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Not quite commercial and not directly club run, but I was in Cappie's Corner on Saturday taking my 13 month to his first game and it was brilliant. The organisation was top notch and the space itself is excellent. Plenty of toys for the wean, and decent view of the game (especially for the million chances squandered), and they even provided a box with sweets and juice etc. Couldn't fault anything, a brilliant initiative.

I'd prefer the club stick to their original commitments on timescales and communication, rather than give credence to mouthbreathers on facebook.

Ross Forbes is still playing for Thorniewood. I hope he’s having a lovely day.

If you feel I’m under-performing in my role, I invite you to raise a motion of no confidence against me. I can push it through quickly if you wish, and allow the members to decide. Unlike some, I would never wish to outstay my welcome. Now, where were we? Ah, yes… who were the sectarian bigots who hounded Jim McInally out of Cappielow for being a Catholic?

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

I suspect people looking down the table are doing so in order to feel something. We’re not going up, and we’re not going down. Same as last year, same as next year.

Surely the whole point of due diligence is that the parties to it go through the whole process then provide an update when it's done? The time period being 60 days means we'll get an update after the 60 days is complete, it would not only be pointless but a breach of trust to provide an update now. If Estrella were to post a public update on the process after 40 of 60 days saying they have X, Y & Z concerns about GMFC or MCT but hope they'll be addressed in the next 20 days, we'd all be rightly angry at their betrayal of confidence in speaking out about what's supposed to be a confidential ongoing process. The exact same would be true of MCT providing an update to their members now, there's no reason to expect an update until it's done.

Nothing's going to go down to the final game. Airdrie's next three fixtures (including their game in hand) are: St Johnstone (a) Dunfermline (h) - Tues 14th Partick (h) I fully expect us to take more points in our next two games (Raith (a); QP (h) than those 3. At which point, we're officially 'safe'. Leaving aside the three other teams with the same current points total as ourselves, the only realistic risk to the pack was Ross County running the table with a promising set of fixtures. We can rule out that prospect after today too.

I know it´s not always reflected in our results, which is of course most important, but watching the team since Murray took over has been far more enjoyable and entertaining

The improvement in Moffat since Murray came in has been excellent. Still needs to work on his final product a bit but you can tell Murray rates him. Must keep for me especially the way we want to play.

We have recorded 36 points with 3, albeit very easy, games to go. If the Estrella partnership goes through, this squad should purged like Russia in the 1930s, instead of the wishful thinking and cherry picking judgment shown earlier in this thread.

Main discussed in the Tele before Saturday's game about how Murray's more direct style for forward play was enjoyable and suited him, as opposed to playing 18 passes around before playing the ball forward (see Imrie, D., after not getting the come hither look from bigger clubs). Saturday's performance was good in parts, but we would need both consistency and a more reliable 90 minute long (or 75 minutes at least) presence to merit offering a new deal. Main has been an upgrade on Adeloye in terms of link up play and effectiveness, but we should be open to other options too.

Even if Airdrie are already relegated come the last day and we don’t get the pleasure of being the final nail, lording it over a relegated Sean McGinty for 90 minutes would be a glorious thing. From this position we should look to have safety mathematically secured before we go to Dingwall.

I’d take Moffat out of this. His 6 assists might look disappointing, but that’s joint top of the chart for the league. Clearly suits Murray’s system too. Garrity is the one I can’t decide on. Clearly a talented player, but when is he going to start showing some consistency?

Gillespie has been a highly commendable, professional servant to the club. But we risk creating a Neil McFarlane level blunder by refusing to recognise the reality of decline towards the end of any career. The direct comparison that should be made here is with Ali Crawford, who was in a similar position of sinner to saint 12 months ago - but the extra 12 months simply haven't worked out for anyone involved. If we have Estrella group support next season then we also need to consider the opportunity cost of renewing players who are not in that wheelhouse of expected added value too. If we retain the likes of Wilson and Blues for example, then I think that we would significantly benefit from recruiting the *best* central midfielder available to us within our knowledge and budget - rather than sticking with one who is experienced in lower league Scottish football. The other players in the midfield should be contributing that experience year on year by now. If there's an upgrade available then we need to be ruthless in doing so - that's how a football club actually moves forward instead of finishing 7th in the second tier for 17 out of 20 seasons.

No, didn't cost a thing, but donations appreciated which I was happy to do as there were a couple of us in there who buy our tickets game-by-game. It's certainly well used, I emailed months ago and this was the first game that was free. Would be interesting to see if there's any scope to add another similar space elsewhere in the ground.

