Calendar An icon of a desk calendar. Cancel An icon of a circle with a diagonal line across. Caret An icon of a block arrow pointing to the right. Email An icon of a paper envelope. Facebook An icon of the Facebook "f" mark. Google An icon of the Google "G" mark. Linked In An icon of the Linked In "in" mark. Logout An icon representing logout. Profile An icon that resembles human head and shoulders. Telephone An icon of a traditional telephone receiver. Tick An icon of a tick mark. Is Public An icon of a human eye and eyelashes. Is Not Public An icon of a human eye and eyelashes with a diagonal line through it. Pause Icon A two-lined pause icon for stopping interactions. Quote Mark A opening quote mark. Quote Mark A closing quote mark. Arrow An icon of an arrow. Folder An icon of a paper folder. Breaking An icon of an exclamation mark on a circular background. Camera An icon of a digital camera. Caret An icon of a caret arrow. Clock An icon of a clock face. Close An icon of the an X shape. Close Icon An icon used to represent where to interact to collapse or dismiss a component Comment An icon of a speech bubble. Comments An icon of a speech bubble, denoting user comments. Comments An icon of a speech bubble, denoting user comments. Ellipsis An icon of 3 horizontal dots. Envelope An icon of a paper envelope. Facebook An icon of a facebook f logo. Camera An icon of a digital camera. Home An icon of a house. Instagram An icon of the Instagram logo. LinkedIn An icon of the LinkedIn logo. Magnifying Glass An icon of a magnifying glass. Search Icon A magnifying glass icon that is used to represent the function of searching. Menu An icon of 3 horizontal lines. Hamburger Menu Icon An icon used to represent a collapsed menu. Next An icon of an arrow pointing to the right. Notice An explanation mark centred inside a circle. Previous An icon of an arrow pointing to the left. Rating An icon of a star. Tag An icon of a tag. Twitter An icon of the Twitter logo. Video Camera An icon of a video camera shape. Speech Bubble Icon A icon displaying a speech bubble WhatsApp An icon of the WhatsApp logo. Information An icon of an information logo. Plus A mathematical 'plus' symbol. Duration An icon indicating Time. Success Tick An icon of a green tick. Success Tick Timeout An icon of a greyed out success tick. Loading Spinner An icon of a loading spinner. Facebook Messenger An icon of the facebook messenger app logo. Facebook An icon of a facebook f logo. Facebook Messenger An icon of the Twitter app logo. LinkedIn An icon of the LinkedIn logo. WhatsApp Messenger An icon of the Whatsapp messenger app logo. Email An icon of an mail envelope. Copy link A decentered black square over a white square.

4 Arbroath talking points as Angus side’s winning run continues against Ayr United

Angus side make it back-to-back wins in the Championship as the sun shines down on Gayfield.

Arbroath FC stars Jermaine Hylton, Craig Slater and Scott Stewart are applauded by manager Dick Campbell.
Jermaine Hylton, Craig Slater, Scott Stewart and Dick Campbell. Image: SNS.

Arbroath were completely written off after shipping four goals to Dundee United on the opening day of the season.

Under the glare of the BBC cameras, Lichties faced a trial by TV and were dismissed without being given time to offer new material evidence.

Admittedly, the evidence provided during that 90 minutes was fairly damning.

But it was only 90 minutes.

With their new team beginning to settle, recent witnesses at Gayfield are already feeling like the shackles can come off.

This could, indeed, be an exciting season at Arbroath.

Courier Sport watched on in Arbroath as Dick Campbell’s side claimed a 2-1 victory and here are four talking points:

Arbroath: Smells like team spirit

There’s something iconic about the goal celebration at Jermaine Hylton’s winner.

The huddle showed the players living up to the mantra that is emblazoned on the Gayfield tunnel.

And they are not paying lip service to it.

Michael McKenna told Courier Sport in July that there was ‘a feeling of excitement’ in Arbroath.

He cited off-the-field efforts to arrange team nights out as being key to fostering a togetherness.

That has very much been on display on the pitch over the last few games.

Moments after players re-emerged at half-time, Scott Stewart, Kenan Dunnwald-Turan and Craig Slater got together for a conflab.

Kenan Dunnwald-Turan worked hard to nullify the threat of Logan Chalmers. Image: SNS

The topic of conversation was clear – Logan Chalmers.

Chalmers had posed problems for Arbroath in the first period and the trio worked out a plan to nullify him – together.

It clearly worked as they marked him out of the second half.

And once again, Arbroath won their individual battles all over the park.

Classy Craig Slater the blade runner

There were so many top performers in maroon on Saturday.

At the heart of it, was Craig Slater.

Craig Slater was influential for Arbroath against Ayr United. Image: SNS

Slater took a few weeks to settle at Arbroath after his move from Forfar and came into the season on the back of injury.

But right now he’s flying.

His energetic displays from a deep-lying midfield area, complemented perfectly by David Gold, have allowed Michael McKenna the freedom to attack.

McKenna was excellent again too and regularly involved in Arbroath’s attacks.

He registered over 11km on his GPS vest in the win over Morton last week and the GPS vests for McKenna, Slater and Gold must have been doing real numbers this week.

Scott Stewart: Mr Versatile for Arbroath v Ayr United

Scott Stewart has been playing at left-back for Arbroath. Image: SNS

Arbroath fans have been crying out for a new left sided defender since Colin Hamilton was injured in a 2-0 win over Ayr in March.

Hamilton tore the hamstring off the bone that night and is working back to fitness.

Lichties have looked at various left backs and been close to securing some really exciting prospects.

But they haven’t, yet, got a deal over the line.

That has meant Scott Stewart – an orthodox attacking right midfielder – has deputised at left-back.

Stewart’s a real worker.

A teacher by day, he’s used to delivering lessons but he’s not shy of learning new tricks himself.

And to be fair to him, he’s really grown into his new role – staking a claim for man of the match on Saturday.

Jermaine Hylton: Sprinkling magic dust from the bench for Arbroath v Ayr United

Every team needs a little bit of magic dust.

A player who can do things out of the ordinary and cut defences open.

Hylton is still getting up to speed at Arbroath and gaining his match fitness but even from the bench he’s a real weapon.

Kenan Dunnwald-Turan did a terrific job of tiring out the Ayr right back and when Hylton came on he cut them open.

He then did superbly well to get on the end of the ball to scramble home a late winner.

Conversation