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Fourth draw on the trot I feel . Then it’s onto the party bus to relegate the Dumfries Dweebs .
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Gavin Reilly or Cammy Smith to play bedside Tomi .
Sneddon from Thistle for our keeper . McAdam on the bench .
Lithgow from Morton to manage Aero and Sean . Also to win headers .
Big left back from QoS
McGinn from them if we fail to sign any of our four mids .
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In the post match interview Bully said Tomi is there now in terms of the bruised foot . But did seem to have a concern about his over all fitness . Looked fine to me . Must play next week . Hopefully Murdy is back . Does anyone know if Dempsey has any chance of making it ?
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5 minutes ago, Superhursy7 said:
His performance in that 2nd half was absolutely brilliant it's says a lot when there is a thread on here about players you would take from other teamsand 90% of the posters say they would take Tomi, we need make sure if he stays in Scotland next season it's with us.
Gonna be difficult to make him stay . These are the guys everybody wants . Look at the difference Lafferty has made to the pot lickers . Worth every penny of his £7k a week . We have to do likewise with Tomi . Pay him his worth . If he had went to QoS last summer we’d be down already . The Jags fans seem to want Cammy Smith out the door , if McCall thinks the same then I’d be grabbing him for no10 and pushing Sam wide and Fraz onto the bench to build his minutes up . All of that of course depends on us getting Tomi fixed up .
Loads piling in on Maxy today , the boy is a left wing back that comes with goals . He’ll score an important one before the season is over . Boy deserves a break , remember he’s only 20 .
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The turnaround in the second half was of the scale . Everybody talks about Tomi and O’Conner today and rightly so but I though the introduction of Sam on the left and the opportunity to show us the pace he has ,took us to a different level . It lets us do things at a different tempo . This has to be the formula going forward . We aren’t good enough to pass our way through teams but we have the potential to put pace on the game and get runners going on the flanks . Hopefully big Sean is ok for next week , oh and a word out to big Aero , solid as a rock today .
One last thing ,congratulations to a young boy of 17 busting his cherry and at Championship level . This boy might just be our first big money sale once he fills out .
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29 minutes ago, ayrunitedfw said:
Praying for a Killie and a Ian McCall win in the same weekend really is a grim state of affairs.
I think the surface down in Dumfies should suite McCall’s style and I fancy Thistle to win if they have anything like a full squad to pick from .
My perfect storm would be us going down there in a fortnight and relegating the dweebs ourselves .
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So here we are three weeks to go in the regular season . After tomorrow’s games the picture will be pretty clear . The Pars and us will have the same three fixtures to play . Tomorrow I would expect Kilmarnock to just get the job done , the question is how will we do ? A win for us would be massive , it may just allow us to draw our way to safety . So many ifs or buts , but it’s one exciting way for the season to end . Tomorrow’s game might be the one to be less cautious with and really go for it with Tomi and Sam up top and maybe even O’Conner out wide on one side . I don’t think there is any point sitting in against a team like Inverness .
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12 hours ago, D'Jaffo said:
If we’re looking a potential line up for next season then I’d hope we can line up like this. A lot depends on keeping guys we’ve got and getting the right new signings in.
McAdams
New RB
New CB
New CB
Reading
Dempsey
Murdoch
McInroy
New RW
Adeloye
New LW
A new back line is pretty much required even if we have Houston and McGinty signed up. There’s a player in there with Houston but his confidence is shot to bits and I think he could do with taking a step back and working his way back into the team. I really wouldn’t be against us signing an out and out defensive RB to allow Reading more freedom to attack on the left.New Keeper
New Right Wing Back
Muirhead
New Sweeper
McGinty
Maxwell
Demsey
Murdoch
McInroy (in an ideal world)
Ashford
Adeloye
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21 minutes ago, diegomarahenry said:
He was better last night than he has been and did some good things, is well worth his place at the club.
The type of player he is though, he’s not what we need right now but he is who we have got. McKenzie, Ashford and Moffat all do that role, we have 4 non-goal scoring forwards at the club who create very little (apart from Moffat who barely plays) and run about a lot. They bring the midfield up the park, sometimes the full backs as well but it is the next stage we fail at. Maxwell is a hugely frustrating player, gets in to good positions but takes an extra touch and loses it or his final ball is poor. McInroy also struggles to complete any link up play around the box, both players look to be on the way out of their clubs and that is probably why. They are good players that haven’t developed enough to make it at their parent clubs.
Adeloye could score 20 a season easily, we need Ashford, McKenzie, Maxwell, Moffat or Bryden to be chipping in with 10 each depending on the preferred team. At the moment you’d be lucky if they had 10 between them.
