Morton Club Together Updates

[GiGi]

Upon revealing? What the MCT team think they'd be asked I wonder? This is not a good look tbh. If they're happy to answer questions (some questions) via a 'feedback loop' they should be happy to have someone answer them publicly on the podcast.

[gmfc23]

Bed well and truly shat tbh. These charlatans need emptied as soon as possible before we become any more of a tin pot embarrassment of a club. 

Give us your money don't speak out n do as your told where have we seen this before. 

[port-ton]

I don't think any company should be answering questions regarding the hiring of someone with a criminal record etc, but questions about the manager should be fair game, even if they give answers the fans don't want to hear. 

These board members need to be willing to put themselves in uncomfortable situations because the goodwill built up from the takeover has long since eroded as they stumble from one mis-step to another. 

I've went from excited to disappointed to angry at how the club is being run and we are only in November, the next stage for me is apathy and that's the stage when MCT should really worry about with regards to fans. 

[TRVMP]

20 minutes ago, port-ton said:

I don't think any company should be answering questions regarding the hiring of someone with a criminal record etc, but questions about the manager should be fair game, even if they give answers the fans don't want to hear. 

These board members need to be willing to put themselves in uncomfortable situations because the goodwill built up from the takeover has long since eroded as they stumble from one mis-step to another. 

I've went from excited to disappointed to angry at how the club is being run and we are only in November, the next stage for me is apathy and that's the stage when MCT should really worry about with regards to fans. 

They'd have no need to answer questions if they'd pre-empted them with some kind of acknowledgement or statement. Of course, people may still disagree and may still want to ask questions, but then the club could say "we've spoken on that already, see our initial statement, no further comment." It wouldn't please everyone, but it would be something.

Clyde published this four days after they signed David Goodwillie in 2017:

Club Statement - David Goodwillie | 3 Apr 2017 | News | Clyde Football Club (clydefc.co.uk)

Again, you can agree with it or you can disagree with it, but it's there, it's clear, it spells out exactly what the club's thinking was and why they made the decision they did.

What Morton have done is utterly shite it. And I say that as someone who's absolutely fine with Lithgow playing for us.

[TheGoon]

Yeah I’m not impressed with that at all. At the very least, some sort of blanket statement about Lithgow (which would look ridiculous this late on but hey ho) would’ve helped. Avoiding questions about it entirely is a dreadful look. 

[Hej]

Bored beyond tears to be still hearing about people banging the Lithgow drum in November tbh

[TRVMP]

14 minutes ago, Hej said:

Bored beyond tears to be still hearing about people banging the Lithgow drum in November tbh

Which is fair enough, but it's now well enough established that, for whatever reason, the club's reluctance to go on the record about this is at cross-purposes with their stated aim of being more responsive. An entire podcast that they signed up for is cancelled because they don't want to speak about employees. Right, fine. Now what, when someone wants to know about an employee? Is that the cast-iron policy going forward? Does it apply to the club Board or just to MCT?

I'm sure the shan, not-at-all-back-of-a-fag-packet "Feedback Loop" will have all these answers and more, when it's convenient.

edit: To reiterate, I'm fine with Lithgow being here. What I'm not fine with is MCT using him as a shield to help the club's Board dodge their responsibility to the club's owners, namely the MCT membership.

Edited November 10, 2021 by TRVMP

[port-ton]

Would have preferred that the board members addressed the Lithgow question politically on air and in general terms of employees with criminal offences. Some People wouldn't like the answer but it's much better to face a question and front up why you won't answer than refuse to answer it in the pre screening stage. 

Feel like a compromise could have been made between the podcast and the board members as there are so many questions needing answered that I personally would rather MCT be pressed on from outside sources rather than answering it without the chance of any follow up questions. 

The people who care about the Lithgow situation clearly care about it passionately, but there are many questions regarding MCT's running of the club that every single fan cares about and answers are needed urgently. 

