Toby

Maybe it’s time we let go of Lamie. He was great while he was here, but time to move on.

The game he subbed himself on was an end of season dead rubber at Alloa, but Maxwell should have taken Carlin out of the team much earlier, a 0-3 home defeat to Inverness when he fumbled one into the net at Sinclair Street, where the most vocal of the fanbase were at the time, being the tipping point for Carlin IIRC.

Carlin was hung out to dry by his manager. There was an option to take him out of the firing line and Ally Maxwell refused to do it, even brining himself on as an outfield substitute rather than taking the heat off his clearly struggling goalkeeper. Perhaps if Carlin had better support it might not have ended the way it did for him.

I’m sure that in the interests of transparency, as we all know our board of directors have no interest in hiding such important information from the fans, they’ll come out and clarify the situation for us, and put everyone’s minds at ease, or at least hold their hands up to their failure to offer Keay a deal in time.

Turned 24 in May so not sure how that would work, but it’s a cast iron guarantee that if we were entitled to money a similar scenario to Lyall’s would have played out and we’ll have fucked it.

You’ve remembered enough, thanks very much.

All a club has to do is offer a deal on equivalent terms to what the player was earning under the previous contract in order to trigger the compensation. Given the season that Lyall had, there were always going to be other suitors for him, and the likelihood that he’d have got a better offer than we gave him last season was around 99.9%. There was no risk. And to be honest, if players/clubs/agents think that we’re out of order by squeezing what we can out of every deal, they’re in the wrong industry. While you want to see young players succeed, Morton aren’t a charity, and have to look after their own financial interests. If the fee was so insignificant that it didn’t matter, can I get my £295 back for my season ticket and just go to the games anyway? I dare say that’s not a lot in the grand scheme of things. No, I didn’t think so.

Aye, couldn’t agree more. Not in the position to make offers because of their own monumental fuck ups in the first place.

A transfer ban wouldn’t have affected either. Both were registered as Morton players.

This sort of shite is just as bad as allowing the club to fall under a FIFA embargo, a complete dereliction of duty.

How did he manage to beat John369 to the exclusive?

Have to agree. Ironically it was at half time of the game at East End Park in which they beat us, 100% because of Morton’s failings on the day and nothing else, that I recall discussing with my learned colleague just how fucking shit they were, with only Benedictus and Comrie looking like they’d previously been introduced to a football before the introduction of Chris Kane. And come on, Andy Barrowman.

Aye, good shout.

Never change.

The restructuring of the Challenge Cup has probably allowed that, with us not entering until later in the season. Instead, we’ve got league games during the international break, with Raith coming to Cappielow that day after Scotland play in Copenhagen. Which is a ball ache for those wanting to both. Similar issue in November when we go to Kirkcaldy the day after Greece v Scotland, but that was also an issue last season when Scotland played Poland in Warsaw.