Voice of Reason, 23rd April

Apr 23 2010 Ayrshire Post (main ed)

SO here’s the thing.

Danny McKay, a teenager on loan from K*llie, is going to save us from relegation.

Meanwhile, his struggling parent club will drop through the SPL trap door and hurtle towards oblivion.

There’s a cruel and very twisted irony about all of this.

But to matters at hand and we ain’t out of no woods yet.

Morton away on May 1 remains a day to get hugely excited about.

There will be tears one way or another.

SO Saturday’s the big day for Ayr Rugby Club.

I must confess, I don’t know my Frazier Climo from my Flymo.

But it appears our boys are on the verge of greatness.

And it strikes the VoR as a great shame that few around here seem to give a damn.

So I’m calling on all sports fans in Ayr to make a pledge. Attend one game at Millbrae.

I hereby promise to do just that. And I may just enjoy myself.

Good luck at Murrayfield chaps.

HAD a good chat with my old mucker Derek ‘Tommo’ Thompson at the weekend.

The telly star was in town for the races and popped in for some top clobber at Slater’s in Ayr High Street.

Tommo was in great form and bantered with shoppers before dishing out his big tip for the Scottish National.

Which flopped.

But we care not, because there’s only one Tommo. Looking good, sir.

THEY say a leopard doesn’t change its spots.

But Jim McSherry has sure proved that theory wrong.

The so-called football legend is off to Murrayfield this Saturday to cheer on the rugger boys.

Nothing hugely wrong with that.

But check out his quotes in the Post this week.

“There’s no more beautiful sight than the rugby ball in full flow.”

Men were hung for less in the olden days.

WAITING for a birth in the family is always an exciting time.

So it’s congratulations to my old chum (and partially respected football pundit) John Taylor.

His daughter Jill has produced a grandson called Evan. Happy times.

And last week, before the Grand National, JT got his wife to pick a nag in the big race.

She went for Don’t Push It, in honour of her daughter preparing for the labour battle.

The horse won, Jill sprogged, and everyone’s a happy camper.

Beautiful banter.

THE brakes have been applied in betting corner.

The VoR and Iain Ferguson are lumbering up the Cheltenham hill like two old stagers.

Zero points on either side of the board last week so my lead remains two points. With just a few weeks to play, the fat lady is airing her tonsils.

Fergie goes St Mirren 2, Killie 0. I say Ross County 2, Partick 0.