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The Easdales who are our major sponsors and the former chairman who allowed the transfer to fan ownership being guests at a game really shouldn't be major news. If the board start having to publically comment on nonsense like that then we might as well shut the club down. So many more pressing matters of concern than that.

I'd further add: not having a plan in place to get football expertise in and around the club. Treating it like a luxury item is a real problem.

A model that is based on never appointing a dung manager and always having prize money to stave off losses is a deeply faulty one. Having an effective team now is only papering over the cracks unless a credible infrastructure is being built off the park. In three years' time there's every chance that Raith will be in our current situation and asking serious questions of the private owner who has their only asset as well. The reality is that the mood would not have been good around GMFC in this season's Championship regardless of what MCT are doing. 'Winning' the play-offs hopelessly compromised this season from the off. The idea that the fanbase would be content with grubbing around for a 7th place finish and 40 points Because Of The Prize Money was folly - even if our current manager was competent enough to do this. We have spent too long circling the drain already for that to be a sustainable strategy. Going down, putting the blame squarely where it belonged on Crawford and the gang for that failure and doing a complete rebuild would have been a better outcome. The mood is driven for the most part by that current reality of the first team squad. MCT have compounded this by: - handing a two year deal out to a dinosaur - blowing off most criticism of their first team oversight, as well as the Lithgow controversy - not demonstrating their commitment to transparency and accountability for decision-making - not providing a meaningful strategy for modernising the club among other shortcomings. Even if they were doing well across those club management issues though, there would still not be a feel-good factor until the performances, results and above all the demonstrated ambitions of the first team change as well.

I sort of agree with this. Would only really be inclined to listen to Savage whenever Wales suffer a setback and he starts whining about the whole injustice of it all, so I've not watched this documentary. But rather than comparing us to the bastard spawn of Macclesfield Town, I'm more concerned looking closer to home. Look at us in comparison to Raith and Arbroath- two clubs who are having a rare time. I'm inclined to think that Arbroath have reached the peak of their potential and eventually they'll fall to a more natural level, but these are two clubs with feel good factors that have been forged through years of hard work and building up relationships and trust amongst their sponsors, partners and support and within their local communities. MCT can go on and on about transparency but they're not walking the walk, and after years of false dawns from the previous owners (not just Golden Casket, their predecessors, too) getting off on a good footing with the support was imperative. They've fucked that though, and are now chasing their tails to regain some credibility. The new regime was never going to have quite the same backing as Golden Casket had twenty years ago, but when they kick off their tenure by doing things like *allegedly* threatening journalists, giving a manager who failed to set the heather alight an extended deal which gives them no room to manoeuvre when things start to go tits up, signing sex offenders, blaming the local paper for mix ups when games are under threat of going ahead, refusing to acknowledge fans concerns about the signing of said sex offender, not even appointing a chairman and having a musical chairs policy for making important decisions, influential members of the club board *allegedly* making disparaging comments about MCT contributors' impact on the club and getting into a Twitter spat with the admin of the support's busiest website and only fans' podcast after backing down on an agreement to discuss everything has done what could already be irreparable damage to them. What it's almost certainly done is set them back years to get to where they should hope for their reputation to be in the eyes of the support. There's no quick fix to make Morton a happy club, which should in theory go a long way to making them a successful one, but they're going the wrong way about it. I of course understand that now and again unpopular decisions have to be made, but it's a bloody long list of unpopular decisions- without, imho too many of them being correct ones, and is doing so much to set them back even further than their original starting position, which takes quite some doing. How far behind the two clubs I mentioned we are on the park is up for debate, but in terms where they stand in the eyes of it's support, we're on a different stratosphere from the two of them, and heading further away from where we want to be with every passing week and PR own goal. A mate of mine asked me my opinion of this at the game last night, and to be honest, he was more bothered than myself. But it's still not the wisest of moves. Are Golden Casket even club sponsors anymore? There's nothing in the match programme anyway and I don't recall seeing any advertising around the ground this season. I'd prefer if Crawford Rae didn't ever darken our door again, but it doesn't work like that, and I'm sure both parties like to keep each other onside. I've just written a diatribe about their monumental fuck ups earlier on in this post though, and Crawford Rae turning up and sitting in "the chairman's seat" is so far down the list of issues we're needing answers to that it's unreal. I can see how him swanning back in as if he still owns the place gets under folks' skin, but not a big thing in the grand scheme of things. Aye, love them or loathe them, they're the club's major sponsors. They're not putting in £XXXXX a season to be told they've got to spend an extra £20 to stand in the Cowshed with us.

That’s a good point- a move comparable to what MCT proposed to us before the fans kicked off about Crawford taking them for absolute mugs. Should stick that one on my list.

I wouldn't use Raith as an example of a club developing a feel-good factor and success off the back of the fans. They've handed over their ground to a private owner and were subsidising a shortfall of £400k in the third tier a few short years ago. It's not making fans feel happy (though I agree that egregious mistakes do not help) but rather providing a clear plan for what will be done to modernise the club that will make us stronger in the long-term.

Seriously, your biggest worry at the moment is the biggest club sponsors have comfy seats?

Would really like some clarification as to why the easedales, Rae and 2 councillors are all sitting in the directors box? I also hope that they all paid in or have season tickets.