Imrie to Raith

[Deego]

51 minutes ago, Gordon Ritchie said:

I tried to share my concerns about Laird with MCT and the GMFC board at the time. They didn’t listen. There are so many other things that I’m not allowed to tell you due to board confidentiality.

Ach go on.

[Tubes]

I can’t go back and listen to that car crash interview Laird done in Coast weeks ago, but didn’t he say if he’s not wanted he would go or if he wasn’t performing he’d go? 

How do we actually go about binning him?

[irnbru]

26 minutes ago, Tubes said:

I can’t go back and listen to that car crash interview Laird done in Coast weeks ago, but didn’t he say if he’s not wanted he would go or if he wasn’t performing he’d go? 

How do we actually go about binning him?

Ditch Dalrada is the only way. 

Not sure what's happening with their technology innovations, cosmetic changes around the club, etc either.

We're not fully reliant on a 78 year old man sponsoring us on a year to year deal. At least the Raes were owners and tied to us through that... 

Edited November 27, 2025 by irnbru

[gmfc_craig]

25 minutes ago, Tubes said:

I can’t go back and listen to that car crash interview Laird done in Coast weeks ago, but didn’t he say if he’s not wanted he would go or if he wasn’t performing he’d go? 

How do we actually go about binning him?

Petition to get him binned? Motion of no confidence? He should be nowhere near the club, for someone with no decision making powers he seems to be making a lot of decisions. Snake of the highest order!

[MordenTon]

51 minutes ago, RossMcC1874 said:

So in summary Laird needs to get binned, but we can't do that because Brian Bonnar wants him there?

I dont keep up to date with much MCT or board things unless someone says something on here but we really seem to be a bit of a shit show behind the scenes.

I've been following Morton since 1971 and sad to say but it's seldom seemed to be anything other than a shit-show at boardroom level.. christ knows how we manage it.

[Cet Homme Charmant]

Just listened to the voice note there, and on the face of it, it's appalling. 

However.... this is a one-sided account of the events, and I think you need to know all sides before making judgements. What does seem a bit weird from this account is that Dougie appears to have got offers from Raith despite not applying for it, showing any interest in it, or even being interviewed for it. Hmmmm.

But notwithstanding of the rights and wrongs behind the scenes of Dougie's departure, this Board needs a clear-out

[Gordon Ritchie]

1 hour ago, Deego said:

Ach go on.

Believe me, I’d love to. I asked the GMFC board to release me from the binding confidentiality, and they refused (what did they have to hide?). 
One of the main thrusts of MCT was that, if you didn’t like the way the club was run, you could remove the board. If you lobby the MCT board to force the Morton board to release me from that rule, I’d happily tell you everything that has been going on. 
 

 

 

[Chicken_Soup]

1 hour ago, AndyClark22 said:

The voice note is shocking - but unless the author is known, it's utterly pointless and invalid. I could sit and talk nonsense for seven minutes and send it round, doesn't make it reliable. It could be 100% on the money, but it's pretty pointless doing/feeling/saying anything without the most basic info of authorship 

I think a lot of folk will give the voice note credibility because the author is known to them and would have access to this type of information. We can of course assume he’s got the information from Imrie so accusations of inaccuracy on that basis are fair. I’m inclined to believe that the core of it is true, others may not,  but, unless I’m way off here, it’s not some random fan creating a fantasy. 

 

I’ll stop short of naming anyone as there are some serious claims in there but I assume most people, particularly on here, will have a good idea who it is. 

[RossMcC1874]

Does anyone have access to this voice note and can we actually all hear what was said. 

[Ecb]

24 minutes ago, Gordon Ritchie said:

Believe me, I’d love to. I asked the GMFC board to release me from the binding confidentiality, and they refused (what did they have to hide?). 
One of the main thrusts of MCT was that, if you didn’t like the way the club was run, you could remove the board. If you lobby the MCT board to force the Morton board to release me from that rule, I’d happily tell you everything that has been going on. 
 

 

 

Do what other board members do and get a relative to post it under an anonymous account on a message board

[Spot Ton]

1 hour ago, Deego said:

Ach go on.

[Madton]

1 hour ago, Gordon Ritchie said:

Believe me, I’d love to. I asked the GMFC board to release me from the binding confidentiality, and they refused (what did they have to hide?). 
One of the main thrusts of MCT was that, if you didn’t like the way the club was run, you could remove the board. If you lobby the MCT board to force the Morton board to release me from that rule, I’d happily tell you everything that has been going on. 
 

