Calayrdonia

Don't talk pish. McGregor was our best midfielder on the park last night. Considering how much we were battered, he did fine.

Jude Bellingham is a horrible, arrogant wee p***k. f**k him.

Excellent post. Bar a few select games, I didn't enjoy last season. The football, entertainment wise, has been fucking abysmal under him. A three place swing for one goal seriously glossed over the shite we've had to endure. Reading some of the happy clapping pish is frustrating beyond belief. Outsiders/other fans and people who don't attend the matches will look at a second place finish and be shocked that fans want him gone. You don't have to dig too deep to understand why. There's umpteen reasons why and all are valid. I'd say for me, comfortably since January, potentially slightly before, I've wanted him gone and was clinging onto the rumours towards the end of the season which suggested he was heading back to England to be with his family. Second place didn't make a difference to me in my mindset, and that fucking shitshow of the play offs coupled with the utter embarrassment of that c**t leading chants in the hub for the zombies, half an hour of getting pumped 8-0 on aggregate was the final nail in the coffin. I'll be cutting back until he's away.

Can understand a lot of the comments about not having motivation to go on Tuesday. Absolutely fair enough. I'll be definitely cutting back, especially away days, until he's punted to f**k. Not expecting that to happen any time soon though, unfortunately.

He's good at that. Did it several times last season to Ayr fans in the main stand who questioned the punt ball tactics. Guy is a first class w****r, who is full of his own importance.

Syla was good. Always looking to get on the ball, take responsibility, try and make something happen. He doesn't look match fit, but I think he will be a good player for us. Young was decent too, faded out of it second half but again he looks decent. Bullen will get us relegated. Get him to f**k. He got away with murder last season having a cheat code up front. He's not the man to take us forward. Had enough of him.

That’s the point. Is some idiot at Arbroath genuinely on the fence about Ayr bringing more than 72 fans? Come to f**k.

So that’s Morton now refusing us into the stand and now Arbroath are offering 72 tickets? WTF is going on with away days!? Turning to shite.

What’s going on with the tickets?? They have been on sale for over a week and had a terracing option and now it’s gone! Why? Theres 72 seats available to buy on the site. What’s going on?

Is that you, Lee? Sorry, but none of that in any way, shape or form is ANY kind of reasonable explanation for those entirely embarrassing scenes. Of course I would expect him not to be leading chants of Super Ayr on a table after that fucking shit show served up to fans. Even worse doing it so soon afterwards when it's so raw. The starstruck fans joining in with that just utterly baffle me. Excruciating video.

You'll get away with it for a game or two, but having 3 of your first choice back 4 missing and playing an inexperienced left back at right back as well as a right back at centre half against teams like Partick is a recipe for disaster. I like Finn but he was absolutely annihilated time after time after time (must've been close to double figures in total) which led or massively contributed to, from memory, at least 2 of the goals, and yet Bullen doesn't think to change it until we are getting beat. There might as well have been a spotlight shining on him. I get that we have next to nothing on the bench in terms of defence but shuffle the line up and get it sorted. We deserved absolutely nothing from that game. We've been getting results from a lot of games while not playing that great which you often felt would catch up with us and it has. Honestly fear the worst on Friday if we haven't got Musonda and Houston back. Dundee will eat us alive.

McAllister was absolutely outstanding today. Deserves a hell of a lot of credit.

Is that not what the reserve league/cup games are for? We've got one on the 6th AND the 13th December....

Wow, I didn’t realise that they each got as many as 6. That explains virtually the whole lower stand being unavailable. I think you hit the nail on the head, to be honest. Give them the option first and then sell what’s not wanted. Because all the Supporters Club members will have bought by the time they will be made available which is ridiculous. I can only assume they are given quite a long time to decide if they want them or not which is why you often see them offered close to game dates. Both stands give the best view, but I just don’t overly like the North for some reason.

I e-mailed asking about lack of availability and was told that all South Stand sections (bar 3) were reserved for VIP, players, family of players etc. Can only assume the back rows of certain sections also is included in that because there's no way every seat in 10 rows sold out in 3 minutes. With regards to standing, I just prefer it to watch football, but I only ever stand if I'm in the very back row which is why I always try and get it. If I don't get the back row, I don't stand.

Like you, I wanted the South Stand and was also shocked at the availability. I got in at 10:03, and there was nothing for either available South Stand section in the back 8-10 rows. I like to stand, so wanted near the back. Ended up going for the North Stand instead, grudgingly. I know I sound like a moaning c**t, but I hate that even if you secure a good seat near the middle sections in the back row in the North, other people literally just stand right behind you and gather in a big crowd on the walkway. They never go near their seats. They just walk round to the middle sections and stand there behind people. Why do the stewards allow that? Any other ground, you have to go to your seat.

Interesting choice to use a free weekend in December (10th) and play a friendly over 2 hours away against Dundee United. Given that we are still firmly challenging up the top of the table and the schedule is pretty much non-stop, would it not be beneficial to give the players a rest weekend to ensure we keep our strongest team fit and fresh and avoid any potential injuries?