O’Conner on the left was a breath of fresh air but we had bugger all down the right to stretch Hamilton and create space for Adeloye or Bryden, the midfield were crowded out around the box as well.
we have been like that all season and Bullen doesn’t look like he wants to change itIf we can get that win that’s been eluding us next Saturday against Inverness that should be us safe perhaps . At that point we can change focus onto who will be coming in in the summer . People in the Hub last night were saying that players are lined up , just a question of our league status . If we can retain Maxwell , Dempsey , McInroy and Adeloye that would be superb . We would as you say still need a second goal score to either cover Tomi or play along side him . A centre half that could bang in five or six a season would be useful as well .
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33 minutes ago, diegomarahenry said:
Watching Bryden last night, he looks a support player like McKenzie has become. Running in to space and holding the ball up or moving it to the supporting midfielders.
Decent enough player but will likely have a single digit goal return.Unfortunately he looks to be part of the problem rather than the cure. We need an attacking style that works rather than what we do regardless of the forward line.
Bryden is 17 years old and leading the line in the Championship. That’s a huge ask for the player and to be fair he’s making a decent first of it . I’d say he’s definitely one for the future , that big frame will fill out in the next few years . The question is what to do with him in the summer when the panic is over and things settle down a bit . Do we keep him in the pool as an under study to Ashford or does he go out on loan to get games ? If he goes out we are looking at three strikers coming in , hopefully one is Tomi .
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8 minutes ago, ayrunitedfw said:
Why would you drop McAdams? He’s argueably been our POTY.
He’s decent keeper , however given that one of our centre half’s and both fullbacks aren’t very dominant in the air ,a keeper that dominates his six yard box is the only card we have to play .
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10 hours ago, No_Problemo said:
Definitely - he would be a decent option for most sides in this league.
He’ll have plenty of offers from teams in our league . Hopefully our Chairman can make it not be about the money .
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31 minutes ago, itzdrk said:
We got very lucky against Morton.
The high ball on our keeper seems to be a tactic for our opposition recently. Maybe time to give Albinson a shot . Apart from that I feel if Tomi is fit and available we’ll win the game . Massive game for us .
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Tomi has said himself this is the first season he’s had a decent run of games in a team . Maybe even his record goals for a season . So hopefully if the money isn’t an issue he’d prefer more of the same next season all be it in a more settled and improved set up . Surely the thought of more wandering round the London non league scene isn’t that attractive .
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For me the Hamilton game on Friday is the big one , it’s crucial we win and build some momentum for ICT the following week . Hopefully we have a decent and nosey crowd in . Tomi being fit and playing would be a massive boost as well .
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16 hours ago, Death in Vegas said:
ersonally a think your miles off in terms of him getting a move to the premiership. A think he’s fine for this level and without his goals we would be fucked. The chances he’s missed he could of scored another 7 at least should of had a hat trick against Hamilton for a start and should of scored at rugby park. A don’t think he’s got the technical ability the work rate or the finishing to go higher personally. Saying all that I would be doing everything to keep him next season. I’m trying think of a player to compare him to we’ve had. Wardlaw a would say is a similar comparison in terms of ability, he would tend run and run but. His ceiling was playing for us never done it when he went to St Mirren. He was a real fans fav at the time aswell.
All about opinions I suppose , I’d say he’s more Eddie Annand than Wardlaw however . Time will tell , He could hit the 15 goals mark this season , with no penalty’s included that’s a pretty good total . Think he’d need another big or bigger season to crack the high end of L2 or better down south . Up here however he has done well against Dundee United and Killie , so his game is known .. Hopefully he stays and we can add an Andy Walker type to play beside him .
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7 minutes ago, Iain said:
I would be interested to know who the highest scorers are for Ayr if you only count players who just had one season at the club.
Andy Walker got twenty in his season with us .
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In my opinion the only striker in the division better than Tomi is Kyle Lafferty. Tomi has played in a stinking Ayr side , with managerial changes galore . If he had played in the 2018 team he would have went past twenty goals no problem . Will he stay ? I hope so , these days we can match most of our rivals in the division for wages , however he may get a contract in the Premiership next season . He’s no spring chicken anymore and he may find it hard to turn down a Livi or a Dundee United . These clubs will see two grand a week as taking a punt . For football reasons he’d be better having another season with us next season , hopefully we’ll be an improved model that can support him to the level needed on the field .
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3 hours ago, D'Jaffo said:
Bullen has criticised the wide players after yesterday then maybe, just maybe, he’ll change something for the Accies game on Friday. I’m not convinced though. We’d be better off going to a back five and three in midfield rather than effectively playing two full backs on either side every game.
I have a wee notion that next season he may try the 532 system . Based on nothing more than the fact that McGinty is under contract . Perhaps with a sweeper behind him and Aero providing security and managing the defence the howler moments will decrease . A pair of decent wingbacks would also need to be found . Maybe Maxwell would do on the left if we could get him , Hewitt on the right ?
