Scott Brown’s mistake in knocking back St Johnstone job

Brown – working alongside assistant Steven Whittaker – said the pair chose not to pursue the top-flight offer out of loyalty to Ayr United and the project they were building. He also suggested the Premiership side that approached him were likely heading for relegation, while he believed his own team still had a strong chance of achieving promotion. Speaking via The Warm-Up , Broony said: “It’s football, you can be flying high, and look, we had opportunities to go elsewhere and you stay and try to be loyal at the time.

” Scott Brown at Hampden ahead of the Scottish Cup semi-final between Dunfermline and Falkirk on Saturday 18 April 2026. Photograph by Vagelis Georgariou “Maybe we should have jumped ship at that point in time. We could have went to the Premiership.

We could have had an opportunity for a few months, but it would have been hard because the team were probably going to come down anyway. ” “And then you’re going back into the same league for the sake of two or three months of having that Premier League experience. You would maybe regret it overall, but I thought what we done and where we were sitting there at the time, we had a good opportunity to go and kick on in the play-offs.

Reflecting on Ayr United’s campaign, Brown acknowledged that a growing list of injuries ultimately proved too difficult for the squad to overcome. The former Celtic skipper added: “We started off not too bad, we were in the play-offs until the last eight games. The amount of injuries that we got was scary at that point and we didn’t have the strength in depth in the squad.