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FTFY Can't say I have a shred of sympathy for anyone caught up in this tale. Terrible, wee-est of shames all round.

Don’t know where you heard the story about the capacity being reduced in the away end of the stand, but I don’t doubt you’re right, tbh. Can’t remember the last time I saw anyone occupy the section directly beside hospitality, it was even left empty for the Hearts game last season. Your point about reducing their allocation to 500 fans- I’d go down a different route. Morton took corrective action after the game at Firhill in February, after pressure from the police, Partick, that wee boy’s maw and the media. Now, after welcoming these people to our home, we’ve been treated with contempt by them, and at considerable cost to us as a club. Partick aren’t now in the position of saying “we’ve got a big support, you should be grateful we’re lining your pockets”. Given the outlay on security on Saturday, Morton probably do better out of a game against Ayr or Airdrie. And what return was there on that outlay? There was clearly unlawful behaviour from the Partick fans, but I’ve heard nothing about any arrests. Should Morton be paying for the police’s services without seeing something tangible? If you restrict the amount of tickets, I don’t see the problem being resolved. In all likelihood, their neds will gobble these up and leave those who behaved without tickets, which is unfair on the well behaved Partick fans. I’m certainly not in the camp of the “Cowshed Youth” in demanding we stick up for our own, rather than punishing them. But I do think we’re in the position that we can ask questions of other parties. We’ve tried to do our bit to prevent or minimise trouble at our end, what is everyone else doing? Did the police make any arrests? If not, why not? Will Partick be taking action against any of their fans? If not, why not? If Morton don’t get satisfactory answers, having taken action against our own neds, it’s about time we did likewise against Partick’s. The guy in the photo above is clearly identifiable given his prominent social media presence. Both he and his brother are seen in the video breaking the ground regulations. He was previously ejected from Cappielow for having a half bottle of Buckie and denied entry on his next visit, both in their relegation year. If Morton have lost patience with their own fans, I see no reason they should extend any further invitations to him to come back to Cappielow, and they should let Partick pass on the good news to him. As for their young team, let them turn up at Cappielow and deny entry to people with black hoodies and/or balaclavas at the away end. If they don’t like it then tough. They can email the club and ask for refunds, and get them if their tickets are unscanned. I wouldn’t let anyone into a football ground with a balaclava on anyway, there’s no reason to wear one if you have nothing to hide. I get that I’m looking at it through blue and white tinted glasses, but since the February game, it strikes me that Morton have been portrayed as the bad guys despite trying to do the right thing (and credit where it’s due to Dale for that). It’s time the narrative is changed and we start taking action and making demands of others.

Think some are getting a bit carried away here, the gulf between U18s and the Championship is massive. While reaching the play-offs is almost certainly beyond us now, it's still imperative we still finish as high up in the table as possible for the prize money. Keep playing the strongest team possible for the rest of the season.

Think it should be taken in context, and he did mention the fact he was speaking in the heat of the moment. It did however come across that he feels he’s hitting his head against a brick wall and no matter how hard he tries, the limitations he’s working with make it impossible to progress Morton any further than he has. His interview on Friday will probably be markedly different, but at present, there are two significantly bigger Championship clubs who will likely be looking to appoint a new manager in the summer in the shape of Partick and Dunfermline, and one who have been willing to throw money around in Queen's Park. I think it’s clear he’s not getting a job higher up the food chain, probably because Morton are an unfashionable club, and because he’ll struggle to shake of the reputation about his style of play, so bigger or richer Championship clubs are his best option. I spotted that hideous Transfers Scotland tweet that misquoted him to give the impression he’ll be shipping out his failing players- he said nothing of the sort. I would say the grass isn’t always greener on the other side, particularly with Queen’s Park, who I see significantly downsizing, but Partick and Dunfermline will tempt him, assuming both remain in the Championship. Looking at the new ownership and spending policy at Dunfermline, it looks like a complete bin fire, that will lead to administration, while Partick also keep losing money. But in the short to medium term, both are probably more attractive to a manager than us just plodding along breaking even. Moderate success could get him a Ross County, St. Johnstone, Dundee or Kilmarnock. Until Partick make their appointment and Lennon’s future is confirmed, I’d be gravely concerned. He’s entering the last year of his contract, and if Morton are struggling to cash in on players, now might just be the time to pocket a few quid on a relatively successful manager. Sadly, I don’t expect to see him in the dugout in July.

Would like to highlight that today's game demonstrated yet again that the current stewarding company are not fit for purpose, given that all their ludicrously inflated resources present today were used to, err, turn a blind eye to an away fanbase breaching their designated sections yet again and hoping for the polis to give them hauners. Get shot of them ASAP.

