El gofer

Clyde named only 4 subs and were even forced to field Tony Wallace for the last 5 minutes.

Haha!

Lost to Clyde!!

"let us address the article in the telegraph that besmirched the club's good name."
Then, by addressing the issue, besmirch the club's name even further.

So someone has ditched a whole load of electrical equipment in that room And changed the locks since the end of the season and noone thought this would be an issue?
That statement is total amateur hour stuff..

Colin Weir has told them to bolt innaw....

Hoping for similar reaction to the Ayr game 3 years ago which resulted in Gunning and murdoch coming in...
Murdoch..remember him?

Former fans’ favourite Robert “Bobby” Barr opened the scoring for Lowland League heavyweights East Stirling in their 4-0 swording of hapless Edinburgh University at some League One bus shelter that doubles as their home ground.

Mark Millar and Nicky Low also scored.

Good quality players with proper cvs.

Sort of players we should be signing surely.

Twenty minutes is more than enough to tell whether a footballer is totally dung or not: David Irons was, as usual, 100% correct on that matter. But in this case there's also his ghost like performance 'anchoring' Berwick's midfield during their 0-7, two leg evisceration by Cove Rangers in May, and a completely dung CV as well.

It's not really a tough call at all tbh.

So not much then.

Brian Wake's CV wasn't the best either was it?
I seem to remember Hamilton fans being pretty disparaging about him.

I just don't see the point in absolutely dismissing a player based on not that much.

you sound pleese with yoursel lol

Says the guy who is permanently laughing at his own sh1te patter.
Better hurry. The keystore will be shut soon.

About fucking time!

A sweeper and someone to play the holding roll?

Last words before I let the thread go. Not adding anything else on here but will still add the odd thing on Twitter etc.

I've researched as far back as I can go, even in the decade or so before we joined the SFL. There will likely be omissions when games we played were not mentioned in the press.

Here's a few things I've discovered from or early years.

Almost nothing of our activity in the 1870s exists in print. Even the handful of teams mentioned as playing football at the time have long gone.

The earliest mention of us is this friendly, from 16th November 1878 -


The opposition played on a public park in the Queen's Park area. We had already competed in two Scottish Cups by then.

Earliest mention of Morton goalscorers were from a Renfrewshire Cup tie in 1883 against Woodland (Paisley) which we won 4-0. Scorers were Allan, Reid and Gillespie - the scorer of the fourth goal could not be made out as it came from a "scrimmage".

In the early 1880s we played a handful of friendlies and entered the Scottish and Renfrewshire Cups, plus the Greenock & District Charity Cup, which ran for around 10 years.
The friendlies were mostly against teams in the Greenock, Paisley, Dumbarton, Ayrshire and Glasgow areas, most likely due to transport, and these increased in number as the 1880s went on. There was no rhyme or reason to them - one season we played Port Glasgow in five friendlies and a cup game.

More than half of the games were at Cappielow, which suggests that it was a more desirable venue than other grounds at the time. Seasons also began with Morton hosting local sports and athletic competitions on the Saturday before the first game of the season.

The Renfrewshire Cup was a much bigger competition back then and often hotly contested - I've found reports littered with protests, pitch invasions following hefty tackles, disputed goals and even teams refusing to appear for replays.

It was interesting to see that it was a while before we became the most prominent team in (what would become) Inverclyde -

Port Glasgow Athletic (played at Clune Park)
Greenock Southern (Finnart Park)
1st Renfrewhire Rifle Volunteers (Volunteer Park aka Academy Park)
John Dunlop Templars (later Greenock Abstainers)

- were more regularly mentioned than us for a few years in the press at the time.

By the end of the 1880s our seasons started in August and ended in May and we were generally active most Saturdays.

Our 2nd team at the time was often referred to as "Morton Strollers", and there are a few mentions of us playing a 3rd side too. "Swifts" was a common 2nd XI name among Glasgow teams.


For one season (1891-92) we were playing a league called the Scottish Alliance (finishing 3rd behind Linthouse and Kilmarnock). A number of teams left it and reverted to friendlies.
In 1893-94 we joined the Scottish League in the newly formed Division 2. In the summer of 1900 we were elected to the 1st Division (along with Partick Thistle).


Anyway, if anything major crops up I'll stick it on social media.
Much appreciated the comments and memories from those who were following this thread.

Mon the Ton.

Outstanding effort and resource.
Following on twitter.
Truly in awe!

Nah good lads. Ken their fathers.
Also good guys.

Local Inverclyde football players in known by morton fans shocker.

Sad that Morgan and Taylor never played for Morton youth.

Two fine talents who could have brought in revenue to the club or maybe the difference between playoff failure or winners.

Am sure both boys were with First Touch. Morgan was with Rangers. Not sure if Taylor was ever there or went straight to Killie. Killie took some of the areas best talent for a fair few years.
Both good lads who deserve there success. Hard work, dedication, good attitude etc etc.

lol well big jed says its them

Wow big jed is quite the sage.

Must've taken a fair amount to work out that one.

Shearer Borthwick is a tremendous name!