Morton vs Aberdeen

[Deego]

1 minute ago, GiGi said:

Don't agree that Longridge is an upgrade on Boyes who was underrated IMO. But that's not to say he hasn't been alright which he has. 

Delaney continues to look like a weak link against better teams and his distribution is really poor. 

That barnet anaw.

[Chicken_Soup]

That was so bad it’s beyond analysis. The only bonus is the money we banked from reaching the fixture in the first place.

Hopefully the injuries aren’t serious and we can bounce back next week.   

Edited August 16 by Chicken_Soup

[vikingTON]

34 minutes ago, Deego said:

That barnet anaw.

Jealous IMO. 

[Mr.Blue]

41 minutes ago, Deego said:

That barnet anaw.

Heard someone giving him pelters from the back of the shed and mentioning his mullet. Some of the shouts from fans are cringeworthy. It's amazing the amount of people that become football experts for 90 mins.

[Deego]

2 minutes ago, Mr.Blue said:

Heard someone giving him pelters from the back of the shed and mentioning his mullet. Some of the shouts from fans are cringeworthy. It's amazing the amount of people that become football experts for 90 mins.

It wasnae me BTW.

[vikingTON]

2 hours ago, standman said:

That was pathetic.

The tone was set with Moffat running down the left in a great position to do something and he ran it out of play.

In some ways today was a follow on from the second half last week in that we don’t look like creating any chances.

Which makes it all the more frustrating to mess up a first half free kick, take a stupid short corner in the second half and concede less than twenty seconds or so from one of our own corners .

Blues was culpable in the lead up to the corner from which they scored in the first half by giving it away.

It’s not just him - were all pathetic though throughout the ninety.

Wilson was a awful as well for the second game running.

This “new style” better bed in quickly , starting next week.

 

What's the "new style" you're referring to, in your judgment? The only major shift in our play I've seen under Imrie was at the start of last season to pass the ball far more from the back. We curbed it back a bit after weeks of Baird treating the ball like a live hand grenade, but we definitely ended it passing out more often and more successfully than previous seasons. 

I see the same style as the tail end of last season. We are slightly (but perhaps significantly) weaker in central defence but don't quite know what our best set of options are from midfield to front. I don’t see any forced change in style of play though: we just couldn't play at all today because the starting lineup left our central midfield hopelessly overwhelmed. 

The team that started the Partick game should largely play next week (I don't get Taylor over Robertson, but they train all week), and there's no reason why we can't record a good win if they do. I'd like to see more pressing personally, but when we played Muirhead and Oakley together it was not too much different to this in terms of sacrificing work rate to goal threat. You just can't add wingers as well. 

Edited August 16 by vikingTON

[Mr.Blue]

17 minutes ago, Deego said:

It wasnae me BTW.

Lol sorry wasn't meaning that 

[irnbru]

2 hours ago, standman said:

Wilson was rank last week at Partick too but if he’s carrying an injury then it’s understandable that he isn’t up to his usual high levels as he’s become one of our main men for sure 

He's been poor all season. 

[standman]

28 minutes ago, vikingTON said:

What's the "new style" you're referring to, in your judgment? The only major shift in our play I've seen under Imrie was at the start of last season to pass the ball far more from the back. We curbed it back a bit after weeks of Baird treating the ball like a live hand grenade, but we definitely ended it passing out more often and more successfully than previous seasons. 

I see the same style as the tail end of last season. We are slightly (but perhaps significantly) weaker in central defence but don't quite know what our best set of options are from midfield to front. I don’t see any forced change in style of play though: we just couldn't play at all today because the starting lineup left our central midfield hopelessly overwhelmed. 

The team that started the Partick game should largely play next week (I don't get Taylor over Robertson, but they train all week), and there's no reason why we can't record a good win if they do. I'd like to see more pressing personally, but when we played Muirhead and Oakley together it was not too much different to this in terms of sacrificing work rate to goal threat. You just can't add wingers as well. 

Dougie and Billy Davies have mentioned a new style in some of their interviews. I’m not really sure what it’s meant to be from what i’ve seen this season.

[HamCam]

Aside from the money it is a struggle to identify a positive from today. What is frustrating is with so many 'big game' fans in attendance we never gave them anything to encourage regular attendance. We were just awful with so many players hiding from the ball. Our aimless punts up the park only gave the ball back to Aberdeen to build again. I have no idea if Aberdeen are any good as we shat the bed today.

[Mr.Blue]

31 minutes ago, HamCam said:

Aside from the money it is a struggle to identify a positive from today. What is frustrating is with so many 'big game' fans in attendance we never gave them anything to encourage regular attendance. We were just awful with so many players hiding from the ball. Our aimless punts up the park only gave the ball back to Aberdeen to build again. I have no idea if Aberdeen are any good as we shat the bed today.

Positives were Storer was excellent and some of the glory hunting cunts won't come back.  Shame we couldn't include some of the absolute weapons in the shed who are clueless.

[GiGi]

11 minutes ago, Mr.Blue said:

Positives were Storer was excellent and some of the glory hunting cunts won't come back.  Shame we couldn't include some of the absolute weapons in the shed who are clueless.

I'm not sure why people not coming back is good for the club at all tbh. Even if they were critical, and today merited a lot of it. 

[vikingTON]

1 hour ago, GiGi said:

I'm not sure why people not coming back is good for the club at all tbh. Even if they were critical, and today merited a lot of it. 

