Match Preview/Thread - Morton vs Raith Rovers (18th September)

[vikingTON]

20 minutes ago, Drew Busby's Moustache said:

Oh right.....I assume you didnt witness the 'pass-along-the-line parade' before McLean airs it on a hopefull diagonal.

 

The key point in that description is 'McLean', which is where your 'they plan to launch it forward' criticism falls apart.

McLean is the jittery mother at a wedding. He'd launch it forward regardless. He needs to be punted to the bench and then we can have a discussion about how we distribute the ball. 

 

 

[Drew Busby's Moustache]

21 minutes ago, vikingTON said:

The key point in that description is 'McLean', which is where your 'they plan to launch it forward' criticism falls apart.

McLean is the jittery mother at a wedding. He'd launch it forward regardless. He needs to be punted to the bench and then we can have a discussion about how we distribute the ball. 

 

 

My main point was that players religiously adhering to Gus' s strategy .....robs them of intuitive 'in the moment' moves.....e.g.you must have seen the number of times we had Strapp well over the half-way line.....but the ball was invariably punted stand way....why?

If Lewis Strapp is now our winger....why the f**k did we lose Aidan Nesbitt?

[vikingTON]

1 hour ago, Drew Busby's Moustache said:

My main point was that players religiously adhering to Gus' s strategy .....robs them of intuitive 'in the moment' moves.....e.g.you must have seen the number of times we had Strapp well over the half-way line.....but the ball was invariably punted stand way....why?

If Lewis Strapp is now our winger....why the f**k did we lose Aidan Nesbitt?

I've got no idea what you're talking about tbh.

Strapp is just a poor (and out of confidence) choice as wing back - Russell can do that job much better.

None of this has got to do with "religiously" adhering to a wider strategy though. We don't have one. This is just some diddy manager throwing shit against the wall. 

A fitness coach has still got a better PPG as Morton manager than Gus McPherson. These are facts. 

[Guest capitanus]

10 hours ago, Jamie_M said:

 

Its bad enough having a sex offender playing for us, but why the fuck are we making him captain too?

[vikingTON]

If only there was a Scottish football coach who has been proven to save a second tier club from relegation by building a team around efficient hammer-throwers rather than useless sand-dancers like Robbie Muirhead and Gary Oliver. 

A manager who would devastate this current division with the physicality of Gozie Ugwu playing off Reilly, when He previously had to deal with useless tools like Iain fucking Russell failing to do the same role.

Bring Him Home. 

 

 

[Ray Von]

If we’re not too bothered about sex offenders playing for us, why the fuck have we not tried to sign David Godwillie who at least can score goals?

[TRVMP]

1 hour ago, vikingTON said:

I've got no idea what you're talking about tbh.

Strapp is just a poor (and out of confidence) choice as wing back - Russell can do that job much better.

None of this has got to do with "religiously" adhering to a wider strategy though. We don't have one. This is just some diddy manager throwing shit against the wall. 

A fitness coach has still got a better PPG as Morton manager than Gus McPherson. These are facts. 

With, in my opinion, an inferior squad and marginally tougher opposition.

[TopCat]

This Ayr game somehow turning into a shame game for us - box office Morton.

[Jamie_M]

Thankfully, Dunfermline and Hamilton play each other next week so it's unlikely Ayr will send us bottom (watch Dunfermline win 1-0 and Ayr stick 5 past us now to do just that).

[so72]

12 hours ago, capitanus said:

Its bad enough having a sex offender playing for us, but why the fuck are we making him captain too?

Was very disappointed about that. Having a Sex Offender captain the club is a disgrace. Pretty much ran out of patience now, MCT and Gus are somehow managing to out-Rae the Raes.

[GiGi]

Reilly had plenty of chances yesterday and he was fucking useless as well. We went through about 8 different forwards yesterday and none of them had a shot on target. Disgrace.

[Guest capitanus]

1 hour ago, so72 said:

Was very disappointed about that. Having a Sex Offender captain the club is a disgrace. Pretty much ran out of patience now, MCT and Gus are somehow managing to out-Rae the Raes.

In fairness to the Rae family, they never signed any Sex Offenders.  

[TheGoon]

Gus’ post-match interview, “can’t really ask for much more” 

If that’s the case you’re as well leaving mate.

[HamCam]

56 minutes ago, TheGoon said:

Gus’ post-match interview, “can’t really ask for much more” 

If that’s the case you’re as well leaving mate.

If Gus really thinks that level of performance is acceptable all the fans can expect this season is another relegation battle - talk about managing expectation. Why is it all Morton seem capable of appointing is delusional and defeatist managers? As for Gus walking out the door there is of course no chance. After every game he has the comfort of returning home to cuddle the two-year contract on his mantlepiece.

[vikingTON]

54 minutes ago, TheGoon said:

Gus’ post-match interview, “can’t really ask for much more” 

If that’s the case you’re as well leaving mate.

The big question will be whether our soon to be new owners reject this utter nonsense or adopt it as the club motto. 

[HamCam]

1 minute ago, vikingTON said:

The big question will be whether our soon to be new owners reject this utter nonsense or adopt it as the club motto. 

Steady with this optimism - "soon to be new owners".

[Mr.Blue]

1 hour ago, TheGoon said:

Gus’ post-match interview, “can’t really ask for much more” 

If that’s the case you’re as well leaving mate.

Just fuck off Gus.

[port-ton]

The person that people are asking more of is you, Gus. 

[so72]

7 hours ago, capitanus said:

In fairness to the Rae family, they never signed any Sex Offenders.  

They wanted to literally sign the same offender as MCT have but they never followed as you say. 

1 hour ago, vikingTON said:

The big question will be whether our soon to be new owners reject this utter nonsense or adopt it as the club motto. 

By the time they takeover we will be all but relegated at this rate. Unless, of course, Pars and Accies conspire to somehow continue being worse than us

[dunning1874]

12 hours ago, HamCam said:

If Gus really thinks that level of performance is acceptable all the fans can expect this season is another relegation battle

That's optimistic. I was fully expecting a relegation battle this season and thought we were clear favourites for 10th, but at this rate there isn't going to be a battle. We'll just be meekly disappearing with any prospect of staying up realistically gone with months left of the season.

We aren't 13/14 bad to the extent that we'll be completely outclassed in the majority of our games and take several pumpings, but rarely losing by more than one isn't going to be much consolation if we never turn staying competitive in games into points. A classic Alloa style relegation where you just aren't quite good enough to grind out points rather than a typical Morton or Raith style clusterfuck where you capitulate in a humiliating fashion is what everything's pointing towards at the moment, and when you ask what can be done to get out of that the number of answers which involve MacPherson being in charge is diminishing weekly.

If this becomes five, six, seven defeats or even winless games in a row, his position is going to be untenable very soon. This is his squad, he staked the season on holding out for signings towards the end of the window and now the players he wanted are here. If he can't start getting results with them now the obvious way out of this will be to find a manager who can.