the start of the season.
Second was a fluke and the club wasn't prepared for it, and was hardly going to throw money at promotion the following season with a steep drop in matchday revenue from the missing terrace and hospitality. Fair to say the aim was still not to scrape eighth like it was two season previous, hence Bullen's exit, but nothing about this season ever screamed ambition. (Barring Brown, maybe, possibly, hopefully.)
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2 hours ago, D'Jaffo said:
You mean in the usual sense?
Apologies, I read "chased" in the sense of "told to f**k off" as opposed to "pursued".
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34 minutes ago, ayrunitedfw said:
The fact that we chased Brian Graham and then Billy McKay last season
Interesting use of "fact" there.
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1 hour ago, ComradeDiego said:
Think we drew 1-1, Andy Aitken scored an absolute beauty of an own goal IIRC?
It was an absolute beauty.
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Any big name team would send their U-16s anyway. And it's not like Napoli are going to bring much of an away support, saving maybe a bus from Largs.
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16 hours ago, railwayend said:
The same military that’s kept you tucked up in your bed (single) safe for how ever long . Ukraine’s getting hot you could show us what you got? If that cowardly crap was bait you got me baby !
Is there a rule that there always has to be exactly one of these codgers on here at any given time?
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Just now, Ayrutd1910 said:
Looking ahead what's the bet its Falkirk away first game of the season
Nothing better than ringing in the new season in front of 202,000 fans. Would be just like playing the Old Firm if Ayr had gotten promoted.
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9 minutes ago, muZZa__44 said:Quote
A regular in the first half of this season, Albinson kept five clean sheets in 22 appearances in all competitions in Season 2023/24.
And there it is.
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I do feel bad for Albinson, who seems to have pretty much thrown his career away in the space of two weeks.
I also don't see this as indicative of who's staying, merely that there are a handful of players who were already informed they weren't even getting called in to talk about their futures once the season ended.
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2 hours ago, ryanayr1987 said:
Crawford heading back to firhill from the looks of it!
But but but they've got playoffs to deal with! It is absolutely impossible to do any transfer business until playoffs are concluded!
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In reality it's very rare that a team promoted out of this league is not significantly better, or at least significantly better-funded, than the rest of the league. If Raith had won it this time that would have been an interesting test.
It does make next season more interesting as unless West Lothian Council leave a truly record-breaking number of brown envelopes under park benches over the summer then there won't be a clear day 1 favourite.
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Livi don't have any money, and were fucking honking this season. Fair enough if they had gone down with a fight but they've barely scraped 20 points. Time for them to join Accies in no man's land.
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46 minutes ago, diegomarahenry said:
I didn’t realise there were so many McCall flatearthers. A lucky manager who’s assistants/coaches were the real brains etc etc
Did McCall shit in your shoe?
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The SFA will probably just relegate them anyway, given the fergie-time decision to just cancel the highland-lowland playoff.
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10 hours ago, Pete the Jakey said:
If you combine relegation with the failure of the battery storage scheme, it will likely be the end of the road for Caley. What would you like to see where the stadium once stood? An IKEA would be nice.
A Greggs within the city limits would be nice.
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2000+ average attendance for Ayr given that the main terrace was shut for the entire season and the football resembled being kicked in the bollocks repeatedly for most of it is quite the achievement.
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2 minutes ago, stevep56 said:
Had not realised that McCall had kept Clyde up. Did well as they looked destined for bottom spot when he took over.
An incredible achievement tbh. Totally wasted on a sex pest caravan.
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Just now, F.T.O.F.1910 said:
Make the most of no play off pish.
There was nothing stopping Bullen from doing anything while the playoffs were on. Pre-Bosman, managers would be expected to be handling signings all year round. Yet another myth that's been built up.
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17 minutes ago, Superhursty7 said:
When do we expect the retained/released list, Monday/Tuesday?
Do you mean from VOR, Twitter, YouTube, or the website? A week on Thursday for the first, July for the next two, Christmas for the last.
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Just now, D'Jaffo said:
If he goes then I’m not sure who’s readily available to come in but I think Brown will want someone who can hold the ball up and compete physically with centre halves.
Brown's words after the match were literally that McRoberts is the only centre forward on the books right now, which at least does something to push back the horrible idea that the club is going to try to lead with the academy players next season.
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Just now, Roxanne's man said:
Tomlinson for McGinty was an odd one for me
Brown has all but carved into the North Stand concrete that he doesn't think McGinty is there when the going gets tough. At the very least he's going to be stripped of the captaincy next season.
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It is genuinely weird to feel better in a close season after finishing seventh than after finishing second.
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The Ultimate Super Ayr Thread
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Just noticed that the SLO job spec is in Comic Sans.