We've had a few enquiries to the MCT Communications inbox today and I've responded to all of those that have been put to us courteously. As we do every month, the monthly update will be issued towards the end of this week, which will provide an overview of where we stand on the investment and a number of other issues.. I understand everyone's frustrations but we have to be careful as to how we approach updating members out of respect to the potential investors. For clarity, the Memorandum of Understanding was signed on 23rd March, not on 2nd March, the day of the most recent meeting, so we are currently on day 28 of the 60-day period. In the meantime, we've not put so much focus into promoting the Cappielow 150 infrastructure project yet so if anyone is interested in contributing to this incredibly worthwhile cause it would be much appreciated. And thank you to those who already have. There will be more focus put onto this when we get a donation option put onto Fanbase. Cappielow 150

Thought we played quite well vs 10 men and you can’t really ask for more than creating as many clear cut chances as we did. Yet again our issue this season is missing absolutely massive chances that other teams in the division would never miss on a regular basis. It’s actually been comically bad throughout the whole season. I remember a stat under Imrie saying we had missed the most big chances in the league this season and we surely must have considerably extended our lead at the top of the league since then. Im not really getting the Shaw hate yesterday, I thought he had one of the better games I’ve seen him have for us. Watching the highlights back he’s involved in so many of our good moves and deliveries in to the box. There are parts of Main’s game that I like as a focal point with a bit of mobility once he gets ahead of steam that we haven’t had since Oakley left but him and Moffat are two of the worst finishers in the history of association football and you are never confident that either of them are going to score even the simplest of chances.

John Maisano won the Copa Del Rey as assistant manager of Real Sociedad last night.

I’ve been very keen to see Longridge at left back all season and now that I’ve seen it I never want to see it again.

Aged very poorly.

Signed up straight away, against what should be my better judgement. Moved to North Ayrshire recently so a bit of a commute to games now.

Dougie and Darragh O'Connor win the KDM cup with Raith. Dougie had a wee wobble at the end when talking about how tough a year personally it's been for him. Delighted for him. Just wish it was with us.

Definitely. Ross County would need to win 9 more points than us in 5 games, or Airdrie 10 more points in 6. There's a chance we'll get to relegate one of them in the last 2 games of the season which would be nice.

Who would you rather wins tonight, plucky wee Partick or Dougie Imrie's big-spending Raith? Given our respective league positions, my head says plucky wee Partick, but I'm having difficulty reconciling that with my deep dislike of them. Tough one.

Gillespie has been an excellent signing for us. His contribution this season has probably been his best in terms of all round play, but other seasons his penalties have served us really well. Hopefully has at least another season or two with us.

Brian Schwake now plays regularly in the MLS and has been a standout for Nashville FC would argue he deserves a spot in the starting 11, Storer has had one good season so would swap those two. Grimshaw has done nothing since leaving even though he was very good would argue probably Oksanen deserves to be in midfield everything else seems about right.

If players want a full picture of their future "the earlier the better", then they should have done a better job of picking up points, such as on Saturday.

Wtf - he's a football player. Should we also be showing Nathan Shaw a full organisation chart and financial projections as part of any (hopefully not forthcoming) contract discussions? And just who exactly is going to be tasked with all these completely unnecessary communications to all and sundry, or are we going to borrow Inverclyde Council's chatbot to do that job instead?

Doing really well over there by all accounts in MLS and Champions League. I wonder if he has any chance of sneaking in to the World Cup squad.

I actually agree with the point I think you’ve made. If you create that many chances, have at least one goal disallowed and the other keeper has the performance of a lifetime, I don’t blame the manager. As angry as I am, I don’t think the manager can do more than that. There’s things he could do differently and changes I’d like him to make for the upcoming games, but the players should have got us over the line today.

PotY awards night has been moved to cappielow due to low ticket sales. Not surprised given the money they're asking for.

Need to hope Murray and the team stop fucking about and get the job done on Saturday.

Sticking them on The Rack is a tad harsh dont you think?

Travelling through to Kirkcaldy for this today with my wee fella. 4 games to go...let's get right behind the lads and push for a 5th place finish. Would like to see Storer back in if fully fit

I certainly picked a bad day to post it! But we’ve been equally shambolic with any combination of the 4/5 centre backs used so it’s nothing new.

Murray's addiction to not having a midfield has cost us at least 6 points in half a season, he's a disgracefully naive manager for someone who's been doing it for over a decade. There was no point in that game today that we weren't crying out for a centre back on for a winger and Wilson in midfield but he persisted, persisted and persisted with leaving a wide open midfield after every warning sign and the obvious ending was a wholly deserved defeat.

That was an absolute peach of a hit from Blues. This hasn't been very good and we've left far too much space in midfield, but it's a lovely spot from Gillespie to play Blues in and an absolute thunderbastard of a goal.

Please tell me that Blues will be the next to sign a contract extension.

