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15 minutes ago, TheScarf said:
That's what I was thinking. Full time footballers only train for 15 hours a week. Unless he's a one man band I fail to see how he can't delegate when he's at training every day.
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.
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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?
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42 minutes ago, Ayrutd1910 said:
Stood in the Prince of Wales
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.
4 hours ago, AyrExile said:I see this word hater getting thrown around. Please feel free to highlight any examples as almost everyone rates Chalmers on here
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).
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1 minute ago, AyrExile said:
It's not quite as simple as that. Why has a player with attacking technical ability beyond this league not found a home and be among the first names on the team sheet?
"Logan Chalmers is bad at football because he plays for Ayr United" is a new and novel entry to the Chalmers hater pantheon.
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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.
20 hours ago, parsforlife said:I think it once(If? It’s livi after all) the legal stuff settles down then it might be convenient for him to move on, whoever actually gains a grip of the club is going to want to put their mark on the club and having someone so heavily entrenched involved may not be desirable, especially if results aren’t right
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.
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8 hours ago, D'Jaffo said:
Probably an argument now that he’s a better left back for us than centre back.
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.
17 minutes ago, Caledonian said:Based on his reaction at the end of the game I honestly think he would be delighted to stay. He turned to the Somerset Road End and he was celebrating as wildly as the most rabid of fans.
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.
35 minutes ago, Peil said:Loath to bring this up, but the wee p***ks in the SRE who think it's a laugh to fling pies and the like about the place can get tae f**k. Last three games I've had stuff whizzing by or hitting me and folk around me.
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.
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Just now, Only me... said:
I think we will still see this player but not as many as we have had with Bullen. Brown seems to have no problem in dropping those who don't impress. We obviously need to gamble on some unknowns, but learn to restrict the numbers from previous years.
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.
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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.0 -
Just now, D'Jaffo said:
We also managed to play large parts of this season with absolutely no protection from the midfield.
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).
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25 minutes ago, UpInTheAyr said:
57 goals conceded in the league this season, second highest in the league. I know it's a bit more complex than that but it can't be ignored.
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.
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33 minutes ago, diegomarahenry said:
He’s out of contract in the summer so Celtic won’t give a f**k. If hes not been signed up by now, he’s a free agent in 3 weeks.
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.
11 minutes ago, Only me... said:Add in Mckenzie and Bryden and that's the core of our team next year, leaving enough room for some loans to come in alongside Dowds signature.
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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.
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37 minutes ago, ComradeDiego said:
Obviously im delighted about that result but the feeling of dread still lingers after that Caley win
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.
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4 hours ago, Thumper said:
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.
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.
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Five different scorers, two penalties, away fans gurning because they disagreed with some of the officiating in a 5-0 shellacking. Pleasing.
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20 minutes ago, Iain said:
They should have a chat with the guys at Raith, who always seem to have a stable stream going.
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.
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7 minutes ago, mugen_power said:
If Airdrie stick another couple by the Pars and we stick another couple by Arbroath then we'll go 5th
It'll still go to the wire unless Queens Park drop at least four points in the next two games.
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2 hours ago, Ayrmail said:
Considering the way energy prices alone have gone up it wouldn’t be a surprise if there is an increase in tickets
You'd have to be extremely brave to charge more to get into Somerset Park due to the increase in the heating bill.
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4 hours ago, Rhys McCabe Hype Train said:
Would be funny if Arbroath win this, eh?
On the upside, that would Ayr would still have at least two trips to Gayfield next season.
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13 hours ago, diegomarahenry said:
Since McDaid and Forrest left, we’ve had a series of duds. Gondoh, Zanatta, JML….Chalmers and Murphy have been the break in the chain, Chalmers doesn’t do the spade work Brown wants and Murphy doesn’t play a full 90.
McDaid is another example of the Uncle Ian pixie dust. Fine at Ayr (highlight being the Tannadice Slaughter as always). dropped off a cliff afterwards.
[edit: on some level I understand that this was now six years ago, but I still can't really accept it]
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11 hours ago, mugen_power said:
Are Airdrie not the hybrid part/full time model that we were in the season we got relegated?
They are, but it seems to be a quite different setup from the carpet fitters and fishermen that define Scottish part-time football.
55 minutes ago, yorkshirepud said:Maybe the reason for attacking the Somerset Road end in the first half is down to us scoring first in only one of the last 6 games, at Inverness. Maybe Brown is trying to get us to actually take the lead and build on it, rather than having to chase the game every week. It hasn't worked yet, as we have conceded the first goal in every home game since we started it, but it's worth a thought.
This is probably correct, but you can't blame the fans for being annoyed with it, and it also has the exact opposite of the intended psychological effect if the team trudge into the changing room at halftime a goal down knowing that they're shooting into the opposition end next.
4 hours ago, Only me... said:He's one of those players that definitely has something, but just not quite enough end product for our game, like the Irish messi last year.
Ironic that the club got rid of an irish winger with no end product considering who subsequently got brought in.
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2 hours ago, Superhursty7 said:
If we stay up, I think we can officially say the yo yo years are behind us
Ludicrous. Falkirk will finish above Ayr next season. There won't be a part-time side to kick around. Next season will be a relegation battle from the start.
Any team that spends more than a single season at this level is in utter peril. It wasn't that long ago at all that ICT dropping into League One was preposterous.
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11 minutes ago, Beastie Russell said:
Noticed Graeme Mathie is now chairman of the local Youth League in Ayrshire, is he wangling for a blazer at Hampden ?
Step 1 of this nefarious plan for world domination was moving from Hibs to Ayr United.
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Just now, diegomarahenry said:
I’ve seen some of the other theories to it and they don’t really hold up. Like the pitch is maybe better that end….for warming up? It’s better for stretching on? They’d prefer to attack a plowed field in the first half? The pitch is in good condition. The weather, it’s more sheltered that end? Nope.
Maybe we’ll get to ask someone at the club once they break cover on Friday to ask for season ticket money.It'll be almost entirely psychological, like everything else in football. The club now actually has staff for that sort of thing, so one would hope that they were given the chance to work their magic instead of indulging a squad that has basically been afraid of winning games at its own ground for about 18 months.
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The Arbroath Thread
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And crawling under floorboards etc is not exactly complementary to three hours a day running up sand dunes or whatever.