Alibi Posted September 14 Share Posted September 14 Imrie has really fucked up the recruitment this season. Moffat & Lyall, Bannatyne all fine but Jet, Reynolds & Davies appear to be worse than useless. 2 "Any nation given the opportunity to regain its national sovereignty and which then rejects it is so far beneath contempt that it is hard to put words to it." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dunning1874 Posted September 14 Share Posted September 14 Another terrible result, with the evidently perfectly good Cappielow pitch not suiting our galacticos removed from the list of excuses. It already feels like we're just treading water until January when we'll be several points adrift in bottom, but might not be so far behind that getting rid of Reynolds, Davies and JET (McGinn may join this group but I'll not condemn him to it yet despite the signing making even less sense than Ally Roy) in one fell swoop to combine their wages to find one player who can actually be called a centre forward can't scrape us into 8th. Brian Wake my Lord, Brian Wake Brian Wake my Lord, Brian Wake Brian Wake my Lord, Brian Wake Oh Lord, Brian Wake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thehustler Posted September 14 Share Posted September 14 4 minutes ago, dunning1874 said: Another terrible result, with the evidently perfectly good Cappielow pitch not suiting our galacticos removed from the list of excuses. It already feels like we're just treading water until January when we'll be several points adrift in bottom, but might not be so far behind that getting rid of Reynolds, Davies and JET (McGinn may join this group but I'll not condemn him to it yet despite the signing making even less sense than Ally Roy) in one fell swoop to combine their wages to find one player who can actually be called a centre forward can't scrape us into 8th. Sums it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HamCam Posted September 14 Share Posted September 14 I wonder if Imrie will look to maintain how pleased he is with our performances so far this season? He was given a bigger budget and decided to refresh the squad and style of play but to date the outcome is poor recruitment and sand dancing ineffective football. Thankfully most of the rest of the league are gubbins but until we can secure someone to put the ball in the back of the net we are rightly favourites for relegation. As for JET, aside from his inability to score a goal you have to question his desire to be a footballer when he lacks the drive to lose weight and get fit. As for the post-match interview no doubt it will be the usual pish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopCat Posted September 14 Share Posted September 14 JET, Broadfoot and McGinn all in the same starting lineup is a ridiculous selection from Imrie. Crawford and Gillespie are decent players, but both are one-paced at the best of times. How are they supposed to compensate for the fact that the spine of our team can barely move? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken_Soup Posted September 14 Share Posted September 14 JET might face criticism for his obvious flaws, but again he’s put a chance on a plate for a teammate. This time it’s McGinn missing an absolute sitter. Our wastefulness is a huge concern. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chesh Posted September 14 Share Posted September 14 What was dougies plan because the signing of JET was a desperation move which as expected hasn't worked out. If he seen our goal contributions coming from Reynolds and Davies then he needs his head checked because both are out of their depth at this level. Clearly it's difficult to find a goalscorer and it's only going to be harder now but to think of the wasted wages on those 3 players that could have been used to fund one known quality striker. Time to possibly look at the loan market. Im making perfect sense, your just not keeping up.My Twitter - https://twitter.com/RJChesh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drew Busby's Moustache Posted September 14 Share Posted September 14 I just find it totally mind-boggling that Imrie thought Jet...Reynolds and Davies were anywhere near the level required here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RealTonKid Posted September 14 Share Posted September 14 26 minutes ago, TONofmemories said: Imrie would do well to refrain from snide hand gestures to the support and fix this fucking rabble. Can start by shoving JET out the door. We might need to hire a dump truck to push him out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpoonTon Posted September 14 Share Posted September 14 It was always going to be a difficult task to replace the goals of Muirhead and Oakley. The reality is that other clubs at our level saw those players as a better bet than the possible alternatives, and we were left to look for those alternatives. I'm not giving Imrie a free ride on this one, but the results of the attacking recruitment task he had are not surprising. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedrodelawasp Posted September 14 Share Posted September 14 Hard to see how this season gets turned around unless the squad can be enhanced. A domestic loan striker coming in and hitting the ground running right away would be huge, or failing that replacing JET at the end of his 6 months with a real upgrade to make us even halfway competitive from January on. Not sure we can make the first scenario happen, and risky putting all bets on the latter plan as we’re at risk of being cut adrift on current form. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted September 14 Share Posted September 14 We’re fucked without a striker or 2 being signed on loan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted September 14 Share Posted September 14 59 minutes ago, AyrshireTon said: Almost 62 years since this mob last beat us in the league. This is a real low. Well we got horsed by them in the cup under your big mate Duffy, who unveiled the tactical masterstroke of a 'narrow' 3-5-2 to turn around a two goal deficit. On the biggest pitch in the country. We also got horsed 3-0 by a team divisions below us (and not some Gretna outfit either) a couple of months ago. Team with bigger budget beats team with smaller budget in the same league is really not a scandal. The site is supposed to be a place for the extended 'family' of Morton supporters - having an affinity with people that you don't know, because you share a love of your local football club. It's not supposed to be about point scoring and showing how 'clever' or 'funny' you are, or just being downright rude and offensive to people you don't know, because you can get away with it. Unfortunately, it seems the classic case of people who have little standing/presence in real life, use this forum as a way of making themselves feel as if they are something. It's sad, and I've said that before.. So, having been on Morton forums for about 15 years I guess, I've had enough... well done t*ssers, another Morton supporter driven away. You can all feel happy at how 'clever' you are Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RossMcC1874 Posted September 14 Share Posted September 14 Hopeless. Our attacking players are a joke. Jet is about three stone overweight and shouldn't have been signed. Reynolds and Davies are so far away from this level it's worrying. McGinn isn't an out and out a striker and again shouldn't have been signed either. The likes of Moffat, Lyall, Ballantyne all good players but without someone to put the ball in the net we are going to relegated it's that simple. Imrie can gloss it up saying players still gelling, playing nice stuff, happy with the performance but in reality we are relegation fodder with that attack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted September 14 Share Posted September 14 (edited) 55 minutes ago, HamCam said: I wonder if Imrie will look to maintain how pleased he is with our performances so far this season? He was given a bigger budget and decided to refresh the squad and style of play but to date the outcome is poor recruitment and sand dancing ineffective football. Thankfully most of the rest of the league are gubbins but until we can secure someone to put the ball in the back of the net we are rightly favourites for relegation. As for JET, aside from his inability to score a goal you have to question his desire to be a footballer when he lacks the drive to lose weight and get fit. As for the post-match interview no doubt it will be the usual pish. I mostly agree with your points but let's not forget that this sand-dancing tippy tappy nonsense was in fact what a substantial and noisy section of the Morton fanbase were clamouring for, in opposition to 'hoofball' which actually made us an effective Championship side that punched above its weight. That said, we were at a fairly obvious end of a squad cycle over the summer and trying to find direct replacements for players like Oakley given our budget - expanded or otherwise - would have been folly. The issue is that too many gambles have proven to be duds and we also haven't been ruthless enough in discarding 'nice' players who offer no reliable goal threat. Excluding JET's English career from ages ago and the Welsh pub league, Cameron Blues is the closest thing we have to a proven goal scorer. Edited September 14 by vikingTON The site is supposed to be a place for the extended 'family' of Morton supporters - having an affinity with people that you don't know, because you share a love of your local football club. It's not supposed to be about point scoring and showing how 'clever' or 'funny' you are, or just being downright rude and offensive to people you don't know, because you can get away with it. Unfortunately, it seems the classic case of people who have little standing/presence in real life, use this forum as a way of making themselves feel as if they are something. It's sad, and I've said that before.. So, having been on Morton forums for about 15 years I guess, I've had enough... well done t*ssers, another Morton supporter driven away. You can all feel happy at how 'clever' you are Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted September 14 Share Posted September 14 2 minutes ago, RossMcC1874 said: Hopeless. Our attacking players are a joke. Jet is about three stone overweight and shouldn't have been signed. Reynolds and Davies are so far away from this level it's worrying. McGinn isn't an out and out a striker and again shouldn't have been signed either. The likes of Moffat, Lyall, Ballantyne all good players but without someone to put the ball in the net we are going to relegated it's that simple. Imrie can gloss it up saying players still gelling, playing nice stuff, happy with the performance but in reality we are relegation fodder with that attack. For Moffat and Lyall to be genuinely 'good' players at this level then they need to be chipping in with goals on a regular basis from their positions on the park too. That's one of the fundamental problems in this squad. 1 The site is supposed to be a place for the extended 'family' of Morton supporters - having an affinity with people that you don't know, because you share a love of your local football club. It's not supposed to be about point scoring and showing how 'clever' or 'funny' you are, or just being downright rude and offensive to people you don't know, because you can get away with it. Unfortunately, it seems the classic case of people who have little standing/presence in real life, use this forum as a way of making themselves feel as if they are something. It's sad, and I've said that before.. So, having been on Morton forums for about 15 years I guess, I've had enough... well done t*ssers, another Morton supporter driven away. You can all feel happy at how 'clever' you are Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dunning1874 Posted September 14 Share Posted September 14 7 minutes ago, Chesh said: What was dougies plan because the signing of JET was a desperation move which as expected hasn't worked out. If he seen our goal contributions coming from Reynolds and Davies then he needs his head checked because both are out of their depth at