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If we somehow held out and won that'd we'd right be talking about just how important Cammy Blues is to this team. Gillespie too. Both of them together turned the tide on that match instantly. When all is said and done, we should look back on Blues fondly. He's been a terrific servant to this club.

I thought that hearing "Get Blues on" from the Cowshed and having him duly pop up with a goal is testament to how much the lad has come on. Back when we had the double header against Airdrie in the play-offs, the comments on P&B (and probably on here) were highly critical of him, yet last night showed how much the midfield missed him for the opening hour or so.

Are we seriously talking about dropping Mullen here when the first goal was far more on Boyes and the third was a rebound from his wonder save that the defence failed to react as quickly as Raith players to, when we'd already had the chance to deal with it and two players have headed it back into trouble before he made that excellent save? I need to see the second again, but if he should have done better then you're literally talking about his only mistake to give away a goal in months. We'd still be in the relegation battle without him, in the 8 games with another keeper in goal we've conceded 15 and won none of them.

I'd go with this, and find the sudden clamour to get 4th (a huge bonus - not a realistic target) as once again detrimental to any rational assessment of how the team is performing. Not least because you'd have set 7 points this week and a win against Partick as the realistic benchmarks to have any sort of chance - so nothing of significance has changed. We could miss out by a point or two in the end, but being dung and/or ridiculously wasteful in the early stages of the campaign (see the first Hamilton game) is where any such damage has been done.

Cherry picking stats to criticise a player who’s been very important to us this season is just weird.

Fair enough didnt realise the stats were that bad with him starting point taken.

He was a player i was happy to let go in the Summer as even though i thought he was a decent player, he was practically undroppable under Dougie, even when he was off form and doing nothing in games. At the start of the season, he found himself on the bench and that was probably the kick he needed to get back in the team and since he's got back in, he's been consistently good and added goals to his game, something we hadn't seen from him in a few years. 5 goals in his last 15 is a great return. Not far off 200 games for the club now. When Gillespie goes, should probably be made captain! Credit to Cammy for proving me and a few others wrong, he's had a great season.

The late equaliser was a sore one, but 10 points from 4 games with the injuries we've had is a great return. It's also easy to criticise Imrie for mixing it up, but the last time we played 3 in a week with a settled team (injuries notwithstanding) we were pathetic against Falkirk in the 3rd game and followed that with another couple of defeats. Hopefully this approach gives us a better chance of 3 points on Saturday.

A missed opportunity. Imrie got the starting line-up and formation wrong. It took us to be 2-0 down before the wide players in the middle got binned. Despite being rotten for most of the game credit to the team (and the Raith keeper) for somehow turning the game on its head before we bottled it at the end. Going five at the back just invited Raith forward and it looked only a matter of time until we conceded. Too many passengers tonight and a few lads out on their feet. As for Garrity I do like the lad but his inability to be effective when starting is frustrating and perplexing.

Can't just play the same team of players 3 games in a week. Some changes were required just with keeping everyone fresh in mind. Frustrating one to draw. Questions over Mullen for all the goals for me.

Those average attendances being a work of fiction from the Inverness school of record keeping btw.

The longer Imrie stays here the less likely it seems that he's going to get a move to the top flight, and therefore the more likely it is that he takes what we'd perceive as a sideways move to another Championship club but where he'll have a far larger budget to work with. Rightly or wrongly, bottom six Premiership clubs aren't going to sit up and take notice of a manager finishing 5th in the Championship, even when being close to it we can see that's consistently involved doing a more impressive job than managers finishing above us. If we're around our ceiling currently in competing for the top four with consistently one of the two smallest budgets in the division, it's entirely understandable that Imrie will back himself to go and win a title if he gets even a mid-table budget and so go looking for an opportunity to get that budget. You'd also hope that any manager in that scenario would be clever enough to see what way the wind is blowing with clubs. Queen's Park for example would give him a far larger budget initially, but that is clearly built on sand and it's a matter of time until that club financially implodes. Maybe in the meantime he could get them promoted anyway, but that would still be a bad choice, just as it was clear last season that even if Inverness had stayed up they were going to end up in administration sooner rather than later and any promises of more money to work with wouldn't last. If it's a club like Partick or Dunfermline, then even if they actually have the sense to cut back to a sustainable level of spending they could still provide a bigger budget, so though you'd hate seeing him go you couldn't deny he'd be doing what was best for his own career. There is absolutely no point getting fatalistic about this though. It is blatantly not true that he's been offered the Partick job already because they haven't appointed a Sporting Director yet. If he's applied for it then whatever, he'll continue to do his job in the meantime. We have people having these sort of panics every single season: he's going to walk because of a fallout over the budget (repeated annually), he's got the Inverness job, he's got the Ayr job. He wasn't even a year in the job when we had fans demanding club statements about Imrie's future because tabloids were reporting rumours of Hamilton sacking Stuart Taylor, as if that would be remotely appropriate for Morton to comment on. It'll happen one day, in the meantime enjoy having a manager who's actually doing a good enough job that a move to other clubs is even credible after 25 years of repeated duds.

The main conclusion I'm drawing is that our fanbase - reflective of the wider Greater Greenock catchment area - have an unhealthy fixation with rumour mongering and 'ITK' pish. It might not be the main reason why we can't have nice things but it does make those lean times seem inevitable.

How we can spunk away a ground-out 3-2 lead in a massively critical game is beyond me. Just hoof the fucking ball onto the Cowshed roof. Raging at that.

Cannot believe Imrie changed the line up so much knew it was going tits up as soon as I seen them line up with Crawford sitting and only lyall in front of him. Blues should have 100% started. Adeloye has hardly kicked a ball all season and throws him in for a start in our biggest game of the season so far. Done well to get back into it after changing back to the usual shape and bringing blues and Gillespie on but changing it initially came back to bite him in the arse. Further evidence tonight if we needed it that Michael Garrity is not good enough to start in the championship. On to Saturday, 3 points would keep us in it. He was just knackered mate no injury by the looks of it

Sorry what is utter shite? What I've said is he is not good enough to start for us, he's very effective off the bench and has won us vital points by doing so. I make it: league appearances - 21 League starts - 11 Goals from starts - 0 Goals from sub appearances - 4 Wins with Michael Garrity in starting XI - 1 90 minutes completed - 0. Stats back up the 'utter shite' I'm talking

Outwith the goal, it was like watching JET minus the (alleged) drugs. Slow, overweight, cumbersome and miles off it. He should have been off at 45, having spent at least 30 of that with his arms flailing in the air appealing for free-kicks after he’d been outpaced to every first ball. It pains me to say it - but this one’s on Dougie. A real shot at 4th just pished up the wall.