Hursty

It's Morton getting Strapp and immediately improving on us defensively plus getting goals from his throw ins despite him being out the game for god knows how long that annoys me. I do wonder if a lot of our budget is tied up in rent for the guys that come up - is that included? For example - someone comes up from down south on loan and stays in a flat provided by the club (rented off a third party) - he then buys his own place in Glasgow as he gets a longer term deal. Is the rent saved on him not needing a place a saving of about £500 a month from the playing budget?

Top after 15 games and haven't won a league game by more than one goal all season which seems pretty unlikely

Ach as long as its us and Arbroath that go down and Falkirk come up then at least we should have a budget to have a promotion battle next season Edit - Raith love a late comeback and winner anyway so I'm not even remotely worried about tonight's game yet

We've avoided relegation on the last day of the season twice in 2/3 seasons and it looks as though this one is going along a similar trajectory. So it does seem like the 2nd place finish was a fluke. In the short to even medium term I'd like for that to be flipped around and that we are thinking "aim for playoffs, relegation battle is bad" rather than "expect relegation playoffs, playoffs are good"

League table starting to look really grim

This will be 5 weeks since I went to the Morton game and incredibly I've still got absolutely zero motivation to go, that honestly still feels very very recent. Will end up there of course but it's a tough 22 quid plus pints to presumably be pretty shite. Probably agree with 1-1 seeing as half the Arbroath defence Will be up doing the night feeds by the sound of it. Ayr to have more possession and shots

Reserves 4-0 up v Airdrie at HT, Viviani Bryden Allan and Dempsey with the goals. Musonda started as well.

He's the example I use anytime I'm talking to Rangers fans (which as the dad of an 8 year old paying locally depressingly everyone i talk to seems to be) but they should have signed him instead of donking so much money on the strikers they have. Was delighted that my 8 year old that's now a massive Ayr and Scotland fan got to jump about Smiths tonight to celebrate a goal scored by someone he never saw play but has a photo with and knows is an Ayr legend. That's good for me

Bullen will be away after a defeat at Cappielow on 2nd January sends us bottom

6 home games in a row without a win including that embarrassing collapse today should be enough surely. Sadly won't even be close - Got to hope Morton sack Imrie because other than the guaranteed 6 points off Ayr if they keep him cos Bullen is shit feart of him I don't see them getting much more

Its 100% due to who puts more yards in at training.

He's a disgrace of a striker. Swap him for Robbie fucking Muirhead and we would be comfortably pushing for the top 4

Aye based on this so far even their eventual 12 points against us might not be enough

Annan and Hurst both on the scoresheet in this one it seems - some decent attacking options to call on back then!

Possible "not training hard so doesn't play" / "not playing so not training hard" situation going on perhaps re Amartey? Personally I'd say he needs a few games to get himself out of scenario B.

I missed the Inverness game and went to the rest. I'm missing this one. You are welcome fellow Ayr fans

Because the manager is a fucking idiot. Spent the whole pre match and post match press conference greeting about how Morton are big and strong and score from set pieces yet doesn't attempt to play the game a different way. There's a story there - we eventually got the one about Pendlebury but can't be the same with Amarety as he's still here.

Pass, pass, pass, eventually pass wide, cross, easy header away for Baird or Broadfoot. Rinse and repeat. They'll never have an easier game

They can stick their new stand up their arse - it's facing the wrong way.

Absolutely dreadful so far. Big second half needed as this has 0-1 all over it

Morton are already members of the very exclusive "teams Mark McKenzie has scored against" club.

To be fair it sounds like he had an absolute horror show at Morton and he's then been taken out the firing line. I think Bullen does well in that press conference, even has to jump in early on- but can't help but thinking it's literally the one time I'd rather have had Callum asking the "well lee / elicha" very easy loaded questions. Surely the first time you send the students in asking questions you stick McGinty in there who is totally at ease with whatever gets asked. That was more awkward than it had to be .

I'm actually pretty confident. Not said that for quite a while.

Enjoy this good feeling while it lasts - we are at home on Saturday

I thought Young had signed on loan for the full season but probably wrong - there was a lot of movement in small space of time. Pretty much agree with everything here- Syla is good, Senga is a must keep, and despite his constant misses McKenzie is better than Rose IMO