Trogdor

Ohhhh, Ed Davey For those who haven't seen this it's honestly like something from Iannucci's mind. Davey in Frome: Time to get the clowns out of Number 10

It is the sort of proven player I've been talking about. The injury situation is a worry but he has an off the field role as well. Hopefully it will also see an end to the too little and too poor argument trotted out by some on here!

Good cameo for Robbo there.

If he can stay injury free he will be a great addition at this level. It's a big if mind you. Murphy on one wing and McGeady on the other. We just need that front man to link it together!

I'd bite your hand off for that.

That is a thoroughly depressing thought and doesn't even bear thinking about. I am curious what the delay is, it can't all be part of the 'plan' because we're beyond the point of integrating so many into the squad successfully for the first league game (1 or 2 I could understand). Have we missed out on our primary targets? Are players holding off until nearer the start of the season (I can sort of understand that for loans but not for those with no contract). There really hasn't been many rumours either (except for the fantasy tries at signing Graham and McKay). I need some signing excitement and not more construction porn. Come on Ayr, do something!

I wouldn't underestimate the vitriol towards the ULEZ and its expansion. There is no solace to be found in Uxbridge for the Tories. Their candidate (now MP) basically campaigned on local issues (opposition to the expansion of the ULEZ). Unless something catastrophic happens they are on course to lose the home counties to the Lib Dems and the 'Red Wall' back to Labour. I'm pretty sure there are signs of tactical voting as well as the electorate are fed up of the Tories. If you average the three results it's in line with the overall polls where the Tories are 20 points down. The Tories are toast. Expect them to pull every culture war lever they have, attack migrants, bribe the electorate with tax cuts and rail against green issues (like ULEZ). It's the only trick they have left.

Did the share the wrong info graphic? That looks a bit like a rising sea level scenario to me. Odd that it only affects the North West right enough.

What an absolute riddy this whole thing is: Banks are duplicitous arseholes Forage is a duplicitous arsehole They are welcome to one another.

Surely to f**k? First league game is two weeks tomorrow. Not long to integrate 4/5 starters into the team.

Aye Uncle Ian loved playing a CM out wide. You are right that we had very strong options in the centre of midfield. I don't think we ever really played Crawford where he is best. Does he play CM for Morton?

It's not quite as straightforward as that though. Crawford was constantly played out of position and didn't really impact the game. I blame Uncle Ian for the stick Crawford got tbh.

Happy World Chess Day! https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/66233770

You've confused Bullen with this guy, easily done.

These are the sort of players we should be looking at imo. A bit of quality that can go straight into the starting 11.

A football's club product is effectively payroll, its the team. There are very few regular businesses that are comparable in that regard. Every club's single biggest expenditure is payroll. In terms of the 70% - Financial Fair Play is supposedly bringing in a cap whereby player payroll is capped at 70% of turnover. It's hard to know for our club as we don't publish the detailed data. The top league has clubs running at rates of 80%+ through to mid 60%. There are some exceptions to this but broadly that covers it. Again that is only player payroll (so won't include non-football staff). In this league you'd have to check certain clubs, Partick publish more detail. They ran at 75% to year ended of May 2022 (that's total payroll so not just the footballers). Given they were a bawhair from running out of money this season I'd imagine that has gone up. I'm sure Dundee United ran at well over 100% last time in the Championship as they wanted back out (they had a loss of £3.8m or something like that). Any shareholders of the club will know as they get an Income & Expenditure statement and can do the calculation.

This fucker is ruining MVB, for me!

"Its the fucking left back"

For financial year to end of 30 June 2023 it's not unreasonable to expect our Turnover to be closer to £1.8m due to the points you have made wrt. increased prize money (from 8th to 2nd in league & Scottish cup). The Akinyemi sale won't be in the next set of accounts but the one after. As it was banked after 30 June. Either way, there should be the funds available for 4 quality signings.

It's not public information because the club lodge small company accounts with companies house which don't include an Income Statement, they only have a Balance Sheet. If you look closely at the Pomanda data those are all estimates for the P&L rather than actuals. The Balance Sheet is actuals (as this is publicly available). You can check companies house, the club don't publish turnover: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/SC005950/filing-history I think VOR is right on this one.

Where are your numbers from? Below is from VOR when our last results to June 2022 (were published), "Turnover in the year to June 30, 2022 doubled to £1.4m in the first post-pandemic season." www.dailyrecord.co.uk/ayrshire/ayr-united-accounts-show-positive-29586210.amp

You've under estimated our turnover by a mere £400k!

Wattoo was spot on earlier, there is no way the squad as it stands is costing as much as last season in terms of wages. There will be money to make additions and it should be 4/5 quality additions as well. Right now, there is a real dearth of quality in the starting 11.