Season tickets for next season now available to buy. Earliest I can ever remember. Great work.

I think Longridge is a solid signing at our level. Murray clearly sees him as fitting the model he wishes to play.

Our goals conceded under Imrie were 43, 46, 48 in chronological order. 47 in the season he took over from slaphead Gus. We're on 44 now but my over/under would be on that 48 mark that we recorded just last season. So there's no real evidence of a difference compared to previous squads - if anything, the rot started slowly but surely under Imrie's watch. I agree that there is a defensive issue, but the paradox is that the individual defenders are not the problem. We would be better with Baird rather than Moore of course, but that's the reality of losing senior players to title winners. At the same time we are bringing through a far more reliable player than Baird actually was in his first spell with us - Owens and Lopata White are promising options too. The issue with this team in terms of defending is not a lack of individual ability in any position. There's just a collective soft as shite trait, perhaps caused by a lack of leadership on the park. The Stenny cup game was the textbook example of that - but the refusal to adjust to the situation in the second half against Arbroath last weekend was a reminder of that too. Someone simply needs to take responsibility for winning the first ball into the box and then launching clearances into the fucking Clyde when the team is under pressure, instead of dinking it 10 yards into midfield to invite another wave of attacks. Longridge was presumably meant to offer that experienced leadership on top of his own performances but I'm yet to witness that added value.

Yeah that's two good games in a row from Shaw, but even if he maintains that for all of the next five which would be a remarkable level of consistency for any winger to suddenly find, you're talking about handing someone a contract based on 7 games. If he maintains the end product you'd have to think about it, but that could easily just be a purple patch.

We spent a lot more money this season and are likely to finish in the same league position as (or lower than) 2024/25. I agree that a smaller squad with a higher level of quality is the right direction for the club, but I'm not convinced that we have anything like 15 players worth keeping, especially if things need to be scaled back slightly. A decent measure of the current standard would be: how many of our squad would win a starting XI slot for Partick, Arbroath, St Johnstone, Raith or Dunfermline? I'd argue the case for maybe 6 or 7 players at best.

I get we're just talking about the players we have but you have to remember our budget is going to change, we don't know who else is available, we don't know who Murray has a good relationship and might be able to tempt here... There's obviously some players for us who are very good at this level and who all else being equal you'd want to keep, but all else isn't equal. What if we re-sign a guy like Longridge now, then in a month's time someone better gets released and Murray otherwise has a chance of signing him? I used to believe it was important to get the nucleus of the squad signed up early but I'm less and less convinced of that now. At our level of football the raw materials will matter more. Lopata-White probably met the others for the first time shortly before his debut and he looked the part from the outset. Plenty of other opportunities like that are going to present themselves. For me there's no room for sentiment and as much as I think the likes of Blues are good guys who have served the club extremely well I'm also not going to fall over myself to say they should be renewed before May.

Keep Garrity, we'll need players trained at the club to fill the Champions League squad quota under Estrella.

Aye agreed although wanting Partick to win twice in a week makes me ill.

Gillespie is a really likeable player, but an injury prone 35 year old wouldnt be top of the shopping list for any other Championship club in the summer. Reducing the number of midfielders and clearing out any/all of our toothless forwards for upgrades is the main priority for us.

Getting a result down there with no recognised striker in the squad is brilliant

I met Mark when we worked doing the live streams during Covid and he played a big part in making that a success. I actually think he's far more suited to being a GM than his current role. He's calm, level headed, doesn't have a big ego (I can't imagine him ever doing a "minerals" type interview!), and I think would look to carry out the board's wishes rather than having his own agenda. Which is how it should be I reckon. Especially if we're going to have fresh backing and input at board level. And people might roll their eyes and reference "well meaning volunteers/amateurs" or whatever, but he's a lifelong fan of the club, comes from the area, and understands a lot of what Morton's place in the community is. I know for a fact he was against some of the more random (and unsuccessful) ideas under those no longer at the club in his previous role and indeed was frustrated at the club not engaging or being involved with the 2 recent big nights at the town hall for Andy Ritchie and the 150 celebration. I doubt he'll be using his new role as a stepping stone for a career aimed towards running a bigger club like a couple of more recent incumbents have, although there's nothing necessarily wrong with that I suppose. But I hope I'm right in thinking that the role will mean more to him than it would to others, and that should count for something. I also think the lack of staff numbers during recent times means that him and Alistair the secretary have been on a pretty steep learning curve with what's involved in the running of the whole club, which hopefully he would also have been tested on during the interview process. So this might all sound biased, but that bias comes purely from my dealings with him over the last 5 years or so at the club as I don't think I've ever met him outside of Cappielow or the end of season dinners. Good luck to him, fingers crossed it works out for both Mark and the club.