ayrmad Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 Not convinced Swansea are the right team for Shankland, hope the boy does his homework before he goes anywhere. Still think my wee team is the right move for him. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.Armour Appreciation Society Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 Serious looking photographs, likelyhood of Structural Engineers and Building Control involvement. I'd be surprised if all six turnstiles aren't ruled out. If so how about sticking ICT fans in main stand and Ayr United fans enter ground via all other turnstiles. 3 No. North turnstiles would be a serious bottleneck. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 1 hour ago, D.Armour Appreciation Society said: Serious looking photographs, likelyhood of Structural Engineers and Building Control involvement. I'd be surprised if all six turnstiles aren't ruled out. If so how about sticking ICT fans in main stand and Ayr United fans enter ground via all other turnstiles. 3 No. North turnstiles would be a serious bottleneck. Yes, there's a large crack right down the side of the perimeter wall which could possibly put part of the Somerset road end in jeopardy from a H&S perspective. As you say though, we do have plenty of options. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 2 hours ago, mccurdieboy said: In papers today Swansea going to offer 200k would like to think they would loan him back if that was the case Yesterday's papers with the 400k seemed a better deal ??? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mccurdieboy Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 Yesterday's papers with the 400k seemed a better deal ???Just goes to show you can never believe anything papers say 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 11 minutes ago, mccurdieboy said: 2 hours ago, WATTOO said: Yesterday's papers with the 400k seemed a better deal ??? Just goes to show you can never believe anything papers say We've probably all talked this to death and what will be will be, however if he was worth £200k as a proven league 1 striker then he's surely worth more than double that as a proven Championship striker. Yes, he has 4 months less on his contract, however we are challenging for a league title, promotion and a play off place at worst. Why would the club even consider anything less than £400k as things currently stand ???? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 I don't really know why they would consider any offer that saw Shankland leave in January. What amount of money is worth more than winning this league? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mugen_power Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 4 minutes ago, Iain said: What amount of money is worth more than winning this league? Hypothetically or would you like to do the math? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyline Drifter Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 1 minute ago, Iain said: I don't really know why they would consider any offer that saw Shankland leave in January. What amount of money is worth more than winning this league? Well the very obvious answer to that is that even with Shankland you are guaranteed nothing. You could have Messi in your side, it wouldn't guarantee winning the League or the playoffs. You're not exactly a dozen points clear at the moment. It's a coin flip at best. Footballers also get injured from time to time. He might be lost for all or part of the remaining season. Six figure offers for players outside the Premiership are very rare, especially where there is no training compensation due anyway. Lewis Morgan was an exceptional case. It was a very brave decision to turn down £150,000 in August. Fair play, it's worked out well so far. But it would be an even braver Board of Directors who decided to do so again for even more money, five months nearer to the end of his contract. Fair play to Ayr's Board / Owner if they are willing to do that. I don't know how much wealth Cameron actually has but presumably he can afford to cover any losses if you don't go up and don't sell him? Wasn't the club up for sale? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 9 minutes ago, Skyline Drifter said: Well the very obvious answer to that is that even with Shankland you are guaranteed nothing. You could have Messi in your side, it wouldn't guarantee winning the League or the playoffs. You're not exactly a dozen points clear at the moment. It's a coin flip at best. Footballers also get injured from time to time. He might be lost for all or part of the remaining season. Six figure offers for players outside the Premiership are very rare, especially where there is no training compensation due anyway. Lewis Morgan was an exceptional case. It was a very brave decision to turn down £150,000 in August. Fair play, it's worked out well so far. But it would be an even braver Board of Directors who decided to do so again for even more money, five months nearer to the end of his contract. Fair play to Ayr's Board / Owner if they are willing to do that. I don't know how much wealth Cameron actually has but presumably he can afford to cover any losses if you don't go up and don't sell him? Wasn't the club up for sale? I'm kind of in agreement with much of your post, although I'm looking at it from the perspective of funds for consolidation purposes should we fail to be promoted. As you say, he could get injured at any point or suffer a huge downturn in form, however it's all ifs buts and maybes, by the same token we could sell him in January for £400k and then Craig Moore could come in and start scoring for fun and we could win the league by 10 points, who knows ? All I do know is that we have an excellent squad of players with or without Lawrence and if the board get an offer they can't refuse that Shankland is also happy about, then he will leave with the blessing of each and every Ayr Utd supporter. On the other hand he stays, we fail to win promotion and walks for free in the Summer, then again, we've all been treated to a season beyond our wildest expectations and will have the memories such as beating United 5-0 at Tannadice with us forever. Like they say in mastercard, That's priceless.................. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firhill_Basin Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 Ayr would be daft to sell Shankland just now, they'll never get a better chance for promotion. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squirrelhumper Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 On 05/12/2018 at 15:43, D'Jaffo said: Just seen the boy is actually a Killie fan. No way he was in that neck of the woods by accident. Aye, he stays down there though, pretty sure his missus does too. He's a smart lad, he certainly didn't smash his car into Somerset for a giggle FFS. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I'm Brian Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 2 minutes ago, Squirrelhumper said: Aye, he stays down there though, pretty sure his missus does too. He's a smart lad, he certainly didn't smash his car into Somerset for a giggle FFS. Such a smart thing to do, writing off your car by ploughing it into a football stadium. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northfield 53 Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 That is Dobbie now out with injury that is how easy it can happen surely best to take any decent offer in Jan for Shankland 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D'Jaffo Posted December 6, 2018 Author Share Posted December 6, 2018 That is Dobbie now out with injury that is how easy it can happen surely best to take any decent offer in Jan for Shankland Nope It’s harder for Dobbie with the weight of a whole team on his back. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1nickydevlin Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 Read somewhere we would only be 3 points worse off if u took shanklands goals away .more than a one man band 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superhursty7 Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 This was really good (not the same one AU Media are doing)Listen to Episode 1 - Scott Kirkpatrick Stadium Announcer by Ayr United Fan Podcast #np on #SoundCloud 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finlay21 Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 (edited) 4 hours ago, Firhill_Basin said: Ayr would be daft to sell Shankland just now, they'll never get a better chance for promotion. Don’t think it will be down to Ayr , the boy has a potential great career ahead of him , he has done well for us and I think it would detrimental to him by the club if he wants to go and we keep him , means we could have an unhappy player for the last few months of season which would be doing no one any good Ayr Fans please note Somerset road end turnstiles are out of use on Friday night , enter by turnstiles adjacent to hospitality entrance and the Railway End , Edited December 6, 2018 by Robbo63 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 Wee piece on the bbc 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D'Jaffo Posted December 7, 2018 Author Share Posted December 7, 2018 Celtic now reportedly interested in Shankland. Considering the deal they did with St Mirren last year for Morgan that’s quite promising for us. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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