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For perspective, we also won 3/4 league cup games scoring 10 in the process, and we only lost one league game in the opening quarter thanks to all the draws. Not comparable situations. If it took Imrie that long to win a league game last season, imagine how long it could take this time.

Hopefully after his payoff he'll be flush enough to consider a few months pro bono.

He chucked his toys plenty of times over not getting what he wanted to build the team, and his constant applying for jobs all over the league to leave was a pain in the arse. But Imrie fell out with people because he's combative by nature and is a winner. Imrie never wasted a pre season before throwing in the worst performance ever seen in the league cup by a team at our level. He moaned about the state of things off the park but ultimately delivered on it regardless and went into every game talking about how he was setting up his team to win. The drop in standards since he left is catastrophic. Murray had a better squad last season and still got horsed by Stenny, a relegated Ross County and nearly fucked the Airdrie game up had one of their best players not got himself sent off. So it's not just that he's had no budget or too many injuries this season, he's simply done a terrible job and wouldn't be here if we had the funds to get shot and replace him.

Not sure what the board are supposed to do, he's under contract and if we could pay him off we'd have done so. He really needs to walk away himself. That's 13 losses in the last 17 competitive games (some of which against pub teams). No goals scored this season. Pumped out the cup against Stenny last season. We've played our immediate relegation rivals and still comfortably lost. He's only embarrassing himself overseeing any more of this.

Have to wonder what Murray himself thinks he's getting out of it at this point, other than a wage. We are a genuinely miserable and hopeless watch at the minute and it goes back to the last quarter of last season as well. I'm sure if we could afford it we'd have bagged him before now, there have certainly been enough tipping points since Dingwall. Cashflow problems and injuries don't help, but they are just convenient excuses for unacceptable results now.

We're definitely going to struggle to score goals with this team. That said I thought we worked and defended really valiantly today so the result didn't really bother me as much as it usually would against those bastards. The guys you needed to step up did so, and the young lads gave a proper account of themselves against what will end up being a top side in the division. It's a real shame that the linesman missed Drozd tripping Murphy for their goal and I hope that fanny ends up snapping something crucial before long. Still in real bother but that was heartening.

That's the spirit. Beg for investment, then when we get it ask why the investors are bothering. There's no winning with some folk.

Does he have less of a budget than Linlithgow Rose? Or enough of a budget not to produce the worst league cup campaign a championship club has ever produced? We're still full time, if he's signing players to play football as their only job then he needs to be beating 5th tier football teams, I can't see any justification to the contrary. My take on fan ownership is basically that it's the only show in town until an interested party appears who thinks they can do any better. EFG might, at least they are stumping up cash and some outside expertise. If a proper buyer turns up with the money to better what MCT have been doing then fine, I'm not married to paying out of my own pocket to prop up club capital forever. The alternative is hoping for a sugar daddy to absorb losses in the way that Dougie Rae kind of did. If someone with that kind of cash to burn wanted to buy Morton then they would have, I reckon.

Budget problems or no Murray should resign for this. It's been working alright until Dalrada left us short and we hired a dud manager. Who we selling the shares to then and how will they fund the club?

The people running the club weren't given an option on how to spend it, it was specifically to be spent on the first team and Imrie did that. And this is true - despite the Dalrada money we were still well outgunned. We've been lucky that Imrie generally had us punching above our budgetary weight for the last few years. We were always going to have a bad year and go down, it was inevitable with what the teams around us are prepared to lose. Murray just has us speedrunning that part this year.

Yeah cowardly stuff from a dick of a player. Shug putting him in his place is what you need when you have kids on the park.

The two draws he got in that pitiful run in were both against teams playing the last 30+ minutes with 10 men as well.

0-4 Stenny 0-1 Linlithgow 0-2 East Fife And that's kindly ignoring the Stranraer friendly where we didn't score either. If we can barely manage a fucking shot on target against that then it's definitely TTG.

It will be but it's still full time, so it's not worse than Linlithgow and East Fife bad.

It was TTG after the game at Dingwall. He can't be there when we start the league.