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    The Ultimate Super Ayr Thread

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    1 hour ago, Rb123 said:

    I'm surprised home crowds have stayed relatively decent around 2,000 mark however i believe a large amount of complimentary's are being dished about which probably helps that. 

    I honestly don't even know where we start with the squad as it's an imbalanced unorganised terrible mess, I know what i'd do with all the guys who are actually Ayr United players and not loans....

    Albinson - Keep

    Mutch - Keep

    McAllister - Release 

    Reading - Release 

    Musonda - Release 

    McGinty - Keep

    Murdoch - Release 

    Dempsey - Release 

    Rose - Release 

    McGeady - Give up football side of things

    Stanger - Keep

    Murphy - Keep

    Amartay - Keep

    Smith - Loan out or Release 

    Ollie Ecrepont - Keep

    Syla - Hardly played so not seen enough to judge 

    Finn Ecrepont - Release 

    McKenzie - Release 

    Tomlinson - Loan

    Guthrie - Loan

    Bryden - Loan

    Watret - Loan 

    Jenkins - Loan 

    Viviani - Loan 

    Only 7 players from the current squad of players who i feel would be good enough to stay and build a squad around that can compete towards the top end of the league, and 3 of those 7 are goalkeepers so only 4 outfield players. Stanger and Amartay have shown flashes to suggest they can develop and improve and McGinty and Murphy are experienced guys now who can do a job. 

    If we're keeping the young academy players we need to start loaning them out to clubs at league 2 level for example instead of just sitting on them and never actually getting a chance around the 1st team apart from a reserve league kick about every fortnight down at Cumnock. 

    Out of the guys we have on loan from their parent club the only two we should try and sign permanently are Chalmers and Dowds.

     

     

     

     

    A lot of this post is just plain crazy. 

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    The Ultimate Super Ayr Thread

    in Scottish Championship General Chatter

    Posted · Edited by Caledonian

    49 minutes ago, Richey Edwards said:

    Does anyone know which Ayr United keeper saved the most penalties? Fleming must be up there for sure.

    He was really good at saving penalties. It was weird to see Ayr United concede a penalty without experiencing the horrible sinking feeling that the other team were likely to score from it. I was usually confident that he would save it and he often did.

    Greg Fleming is the club's most prolific penalty saver of all time. I apologise for the pedantic detail. During this phase we were statistically in more danger of conceding a goal from a corner-kick than from a penalty.

    Greg Fleming saved the first five penalties he faced in season 2016/17. These were against St.Mirren (19 July), Dundee United (20 August), Falkirk (7 October) and two against Dunfermline Athletic (3 December). The sixth one he faced was struck wide by St.Mirren’s Lawrence Shankland (17 December). The seventh was also saved. That was against Falkirk (14 January). To this point of his Ayr United career (signed 1 June 2015) he had faced ten penalties and only been beaten once. His first penalty save for the club was against Stenhousemuir on 24 October 2015. At Peterhead on 23 April 2016 Rory McAllister struck the post from the spot. At Dunfermline on 13 February 2016 Michael Moffat did succeed in beating him with a penalty. After the save at Falkirk he faced one other penalty in his Ayr United career. That was away to Hibs in the Scottish Cup on 4 March 2017 and Jason Cummings scored from it. Shootouts are technically not penalties because no offence has been committed but in the shootout against Stranraer on 15 May 2016 (play-off final) he saved three and in the shootout against Queen’s Park (Scottish Cup) on 24 January 2017 he saved two.  

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    The Ultimate Super Ayr Thread

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    9 minutes ago, Roxanne's man said:

    Playing Salkeld in that position was maybe how Ayr lost 3-0 to QoS for him to lose his hair/job. 🫤 Duffy was mince, though we're not much better now under Bullen (with the Anomaly signing of Akinyemi, who single handedly trailed the team to second place last season)

    Akinyemi's form tailed off from January. I really can't agree that he took us to second place single handedly. Then he more or less sat out the play-offs.

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    The Ultimate Super Ayr Thread

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    1 hour ago, AuAl said:

    We've all had this conversation on here many times, but I've always felt Robbie Crawford leaving Ayr was an enormous loss for us.

    Could never understand the insane amount of criticism that seemed to be directed at him in a lot of games at Somerset. He is exactly the type of player that many Ayr sides of the last few years could have really benefitted from.

    We had games where I would rather have played with a man short rather than have him in the team. However I can remember performances where he looked like he could be sold on for a massive fee. Massively inconsistent.  The low point came at Palmerston when Gary Harkins turned him inside out twice then curled the ball into the top corner. 

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    The Ultimate Super Ayr Thread

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    5 hours ago, eez-eh said:

    I’m well aware that a sizeable chunk of our supporters are wee bams who often embarrass the club, but unless the club had a tip off that Pablo Escobar was in the Somerset Road End I’m struggling to see any justification for patrolling the place with a sniffer dog.

    When we played at Inverness in May there was a sniffer dog at the away turnstiles.  Nothing new.

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    The Ultimate Super Ayr Thread

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    46 minutes ago, Richey Edwards said:

    A multitude of factors:

    - some people just have an inexplicable aversion to supporting their local club so will not go to games no matter what the club does.

    - the cost of living.

    - whenever we get a bigger crowd, the team usually shits the bed or the game is a poor spectacle.

    - an aesthetically unattractive style of football.

    - poor engagement with the local area.

    Your last point about poor engagement with the local area is definitely untrue. 

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    The Ultimate Super Ayr Thread

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    Posted · Edited by Caledonian

    21 minutes ago, AuAl said:

    ^ What I find interesting is the obsession that some English football fans seem to have with the relative poor quality of the Scottish Leagues. 

    Can't see any attention being given to Scottish football online without a stream of gammons talking about what a "pub league" it is. Clubs with all the riches in the world, why the f**k do they care?

    Weirdos man.

    Hibs deciding to not look like a football team doesn't help though.

    It annoys me when people claim to support a big club then get deluded into believing that the success of that club reflects on them. 

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    The Ultimate Super Ayr Thread

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    Posted · Edited by Caledonian

    12 minutes ago, WATTOO said:

    It was actually worse than that as that was in the days when pass backs were allowed, if I remember correctly about 65 minutes of the match was Hamilton passing it between the defence and the keeper !!!

    The Hamilton keeper was hardly troubled in this match. His kit probably did not need to be washed after. It was a total capitulation and not at all like the 1990 final.

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