Imrie to Raith

[AndyClark22]

That's that then. The truth no doubt will lie somewhere in between, but it's done now. It's important as fans we keep a close eye on what's happening (or not), but moreso important to support those that are here over a few crucial games.

[HamCam]

Tittle tattle with the odd grain of truth and plenty of disinformation. Amazing how many Morton fans were so willing to jump on the bandwagon.

[Greacen2000]

Fair play to Chris for coming out with the statement - I can't imagine how he must have been feeling as he watched this spread over the last couple of days.

Credit to the club too for the magnanimous and conciliary tone of their statement.  I had the absolute fear that this was going to end up with an embarrassing & condescending rangers or celtic style "statement o'clock" type missive being issued

There will still be plenty of people who take this with a pinch of salt & call it damage limitation/cover up etc (I have seen a few such reactions from my friends already).  And of course stating that the message contained inaccuracies does fall a bit short of a wholesale retraction of all that was said.  There are still questions to be answered about the governance of the club & in particular the nature of the roles of certain people, but I feel like it would be better timing if we leave that to the summer, or at least until the review of our Dalrada deal which is scheduled to take place in January.

Personally, I think the best thing at this point is for us all to accept this and move on.  Making moves to oust board members, or focusing energy toward a post mortem of how Imrie left isn't going to change what has happened, and doesn't serve the immediate needs of the club (which is getting the results we need to secure our place in the championship and progress in the cups).

[irnbru]

27 minutes ago, AndyClark22 said:

That's that then. The truth no doubt will lie somewhere in between, but it's done now. It's important as fans we keep a close eye on what's happening (or not), but moreso important to support those that are here over a few crucial games.

Tbf even if it's half true it's just another example of Lairds behaviour and it's not acceptable for a fan owned club. He's not been voted in, doesn't answer to anyone and acts like he's showing off that he knows that's the case. 

 

[standman]

At no point do Morton say they wanted Dougie to stay or make a counter offer to Raith’s.

[AndyClark22]

19 minutes ago, standman said:

At no point do Morton say they wanted Dougie to stay or make a counter offer to Raith’s.

If he wanted to go - and his track record of applying for jobs would suggest he did - there's no point standing in his way. He did brilliantly for us, but he wanted to go. No point in keeping an unhappy manager.

[Toby]

3 hours ago, Spot Ton said:

Careful now, you don't fall foul of your new boardroom policies. Our resident Petrocelli will be hauling you up at the next MCT AGM.

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

[Chicken_Soup]

1 hour ago, HamCam said:

Tittle tattle with the odd grain of truth and plenty of disinformation. Amazing how many Morton fans were so willing to jump on the bandwagon.

And why might that be? 
 

If that statement eases concerns for some, that’s great for them. 

 

[port-ton]

The statement is worded very carefully to appease all parties and allow them to move on. That’s very different from either side admitting that the version of events were incorrect. 
 

I know which side I’d trust more and it’s probably not the side of the people who have been caught in multiple lies and coverups.

[Hej]

So has Dodds lost his job at the Tele over this?

What a silly fud.

[cappieton_1874]

Interesting to note that Davies mentions about making decisions to better his family in the interview for tomorrow’s game. 

[Tubes]

1 hour ago, cappieton_1874 said:

Interesting to note that Davies mentions about making decisions to better his family in the interview for tomorrow’s game. 

I suppose “if” you’ve been told you’ve got 3 games to save your job maybe moving on constitutes making that type of decision for your family, especially when that club is bending over backwards for you and “maybe” paying more. 

[CM48]

My main worry about all this now is that if things get worse they’ll just blame it all on Dougie and him leaving. An easy scapegoat/excuse. Deflecting attention away from the board and their governance m.

As someone else pointed out on here, in his first full season in charge we got 57 points. The last season he had without our current chairman “advising”.

Again I think the fans and MCT members deserve a bit more communication regarding how the club is being run right now. If there is more money coming into the club recently thanks to Dalrada, and nothing seems to have improved, then how do we as fans go about holding those in charge to account, try to improve things, and avoid more of all the nonsense we had in the summer?

There can’t be any more room under the rug to keep sweeping things in there surely?

But sure, as they basically said in that statement, don’t bother with any details about what you heard, just give us your backing…

I’ll always cheer on the team on the park, I have a lot of time for some people who work at the club, and have volunteered many times to do work for the club, but I’m getting increasingly angry and frustrated (again!) by those in charge of running things and their motives for doing so. 

