His playing surface may currently resemble the Sahara Desert, but Graeme Mathie is a not a man running dry on ambition.
Ayr United's managing director insists the club's brand new pitch - subject to a major summer renovation - will reward the latest investment at Somerset Park.
Just days ahead of diggers rolling in to begin work on a new North Stand, tractors carefully tend the surface which Mathie readily admits has been long overdue some TLC.
