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16 minutes ago, Norgethistle said:
That’s maybe how business worked in the Victorian age, but not in the 21st century..
Every person at every level makes mistakes except 2 categories, liars and folk who do nothing.If a culture is bred where a mistake gets you booted, then mistakes are hidden, decisions never taken and you can’t keep staff or attract staff. Plus company basically stops as no one will make that call due to it potentially being their last.
The encouragement to learn from mistakes and be open about them is written into the guiding policies for most businesses within their 9001/9100 systems, HR and ethical protocols.
In all the businesses I deal with I have never seen a culture of make a mistake and be fired, continually make them yes, break cardinal rules yes, but not have a culture where folk are terrified to make a decision in case it’s wrong then they are gone.And as an ex Shop Steward the movement would never had allowed that to exist either.
Depends what you mean by mistake ……
anyway football is a results business and our aim is to get promoted. Even if we think that overcoming DU might be a stretch I think 95% of us think the budget and squad are good enough to get into the play offs and if we do then that’s an ok season and who knows we might get promoted that way.
to not make the play offs is clearly failure. The question is to analyse why that happened and what to do about it. It would not in my view be a given that doolan would leave.
there is a common misconception that experience is a kind of time served process the longer you do something the better you will get at it. In our context that’s not true it’s what doolan has learned from what has happened during his time as manager that’s key. Here I’m starting to have doubts, our defence has been an issue from the first league game of the season and seems to be getting worse, yet personnel, formation and tactics never seem to change.
our strategy of you score we will score more can’t succeed when the opposition score 3 and 4 goals , the next few games are crucial.
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28 minutes ago, scotty said:
We have no money to sack the manager and bring in someone else.
Clearly you have missed a few things….
Ok…..wasiri Williams was announced on 26 June, Ben Williamson announced on 18 July, tominadeloye 27 July, Blair Alston 29 July, Kerr mcinroy 3 August , etc etc…that we signed them mostly in July is not really that big a deal. A look at when other clubs signed their players will tell you that. Unless you’re implying we just signed players for the sake of signing players.
most fans thought with our budget and squad we should at least be in the play offs…..
the real point is that doolans recruitment and squad building has been poor and is now compounded with poor form.
we do have money to sack the manager ( same line was used in not sacking McCall if you recall.)
we have just received a £500k investment with another £500k on the way !
Doolan has had a year to improve our defence and it’s getting worse.
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1 minute ago, Norgethistle said:
And there lies the problem.
Holt was our best defender by a country mile last season, and Neilson is this season, but Holts a better defender than Neilsen, add to that Milne isn’t the same player since his injury and Muirhead is another year older and slower.
Then we have the keeper situation, not one of the 3 I’d say are first choice material, would anyone play them in front of a Cerny, a Tuffy, an Arthur or a Murdoch?
The problem is
1 recruitment … poor…. There is no cover for the back four that Doolan wants to start with
2 organisation … poor …. The relationship between defence and midfield is non existent and provides no defensive protection
3 tactics … poor… why change a losing formation … our squad is actually better suited to a back 5
4 flexibility … poor…. We don’t react to what the opposition are doing and become too rigid week in week out
5 goalkeepers … poor… just poor
Our defensive performance was a weakness under McCall and after a year in charge Doolan has not improved it at all which is a real concern.
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1 minute ago, sandy said:
Reality check. We are third and in the play-off positions which was the aim this year.
It’s an aim not an outcome……lose on saturday and we will probably go down to fourth …..
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3 minutes ago, Norgethistle said:
He got through October and November last year losing 6 on the bounce.
But yes we’re crap currently
McCall at least had the excuse of a number of injuries to key players for most of that time …..Doolan just keeps doing the same things with the same players which is a classic sign of not learning.
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What grates is that Ayr are poor …..dreadful
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On 2/25/2024 at 7:56 PM, Woodstock Jag said:
Kris Doolan is a better football manager than Ian McCall.
Didn’t last long
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2 minutes ago, JAG1970 said:
I think it’s 44/25 = 1.76? But hey just trying to put some lipstick on the pig
You are correct !
