TRVMP

We are going down.

 

At this stage, ourselves and Dunfermline look far, far likelier than Falkirk and Thistle to be joining Alloa in the drop.

3-0.

 

Have looked at a few - 

 

Donkey Dave was punted after a 1-1 draw at Hampden (the one with the red-stripe haired QP fan in the Ton end).

 

His replacement was Cowboy, whom we took from QP, was shown the door after a 2-0 defeat at Ayr, with Joe McLaughlin's interim management ending after a 1-0 defeat at Stair Park.

 

As mentioned by JB - Moore left after a 5-1 defeat by Livi. Davie Hopkin managed for three whole games after this, managing one goal for and eight against, technically the worst record of any Morton manager (not counting the single game defeats under the likes of Collins or Clark).

 

Ian McCall was locked out at the end of a season as part of a budget saving exercise by HS.

 

I've been out drinking many years ago with the QP fan in question, actually a nice guy, if a bit mercurial. But I remember that game because Craig Coyle was doing his best Gordon Banks impression while McPherson stood motionless, arms crossed, on the touchline. It was 1-1 going on 10-1.

I can exclusively reveal the new evidence:

 

Falkirk thought they'd win this case. They lost the case and were fined. They have now discovered that they don't want to pay the fine.

Wanting to go to Wales for any non-military reason is incompatible with life.

https://www.bbc.co.u...otball/47148119

Absolute thick ****.

Hope it costs them more money and the suspended part of the fine should be enforced if they continue to pursue and lose.

 

Margaret Lang wasn't permitted to represent Falkirk in the original hearing as she was also a witness for FFC. I wonder if the SFA have the same rule? I kind of hope they don't because she seems massively stupid and out of her depth.

Badly-lain pitches... in this country

By all means be cautious, just remember a lot of us called the outcome of the tribunal correctly despite an absolute torrent from pished breeks about void contracts and all sorts.

I'm away out for an hour, when I come back I expect Raymond's pied a terre in Glasgow to be the property of Morton, and Zak Rudden to be tasked with its conversion to the Alex Williams Presidential Library and Bookmakers.

Any rubbernecking Falkirk fans reading this can **** off as well, all your legal posturing has been absolute s***e from day one and your fiscal ownage at Greenockian hands is only halfway done.

Don't buy that. There must be more to it.

Fair enough, trust the vague insinuations of an unimpressive witness rather than the undisputed facts.

I'd still like to know why he wanted to leave in the first place.

He was on the lookout for something better than the one-year deal he was on. A bigger club who were likely to spend big on fixing the disastrous Hartley appointment had a vacancy. His agent told Falkirk he wanted that job and could go there for nothing. Falkirk jumped at it and had a two-year deal on the table. Ray wanted a two-year deal to replace what was around 10 months remaining - probably on less money - at Cappielow. A complete no-brainer, and had Falkirk operated in a non-snake fashion (and Ray done likewise) the end result would have been either a new job for Ray at Grangemouth, or an improved deal for Ray and his team at Cappielow. Instead he snaked it and ended up getting the better deal, but at significant cost to his reputation and his new club. Wee shame.

At the outset, it should be acknowledged all at Morton acted appropriately and throughout the process have been honest in their representations. Compare this to Falkirk and our previous management team, who have been rightly outed as dishonourable liars who confessed to ignorance of both contract law and the SFA rulebook. As clear a ruling as the fans could have hoped for and one that highlights Falkirk as a club are devious manipulators of the truth - in hindsight they are welcome to McKinnon who the Tribunal stated offered evidence that lacked any credibility. The fine may not be at a penal level but appears a fair reflection of how the system works. The next step should be a clear statement from the Board that at a minimum they intend to pursue Falkirk and McKinnon for compensation for breach of contract and associated costs.

 

Correct. And I hope that this rouses Crawford and Warren a bit. They did the right thing by raising this with the League and seemingly conducted themselves superbly throughout the investigation. They have been vindicated. So hopefully this gives them the jolt they need to finish the job.

I thought that as well. And he did have a point where he said he was only offered a one-year deal for a 3-year plan. We could've even offered a 2-year deal with clauses depending on position/performance and been able to bin him if things weren't going well, cheaply. 

 

An alternative view: the snake used this as justification after the fact for looking for a job elsewhere. Managers in Scotland very seldom sign on for more than 2 years. It beggars belief that he really thought he was effectively not under contract because Crawford had a "three year plan" and Ray was signed on for only the first of those.

 

You can indeed make a case for offering him a longer deal in the first place, but the idea that he had a point for breaching his contract is simply not true.

• McKinnon is a lying snake
• His agent, Jim Sherry, is also a lying snake but a particularly stupid one
• Margaret Lang at Falkirk seems to be a bit of a lying snake but moreover just a thick ditz ("She didn’t know the terms of the SPFL rules that were of relevance but said that a lot happens in football that is not contained in the rules.")

14,000 at a cup game between Morton and Clyde. You'd be lucky to get a tenth of that now.

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