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8 hours ago, diegomarahenry said:
Reading is prone to the odd calamity as well.
Houston was a wing back when we signed him, the last 3 managers have played him as a full back. He was given the opportunity to go forward against Raith and had a good game.
Baird has been the least bad of the centre halfs this year.
McGinty turned in to Maldini in the second half on Friday, was one of the most attacking players on the pitch at one point, pushing forward and trying to get us further up the pitch, still capable of a calamity but if he plays like he did for a period on Friday every week then that could be forgiven.
Muirhead is a clogger, you need one in a defence, a player that is going to be physical, I don't think it was a surprise that Lafferty matched up against McGinty at corners
Fjortoft is an Effy Ambrose type player, does some good things but also some unbelievably brain melting stuff.
Would I be sad to see any of them leave in the summer ? probably not. Fjortoft will leave, Rowe will go back to Coventry and maybe Reading will go to a Dundee or Livingston.
This is a pretty accurate synopsis of our defenders . There really will have to be a lot of work done on this area in the summer . Safe to say Glendinning will be busy right now checking out targets . The Redding/McGinty combo’s back-post defence is shocking and has cost us plenty this season . It’s a shame because otherwise Paddy is a decent player , maybe more suited to wingback in a 532 . As has been said earlier Houston has his issues with defending and is more of a wingback as well . I wonder if Bully intends to go down that route next season ? Either way a couple of centre half’s will need to be signed . Another issue is that McAdam , while a class shot stopper doesn’t come and take many crosses or corners .
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5 minutes ago, WATTOO said:
This sort of stuff really, really pisses me off if I'm being honest as the facts are that we horsed Raith 4-0 last week with Bullens "tactical failures" and although losing to Queens the previous week we managed to also beat Killie and Inverness away in recent weeks, again, with the same supposedly tactically naive Bullen in charge.
I've said it a hundred times, but what the Hell do people realistically expect ?
Name me a team in this league (or indeed the one above) that doesn't suffer from major inconsistencies and end up on the wrong end of a scudding every few weeks ?
Basically we're all of a pretty similar level, we all have players with limited ability and the harsh reality is that some we'll win and some we'll lose, irrespective of who our Managers and coaches are. The players are guilty of both personal and collective mistakes but that's why they're playing at this level in the first place !!
Would some rather we go back to a Hopkin / Duffy style of Management and recruitment ??
Yes, we seemed to freeze last night (for whatever reason) and Killie did take their chances well.
Should we have played Dempsey from the start ? probably. Should we have dropped Adeloye or Ashford to the bench ? on hindsight, probably ? Would the fans have been happy had Bullen done so ? Definitely not.
Lots of ifs and buts I suppose, however I was very impressed with the second half showing with Dempsey and McInroy absolutely superb and Murdoch not far behind them.
Yes, it was a hard one to take but I'm definitely not prepared to write off Bullen or any of our team just yet and still have 100% confidence that we'll stay up.
Pretty much this . Rangers got waisted by Celtic in February, few weeks later Rangers bundle Dortmund out of Europe ...
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2 hours ago, D'Jaffo said:
I’d maybe stick Murdoch wide right and have McInroy and Dempsey in midfield but have Ashford and Adeloye up front. Maxwell wide left.
I’m not adverse to that line up either . Just that if we have a fit and ready asset like Kenyan we really should be using it , he’s supposed to be a leader and a bit of a ticket , so yeah I’d be wanting to get him involved pronto .
On a different note the silver lining from last nights beasting is that the ticket takings could facilitate a healthy two year deal for Dempsey . Get it done Bully ...
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3 minutes ago, No_Problemo said:
Who would play wide right?
And I have absolutely no idea why you would drop Tomi (unless injured)
Murdoch on the right . Dempsey Kenyan McInroy central , Maxwell left . Tomi on for 30 mins at the end to pinch it . This is for Arbroath only . After that perhaps a 442 .
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10 minutes ago, Superhursy7 said:
It's almost like following two different teams home and away and it's been like that for years, one thing showed last night that Dempsey should be the first name of the team sheet.
Absolutely. Also time to have a look at this guy Kenyan . Ex captain and defensive midfielder . Those two in with Tomi and McKenzie coming out . Not much we can do about the calamitous defence until the summer , but an experienced centre half/leader is a huge priority..
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Yogi Bears Pars v Bully's 45-90 minute cameos (The proverbial relegation 6 pointer)
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Looking forward to tomorrow, making a night of it . Dunfermline full of great pubs and is a great night out . Reminds me of what Ayr used to be like sadly . Took a 2-2 draw on the coupon . We’ll see ! Anyway ,any Pars fans want a blether about the game etc , the noisy “Belmont Boys”will be in Malloy’s (if it’s still there) after midnight ! Not as good as the old Lorenzo’s as I remember it , but not too shabby .