Let's have some perspective here. Being safe with 6 games to go is a positive. Mullen seems to be turning into a target for some. Once again I'm not having it. He's been fantastic since he joined us and deserves to be cut some slack. Adeloye while not his most effective today has some decent touches and is still our best option in that role. He's also just returned from injury and getting up to speed. Yes again we are close to the playoffs and don't push on but overall we've had a good season with the players and Dougie doing a really good job. Yes we could look back at the ifs and buts as every team can but let's dare to be realistic!

Said as if this is a disgrace with a crap budget and having been gunning it out with Airdrie over the first third of the campaign. A 5th/6th finish is clear overperformance, bring on five meaningless games and give Keay the run out instead. It is the cups where we should have done better, although missing out on a Challenge Cup final this weekend was mostly down to getting a crap draw. Boyes' header in the second half was essentially unchallenged at point blank range - he tries to glance it hut doesn't get enough on it, when just planting the fucking thing would be a 90% chance of scoring. After that, we ran out of ideas while also becoming more exposed to the break. Mullen tried an equally stupid punch in the first half and got away with it (while wrongly whinging to the linesman) - that was the warning which he failed to heed.

They knew that they would be housed in the stand or the wide open WDE on a typical pishing it down day in Greenock. Absolutely zero sympathy for these idiots, entitled beyond belief. They will be requesting oat milk lattes and vegan sausage rolls for the pie stall on their next visit.

I work in the construction industry. I’d ballpark somewhere between £175k and £200k materials and labour cost as an absolute minimum to put even the most basic roof structure above the WDE - way more if the footings for the frontal vertical support steels needed deep piling (you can’t just bolt a few hundred tons to an old concrete WDE step). Using aluminium lattice or box beams would be much lighter than steels, but they cost 5x the price. Then - factor in stuff like architects and structural engineers fees, planning applications and the associated hoops, along with stuff like Trakway covering for the half of the pitch so the excavators and other machines don’t rip it up. Oh - and you’ll need somewhere to park a 100-ton Liebherr crane for a couple of weeks to lift everything into place. By the time that’s all included, you’re in £300-350k territory. So anything but a 'simple solution' for a club running on a shoestring.

My take on this is that Dougie's now in fitba management only because he interviewed well enough to convince our board to take a punt on a complete managerial unknown with zero track record. That decision has been vindicated time after time, with him somehow guiding us to 'almost-there' for three seasons running, operating with what's obviously a very restricted budget. But his interview demeanour after the Partick defeat told me that what Toby said in his post above is likely to be quite correct. He's young, he's ambitious, and he's doing everything he possibly can to carve out a top-flight career. All of the classes and trips to Geneva aren't being done just for shits and giggles. My youngest daughter's an accountant, who was apprenticed by a tiny local firm for whom she worked for eight years. But she was ambitious too - so when an opportunity came up with the globally-massive Deloitte, she turned her back on those who'd launched her career as a kid - and she took it. In the space of just three years, she's already in a management role and she's earning twenty times what she was. That's how careers work. Dougie's been fantastic for Morton, but he'll move onto bigger and better things. Personally speaking - he'll go with my profound respect, admiration, and gratitude at what he did for us.

Lynn, some of these people have come from League Two.

I should course add that for balance, Morton should be conducting an investigation into their own failings re: stewarding. Given the limitations Cappielow has in terms of facilities, there’s little that could have been done to accommodate the away fans without creating a flashpoint in the Cowshed, but it would be wrong to assume the stewards acted correctly, especially given that we’ve all got complaints about their conduct towards ourselves. Although I’d argue that it shouldn’t take the Partick fans complaining about their treatment before our security partner is held to account- there have been problems on that front for years now.

The away fans in the Cowshed ended the last time when Ayr fans were trying to climb over the banner to try to get to the Morton fans on the other side. There used to be about 800 capacity for away fans in the main stand, which has been reduced because we have to now have to have a section between home and away fans. Even on that side, they have to have more segregation than before. In terms of segregating fans, I'm not really sure how the club could go about putting away fans in the Cowshed again. The reality is that Partick falls ended up in this position because a section of their support didn't behave themselves the last time they were here. And they didn't behave themselves again. I wouldn't blame the club if they only offered their fans the section of the main stand the next time they come.

The funny bit to all this is that by half time, the worst of the weather had subsided. It wasn't raining when they decided to storm the shed so their excuse for shelter is bollocks. They were seated in the stand to begin with then decided to move to WDE so they can GIRFUT

Big fan of those. I just got a shrewd 200k in my FM save for some regen I fobbed off on Oxford United, they pawned him off on Bristol City. That'll pay most of Cody Gakpo's wages, for this week.

