RedEd Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 Don't know about his overall number of appearances but I'm sure he played in every game of the 87-88 season. He left in 1989 and signed for East Stirlingshire. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diegomarahenry Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, RedEd said: Don't know about his overall number of appearances but I'm sure he played in every game of the 87-88 season. He left in 1989 and signed for East Stirlingshire. Think there were either 6 or 8 players who started every game Watson, Furphy, McCallister, Evans, Walker, Templeton Sludden and Cowell. with McIntyre, Hughes, Kennedy, McKenzie, Scott and Wilson filling up the rest of the team. When you put that against the team that won the league in 2018-19, You would think that team picked its self. No player played every league game. 24 players were used as opposed to 14 in 87/88. It was some achievement. Edited September 28, 2021 by diegomarahenry 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayrunitedfw Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 Jim Duffy on the brink of landing the Ayr job full time according to AP 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D'Jaffo Posted September 28, 2021 Author Share Posted September 28, 2021 Jim Duffy on the brink of landing the Ayr job full time according to APIf he beats Partick then he’s kinda made his case. I’m not convinced he’s the right option though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanayr1987 Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 11 minutes ago, D'Jaffo said: If he beats Partick then he’s kinda made his case. I’m not convinced he’s the right option though. I’d give him it till the end of the season if he beats partick. I would make him aware that he will be leaving at the end of the season 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D'Jaffo Posted September 28, 2021 Author Share Posted September 28, 2021 I can’t explain why I’m against us just giving it to him but I am. We were warned that he’s basically the same as Hopkin in that he plays dire football but I can’t really criticise him of that yet. We weren’t great on Saturday but we lost our best player at half time and continued to try and play with the ball apart from when we seemed to persist with the long throws into the box. There’s just something that tells me he’ll see us through this season and then completely balls it up over the summer with some terrible recruitment and we’ll be back to where we started. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diegomarahenry Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 We were flat against Morton and there wasn't much done to change it. We didn't look like getting beat, making changes might have opened us up a bit but it also might have won us the game. We brought on Moffat and McKenzie as well as Maxwell in the forward area and didn't really change the shape. We have an imbalance to the squad and O'Conners injury didn't help with the attacking threat. It's either going to bring stability which we need post Hopkin/Kerr, maybe not taking us a step further or once teams get wise to us and we don't have a plan B and results start to go badly. In summary, I don't know. I don't see him being someone who can take the club a step further in the coming years. But I think he is capable of keeping us out of danger in the championship. Should Duffy feel aggrieved if he doesn't get the job after winning 7/9 points when we'd barely won that in our last 20 games? Yes. But it doesn't mean he's going to take us further than 5th to 8th place in the Championship medium term. Partick and QOTS will be a big test, our record against Queens in particular is rotten and losing to McCall, Docherty and Bell would be a tough one. Announcing him before these two games would be a mistake in my opinion, Unbeaten in four games with two tricky, likely scrappy, nervous games that could go either way. Defeat in those two, against mid-ranking teams in the league would lead a lot of people to think he was never the man for the job. A win against Partick on Saturday and I'd announce him at the start of next week. Could you imagine if he was appointed and lost the next 4 games? McCalls Partick, QOTS, away to Arbroath and then home to Kilmarnock? Smiths twitter would be deleted. Glad its not my decision. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1nickydevlin Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 Any word on O'connor are we likely to see him any time soon .? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the west curve Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 10 minutes ago, 1nickydevlin said: Any word on O'connor are we likely to see him any time soon .? Out till next year. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayrunitedfw Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 58 minutes ago, 1nickydevlin said: Any word on O'connor are we likely to see him any time soon .? He’s aiming to be back for Kilmarnock game. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roxanne's man Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 Just heard Bert Ferguson has passed away. Sending my thoughts to his family 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rb123! Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 1 hour ago, ayrunitedfw said: Jim Duffy on the brink of landing the Ayr job full time according to AP Until the end of the season only i hope 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fitbafollower Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 We need to get those players who are out of contract at the end of season we want to keep we don’t want McCall or anyone else signing one or two in January on pre contracts when Ayr should want to extend? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trogdor Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 2 hours ago, the west curve said: Out till next year. Where you getting that, the boy himself says he's targeting the Killie game? Quote I’m setting myself the target of the Kilmarnock game next month as it would be great to play in that one under the lights against our rivals www.dailyrecord.co.uk/ayrshire/irish-winger-daire-oconnor-curses-25094161.amp 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rb123! Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 4 hours ago, 1nickydevlin said: Any word on O'connor are we likely to see him any time soon .? https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/ayrshire/irish-winger-daire-oconnor-curses-25094161 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thereisalight.. Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 No suprise to hear that Duffy is forefront to be our next "permanent" manager. I called how this would play out when he joined us. Knew Hopkin would be out on his ear shortly and Duffy would step up. I should have put money on it! Hes had some decent results but the acid test for me with be the games v Partick and Killie (no disrespect to QOS and Arbroath) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 Don't see who we could possibly get who's likely to have more experience of high level coaching or Management on their CV than Duffy. We've been down this road twice already in the past 18 months and ended up with 2 out of 2 failures, so let's say we got Hughes in and we lost a few games, where would we go from there ?? The bottom line for me is that Duffy has bags of experience, he's got us well organised, he's got the players putting in a shift and we've taken 7 points from 9 since he's taken over. Honestly, what more can he do and what exactly are people hoping for ?? For what it's worth, I'd love a Coyle / Stewart partnership but as it's unlikely to happen then I don't see the point in chasing Rainbows now that we've found some much needed stability.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trogdor Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 Has Duffy actually done enough to warrant the permanent job. It's 3 games, the league season is 36 games. The bar was also horrifically low because of Hopkin's ineptitude. I think we should hold the line, the club said we would take a few weeks. It's only been 3 weeks since Hopkin was bagged. I think its no coincidence that was the time frame and we have 2 weeks between the Partick and Queens game. I expect a call will be made during that 2 weeks. If it is to be Duffman then to the end of the season seems most appropriate to me. Any longer and we've not learnt the lessons from appointing Hopkin (how he got a 2 1/2 year contract is beyond me). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D'Jaffo Posted September 28, 2021 Author Share Posted September 28, 2021 Has Duffy actually done enough to warrant the permanent job. It's 3 games, the league season is 36 games. The bar was also horrifically low because of Hopkin's ineptitude. I think we should hold the line, the club said we would take a few weeks. It's only been 3 weeks since Hopkin was bagged. I think its no coincidence that was the time frame and we have 2 weeks between the Partick and Queens game. I expect a call will be made during that 2 weeks. If it is to be Duffman then to the end of the season seems most appropriate to me. Any longer and we've not learnt the lessons from appointing Hopkin (how he got a 2 1/2 year contract is beyond me).We can’t give it to him before Saturday surely? If he beats Partick then he’ll have a strong case but no chance this is just until the summer. This has to be who Smith sees as our long term plan. I’d arguably hold off on any decision until we’ve played Killie. A defeat there will put any manger we appoint on the back foot immediately and we don’t want that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finlay21 Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 (edited) 8 hours ago, Trogdor said: Has Duffy actually done enough to warrant the permanent job. It's 3 games, the league season is 36 games. The bar was also horrifically low because of Hopkin's ineptitude. I think we should hold the line, the club said we would take a few weeks. It's only been 3 weeks since Hopkin was bagged. I think its no coincidence that was the time frame and we have 2 weeks between the Partick and Queens game. I expect a call will be made during that 2 weeks. If it is to be Duffman then to the end of the season seems most appropriate to me. Any longer and we've not learnt the lessons from appointing Hopkin (how he got a 2 1/2 year contract is beyond me). The way things are progressing and the current availability of a decent manager surely the right thing to do is keep Duffy in job to end of season , what does he have to prove to get job? so far 3 wins and a draw , you can bet your bottom dollar if he had lost a couple of them fans would be screaming for his departure and asking why we did not appoint a new manager sooner , for the club it’s a no win situation currently Edited September 29, 2021 by Finlay21 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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