Lee Bullen hailed Ayr for riding an emotional rollercoaster to make the promotion play-offs.A grandstand finish in the Highlands saw United see-saw between second and fifth place during a dramatic late flurry.But substitute Mark McKenzie's winner ensures The Honest Men can now look forward to facing either Queen's Park or Partick Thistle in the semi-finals of the shootout - after incredibly finishing as Championship runners up.Bullen said: "Football never ceases to amaze.
I've got a 34-year-old in our changing room in Chris Maguire who has played at the top level for massive football clubs down in England and he's telling the lads he's never gone through an emotional rollercoaster like that."For a club like Ayr United these things come along very few and far between.
It's not like Rangers and Celtic for whom these nights are a regular occurrence."Our supporters maybe feel it more because of that reason but we want more of this now."When we went 2-1 up we had to figure out how to put a team together with seven strikers on the pitch.
We'd taken a gamble at that stage to go for it - it was crazy."It would have been very painful not to get over the line tonight.
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