Another boring as f**k draw, to give us yet another 5th fixture against a Championship team, in consecutive cups. Not to mention as well, that the fans who go, and drive, will be spending the guts of £70 quid between ticket and petrol for a 360 mile round trip, two weeks in a row. In the height of winter in January. Absolutely brutal. Is it so much to ask to get a wee away day to a Premiership team that's not Rangers?

Looking at the Inverness website, I can see we have sold 250 tickets already and that's with all of today and up until kick off to go for online, plus there will be pay at the gate people. When you consider closer fixtures like Hamilton and Partick we take 500-600 and this one being about an 8 hour round trip and we'll still break 300, our away support truly is incredible and must be one of the biggest away percentages of a typical home attendance, in all four leagues (obviously excluding the bigger city teams of Celtic, Rangers, Aberdeen,Hearts,Hibs.) Especially when you see that some Premiership teams have a record of taking about 100 fans to games half an hour away from them.

I get what you're saying about the depth to an extent, but disagree that Chalmers isn't a huge upgrade on O'Connor and JML who let's face it, are pretty much impact subs. Yes, McGinty is an able switch for Musonda but Smith, while a decent player, weakens our midfield noticeably compared to Murdoch. Houston is the only right back in the squad, so although he may not be "setting the heather alight", he's unquestionably a miss when not there. You're saying "size and quality of the squad" but overlooking that there is no depth in the centre of defence (he can't even play a back 3 at the moment because he's only got 3 in the squad and one is unavailable), central midfield or at full back and those are pretty important positions. The utility players like Bangala and McCallister are nowhere near it for me, which doesn't help. Injuries/suspensions happen and every club needs to deal with it, and I would absolutely expect us to still be competitive. No excuses, I'm just pointing out the fact that we are undeniably weaker and as such, I would probably take the draw.

The fact we won at Caley last season for the first time in about 20 years tells it's story of this fixture. Away to Inverness just isn't one we seem to like at all. I don't know enough about the Caley injury list I must admit, but in terms of Ayr, it's a real hammer blow that whether fit or not, we are without Musonda. Him and Kirk have really cemented a very good partnership. Was encouraging to see Houston doing sprints when the teams came out at Hamilton, so hopefully he's available on Saturday. The other big one would be Chalmers. Really missed him going forward, I felt, on Friday so I hope he's ready to go. Heading up to Inverness, it's looking like there could potentially be as many as four (Houston, Musonda, Murdoch, Chalmers) of our strongest starting line up missing. That's a hell of a lot to contend with in such a competitive league and absolutely is enough to knock us off our stride going forward if it's not short term. Make no mistake, we got away with one on Friday, big time, so fingers crossed we can get everyone back as quick as possible. Yes we have a bit of depth in the squad but that's undoubtedly in forward areas, and not so much in the middle of the park or defence. We'll have to be a hell of a lot better than we were last week to get a result on Saturday. Also, the 4-1-4-1 was a train wreck against Hamilton. We have got all our best results with 2 up top and it gets the best out of Dipo I feel as well, so we must return to that this week, whoever Bullen chooses to partner him with.

I think we should definitely be looking at 4 players in January. Not necessarily all singings, a couple of loans would do. We absolutely need another centre half. Having only 3 proper players in that position isn't enough. If any combination of 2 get injured/suspended then we are in trouble. We also could do with getting in another right back and left back because it's clear that we are very weak in that area for cover. Yes, Ecrepont played last night and looked decent, but he's played Mullin at full back over Ecrepont previously, so it's hard to see him as a solid cover for Reading. We could do with an established left back and possibly even send Ecrepont out on loan. McCallister is a shambles and is never the answer. The last one I would say, is another good and solid central midfielder. Dempsey and Murdoch will always be first choice but that really only leaves Smith as cover and he's not at their level, so even him coming in slightly weakens us. Since Bullen doesn't seem to rate Bangala, we need another player for that position. I get that saying we need 4 sounds a big ask for a January window, but if we want to maintain the push for a top four finish as the season goes on, we need depth in every position, and not just the forward areas.

Performance wise, that was fucking woeful aside from 3 goals but I couldn't care less, and we can throw the balaclavas out the team bus on the way back down the 77. Think we badly missed Musonda in the middle of the defence and Houston is still our best bet at RB. JML didn't do much after a second successive start and I think we missed LC too. Without question McCallister has had 2 or 3 decent games, but he genuinely looks at times like he's impersonating a footballer. He was beyond pish tonight. Also think the 4-1-4-1 was a terrible idea and it played out that way. We've done very well with 2 up top all season, seemed an odd decision to change it. Anyway, it's nice for once to be on the other end of the "How the f**k did we get nothing from that game" and instead say "How did we leave with a win?" Makes it all the sweeter.

Any idea when Houston, Chalmers and Musonda will be back fit?

That referee was fucking dreadful. Let so many clear fouls go then randomly books players from both sides for the same type of instances. The standard in this country truly is absolute fucking w**k. As expected, the game was horrific to watch and I just wanted through it unbeaten. A draw will do and we move on to Friday. Worrying that Houston and McAllister are injured and also looked like Frankie was as well.