Stephen1876

It would be interesting to know what happened to Holty at United. He was a mainstay of a team that will be playing in Europe this season. The chat seems to be that he pushed to leave and six months later he is back in the Championship. Ayr are building a good squad but there are some similarities to us last season in that it is an ageing (and probably expensive) squad - Mitch, Holty, Banzo, Murphy, Main, Oakley etc are all on the wrong side of 30. Could be a masterstroke of bringing in experienced campaigners who will have them challenging or an expensive failure.

We will I think be away to County and home to QoS based on the seeding, so it just becomes a question of a trip to Edinburgh or Stranraer.

I’d like us to have a clear signing strategy for next season, focused on an experienced core supplemented by younger players, including some of our own academy players Our 2012/13 squad was a mix of experienced players (Archie, Craig) shrewd lower league signings (ATS, Aero, Craigen) and bringing through young players (either our own like Banzo or those released by others such as SoD, Welshy and Forbes). We have the core of a good experienced squad but I felt we lacked legs this year. I’d like to be signing players of 25 years old max (unless an exception like Doc becomes available) and be trying to progress some of our own young guys like Low, Dolan, Rooney, Falconer, MacKenzie and Diack. We need to be developing players and selling them in the years ahead.

I’ve never quite understood the disrespect shown to big BG from some folk - to get 100 goals plus total commitment to all of the other roles he has fulfilled is incredible for a guy we signed at 32. Being honest, most of us probably thought we would get his initial 2.5 year contract out of him but he has doubled that already.

Agree entirely - I was filled with trepidation when I saw it was Nick Walsh but he was excellent, what a contrast to the guy on Tuesday

He’s been booked in five of the last six games - it’s a shame you can’t generally bet on player cards at our level 😂. In fairness, one of those bookings was the bizarre Hardie yellow at Hampden.

Fitzy is at right wing back, Kelly is injured

Megwa

Completely lost the plot in the last ten minutes with a string of bizarre decisions

In a highly competitive field, Hardie is consistently the worst referee I have ever seen. Bad decision follows bad decision and he certainly likes to draw attention to himself. A very comfortable win tonight, QP looked about as likely to score as we did at Starks Park the other week.

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Agreed. No matter how awful we were, at 2-0 you always have some sort of chance. One set-piece, deflection, bad decision etc you may get back into the game. If you lose a third, it’s almost certainly game over. Banzo completely lost the plot, got booked, gave away a ridiculous penalty and then had to be hooked before he got sent off. He should lose his place in the team for next week for that alone, despite being one of our better players of late. I remember him getting a stupid red card late in Caldwell’s tenure.

Slightly off topic, but he can’t be delighted with Watford recalling him from playing every week and sending him out to sit on the bench at Bristol Rovers.

That was my view as well - Mitchell was wrestled to the ground to prevent a break and the player got spoken to. Graham fouled the Falkirk player but it was a soft booking.

I’m not sure what he is up to these days but I wouldn’t be surprised if Jackie McNamara fulfilled that role. He certainly had an eye for good young Scottish talent at Thistle and Dundee Utd. Is he still in his role at the Pars?