The same place(s) where all our other rumours come from - the febrile imaginations of the resident sweetie wives/'in the know' merchants even loosely affiliated to the club. I'm sure that the 'club doesn't actually want promotion because they can't afford it' classic was being brought out in the aftermath of Saturday's result too.

Well 3 of the apprentices started in that Scotland schoolboys game at Cappielow, so start from there surely? Not sure what positions Niall Graham or Fraser Rodger play, but at least lets see them on the bench to get them accustomed to the first team environment. Been a bit of a bugbear of mine that. Even if you're not intending on playing them, get them used to what match-day prep looks like and have them on the bench, in particular when we've had 3 or 4 players on the bench at times this season.

1) We chose however to replace them with a string of 'skill players' (doubtful), despite already knowing from January the similar profiles of Davies and Reynolds who were arriving. We also chose to integrate Lyall immediately rather than having a more 'pragmatic' midfield combination (e.g. Gillespie, Wilson and Blues) to balance any problems in the attacking area. As the last couple of months have shown, we don't need a target man to be effective - we do however need pressing from the front which was missing and/or ineffective for too long in the campaign. 2) And let's not forget that the total waste of space pre-season - in our supposed 150th anniversary year - was touted as a 'minerals' based strategy to ensure that the new squad would be up to the task. Instead we got bodied by a League Two team straight away and were out of one cup before the Glasgow Fair was over - limiting our financial scope to strengthen the team. It has been a transition season for sure and we got there with a surprising degree of comfort due to the inherent strengths of our coaching. But the first team and club level management made their own errors of judgment that explain why a play-off run was never seriously in the cards.

Was always going to be a big ask so I’m not too bothered. From where this team was at the beginning of November and to be safe with 6 games to go is an achievement in itself.

Not easy to predict our lineups lately, no one guessed the team on Tuesday night, but my best guess would be Blues in for Garrity as the only change. Personally I'd like Gillespie in for Shaw as well and push Crawford forward, but don't see it.

Never go that far up the page tbh, just hit the wee star icons to get to the first unread post. This forum is a nightmare to read, swamped with ads popping up for about ten minutes after you load it and at regular intervals as each post loads.

We really should’ve stuck that St Mirren roof up at the time, TBH.

Bottom line is Partick fans had no right or privilege to get into the cowshed. What is now stopping fans leaving the main stand at firhill as its a shithole (but has a roof) with seats covered in birdshit walk walking around to the other stand as its not full?? they have the worst reputation for this wee fanny group and the leader needs banned and hard drive checked….

https://ptfc.co.uk/ptfc-news/club-statement-greenock-morton-v-partick-thistle-saturday-march-29/ Partick fans saying that they tried to get to shelter… when they tried to get into cowshed it was dry. Again act like fannies you get treated like fannies. surely the decent fans cant be happy about these wee dicks and they way they act

If indeed there is interest in our young striker we need to maximise the money we could get for him There needs to be a 25% sell on clause for the club that is going to get the young man for basically a song I would imagine.

Nobody has suggested that.

If Keay is actually off at the end of the season I don't think giving him game time makes sense unless there is a genuine benefit to the club (like better results and maybe 5th place rather than 6th. However on a related matter, it was suggested that his agent was trying to get him flogged. If Morton are really just going to let what looks like a really good player walk away without even offering him a professional deal, there's something very wrong at the club. Surely championship level football would bring him on and improve him greatly as a footballer? Is the agent just trying to earn commission? And does our club chairman not act as a player agent? If so, is he involved in any way with this particular player? If so, it would be a clear conflict of interest and in my opinion a resigning matter.

They’re also romping the league and into the CAS cup final, well ahead of teams who seem to be bedding in more young talent than we are. If that doesn’t merit a first team chance then nothing does, and in that case maybe it’s time to think about doing away with the academy.

It happened, and it was utter shite for weeks on end. Was this part of the plan? So if we're having an inquest as to why we won't finish in the top 4, that decision is a major part of the answer. Signing a contract in the summer does not give you a divine right to start from the beginning of a season. If you need to adjust because of player departures further forward in the team, then you need the spine of the team to do the basics right. Imrie tried to enact too much change at once - he's a young manager, it happens. That he learned and avoided just stubbornly insisting on the same failing setup explains why we ended up doing fine.

Lyall has been excellent since Christmas and that's vindicated Imrie’s decision to persist with him prior to that when he had about two good games in half a season, but it's not like he was some massive coup of a signing who could demand games. His prior first team experience was 18 games for Airdrie and 9 of them were as a sub.

