Scott Brown insists Ayr must stick with their long term plan to ride a rocky start.
United have stumbled from the Championship blocks, failing to win any of their opening four league games, giving them work to do as they head into this week's international break.
Brown openly admits that winning games of football is now the currency on which he will ultimately be judged.
It's been ten months since a similar examination of the manager's credentials in what became a key moment of last season at East Kilbride.
Booed off on a bleak November night at K-Park, Brown and his side altered course before a run of just one defeat in 12 games saw Ayr surge to the Championship summit.
At their peak, Ayr traded blows with a revived Hibernian in the Scottish Cup at a bouncing Somerset bef