I hope this ages badly, the team move up the table, crowds increase, and the whole club improves all round. After all, along with most people on here, I’m part owner and proud to be so. 

[vikingTON]

4 hours ago, port-ton said:

The statement is worded very carefully to appease all parties and allow them to move on. That’s very different from either side admitting that the version of events were incorrect. 
 

I know which side I’d trust more and it’s probably not the side of the people who have been caught in multiple lies and coverups.

That you think either side is inherently 'trustworthy' is the key error you are making here. The source of this content has also been waist deep in various bullshit party lines on Imrie's behalf - not to mention white knighting for the very same 'lies and coverups' you are referring to, just 6 months ago. 

GMFC is better off well rid of the whole lot of them - with the exception of Imrie - but I'm not convinced he has entirely clean hands over this either. 

[TONofmemories]

Whether or not parts of what was said in the voice note are true, this is not the first time this guy has stirred the pot with absolute misleading pish. I understand he's a journalist and that's how these things work to sell papers/get views, but it's incredibly frustrating especially as folk in our support are incapable of filtering the truth from sensationalist nonsense.

Hopefully he doesn't darken our door again. 

 

Edited November 28, 2025 by TONofmemories

[Toby]

19 hours ago, Brian Skelton said:

Again if the audio is true...If Laird is in an advisory role can a board member of MCT explain how Laird has the authority to say that Imrie had 3 games to save his job? 

Some may (nor may not, I don’t expect anyone to hang on any of my words) have noticed I’ve not had much to say on here since joining the MCT board.

Given that my main sales pitch was transparency, I think it’s only fair that I do comment, albeit from a personal viewpoint, rather than the collective MCT board view. Some of our board may agree or disagree with me as I’ve not ran this by them, though the Morton board made it clear that I’m free share my opinions.

Firstly, the reason I’ve not been so active hasn’t been any deliberate lack of transparency, more a case of being involved in regular calls, dealing with MCT comms (which have admittedly been sporadic), writing for the Tele and discussing Morton in my own private chats, there comes a point that talking, writing and posting about Morton all the time gets tiresome, even for me.

However, I do feel the need to answer the quoted post, albeit belatedly. Again, this is personal opinion, so not necessarily that of the rest of the board, but when not in full possession of the facts, I don’t feel it is responsible of the MCT board, nor is it constructive to be commenting on such sensitive matters. We’re also volunteers with jobs, who were working at the point this demand to answer an unsubstantiated rumour was placed on us.

I know that Dean and I are the prominent board members on this forum, so don’t think it’s unreasonable to suggest this was aimed at us, but I wasn’t going to drop everything to deal with gossip, especially having given up some of my employers’ time earlier in the week to ensure a statement was released addressing Imrie’s departure. This didn’t just involve waiting by my phone to click a button as the process dragged on throughout Tuesday before finally being confirmed by both clubs.

The club board have been open with us throughout the process of Imrie’s departure, and we’re grateful to them for that. I was also in receipt of Chris’s voice note, given that we’re friendly and have a working relationship, which differed greatly from their version of events.

Being honest, I was fairly comfortable with the club’s version, having been given regular updates over last weekend, and while I didn’t want to see Imrie leave, didn’t see a problem with how Morton conducted themselves.

That said, as is the case with most difficult situations like this, there are normally three versions of events, with the third being what actually happened, and somewhere in the middle. That’s not to say there are untruths from the Morton board, and Chris has conceded there were untruths on his version.

But as I said above, without knowing for certain, it would be wrong of us to comment. I don’t know if John Laird gave Imrie three games to save his job- this was never communicated to us at a time the Morton board were open with a lot of sensitive information, so I personally don’t believe this to have been the case.

On the subject of Chris, it’s a situation that I’m saddened by. I know there were folk he upset at times, and he could be divisive and made mistakes along the way, but I had, and still have a lot of time for the guy. It may not seem like much to a lot of folk, but a few years ago I was shovelling chips into boxes, and now I write a newspaper column. That’s a big deal for me, and for that opportunity I owe him a debt of gratitude. I really hope he gets over this and goes onto have a long and successful career.

I get that I’ve not answered everything that’s been asked of myself or the board in the last week or so and apologise for not managing that yet. For example @Madton tagged me on P&B the other day. I’m not ignoring that but there’s a lot in it to cover so will ask the necessary questions and get back to you, though I’m definitely trying to steer clear of posting on that forum and getting into battles with fans of other clubs.

