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Topic Originator: saltonsgonagetu
Date: Sun 14 Jan 23:05
Ayr are expected to sack Lee Bullen tonight, according to the local paper.
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Topic Originator: wetherby
Date: Sun 14 Jan 23:41
That will be the four sides below us all sacking their manager this season.
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Topic Originator: GG Riva
Date: Mon 15 Jan 06:45
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wetherby, Sun 14 Jan 23:41
That will be the four sides below us all sacking their manager this season.
Are you suggesting we`re next, Wetherby? 🤔
I hope James McPake and Dave Mackay will be at EEP for a good few years yet. We consolidate our Championship place this season and build a squad capable of promotion next.
Not your average Sunday League player.
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Topic Originator: wetherby
Date: Mon 15 Jan 07:45
no , just observing that teams usually get a bounce with a new manager, I wonder if we will see one at Ayr ? I do think Queens Park made a very smart appointment.
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Topic Originator: GG Riva
Date: Mon 15 Jan 08:38
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wetherby, Mon 15 Jan 07:45
no , just observing that teams usually get a bounce with a new manager, I wonder if we will see one at Ayr ? I do think Queens Park made a very smart appointment.
I think stats have been collected on the so-called "new manager bounce" and it`s not as common as we tend to imagine. Our brains are trained to remember things that happen rather than those that don`t. The exception is when it`s our own club. Do you remember the bounce when John Hughes replaced Peter Grant?
Neither do I. 😞
Not your average Sunday League player.
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Topic Originator: desparado
Date: Mon 15 Jan 08:40
I do. It lasted one game……..
What an opportunity we missed in 2014.
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Topic Originator: GG Riva
Date: Mon 15 Jan 08:54
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desparado, Mon 15 Jan 08:40
I do. It lasted one game……..
Up at Inverness? He wasn`t even officially the manager yet. He just sat in the stand. 😂🤣
Pretty sure Greg Shields picked the team that day and was in the dugout.
Not your average Sunday League player.
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Topic Originator: da_no_1
Date: Mon 15 Jan 09:22
Quote:
desparado, Mon 15 Jan 08:40
I do. It lasted one game……..
That`s really harsh. It was 2 games. We thumped Ayr the next week and i was firmly on the Yogi bus. I witnessed it crashing and burning the next league game at Hamilton. Kinda knew we were Donald Ducked that day.
"Some days will stay a 1000 years, some pass like the flash of a spark"
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Topic Originator: Buspasspar
Date: Mon 15 Jan 09:26
Topic Originator: da_no_1 like
Date: Mon 15 Jan 09:22
Quote:
desparado, Mon 15 Jan 08:40
I do. It lasted one game……..
That`s really harsh. It was 2 games. We thumped Ayr the next week and i was firmly on the Yogi bus. I witnessed it crashing and burning the next league game at Hamilton. Kinda knew we were Donald Ducked that day.
I think many of us were taken in by Yogi da no 1 .. I was but soon realised after a few games we had been duped
We are forever shaped by the Children we once were
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Topic Originator: wee eck
Date: Mon 15 Jan 11:54
Confirmed by BBC Sport:-
Ayr United have condemned "abuse both online and in stadiums over recent weeks" directed at Lee Bullen as they parted company with their head coach. They and Arbroath occupy the bottom two places after Saturday`s 0-0 draw at Gayfield Park and Queen`s Park`s surprise win over leaders Raith Rovers. Former Sheffield Wednesday caretaker Bullen took charge in January 2022.
Ayr chairman David Smith said the decision to part with the 52-year-old came "with real regret". Pointing to the behaviour of some fans, he told his club website: "Nobody deserves any form of abuse, it is never justifiable and we urge supporters to challenge this type of behaviour whenever they see or hear it."
The Ayr chairman added that "it is undeniable that the club is unrecognisable from the one Lee walked in to over two years ago and this is testament to his work throughout his time as head coach". Smith said Bullen had consistently met the club targets - including "generating a significant player sale for the first time in many years" - while the relationship with the club`s academy "has never been stronger".
I`m not sure Lee will take much comfort from these parting words.
Post Edited (Mon 15 Jan 11:55)
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Topic Originator: red-star-par
Date: Mon 15 Jan 12:00
So he condemns the abuse but has absolutely buckled to it.
All to often you see managers getting abuse and remaining in a job, the moment the supporters ire turns on those on the board though, the manager is axed
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Topic Originator: The Boss
Date: Mon 15 Jan 12:10
Quote:
GG Riva, Mon 15 Jan 06:45
Quote:
wetherby, Sun 14 Jan 23:41
That will be the four sides below us all sacking their manager this season.
Are you suggesting we`re next, Wetherby? 🤔
I hope James McPake and Dave Mackay will be at EEP for a good few years yet. We consolidate our Championship place this season and build a squad capable of promotion next.
What about if we finish bottom or second bottom? Surely that wouldn’t be good enough either?
The panic has set in from Ayr and you can’t blame them. I would like to think we’d be assessing things in the coming weeks if we’re sitting bottom or second bottom too.
I like black and white (dreaming of black and white)
You like black and white
Run run away
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Topic Originator: RossF
Date: Mon 15 Jan 12:34
I think that purely depends on how much backing McPake gets with new additions in January, especially with all the injuries. It would be cruel to want him sacked if we cannot strengthen, even if we’re struggling near the bottom. Hopefully that situation never comes. It would be extremely disappointing to see us near the bottom, especially when we’ve been in the playoffs for the majority of the season without even playing that well.
Saturday is a big game for us and we badly need 3 points from it. Hopefully the extra week off will see another signing and players with injuries/niggles returning a bit fresher.
