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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Seeing their third goal again, it confirms there is absolutely no chance Mullen should be leaving his line for it. That cross isn't even close to being a keeper's ball and in the pinball of headers that follows coming charging off his line at any point would be a stupid thing to do, he's done nothing wrong there and made a brilliant save to boot.

Agree a very important player, but from the bench.

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.

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.

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.

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

Nobody has suggested that.

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.

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

We’ve had some decent keepers over the last 20 or so years but I’d put Mullen as the best keeper we’ve had in my time supporting the club. There should be no question marks about him being our #1 and signing on again for another season.

If anything it’s the fault of whoever headed the ball back towards the goal, albeit they were I assume trying to clear it.

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.

Fair play to Tomi saying in the interview it was the worst he had ever played - the goal apart he had a howler.

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.