Voice of Reason: 26 November 2008

Nov 28 2008

IT was 45 minutes to have the football purist purring. A first half of incredible attacking play that was summed up perfectly by one observer.

“The Brazil team of the 70s couldn’t have lived with us,” cried Graeme Miller, Britain’s finest darts tipster.

And as East Fife chased shadows bigger than their bank balance on Saturday, we truly delivered a message.

Raith and Brechin may sit one point above us for now, but there’s no doubt about the best team in this league.

When Ayr United’s best 11 players are on the park, they cannot be touched.

IT’S all going down at Lochee this Saturday. And well placed junior sources tell me we really should be hounding this mob out of sight.

However, all talk of a cricket score must be put to one side as we prepare to pitch up at the Dundee housing scheme.

Grass bankings and a complete lack of seats will make this classic stuff. Let’s turn up in numbers and get the job done early.

BIG times stirring at popular Ayr pub the Wee Windaes. The lads are running their own betting club – with very little success – so turned to a local rugby legend to stem the losses.

Millbrae stalwart Rab Dale breezed in with a £40 double on Leeds and Man City at the weekend to net them massive bucks.

Club spokesman Iain Ferguson confirmed: “It’s the biggest win of the season for us. And it came from someone who has no football knowledge.”

Remarkably he wasn’t talking about landlord James McSherry.

ANOTHER four goals against East Fife – and this means big news.

We’ve now hit 30 in the league and only Rangers and Celtic have scored more in Scotland.

Even if you took Bryan ‘The Machine’ Prunty out the side, we’d still be hammering teams.

The times at Somerset Park – they are glorious my friends.

A WORD on the auction at last week’s Ayr United Hall of Fame dinner. Highly successful as ever and well done to lottery chief Andrew Downie for coining in the cash with a range of top goodies.

But the VoR had to laugh at the item which went for the least amount of dough at just £150.

A day with groundsman Davie Harkness was rated less valuable than a signed Rangers ball, for goodness sake.

Fair play, Harko’s patter can be woeful, but wouldn’t you overlook that for the chance to prepare the Somerset pitch? Seemingly people are not that daft.

PUNTING stalemate between Ayrshire’s finest betting stallions. The VoR and Dougie Morton remain locked on 11 points apiece going into this week.

Morton, a man who admits that even in his peak could not have lived with Phil ‘The Power’ Taylor, has gone wandering off to the English leagues again this week.

The AUFC lottery legend is saying Plymouth 3, Blackpool 1. Frankly it’s way too dodgy to be listening to and the VoR goes Lochee 0, Ayr 5.

It’s a case of how many and hopefully I’ve nailed it correctly.