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Topic Originator: Angus_W
Date: Mon 15 Jan 12:37
We need players in & back from injury. We`ve already got a good management team.
“.........it ain’t over till the Pars score!”
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Topic Originator: red-star-par
Date: Mon 15 Jan 12:48
I`d be very disappointed in the board if they were to panic and get rid of the management team. It shouldn`t really be up for discussion at all this season. They have done well so far, and have had an awful time trying to navigate a way through this unprecedented injury crisis.
I think McPake is a good, young, hungry manager. We have him on a decent term contract and I would hope he is part of the long term plan.
Chopping and changing management teams isn`t always the answer, we need to look at the bigger picture
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Topic Originator: buffy
Date: Mon 15 Jan 12:50
I’m gonna miss my pre match blether with LB
😔
”Buffy’s Buns are the finest in Fife”, J. Spence 2019”
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Topic Originator: weemike
Date: Mon 15 Jan 12:54
Quote:
The Boss, Mon 15 Jan 12:10
Quote:
GG Riva, Mon 15 Jan 06:45
Quote:
wetherby, Sun 14 Jan 23:41
That will be the four sides below us all sacking their manager this season.
Are you suggesting we`re next, Wetherby? 🤔
I hope James McPake and Dave Mackay will be at EEP for a good few years yet. We consolidate our Championship place this season and build a squad capable of promotion next.
What about if we finish bottom or second bottom? Surely that wouldn’t be good enough either?
The panic has set in from Ayr and you can’t blame them. I would like to think we’d be assessing things in the coming weeks if we’re sitting bottom or second bottom too.
I we finish bottom or 2nd bottom and end up relegated then mcpake has failed his objectives and his skills should come into question.
The objectives this year is to survive and compete.
We are on course for both of them despite our issues.
Next year the objectives will change.
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Topic Originator: Thursopar
Date: Mon 15 Jan 13:23
Aiden McGeady Waiting in the wings as player manager?
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Topic Originator: LochgellyAlbert
Date: Mon 15 Jan 14:01
What level are Ayr expecting to attract a manager?
Would have had him in a heartbeat after Grant and Hughes!
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Topic Originator: da_no_1
Date: Mon 15 Jan 14:04
Quote:
Thursopar, Mon 15 Jan 13:23
Aiden McGeady Waiting in the wings as player manager?
Hope so. They`ll finish bottom guaranteed
"Some days will stay a 1000 years, some pass like the flash of a spark"
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Topic Originator: GG Riva
Date: Mon 15 Jan 14:42
Quote:
The Boss, Mon 15 Jan 12:10
Quote:
GG Riva, Mon 15 Jan 06:45
Quote:
wetherby, Sun 14 Jan 23:41
That will be the four sides below us all sacking their manager this season.
Are you suggesting we`re next, Wetherby? 🤔
I hope James McPake and Dave Mackay will be at EEP for a good few years yet. We consolidate our Championship place this season and build a squad capable of promotion next.
What about if we finish bottom or second bottom? Surely that wouldn’t be good enough either?
The panic has set in from Ayr and you can’t blame them. I would like to think we’d be assessing things in the coming weeks if we’re sitting bottom or second bottom too.
I`m going to stick my neck out and say we won`t finish in the bottom 2. I`m basing this on the belief that we`ll get at least some of our injured players back in the coming weeks and that will bring about an upturn in results. If we did finish in the bottom 2 that would almost certainly be due to our injury woes continuing and us not having brought in some decent replacements in the Jan window. The blame would not be entirely down to McPake, so he should not be an automatic sacking.
Not your average Sunday League player.
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Topic Originator: Parsdaft
Date: Mon 15 Jan 14:56
Would love to see Bullen back at EEP in the future. There, that’s it said!
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Topic Originator: GG Riva
Date: Mon 15 Jan 15:33
Quote:
Parsdaft, Mon 15 Jan 14:56
Would love to see Bullen back at EEP in the future. There, that’s it said!
Only if McPake does so well that he establishes the Pars in the Premiership and a bigger club makes him an offer we can`t match.
Not your average Sunday League player.
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Topic Originator: buffy
Date: Mon 15 Jan 16:00
Aye, Parsdaft, as my masseuse!
”Buffy’s Buns are the finest in Fife”, J. Spence 2019”
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Topic Originator: jake89
Date: Mon 15 Jan 16:03
Quote:
buffy, Mon 15 Jan 16:00
Aye, Parsdaft, as my masseuse!
Get that in your contract as a requirement 😂
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Topic Originator: parathletic
Date: Tue 23 Jan 13:30
Ayr have interviewed Scott Brown for the job along with 3 other candidates.
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Topic Originator: Bouncer
Date: Tue 23 Jan 15:19
Believe the bunnet was on their shortlist too but he declined the approach.
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Topic Originator: StevenPar77
Date: Tue 23 Jan 18:06
Scott Brown gets the job, and it`s an interesting appointment.
I feel his interviews will be laced with getting his thoughts on the old firm.
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Topic Originator: wetherby
Date: Tue 23 Jan 18:33
With Steven Whittaker as his assistant.
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Topic Originator: Raymie the Legend
Date: Tue 23 Jan 18:49
You would think he will be able to get a few young lads from Celtic ?
Will have an impact. Whittaker is personable and a decent coach
It`s bloody tough being a legend
Ron Atkinson - 1983
Post Edited (Tue 23 Jan 18:50)
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Topic Originator: wee eck
Date: Tue 23 Jan 19:12
Ayr are at home to Arbroath tonight.
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