Fair enough. Given that that weirdo just lifts his content from other sites I’d assumed he was going with the club’s interview. Seems he’s lifted the Tele’s content this time around.

If Imrie does go, potentially after another 5th placed finish, it should be with everyone’s best wishes. My best hope for next season is there’s nothing suitable out there for him and he gives it one last push with us. With a less significant rebuild (TBC) and a better start to the season, maybe next year we could go that step further and make the playoffs. However he does deserve to progress based on the job he’s done here. The post Imrie era gives me the fear.

That’s fair. Miserable day in most ways. I’m still feeling cold from the soaking I got on the way in!

That would appear to be the position of the Club.

Need to disagree here. Partick had a few shots from narrow angles but the only clear chance was when Jakubiak was through and fluffed it. Blues has a good chance but not a sitter, however that Crawford chance is as easy as you’ll ever get, other than touching one in on the goal line. Ball is played flat, unmarked, not running at pace and no pace on the ball. Skies it. An absolute shocker of a miss and he fully knew it as well. Boyes header is also an absolute sitter. What’s the expected conversion rate on that, 9 times out of 10? It was incredible that we didn’t take the lead today.

I was close enough to the guy who was giving it to Adeloye. We can see he's not fully sharp yet and it's frustrating when we lose and are crying out for every player to run around with as much energy as Moffat has recently. I really don't want to sound like the content police for verbalising some discontent when things aren't going well, however, screaming at one of our own players " ADELOYE GET YOUR FINGER OOT...FUCKING LAZY BASTARD...RUN YA CUNT RUN...FUCKING DIDDY" in a quiet corner of the ground for him hear, did feel a bit out of order. Especially as the guy, who looked in his 50s or 60s had a young girl with him who looked no older than 10 years old. Adeloye pointed at him after the final whistle and walked over to him, neither really backed down (wasn't helped by Brian Graham being his usual classy self with a big celebratory scream towards the Morton fans there). Couldn't really hear what either of them were shouting at that point apart from the guy in the crowd's last words which were "F**K OFF" as he walked away, while Adeloye was pulled away by other players and a group of other fans tried to applaud him and the other Morton players who'd come over.

While we are mathematically still in the mix realistically it is over. The same old failings of not taking our chances and conceding a soft goal. As for Tomi he has never been the type of player to run himself into the ground - he just looks like he has come back too soon after injury. At least we made it to the end of March this season normally by now the lads are booking their summer holidays.

Hopefully those tramps will both be placed in the WDE and obliged to stay there for a change, by the police presence that we're paying for due to some maw. As for the game, I'd expect another couple of changes - think Adeloye might drop back to the bench. With genuine options off the bench we need to stay in the game regardless of how we're playing. The team did not do a very good job of that on Tuesday (very unusual as it normally our strength). The Cowshed not having rolling meltdowns wouldn't go amiss either tbh.

Not necessarily relevant to his time at Morton, but Gaston scored an absolutely howling own goal against Peterhead last weekend. He was a good servant to Morton, but Mullen’s the better keeper in my opinion. Morton was the peak of Gaston’s career, we won’t be the peak of Mullen’s.

I did for the anniversary coin. Clicking the link for the 2nd time took me to the correct place.

Redirect fine for me. 6:30pm doors for 7pm start

He absolutely is.

Interesting comments from Imrie. “If we can’t get it (playoffs), I’m gonna need to go and find it… I don’t want to be the nearly guy”. If we hadn’t spent the first quarter of the season trying to play Guardiola ball we’d probably be there or thereabouts already.

I see they've now started graffiting other parts if the town now. "Cowshed Youth"scrawlled on the mobile phone mast at the top of Hilltop Road in Gourock. Looks like it's been written by a 5yr old mind you, but that's not the point it still brings the Club into disrepute as far as I am concerned.

So frustrating to boss the midfield for 55 mins and have nothing to show for it. No cutting edge. Tomi didn’t win the majority of headers and seems to get smaller when he ‘jumps’…… If only we had someone who has youth on his side and has been scoring goals for fun at under 18 level both at league level and captains his country. Someone who has had two cameos in the men’s team and held his own against Ayr Utd and Hamilton defenders, where he scored a scrappy but tremendous goal. A ten minute cameo at the end of todays game should have happened. Tomi was knackered (had cramp on Tue?) and the headlines were there to be written for yesterdays 18th birthday boy. Dougie - heaven forbid he would play kids. Stubborn AF as usual. Shame. Oh…..why do we still pay Niall F’ck-all Mcginns wages ????????