 

 

Just post as The Gordon Ritchie, seems to work elsewhere...

[AndyClark22]

5 hours ago, AndyClark22 said:

The voice note is shocking - but unless the author is known, it's utterly pointless and invalid. I could sit and talk nonsense for seven minutes and send it round, doesn't make it reliable. It could be 100% on the money, but it's pretty pointless doing/feeling/saying anything without the most basic info of authorship 

I've now heard who the mystery voice apparently belongs to (hint: Telegraph football reporter). That actually raises more questions - why on earth would a journalist release that as a voice note and not as a major scoop? If what's in the recording is true, that would be a major story likely picked up by national media. Something doesn't sit right with it being passed around various WhatsApp groups. Could be Dougie seeing the reaction and wanting to counter it? He did say explicitly in his interview with Raith that he'd been speaking to them before last weekend, so that immediately raises a red flag; the two versions of the same event can't coexist. 

[Greacen2000]

19 minutes ago, AndyClark22 said:

I've now heard who the mystery voice apparently belongs to (hint: Telegraph football reporter). That actually raises more questions - why on earth would a journalist release that as a voice note and not as a major scoop? If what's in the recording is true, that would be a major story likely picked up by national media. Something doesn't sit right with it being passed around various WhatsApp groups. Could be Dougie seeing the reaction and wanting to counter it? He did say explicitly in his interview with Raith that he'd been speaking to them before last weekend, so that immediately raises a red flag; the two versions of the same event can't coexist. 

I thought the same thing re the timeline but In the interview Imrie says “last week” which technically could mean Friday so who knows.

regarding who the voice note came from and how it came out, I could be wrong but would assume that if was sent in confidence and that the sender didn’t expect it to end up going viral

[irnbru]

36 minutes ago, AndyClark22 said:

I've now heard who the mystery voice apparently belongs to (hint: Telegraph football reporter). That actually raises more questions - why on earth would a journalist release that as a voice note and not as a major scoop? If what's in the recording is true, that would be a major story likely picked up by national media. Something doesn't sit right with it being passed around various WhatsApp groups. Could be Dougie seeing the reaction and wanting to counter it? He did say explicitly in his interview with Raith that he'd been speaking to them before last weekend, so that immediately raises a red flag; the two versions of the same event can't coexist. 

Think he's an ex reporter now. 

[TONofmemories]

53 minutes ago, irnbru said:

Think he's an ex reporter now. 

In fairness, good. Hes always been a gobshite 

Not the first time hes stirred the pot with sensationalist headlines. 

Dork 

Edited November 27, 2025 by TONofmemories

[Toby]

5 hours ago, Spot Ton said:

Who were the sectarian bigots who hounded Jim McInally out of Cappielow for being a Catholic?

[irnbru]

1 hour ago, TONofmemories said:

In fairness, good. Hes always been a gobshite 

Not the first time hes stirred the pot with sensationalist headlines. 

Dork 

Don't fully disagree. 

The issue is the behaviours fully align with how the 'advisory' chairman has acted like before. 

If that's how him and Dalradas other rep run the club then there's major alarm bells. It's the second big thing the other board member has been involved in. 

There's no way to say how much of an impact it's had but any employee of a company is going to be impacted by people like that running their business or managing them. There's got to have been a direct impact on the footballing side. It's easy to say the players and coaching staff should just perform regardless but they are just employees like the rest of us and impacted by bad management 

Laird has too much unchecked control and needs ditched. He's not an official director, MCT member or investor. Just a guy that causes issues everywhere he goes and has complete disregard for the actual owners (the fans). 

[Stevie Aitken's Love Child]

I know a couple of people have asked now, but how might one go about getting a hold of this voice note?

[Cet Homme Charmant]

If we assume that the version of events detailed in the voice note came from Dougie, releasing it is very strange as it's obviously not going to go down well with Raith or their fans. Imagine if we were to be told Dougie's replacement didn't apply for or want the job, and was effectively forced into taking it by a deal concocted up behind his back at Boardroom level. You're hardly going to take that well.

Whoever recorded and released this has done Dougie far more harm than good, I'm afraid.

Edited November 28, 2025 by Cet Homme Charmant