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Hearing that former Morton goalkeeper Denis Connaghan has passed away. He was part of the team that got us promotion to the Premier League in 1978 and the first Ton keeper that I can recall watching. He had played for Celtic in the early 70s and was at St Mirren before that. He was present at the Stars of 79 evening and was on the board at Neilston FC.

I misread your post but the main reason for that is that your original post does not stand up your argument anyway. 1) That some people joined a queue after you did doesn't address the most significant issue yesterday - the ginormo-queue that was already present, by the time that you and others politely request customers turn up at. 2) At least a few of those fans will likely have been waiting for the queue to subside before actually joining it. Just because they're behind you doesn't mean that they didn't turn up at their mandated timeslot. 3) Your assertion on another thread that it's not difficult to scan tickets "as long as you don't hold it too close" is an obvious contradiction in terms. How close exactly is 'too close' - where is the instruction about this at the gate? Or better still, where is a rest fitted underneath the scanner that would allow customers to automatically place their ticket at a scannable distance? It's ridiculous to presume that the onus is on the customer to traipse to the ground half an hour before kick off - rain or shine - and to internalise the ins and outs of the club's white elephant infrastructure project, all before paying significant money to watch Championship football. They're not going to their place of work - they are spending their free time on a leisure activity. And with the eye-rolling mentality that persists among a minority of posters and club officials too (hopefully only a minority too), the chances are that they'll find something else to do with that time and money instead.

I was surprised that the atmosphere was so flat yesterday. Was it just me? I was discussing it with a mate and we reckoned it was the expectation of being letdown that possibly led to it. Years of following Morton and it almost becomes ingrained in your psyche.

I had been saying this in the pub before the game. We once dragged a few mates along to Cappielow after a good run for a New Year game and Dumbarton horsed us 3-0. Similar thing happened for our first league meeting with Gretna.

I’ve just pulled five examples from this thread that contradict what you’re saying, and haven’t looked across any other social media platforms, where I’m pretty sure I’d find a few more. At which point are you going to accept that your interpretation of what happened yesterday appears fanciful at best? Your point about fans being realistic and turning up so close to kick off doesn’t cut it when we’re talking about fans turning up a full 15-20 minutes before the game starts. At £22 a skull, or as part of a £300-odd season ticket which about a third of that crowd committed to months ago, and with the third-lowest average crowds in the division, Morton aren’t in the position to be telling folk to take an extra half hour out of their leisure time to make things easier for the club, and they’re certainly not in the position to come onto social media after the match and blame the folk who so generously put their hands in their pockets to support them. I entered the ground at 2.30 yesterday- quite deliberately as I anticipated a shit show at the turnstiles and it still took me five minutes to get in, but with so many accounts from different folk differing from yours, the only conclusion that an objective observer can come to is that you’re talking shite. I don’t understand whether you see this as playing devil’s advocate, or are sticking up for your old pal Hawke (who doesn’t, and never did give a shiny shite about anything you had to say at any point in the past, never mind now), but given that this has happened every time we’ve had a relatively big game since 2017, there has to be a point that even you will concede that drastic action needs to be taken, here. For a club that is so dependant on folk turning up at the gates, this simply can’t go on, and your stance on this isn’t just unhelpful, it is in fact damaging to the club to take onboard such stances if they wish to find a resolution to this.

Embarrassing whataboutery from irnbru, here. There’s a massive difference between turning up just before kick off and expecting to stroll in without any issues and arriving in good time and not seeing kick off, or arriving before kick off and missing 15-20 minutes of the game. It’s not really good enough to say “just turn up earlier” when, six and a half years after these turnstiles were installed, we’re still getting issues whenever the crowd exceeds 1300. I agree this is Warren Hawke’s folly in the first place, but there has to be some sort of contingency plan put in place for events such as this. With most tickets sold in advance, the club should have had an idea of the crowd, and for so many to turn up after 2.45 is not uncommon. How did they deal with that? They did nothing, and then blamed the fans in a tweet after the game. That’s shite. I suggested the last time there was such issues (probably against Partick in August) that handheld scanners at the exit gate could be one way of clearing the congestion, but there seems no real desire to do anything to help with the problem. We saw MCT moving away from calling Arbroath mascots “wee cuties” to issuing rallying calls to “bring a friend” this morning, and that General Manager saying he wants more big crowds in the future at Cappielow this evening. Well I’m sorry, but you’ll have to make Cappielow more accessible for that to happen. I can’t imagine any folk who wouldn’t normally bother deciding to go to the Montrose or Arbroath games when they have to finish their pint for 2.30 before making the 90 second walk from the Nosrseman to get into a big game, 2.40 for a game with a smaller crowd. Blaming the fans for recurring problems when you’ve done fuck all to address it yourselves is nonsense. And while we’re at it, a young lad in front of me was refused entry to the ground and told his ticket had been cancelled, much to his bemusement. I can’t expect to be privy to everything going on at Cappielow, but not since those two racist fuckwits were booted have I known of bans. Is there anything serious enough that has gone on in recent times to justify banning fans? It’s hardly as if we’ve had an incident like that at the Fife derby the other week, so why are boys getting banned from Cappielow?

Hamilton's comeback was a proper feelgood story, glad he made it good again. Unlike some (Dunning) I was confident there was a player in there and unlike some others (also Dunning) I'm delighted to have been proven right, as some (such as Dunning) were not.