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Should have been out of sight after 20 minutes. As soon as they went 1-0 up, we fell apart. Wilson picking the ball up in his own half with 5/6 players hiding in front of him. The lack of creativity in the second half was extremely concerning and has been the story of the season.
 

We have had 8 forwards/attacking options available so far this season (Stuparevic, Moffat, garrity, Davies, Reynolds, Samuels, Mcginn, JET ). So far they have played in a combined total of 56 games between them, either starting or coming on as sub and have scored 3 league goals between them. Understand that a lot of them are sub appearances but it highlights just how uninspiring our subs have been this season so far.  

Biggest frustration for me at the moment is we do not know the extent of some of the injuries? For example, Boyes, Ballantyne, Mullen, Reynolds? They seem to have just gone awol. How far away are Corr and missing man Shaw from being back in contention? An update from Imrie in his interviews would be nice. We are a striker injury away from having a full unavailable XI. 

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Brutal overall after a promising start.

Endless passes going backwards - Blues was the worst culprit and was rightly hooked at the break. Samuels has had three sub appearances and has done nothing in them (other than fall over the ball twice at Hamilton).

Queen's Park presumably realised by half time that they only had to sit back and wait for us to return the ball to them. They even seemed to work out that 1-0 was going to be enough, but I'm genuinely shocked it was only 1-0 at the end.

Bewildered at the applause the team got at HT but even more so that some folk applauded at FT.

I'm glad I can't make Falkirk - Wilson missing and presumably down to only two or three subs. This could be a real shame game.

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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.

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59 minutes ago, TONofmemories said:

Can't wait to hear in the post match interview how we were great for large parts and that it was a pleasing performance. It was fucking dire and it's time Imrie faced up to that and get back to basics.

That's half the problem though, he's built a squad that's incapable of getting back to basics. Even two years ago when we didn't have Oakley to hit with headers we had wingers who could chase balls into the channel and harry the opposition for second balls if they didn't get in behind off the hoof, now we have a parade of sand-dancers who have no idea how to press the opposition defence. Even on the rare occasion they have possession in the final third the idea of running at a man and having a cross or shot is anathema to the likes of Lyall or McGinn when you can take 10 touches too many, do a wee pirouette that gets you nowhere then go 20 yards backwards to the centre backs and hide behind an opponent rather than bothering your arse to show for a pass.

I don't know if the Rhys McCabe style possession football is going to deliver some favourable tabloid coverage or tweets from Simon Ferry, but even if it does just scrape us to 8th and overhaul the big bad physical Morton image thus doing wonders for Imrie’s reputation, those of us who watch it every week can say without a shadow of a doubt that it's considerably less entertaining, attacking, pleasing on the eye and above all else effective than full backs hoofing balls into the channel for Jai Quitongo and Robbie Crawford to tear after. That was entertaining attacking football, this is fucking dross.

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I would be selecting one of our starting cast of rotating 'attacking midfield' sand-dancers at random and ripping up their contract in front of the squad on a weekly basis. We'd still have a full set of them on the books in March regardless though. 

There are quite a few shortcomings I can tolerate in a Morton player or team, but failing to track runners and the completely gutless hiding from the ball from the front half of the team tonight for the final 60 minutes of that game are not among them.

There are some players who are either fundamentally limited or being asked to play out of position in the back half of the pitch - those sand-dancers at the other end have run out of excuses for no end product and no pressing effort. 

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

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32 minutes ago, dunning1874 said:

That's half the problem though, he's built a squad that's incapable of getting back to basics. Even two years ago when we didn't have Oakley to hit with headers we had wingers who could chase balls into the channel and harry the opposition for second balls if they didn't get in behind off the hoof, now we have a parade of sand-dancers who have no idea how to press the opposition defence. Even on the rare occasion they have possession in the final third the idea of running at a man and having a cross or shot is anathema to the likes of Lyall or McGinn when you can take 10 touches too many, do a wee pirouette that gets you nowhere then go 20 yards backwards to the centre backs and hide behind an opponent rather than bothering your arse to show for a pass.

