Richey Edwards Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 3 minutes ago, ecocme said: Marius Rovde (maybe slightly harsh with that one) My Papa nicknamed him "Dropsy". 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diegomarahenry Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 I remember being on the SRE when a player went over the ball and stamped on Ludo Roy, the two came together and the other player took a dive pretending to have been head butted leading to Roy being sent off. We were all chanting cheat at the player which turned out to be a waste of time. The player that took a “dive” had actually been knocked out cold by Roy, was unconscious and was finally woken up in Ayr hospital. Think Roy had a hefty ban for it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 14 minutes ago, diegomarahenry said: I remember being on the SRE when a player went over the ball and stamped on Ludo Roy, the two came together and the other player took a dive pretending to have been head butted leading to Roy being sent off. We were all chanting cheat at the player which turned out to be a waste of time. The player that took a “dive” had actually been knocked out cold by Roy, was unconscious and was finally woken up in Ayr hospital. Think Roy had a hefty ban for it. The Forfar Athletic player was Alan Rattray. He apparently said something racist to Ludo. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanayr1987 Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 13 hours ago, Richey Edwards said: The Forfar Athletic player was Alan Rattray. He apparently said something racist to Ludo. Deserved getting knocked out in that case! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 14 minutes ago, ryanayr1987 said: Deserved getting knocked out in that case! Absolutely. IIRC, Ludo got an 8 game game for that. And we got to witness the dubious talents of Peter Cherrie and John HIllcoat. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 Shouldn't be any suspension for fighting racism. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 56 minutes ago, Iain said: Shouldn't be any suspension for fighting racism. Yep. A penalty was given for it, and John Hillcoat saved it before conceding two goals in about a minute. He then got caught miles off his line for the third and left Forfar with an easy tap-in. This game stuck in my memory because I was fuming about it. Ayr were 2-0 up and looking comfortable before the incident. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComradeDiego Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 4 hours ago, Richey Edwards said: Absolutely. IIRC, Ludo got an 8 game game for that. And we got to witness the dubious talents of Peter Cherrie and John HIllcoat. Oh f**k, the vampire. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1nickydevlin Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 19 hours ago, ecocme said: Also David Crawford David Hutton Thomas Gill Marius Rovde (maybe slightly harsh with that one) Kenny Barnstable Gill was a Norwegian Internationalist. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roxanne's man Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 John Hillcoat should be erased from the memory of any Ayr United fan. He did not happen. He played in nets to a 4-0 defeat to QoS at Somerset, who had John Dodds in nets iirc. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diegomarahenry Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 12 hours ago, Roxanne's man said: John Hillcoat should be erased from the memory of any Ayr United fan. He did not happen. He played in nets to a 4-0 defeat to QoS at Somerset, who had John Dodds in nets iirc. He conceded 5 against Alloa. One of the goals he was at the penalty spot when an Alloa player scored a tap-in at the far post. Mick Dunlop booted Quitongo 5 feet in the air in that game, Quitongo came off the bench at 5-0 and started doing keepy-ups. Dunlop ran from the opposite wing and went through him about hip height. Hillcoat was a dreadful keeper, Ally Brown should never have played at out level, was signed as back-up then we never signed another keeper and we were then landed with him. Both were back-ups that we were forced to play. Jordan Hart was the same as Brown, just not good enough but he was first choice. Jack Ruddy was the worst of all of them, I don’t remember him making a save and he had a few howlers 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 41 minutes ago, diegomarahenry said: He conceded 5 against Alloa. One of the goals he was at the penalty spot when an Alloa player scored a tap-in at the far post. Mick Dunlop booted Quitongo 5 feet in the air in that game, Quitongo came off the bench at 5-0 and started doing keepy-ups. Dunlop ran from the opposite wing and went through him about hip height. Hillcoat was a dreadful keeper, Ally Brown should never have played at out level, was signed as back-up then we never signed another keeper and we were then landed with him. Both were back-ups that we were forced to play. Jordan Hart was the same as Brown, just not good enough but he was first choice. Jack Ruddy was the worst of all of them, I don’t remember him making a save and he had a few howlers Some of the criticism of Hart at the time was overly harsh. He was not the best but he was far from our worst keeper. He was much better than Ruddy. I'm sure I read that he had retired from football and had become a teacher. He could have made more money from being Zac Efron's stunt double tbh. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Venom Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 I must be misremembering as I didn't think Cherrie was all that bad I did also think Paul Weaver was an absolute pler though, but probably just relative to the time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidkennedyshand Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 1 hour ago, Jeff Venom said: I must be misremembering as I didn't think Cherrie was all that bad I did also think Paul Weaver was an absolute pler though, but probably just relative to the time. Cherrie did save 2 penalties on his debut. Think it went downhill after and I think we got a hiding at Brechin but I can't remember as it seems that long ago Still a registered player somewhere in Ireland I also thought Weaver was decent at the time. Seemed to be the only guy we had that could pass the ball to a team mate. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roxanne's man Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 (edited) 9 hours ago, diegomarahenry said: Hillcoat was a dreadful keeper, Ally Brown should never have played at out level, was signed as back-up then we never signed another keeper and we were then landed with him. Both were back-ups that we were forced to play. Jordan Hart was the same as Brown, just not good enough but he was first choice. Jack Ruddy was the worst of all of them, I don’t remember him making a save and he had a few howlers See, I like younger keepers getting a chance, absolutely all for it mistakes are expected but you'd think they'd learn from it. Comparing younger keepers at Ayr is so differential. Good keepers such as sinisalo and Doohan and the opposite in Hart and Ruddy. Hare-Reid never really got the chance he should have imo. Though I've heard nothing but good things about the current under 19 keeper. Edited September 26, 2022 by Roxanne's man 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 3 hours ago, Jeff Venom said: I must be misremembering as I didn't think Cherrie was all that bad I did also think Paul Weaver was an absolute pler though, but probably just relative to the time. Paul Weaver was shit. There was just an inexplicable clamour for him for some reason. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grazza Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 Hillcoat was good half time entertainment with the cones 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roxanne's man Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 5 minutes ago, Richey Edwards said: Paul Weaver was shit. There was just an inexplicable clamour for him for some reason. He came from Blackburn so was expected to do well I guess. Ayr was the highlight of his career Agree, he was shit. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 1 minute ago, Roxanne's man said: He came from Blackburn so was expected to do well I guess. Ayr was the highlight of his career Agree, he was shit. Did we not get another boy from Blackburn around the same time? Jamie Doyle I think his name was. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roxanne's man Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 13 minutes ago, grazza said: Hillcoat was good half time entertainment with the cones 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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