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He was hardly being asked to play left back or in goal. Given the limited impact he has made in his supposedly favourable position - in terms of goals, and assists, rather than just vibes - he has no right to expect to play there. And if you can't adapt as a squad option, then you're not cut for professional football.

Get me Sir David Irons.

They really don't. I saw Wigtown and Bladnoch play at the start of this season - a team that has shipped an average of about 90 goals per season in the last 3 years - and even they pass the ball out from the park, on a grass pitch, at a similar glacial pace as the football that Murray declares himself to be thrilled at seeing because we changed style since January. The only relevant change since January has been from GMFC regularly winning games of football to losing almost every single one. There were almost no glimpses of good football today and absolutely zero evidence of combinations between attacking players that would suggest deliberate coaching. And it wasn't because of the new forward because we were precisely as gormless for the entire second half at Lesser Hampden.

It's far less of an absolute joke than letting a gubbins manager sign McLuckie, O'Toole, Carse etc., only to deem then surplus to requirements or marginal squad fodder within 3 months. And there's still no rhyme nor reason as to what any of the non-centre back ringers are supposed to offer, or how the team should adjust to their presence. It is a completely shiftless mess - like the last days of Gus McPherson, without any excuses about a lack of backing.

The GMFC board is completely devoid of leadership. The key failures in 2026 have been failures from not taking a decision (to not adjust budgets due to a defaulting sponsor; to not grasp the nettle of part time or hybrid football; to not gunge a useless fraud of a manager). It is a rudderless ghost ship and MCT's representatives on the board ultimately have to take responsibility for that - as opposed to Barr's tactic of claiming to take responsibility by offering resignations in public, while never actually fucking off. TTG and STB. The biggest charity game winner in the park was Robertson, who shouldn't have lasted beyond half time.

The second half was not only poor but also an extremely fucking tedious waste of time. Both before and after the goal, there is nothing worth watching despite the bold claims that signing yet another player will have folk rushing back through the gates. Zero wins in any competition since March. But we still clutch our pearls about external investors pointing out just how abysmal GMFC are performing on their own benchmarks.

What features of these attached 'accounts' (balance sheet, not a P/L statement) demonstrate this, from your point of view?

We're going to lose quite a few more games than we win, regardless of any one signing of questionable fitness and impact. As Queens' Park being rolled over yet again this evening at home demonstrated - a fortnight after we contrived to lose to them. While we are not hopelessly out of depth in terms of performance, there just aren't going to be easy wins forthcoming. 8th place in this division could easily finish on 45 points at this rate - we're already well behind even a point per game, and needing snookers to catch up. If the club was serious about addressing the problem, then priority #1 would in fact have been putting a certain Murray, I., on gardening leave months ago. Rather than laughably hiding behind his Uncompromising Demands to justify throwing yet more resources into this yawning black hole of a campaign. Even the Raes didn't let Johansson away with this pish over Charlie Telfer playing at cost to the club's budget the following season. Whereas the current board - by their most recent account - have let a CV-padding dummy, who was fraudulently claiming that we wouldn't be able to fulfil fixtures just six weeks ago, wipe the floor with them over squad movement despite having an actual panhandling charity bucket out just to make the end of the season. Another breathtaking failure of club administration.

From what?

Well yes it does - when the difference between the previous trend in crowds (downward) is 'increased' by virtue of more ST holders simply attending home matches. You need to show that your hotshot striker and fever dream of, err 9th place and 7 wins this season would cause 100 additional fans to attend, who otherwise wouldn't. "Even if I accept your clearly flawed logic, my point still stands. Let me make it really simple for you. If results improve, this increases the likelihood of paying, non STH punters being attracted to attend." The 'likelihood' in this claim is: A- Unquantifiable horseshit, while also being B- Completely inappropriate for a club to be speculating in, whilst operating a fucking FIGHTING FUND CHARITY BUCKET at the same time. What really annoyed me just a few weeks ago was how the Morton fanbase so quickly reverted to 1) embracing an external backer then 2) falling back on 'woe is us' self-pitying claptrap, so soon after the 2020-21 experience.This takes me back to the years of Dundee fans insisting that their club had a right to sign whoever they wanted prior, during and after administration. The handling of this situation by GMFC is more shameful to associate with and distancing in its effects, than any amount of 10-2 at Hamilton gubbings on the park.

Interesting use of barely, to describe what will be comfortably the majority of our home attendance tomorrow and in every other league game this season. Let's break it down in simple enough terms for you: I could choose to go to the game tomorrow; I could choose not to go. As a ST holder, my decision will change the attendance at the game by 1 but the actual revenue received by GMFC changes by absolutely nothing. To achieve the 100 extra folk through the gate in revenue terms, you need to exclude the significant variation among ST holders, who were sold a pup by GMFC's declarations of Unacceptable Standards in May and can now find many better things to do with their time than watching Ian Murray's clown car show on a fortnightly basis. Or to use an example - the crowd for the Livingston game last Friday could have increased by 100, while conferring literally no extra revenue in gate receipts - purely by the number of ST holders who either couldn't or didn't want to traipse to Cappielow. So no, ambitious first team signings do not pay for themselves by small changes in attendance patterns. The lion's share of revenue is already received and baked into the budget.

I, for one, think that the best solution to deal with the club's financial black hole caused by believing the self-aggrandising claims of a wealthy backer, is to defer control to another set of wealthy backers without even proof of funding being in place.

Three weeks ago, Graham Barr was rubbing onions over his lidless eyes to try and guilt trip money from pensioners, from the unemployed and from random well-wishers - on the premise that poor wee Morton faced insolvency through not fault of their own. Since then, GMFC has signed half a fucking starting eleven, while flip-flopping between club survival and Championship survival as the premise of this campaign. That you think that these two positions are in anyway appropriate to hold together is a result of your lack of objectivity. And your 40 returning fans will pay for it line - to see us swashbucklingly push towards, err, 9th rather than 10th - is so detached from sporting as well as financial reality as to win you a seat on the GMFC board, next time Uncle Brian is promising cheques that keep on bouncing.

Only if you forget that the bulk of those attending are either a) existing ST holders or b) away fans, meaning that the lion's share of any magical 100 gate increase either produces no further revenue at all, or is completely independent of the club's ambishun. Let's be quite clear - GMFC could field a team of regens to go with its existing dummy of a manager, and the impact on gate receipts between now and the end of the season would be very small.

Can't really be playing the hour of dire need card, when the club have just signed yet another first team player less than 24 hours ago.