It's also not good for the weekly fan to have some absolute clown bray totally irrelevant nonsense within earshot on a biannual basis though. Often involving some variant of 'get it oan the deck' - as if we could just magically choose to Total Football our way out of this afternoon's chasing. A lot of Morton's 'big game fans' catchment are also fucking hard work, there's no point in pretending otherwise. 

That's one reason why I was always buying a Sinclair Street end ticket today - unless it was hosing it down. The Cowshed can be a really annoying place in which to watch a game like today's. 

Edited August 16 by vikingTON

[Mr.Blue]

8 hours ago, vikingTON said:

It's also not good for the weekly fan to have some absolute clown bray totally irrelevant nonsense within earshot on a biannual basis though. Often involving some variant of 'get it oan the deck' - as if we could just magically choose to Total Football our way out of this afternoon's chasing. A lot of Morton's 'big game fans' catchment are also fucking hard work, there's no point in pretending otherwise. 

That's one reason why I was always buying a Sinclair Street end ticket today - unless it was hosing it down. The Cowshed can be a really annoying place in which to watch a game like today's. 

Couldn't agree more.

[Greacen2000]

Dreadful performance. 

They constantly caused us problems when they attacked down the wings - Delaney and Ballantyne looked really exposed and didn’t get enough support from their team mates.  I would really like us to have another option at CB which would allow us to move Longridge out to LB and bench Delaney.

O’Halloran was poor again - lots of running but to no effect.  Going forward he got into dangerous positions maybe twice but it didn’t amount to anything other than a soft penalty claim.  Defensively he was constantly getting caught out of position and leaving those behind him exposed.

We definitely improved with the subs but still looked miles off it.  Even when we got the ball into areas where we could have threatened, we got crowded out or ran out of steam.  Try an early ball into the box! Have a long range shot!  We didn’t do any of that all day, and also were wasteful with corners and free kick.

Not convinced Adeloye and Brophy will work in the same team.  Once Tomi went off I thought Brophy looked better but he isn’t the sort of player you can launch high balls into all day so he had a pretty thankless task.

Credit to the cowshed lads for the tifo and for all the noise they made - great effort.  If the players had put in half the effort you did then we might have had a different result.

Storer outstanding again - made some absolutely ridiculous saves.  He is going to be a huge player for us this season

All in all a 3-0 defeat to a top 6 club and Scottish cup holders isn’t any surprise.  The biggest disappointment for me is that they didn’t look exactly great, and we failed to do the very basics that would have asked some questions of them.

 

[IanClinging]

11 hours ago, vikingTON said:

It's also not good for the weekly fan to have some absolute clown bray totally irrelevant nonsense within earshot on a biannual basis though. Often involving some variant of 'get it oan the deck' - as if we could just magically choose to Total Football our way out of this afternoon's chasing. A lot of Morton's 'big game fans' catchment are also fucking hard work, there's no point in pretending otherwise. 

That's one reason why I was always buying a Sinclair Street end ticket today - unless it was hosing it down. The Cowshed can be a really annoying place in which to watch a game like today's. 

Jeezo. You must find life very trying if "get it oan the deck" being shouted at Cappielow irks you this much. That's one of my earliest memories of going to Cappielow, along with "play it to feet" and "get the subs on McGraw".

Very disappointed in what was on the pitch yesterday. Starting line-up all wrong, gave up the ball/put it out of play regularly when under minimal pressure. Also, we managed to play better last season without a recognised striker than we've managed this season with two seasoned strikers.

We made it pretty easy for Aberdeen. 

[CM48]

Pitch still looks sticky to me. Same for both teams I know, but I really don't think it's helping.

Wilson for me is still by miles our best player and is one step ahead of everyone else reading the game as well as improving those around him, but he's been struggling with the ball at his feet and with his distribution so far this season. Is it an ongoing injury thing?

Again we maybe look physically a bit lightweight too?

That said I'm still optimistic that Dougie will find the right formula and if most of the squad stay healthy that we can do better this season than we did last season. Storer looks a real find.

Enjoyed the match day programme video again and the media output from the club has been great.

Hopefully (with a few quid extra in the bank) we can move on quickly from what was a disappointing day.

[Mr.Blue]

3 hours ago, IanClinging said:

Jeezo. You must find life very trying if "get it oan the deck" being shouted at Cappielow irks you this much. That's one of my earliest memories of going to Cappielow, along with "play it to feet" and "get the subs on McGraw".

Very disappointed in what was on the pitch yesterday. Starting line-up all wrong, gave up the ball/put it out of play regularly when under minimal pressure. Also, we managed to play better last season without a recognised striker than we've managed this season with two seasoned strikers.

We made it pretty easy for Aberdeen. 

'Often involving some variant of......'

[RealTonKid]

I’m not sure what’s worse, our insipid display yesterday or this stinking hangover I’m currently nursing. Losing to Aberdeen is no disgrace in itself, but we rolled out the red carpet for them. The game was done and dusted by half-time, with Harper and McMaster nearly jumping in the WDE and joining the Dons’ fans in a collective crowdwank. Maybe next time we can book Miller and McLeish. Luckily for us, they had already lit the cigars and decided to play in second gear for the second-half, albeit Storer was called on a few times to spare our blushes. The sun-kissed Aberdeen fans I spoke to after the game were even surprised at how passive we were.

[dazza]

Gherry trying to usher Joe Harper away from the Aberdeen crowd (Where he's an absolute legend) was very poor. The guy was understandably taking plaudits from the Aberdeen crowd and making an effort to speak to as many of them as possible and Gherry looks over, then walks over and tries unsuccessfully to usher him away. Arsehole of a guy.