This won’t satisfy everyone of course- I may have missed something and won't be able to answer any replies today given the long drive to and from Peterhead, but I’ll try to get to anything that is directed to the MCT board when I can over the weekend. In the meantime, if anyone has anything to ask at the game feel free. If you don’t know me, someone will be able to point you in my direction.

[Hoofballer]

15 hours ago, irnbru said:

Tbf even if it's half true it's just another example of Lairds behaviour and it's not acceptable for a fan owned club. He's not been voted in, doesn't answer to anyone and acts like he's showing off that he knows that's the case. 

 

In the summer when we were offered the or “else deal”, let us continue this shit show or it will be Armageddon, the vote went through with proviso that there would be boardroom change at the club with proper representation on the board for MCT replacing their pals who were ineffective for MCT.

Unless I’ve missed something they have not and appear to have no intention of following through on that promise with Laird continuing to lord it in charge ( why, why, why? ) with the shit show continuing with toothless MCT reps on board(Dalrada friendly  post holders) …… status quo, are we MCT members happy with that and going to pat them on the back come January ….. assuming the promised meeting ever happens?

MCT / we own the club, why is he running the show and all that’s happening …. ? He’s destroying the heart of the club and has to be removed or this shall continue to a very sorry end. There are plenty of clubs to draw parallels to……

What a mess ……. again …….!

The Journo has not helped here, truths have perhaps been embellished with untruths, we don’t know which is which but there’s clearly been a lot going on that is tarnishing our club. 

Unfortunately, with current board I’m sitting waiting on the next disappointing headline …… and their next bluff in January.

Dougie should have gone with our thanks and we move on with hopefully an able replacement, only 4 clubs managed to beat us this year  in what is always a very tight league. He should never have been considered for the chop at this point, he earned the right to patience over last few years as he got it right. 
 

Let’s see what today’s game brings us ….

[SpoonTon]

It's maybe not entirely sensational if Imrie wanted the option of a new deal to stay and we weren't willing to offer him that. After the St Johnstone game, it could've been the case that he had 3 games to show an improvement (I'm sure many wouldn't see that as unreasonable and we already know that Laird wasn't happy with results before then). If Dougie wanted the security of a longer deal and the club weren't willing or able to offer that, then you could understand the club telling Dougie to take this opportunity. 

The club had done itself no favours with it's petty behaviour and poor communication in the past. Would it have killed them to thank long-serving employees for their work and actually announcing their departure in the summer? The Billy Davies situation doesn't really help either (I'm still not sure what a Technical Head Coach). The optics of it aren't very good, but the club still don't seem to understand that it's actually important to put forward a good, honest impression of itself. I very much get the impression that Laird could make enemies in an empty room. 

[irnbru]

2 hours ago, Hoofballer said:

In the summer when we were offered the or “else deal”, let us continue this shit show or it will be Armageddon, the vote went through with proviso that there would be boardroom change at the club with proper representation on the board for MCT replacing their pals who were ineffective for MCT.

Unless I’ve missed something they have not and appear to have no intention of following through on that promise with Laird continuing to lord it in charge ( why, why, why? ) with the shit show continuing with toothless MCT reps on board(Dalrada friendly  post holders) …… status quo, are we MCT members happy with that and going to pat them on the back come January ….. assuming the promised meeting ever happens?

MCT / we own the club, why is he running the show and all that’s happening …. ? He’s destroying the heart of the club and has to be removed or this shall continue to a very sorry end. There are plenty of clubs to draw parallels to……

What a mess ……. again …….!

The Journo has not helped here, truths have perhaps been embellished with untruths, we don’t know which is which but there’s clearly been a lot going on that is tarnishing our club. 

Unfortunately, with current board I’m sitting waiting on the next disappointing headline …… and their next bluff in January.

Dougie should have gone with our thanks and we move on with hopefully an able replacement, only 4 clubs managed to beat us this year  in what is always a very tight league. He should never have been considered for the chop at this point, he earned the right to patience over last few years as he got it right. 
 

Let’s see what today’s game brings us ….

Mostly agree with this. Would be good to get an update on what's actually happened, the improved governance and what accountability people like Laird have (it's obvious he lied about having an advisory role from his interview even if the recording is completely false).

[SpoonTon]

I'm guessing that, whatever we're doing, we're not openly seeking applications for the manager's job. So it's either an internal move around or we have a target(s) in mind.