 

[TheGoon]

15 minutes ago, Hej said:

Bored beyond tears to be still hearing about people banging the Lithgow drum in November tbh

Wouldn’t say I’m one of them, but I’d have no issue with any supporter still uneasy about the whole thing. 

[vikingTON]

Who was it who got the job of MCT's media communication: Myra Hindley?

You can't actually decide what you will and won't talk about with the supporter base that your group fundamentally depends on to exist. There's a delusion of authority here that reeks of 'committee men' on a social club. 

Edited November 10, 2021 by vikingTON

[LargsTON]

Get fan ownership and MCT to fuck asap.  An absolute disaster from day one.

[LargsTON]

In amongst my bitterness it does seem that there appears to be one bad apple upsetting things.  Gordon Ritchie is the name I keep hearing popping up.  

[TONofmemories]

48 minutes ago, Hej said:

Bored beyond tears to be still hearing about people banging the Lithgow drum in November tbh

This. I find the whole releasing statements etc really cringeworthy, tbh.

They fucked up not addressing it earlier but there's an element of folk making a song and dance about not much. It happened over a decade ago, he's been employed since and is presumably remorseful and has had to live with his actions since.

[LargsTON]

1 minute ago, TONofmemories said:

This. I find the whole releasing statements etc really cringeworthy, tbh.

They fucked up not addressing it earlier but there's an element of folk making a song and dance about not much. It happened over a decade ago, he's been employed since and is presumably remorseful and has had to live with his actions since.

I couldn't give a fuck about Lithgow in all honesty.  I don't understand how anyone can get so worked up about it after so much time.  

[TONofmemories]

1 minute ago, LargsTON said:

I couldn't give a fuck about Lithgow in all honesty.  I don't understand how anyone can get so worked up about it after so much time.  

Agree entirely. It really is cringe now the amount of drain circling that's going on. Releasing statements is heavy rangers behaviour. It's sad how consuming this is for some.

Get over it, girls 

[TheGoon]

15 minutes ago, TONofmemories said:

This. I find the whole releasing statements etc really cringeworthy, tbh.

They fucked up not addressing it earlier but there's an element of folk making a song and dance about not much. It happened over a decade ago, he's been employed since and is presumably remorseful and has had to live with his actions since.

“Presumably” being the key word there. There’s been zero effort to communicate that, or respond when asked to communicate that. Releasing statements about any old shit is needless and should be avoided, but something like that (under fan ownership especially) required a bit of clarity. 

[Renfrew]

There is multiple ways MCT could’ve addressed the topic without getting into the nitty gritty of it. Simply refusing to acknowledge it once again is embarrassing regardless of your own opinions of the player. They’re wanting the glitz and glamour of running the club but seem to be hiding when it comes to the issues at hand.

 

Have MCT provided any example yet that they can be trusted to run a football club?

[irnbru]

3 minutes ago, Renfrew said:

There is multiple ways MCT could’ve addressed the topic without getting into the nitty gritty of it. Simply refusing to acknowledge it once again is embarrassing regardless of your own opinions of the player. They’re wanting the glitz and glamour of running the club but seem to be hiding when it comes to the issues at hand.

 

Have MCT provided any example yet that they can be trusted to run a football club?

Not arguing the point about transparency but I think it's important that any argument is about some MCT/ GMFC board members and not the MCT as a whole or concept. 

It's only a month or so since there was a vote on three new positions where anyone could have stood. In fact, there's a space on the board available now so it will be interesting to see if anyone steps up to try and challenge from within...

[helensburghton]

56 minutes ago, LargsTON said:

Get fan ownership and MCT to fuck asap.  An absolute disaster from day one.

Not a fan eh? Still boycotting the games? What's your solution or alternative Lord Sugar?

 

 

 

 

 

[TONofmemories]

15 minutes ago, TheGoon said:

“Presumably” being the key word there. There’s been zero effort to communicate that, or respond when asked to communicate that. Releasing statements about any old shit is needless and should be avoided, but something like that (under fan ownership especially) required a bit of clarity. 

His actions over a decade ago aren't really for us to worry about though. The endless tail wagging over this is OTT