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We are in the kind of run and free fall that if you were ian McCall would get you sacked.
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Last four games we have conceded 13 goals…..
our goals against average per league game is now 2….
just so poor
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So far our average goals against has gone from 1.66 to 1.72 …. Impressive
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On the bright side it’s statistically unlikelyAyr will score 4…..
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Thistle defence take the lead ….ffs
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Thistle attack 1 Thistle Defence 1 … game on !
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Well there goes the clean sheet … not a surprise
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Clean sheet challenge !
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Don’t play sneddon, shake up the back four and we can win.
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8 hours ago, Woodstock Jag said:
That's impossible to do when McCall didn't manage for the full season.
This entire thread you have been making comparisons between the two…it’s far too early to judge doolan as a manager but if he doesn’t sort out our defence he won’t be here much longer
8 hours ago, Woodstock Jag said:I agree this is a shortcoming of the current squad he's assembled. But it's notable that we've conceded fewer goals at the same stage in the season as last year. Not many fewer. But fewer. And scored more. And won more points.
That’s very very poor……we are conceding 1.66 goals a game and our defence is a shambles …..you just can’t say what is obvious ……there has been no meaningful improvement in our defensive performance since doolan took over as manager that is the simple fact.
in his post match interview he said after every defeat and setback we always bounce back……which is why we have conceded 9 goals in our last three goames and not won any of them.
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2 hours ago, Woodstock Jag said:
Which, two thirds of the season in, Doolan is in and McCall was out.
It’s quite simple really.
Kris Doolan is a better football manager than Ian McCall.
That’s a brave statement and far too early to make unless you havnt watched our last three games…l
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3 hours ago, Jordanhill Jag said:
My Concern is that lack of a dedicated Fitness Coach - we seem to Flag later on in the Games - which tends to suggest heavy legs
Our expectations are the Play Offs its as simple as that
Its unlikely in any Season we will have the Cash to win the League outright - so it has to be Play Offs as a target
Your point on fitness is well made …..there is a concern we are not as fit as other teams
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7 hours ago, Woodstock Jag said:
League table the day Ian McCall was sacked.
23 games played, 33 points, 5th place. 1.43 points per game. 42 goals scored. 38 goals against.
League table after same number of games under Doolan:
23 games played, 38 points, 3rd place. 46 goals scored. 37 goals against.
You cannot credibly argue that this season has gone less well in the League so far than last season. And if you try to you're not a serious person.
Absolutely recent form is a bit naff and it is concerning that Morton are closing in a bit. But let's just remember that Ian McCall had us losing to part-time Cove Rangers and in-freefall Hamilton Academical.
If Ian McCall had had us five points better off than he did at that point in the season he wouldn't have been sacked.
As ever the chosen starting and ending point for comparisons are relevant …..the end of the season is the time to do that.
so far doolan has completely failed to put together a decent defence ……there is little evidence to date that he has rectified that problem which was the same under McCall.
are you suggesting that if doolan finishes the season 5 points worse off than he finished last season he should be sacked ?
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17 minutes ago, jaggy said:
yes he looked good. A bit raw and could maybe pick up a few cards, but he won some tackles and headers and comfortable on the ball.
Sadly he’s not in goal or central defence ….
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The key issue for us as it has been all season is our inability to defend. We have now lost an average of 1.66 goals per league game which is just very very poor.
We play the same goalkeeper and back four ( unless forced to do so by injury) irrespective of form or results and not surprisingly nothing changes. Our midfield are too easy to play through and provide inadequate defensive cover.i do wonder what we do in training all week as there doesn’t seem to be any learning or improvement happening. We have lost 9 goals in our last three games.
our focus now is getting into the playoffs but our form is now a concern.
doolan has some work to do.
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42 minutes ago, Jordanhill Jag said:
We cant fill the stands we have - why would we put money into a Safe Standing Area ?
Because 3 sided grounds are shit
Ayr v Thistle Tue 27th Feb
in Main Jags forum
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Ah good old Socratic logic ……that’s not a casual relationship