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edinburghhonestman

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  1. You can see the value in having an assistant. Whitaker was constantly taking notes and he and Brown were constantly talking throughout the game. They said they worked well together and although that's just the first match, you can see positive signs.
  2. It was tremendous! As a part time team in the top division we were afraid of no-one. It's difficult to imagine anyone from your time watching Ayr being capable of breaking in to Ally's team of around 1969.
  3. Not read through the entire thread so apologies if it's been done, but can managers please stop taking about "this football club" and using it in every sentence. "This club" is fine. We know you're talking about football. It's crept in over the last few years and does my head in.
  4. Is there something you're doing in training that's contributing to the injuries? Or maybe more likely, something you're not doing in terms of injury prevention? I know you've got a part-time squad but maybe they should have a strength and conditioning program to do at home? Your situation seems so bad there's surely more to it than bad luck or coincidence. Best of luck going forward!
  5. But the last folk the football authorities care about are the fans.
  6. I was initially for Courts, with Bowyer or Brown as alternatives. The more I've thought about it, I'm now in the Brown camp. If I was interviewing Courts I'd have been digging in to why he left both Kelty and Dundee United. Neither seems that straightforward.
  7. 4 of those 8 goals scored by the goal machine that is Mark McKenzie.
  8. Reminds me of years ago (1990s?) we played Celtic at Parkhead. I think it was in the League Cup. After the warm up the referee ordered us to change out of our white tops and black shorts. The only other kit we had was all blue and when we ran out their fans went mental. Sadly, we lost.
  9. He took over a side that avoided relegation on the final day of the season and took them to 13th the following season along with their best ever FA Cup run where they beat QPR and Sheffield Wednesday.
  10. Not keen on Gray but I'd be ok with either Courts or Brown. It's going to be a challenge to keep us up but if they can, I think either has a fair chance of building something over a couple of seasons.
  11. Given that we're probably speaking to 2 or 3 folk on a shortlist we couldn't really have them all in the stand.
  12. Nearly half of Mark McKenzie's goals must have come when Davie White was caretaker. What sorcery is this?
  13. I'd like to have seen Tomlinson and Watret a bit more involved from the bench or loaned out to League 1/2 at the start of the season.
  14. There's a bit of a lesson there for us in terms of player development. He'd had about 8 bit part appearances in his career and then gets a bit of a run with us. You can see how much he's come on in a fairly short time. We seem reluctant to give our Academy players the same opportunity in the team, or to fix them up with a decent loan that might challenge them.
  15. Puts his tenure in to some perspective. He came in at a time when we desperately needed someone to keep us up after the Hopkin and Duffy fiasco and he did improve things. To be fair to Bullen he was prepared to give up a good thing in Sheffield to take us on and for that he has my thanks. After the high water mark of the home demolition of Queen's Park and a poor January window though, he's found things tough. Without Chalmers and with Mullin losing a bit of form teams found it easier to close down Dipo and we limped in to the playoffs. This season has been a bit of a car crash, though. The recruitment has been poor, there's been no discernable shape and he's been pretty random with the substitutions. We've been sliding back to where we were under the previous 3 managers so clearly time for a change.
  16. Suggests the problems started with the Falkirk game. The reality is that we had a poor January window. Losing Chalmers and only getting the likes of McAlear when we were in a strong position to challenge Dundee was the start.
  17. Couldn't agree more. I went to my first game in 1963 and this is about the most depressed I've felt as an Ayr fan. I was slightly fortunate in that my kids were young during the worst of the Shanks/Connor/Watt years and I couldn't always justify coming through from Edinburgh but I'm pretty sure I won't be back now until Bullen has gone. Assuming I'm not alone in that feeling from what I'm seeing on here but it feels like no matter how many folks stay away the club are reluctant to act. Before we know it we'll be relegated and facing a drop in income of potentially £200k+ a season. That's going to be a tough place to build from.
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