I don't know if the Rhys McCabe style possession football is going to deliver some favourable tabloid coverage or tweets from Simon Ferry, but even if it does just scrape us to 8th and overhaul the big bad physical Morton image thus doing wonders for Imrie’s reputation, those of us who watch it every week can say without a shadow of a doubt that it's considerably less entertaining, attacking, pleasing on the eye and above all else effective than full backs hoofing balls into the channel for Jai Quitongo and Robbie Crawford to tear after. That was entertaining attacking football, this is fucking dross.

Speak for yourself Dunning.

You dont speak for all Morton supporters...not by a long chalk.

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19 minutes ago, vikingTON said:

I would be selecting one of our starting cast of rotating 'attacking midfield' sand-dancers at random and ripping up their contract in front of the squad on a weekly basis. We'd still have a full set of them on the books in March regardless though. 

There are quite a few shortcomings I can tolerate in a Morton player or team, but failing to track runners and the completely gutless hiding from the ball from the front half of the team tonight for the final 60 minutes of that game are not among them.

There are some players who are either fundamentally limited or being asked to play out of position in the back half of the pitch - those sand-dancers at the other end have run out of excuses for no end product and no pressing effort. 

Your calls are important to us.

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Started off really well at a high tempo, then we lose a goal and the heads go down with people hiding constantly. It’s nowhere near good enough!

Moffat has to start burying his token chance a game where he finds himself in a great position in the box, on his right foot.

Without Wilson we would be struggling big time so Saturday isn’t going to be pretty at all. Thought Blues had a decent first half at right back. 

Counting the injury list, it is mental to think we are missing (8?) players:

Shaw, Corr, Mullen, Woods, Ballantyne, Boyes, King & Reynolds.

I think some form of substantial update on when players are coming back would be of benefit to the fans as it’s fucking grim at the minute. Don’t see how we don’t have a few young boys on the bench to make up numbers and give them some experience in around the first team. Surely we would rather throw on a Cameron Keay for last 10 minutes if someone gets injured instead of having to play with 10 men if this situation happened?

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I've only made one game this season due to work and I'm sorry to say I've not even missed it one bit.  This is a depressing read from the shambles on the pitch to the ongoing shambles off it.  

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56 minutes ago, HamCam said:

Comforted to hear Imrie once again thought we were superb, excellent etc. Strangely most fans thought we were aimless, honking, boring, passive etc. 

This.

Fuck off Dougie. Playing the ball backwards and side to side for the majority of game does not merit being superb or excellent.

 

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The second half felt like a real chore last night. We could be playing until this morning and still not score. Looking at the upcoming fixtures, I’m starting to wonder when we’ll win next.  I doubt Saturday will be pretty without Wilson and possibly Blues added to the expanding list of unavailable players.

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8 hours ago, Drew Busby's Moustache said:

Speak for yourself Dunning.

You dont speak for all Morton supporters...not by a long chalk.

 

8 hours ago, Drew Busby's Moustache said:

Your calls are important to us.

I'm sure that the self-proclaimed spokesman for the 'braying, doddery clown' section of the fanbase will contribute something of note soon. 

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

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That's a wild post-match interview. Quite apart from the head in the sand claim that we were "superb" and "excellent" after a performance where only Budinauckas walked away with any credit, saying that one of the problems with the second half was the midfield rushing things is a ridiculous take. We never remotely looked like creating a chance in that second half because we were so slow and pedestrian, allowing Queen's Park the time to set 11 men behind the ball and giving ample choices for our attacking players to hide behind rather than showing for a pass.

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This is getting so desperate I've been wondering if Jai Quitongo could stay fit enough to do us a turn.  Why does Imrie insists on signing absolute duds up front?  We sign Samels and he can't even break into the starting 11.  

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The all too predictable post match interview in which his views and opinions wildly differ from those watching. I suspect an element of that is protecting his players and to an extent himself, but i'm beyond questioning myself now if i've been watching a different game to him. Its just not good enough atm and painting over that fact with straight up bullshit claims about being "excellent" just doesn't wash. 

When Imrie eventually moves on, watch how sour this turns. 

TIME FOR CHANGE!

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Didn’t like Imrie’s tone talking about Wilson’s red card saying it’s “killed us” for Falkirk away. We all know it’s going to be tough but it’s not great when the manager has thrown the towel in 4 days before kick off. 

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