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Honestly beside myself that the club actually charges people to listen to a stream where the audio is of comparable quality to Alexander Graham Bell holding his new invention up to a cat being drowned in a bath.

Entirely fair point and I'd somehow wiped it from my memory. The subsequent season was obviously not worse for lack of preparation, as opposed to [gestures at everything else happening at the time]

Ayr United Football Club have been involved in precisely one (1) promotion playoff to the top flight this century. In their other playoffs (either relegation from or promotion to the second flight) the club has not demonstrably suffered from being in the playoff in terms of attracting players before their rivals. The most obvious example of this is that in two of the three seasons where the club were in the relegation playoffs and lost, they managed to put together a strong enough team to get immediately promoted again. So I ask: what's your evidence?

Scott Brown doesn't really strike me as the type to unceremoniously f**k off for three weeks in Torremolinos with his phone left at home as soon as the table is called, which would position him distinctly differently from the last four managers. Players should be getting looked at and brought into PCAs as the season draws to a close. The notion that playoffs somehow completely prevent a club with 100+ staff from carrying out any of its usual post-season activities is nonsensical.

There's no stress. Last season it was a case of having been at the top of the league with the best player in the league and nearly thrown it all away, and thus a chance of redemption. This time it's just free money with the potential of an exciting gubbing in Dingwall to cap it off. And a severely dimished chance of the world's baldest impromptu karaoke in the Hub afterwards.

To even be in with a potential shout at the playoffs after the first half of the season is a miracle. Couldn't see myself thinking of anything except relief if the team finished eighth still.

Not convinced that 40 will be enough considering that everyone is dropping points to everyone. The next four games are tantalising though. It's been pointed out that over the same period Partick have got a pretty horrible fixture list, which gives Brown a potential opening for the unthinkable.

I wasn't buying the notion that Partick had any chance of dropping out of the playoffs but looking at that, that's another -12 on the goal difference.

That's fairly unlikely given the state of the defence. If McAllister scores every game it'll help though. Maybe remind the Colonel he's not playing for his big club as well.

Five and six are close enough (a common proverb amongst some of Falkirk's P&B posters when excusing the number of digits they have on each hand). For what it's worth, I reckon that 1&2 will stay where they are, 3&4 will do the same, 2-9 will bounce around and Arbroath are smoke already. I reckon both sides in the playoffs will stay in this division in the end as well.

So you pick what football team you support based on who is most successful?

Tomi Adeloye, Kerr McInroy, Ian McCall before subsequently getting relegated in the same season, a bunch of advertising hoardings where there should be a fourth stand: your boys took a hell of a beating!

You just don't hear it enough these days folks.

It should be illegal for former Ayr players to score against Ayr United.

Because Albinson is away to Hearts obviously.

Having not been there for a while, is the boundary wall not currently incomplete due to the new turnstiles? It wouldn't take much to upgrade it from its present "Barlinnie as it was in 1882" state and you have to imagine that the owner has at least some interest in external optics as well as how it looks from the inside. The senior management Q&As were there to distract from the narcolepsy-inducing football of the era. Less need for the board to continually appear in front of fans when the fans aren't asking so often for them to be sacked.

I resemble that remark. This is absolutely true, but it's a hell of a lot easier to come out of your 20s as a doctor rather than a smack dealer if you were lucky enough to grow up in Doonfoot rather than Lochside. On the other hand, the number of folk I know from Lochside who are total c***s who think that they're better than you is zero.

Is that solar panels on the railway end? I thought it was Cappielow at first. You're going to be over the moon when the upper level gets put in the SRE.

Gondoh (who is currently banging them out) now has as his home ground a place called the Dripping Pan. This is wild to me. My mates are pretty much evenly divided between people I knew when I was 21 and people I met at work. The exceptions are pals of the above two groups that I got to know, or Internet randos (who again skew heavily towards the "people I knew when I was 21" demographic. People forgot about Game of Thrones immediately. It was pretty remarkable. Nevertheless, if Brown Town continues what it promises then things will die down pretty quickly. Much like the Roberts years were very quickly tamped down when jobby came in.

Wasn't given 9 when he signed but he's still a 9.

Not beating Section B FC when kick-it-as-hard-as-you-can had worked swimmingly twice before would be embarrassing IMO.

Sticking to a style of play that you don't have the personnel for is sometimes a reasonable option if the assessment is that by changing the style you won't be any more successful, but will be less interesting to watch. Hull and Blackpool's stints in the Premier League are good examples. If you're going to get relegated anyway trying to shitfest it against teams worth 200 times what you are, you might as well go out and try to score four goals instead. Airdrie probably have one of the lower budgets in this league but it's not a huge span outside of Dundee United. Other than their mysterious inability to beat the most predictable manager in the SPFL, it seems they have the personnel to play as they wish. Talking them up for it is just patronising. Compare to Queens Park, who were playing suicideball even though they have plenty of money and did perfectly well until the final hurdle last season. Sticking with that was imbecilic and rightly resulted in the management getting unceremoniously dumped.

Interesting in the post-match that Tomlinson's move to right back was on the urging of McGeady.

Only in Scotland would VAR be introduced during a cup round of 16 and then only employed for two specific ties.