Caledonian

On the night of the cup replay I couldn't sit down at Rugby Park. Stood the whole game through not being able to find an empty seat. Same experience at Ibrox in the League Cup three years ago.

See you soon for your customary defeat at Somerset.

In face of Lowland League opposition it probably seemed like a good opportunity to give Bilham and Jeanes a chance. Eight changes from the Saturday and Ecrepont making his first start makes it even more clear that this tie was not approached with the intensity of a league fixture. Rightly so – our Lowland League opponents did not register a shot on goal. Personally I share the club’s contempt and I could not care less what the blazers decide on Monday.

You need have no fears. Connah's Quay are ineligible.

I don't understand what made them do it. They didn't invade the pitch when they beat Rangers last week. It was a last 16 tie in which they played against ten men for 40 minutes after getting a reprieve from a non penalty then winning a shootout. They are definitely guilty of small club syndrome.

Back-up goalkeeper George Anton was sent on a scouting mission to look at Alloa winger Tommy Hutchison but Ally MacLeod was uncertain of his name. He took the view that, of the two Alloa wingers, his target would stand out. In that particular game, Harry Rutherford stood out as being the better of the two. If only he had picked another day to be a standout! On reporting back, the name Rutherford was mentioned to Ally. He believed that this was the player whose name had been brought to the club's attention and he was purchased for £4,000. Ally took little time to realise that the club had bought the wrong winger. This was in November 1966 and I was one of the many fans bemused by the club paying a generous fee (at the time) for a player who was mediocre at best. This story did not break into the public domain but was told to me by Dougie Mitchell several decades later. Dougie was an Ayr United player at the time and he heard Ally's "I've signed the wrong player" rant (there might have been an expletive).

Paying Alloa Athletic a transfer fee for Harry Rutherford in a case of mistaken identity. The deal was concluded in the mistaken belief that the player being purchased was Tommy Hutchison.

Aye, he did something similar for us in one of his first games he will soon resort to type Yes he scored for us at Albion Rovers on his debut and never scored again. It was Bruce Anderson's debut that night too and he scored twice but never scored again.

We would be getting excited about it if we weren't denied entry.

It took Dundee United four seasons to get out of the Championship. Hibs took three seasons and even Rangers took two seasons. All of these clubs are vastly better supported than Kilmarnock. I am glad that their mindset is arrogant. They are in for a very rude awakening.

This is the same McBookie who closed the book on Billy Stark becoming the Ayr United manager just before Ian McCall got appointed.

You're right. A hammering could be on the cards but I am not convinced that Killie will roll over too easily. We might need to settle for beating them by a 2-goal margin.

It's concerning the he has had 10 starting appearances and 29 sub appearances and has scored twice. 39 games and he has scored in one of them yet there was euphoria when he signed a contract extension

500 is woefully insufficient. That number will have no impact. In big cup ties the cut-off is 10,000. The club always bends to the will of SAC although there is seldom a choice.

It's rotten. It even has the potential to create divisions between fans who get in and those who don't. Better to let nobody in.

South Ayrshire Council is historically Ayr United's toughest opponent.

South Ayrshire Council is historically Ayr United's toughest opponent.

The slight concern I have is that we would be his 17th club and he is only 25.

This reminds me of 2017 when we were told that the Killie fans would outnumber the Ayr fans by a ratio of 3 to 1. When the game got played the Killie fans were heavily outnumbered.

...and Walter McCall!

Please do.

This whole episode will work against Rangers and Celtic. Saturday's Daily Mail spoke about a potential situation where young Old Firm players are getting 'man of the match' awards at, typically, Dalbeattie. The point being made was that this would hardly lead to a call-up to the squad for a Champions League match.

The worst example of this (or best depending on how you look at it) was Portgugal at the 2016 Euros. They finished third in a group of four then went on to win the competition.

At the season's end our top scorer of league goals was Cammy Smith with a miserly total of six. Even for a curtailed programme that is a grim statistic.

It's been freshly laundered.