this level. Clearly it's difficult to find a goalscorer and it's only going to be harder now but to think of the wasted wages on those 3 players that could have been used to fund one known quality striker. Time to possibly look at the loan market. This is the thing, the logic behind signing Reynolds and Davies in the first place is defensible. Managers careers live and die by those gambles on recruitment but you can see why he made them. Then it became very quickly apparent in the League Cup that both of them will never be good enough and he took another gamble on JET, a different kind of gamble but one that also made sense. We can definitively say already that he got them all wrong but they can all be put down to the trials of being a manager with a small budget. When you're already in that position, you've made three gambles which have exploded in your face, you absolutely need your one last signing with the money left to fix your season, signing McGinn makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. He may well be a better player and despite not being one even a better centre forward than all of them, but that's really a case of bad money after bad money when no matter how highly you rate him, he is clearly not solving the centre forward problem that is absolutely crippling us. In the context of when he signed him it's a worse case of money on a bonfire than Ally Roy. 1 Brian Wake my Lord, Brian Wake Brian Wake my Lord, Brian Wake Brian Wake my Lord, Brian Wake Oh Lord, Brian Wake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBTON Posted September 14 Share Posted September 14 This shambles lies with Imrie I’m afraid. With the proposed ‘bigger budget’ we had been assigned for this season he signs a ‘striker’ who's about 5 stone overweight, signs 2 duds from down south, would love to know what his thoughts were on scouting these 2 other than 1 scored & set up a goal in an fa cup tie against fucking Ipswich. Signs an injury prone centre half who’s popped his shoulder 3 times since the end of last season. Signs shaw from Inverness who was already injured but was rested for the league cup games & was supposedly meant to be back for the Partick game but here we are into September & still no sign of him in a match day squad. I get injuries can happen but this one is taking the piss. Signs a 37 year old winger because he wanted to sign him a few seasons ago but it never worked out even though we were crying out for a no.9 striker. Replaces Lewis Strapp with Zak Delaney Offers a contract to a 40 year old centre half on the back of he’s a ‘good professional’. Alarm bells were already ringing early in the season after the defeat to East Fife but was willing to give the team the benefit of the doubt as it was early days but struggling to wins against Brechin & Cowdenbeath is unacceptable. id rather Imrie scrapped this supposedly new style of football we’re meant to be showcasing his season & go back to the big bad physical Morton that everyone hates to play against. Changes needed & needed quickly. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyrshireTon Posted September 14 Share Posted September 14 35 minutes ago, vikingTON said: Well we got horsed by them in the cup under your big mate Duffy, who unveiled the tactical masterstroke of a 'narrow' 3-5-2 to turn around a two goal deficit. On the biggest pitch in the country. We also got horsed 3-0 by a team divisions below us (and not some Gretna outfit either) a couple of months ago. Team with bigger budget beats team with smaller budget in the same league is really not a scandal. That cup debacle was really dreadful and, as you said, was all down to Duffy. Fair point with that last bit. I'm just annoyed that this season already looks like 2013-14 (minus the big scalp in a cup). McGhee needs some support, there's no-one backing him up. Hayes playing it forward, Bell being forced to do it all alone, now forward from Marr, here's Ritchie, still Andy Ritchie, look at the control... That is a marvellous goal from Andy Ritchie. Twenty minutes on the clock and Morton's supporters come alive. A goal which epitomises the control, the arrogance, the cheek of Andy Ritchie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tondaft1874 Posted September 14 Share Posted September 14 Seen enough of this team to come to my own conclusion that we are absolutely shite. Imrie has made a complete and utter arse of this season as a whole. For a start I don't understand why he's all of a sudden decided to completely change his philosophy on how he wants to play, when the previous set up worked well for him. Then on top of that his recruitment to play in that particular way is absolutely shocking on the most part. Broadfoot, Gillespie and Blues should have been released in the summer. On top of that we sign a 33 year old striker in jet who would struggle to make it into a heavyweight boxing category, Lamar Reynolds who is nowhere near good enough for this level and I have my concern over how much knowledge we had of him before signing. A part time 28 year old from Welsh league with little to no experience in full time and openly admitted to being home sick after his last move which was nowhere near the distance he is now. Delaney from Inverness who just went down and were absolutely dog meet last season. I was shocked to see him turn out for the 2nd half in the trial game he had at cappielow never mind be offered a contract after it. Strapp is 10x the player of Delaney. Add in signings of injury prone Nathan shaw yet to feature since signing, Dylan Corr featured once after being injured on arrival now required surgery and out for months. Then the follow up panic signings of 33 year old Ali Crawford who hadnt played a competitive match in over 12 months and who obviously wasn't deemed good enough in the previous 5 or 6 weeks that he had been training with the club. And then 37 year old Niall mcginn finished 6 years ago drafted in from the wildness of the league of Ireland. What a complete and utter shit show. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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