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The notion that Muirhead was somehow hounded out the door by either the board or the fans is risible fucking nonsense. Like Oakley and Crawford, there is nothing the club could have done differently to keep him and no blame can be apportioned to Imrie, the board or The Big Bad Morton Fans™. There is more than enough to criticise between Imrie’s Hopkin level obsession with anywhere across the front three sand-dancers and the useless gobshite of a general manager rambling about players having 'minerals' while failing to perform every basic administrative task fans of any professional football club can reasonably expect. We don't need to fabricate criticisms on top of that very lengthy list of things they're actually to blame for.

I don't know if I'm missing something here, but Muirhead was offered a new deal and I've never heard anything that would suggest that he wasn't highly rated at the club. Oakley, Muirhead, and Crawford were all taken by clubs in our division with bigger budgets. I don't know why we need to look into things more deeply than that. Maybe you could explain to the rest of us simpletons who are obviously missing something.

Let's not be clouded that bigger automatically meant more competitive though with other clubs chucking money at it - including the likes of Ayr picking our very pockets for our best player because they could offer substantially more than we could.

Yep, what matters is the relative comparison of budget with the other teams in the division - and regardless of dud signings, we'd always be likely to struggle from that fundamental starting point. There's simply no hiding place this season when several clubs are chucking money they don't have or using parachute payments (Livingston) to built objectively stronger squads. Which is why the Airdrie game next week is a must-win, because mewling about the budget can only take us so far though.

Seen enough of this team to come to my own conclusion that we are absolutely shite. Imrie has made a complete and utter arse of this season as a whole. For a start I don't understand why he's all of a sudden decided to completely change his philosophy on how he wants to play, when the previous set up worked well for him. Then on top of that his recruitment to play in that particular way is absolutely shocking on the most part. Broadfoot, Gillespie and Blues should have been released in the summer. On top of that we sign a 33 year old striker in jet who would struggle to make it into a heavyweight boxing category, Lamar Reynolds who is nowhere near good enough for this level and I have my concern over how much knowledge we had of him before signing. A part time 28 year old from Welsh league with little to no experience in full time and openly admitted to being home sick after his last move which was nowhere near the distance he is now. Delaney from Inverness who just went down and were absolutely dog meet last season. I was shocked to see him turn out for the 2nd half in the trial game he had at cappielow never mind be offered a contract after it. Strapp is 10x the player of Delaney. Add in signings of injury prone Nathan shaw yet to feature since signing, Dylan Corr featured once after being injured on arrival now required surgery and out for months. Then the follow up panic signings of 33 year old Ali Crawford who hadnt played a competitive match in over 12 months and who obviously wasn't deemed good enough in the previous 5 or 6 weeks that he had been training with the club. And then 37 year old Niall mcginn finished 6 years ago drafted in from the wildness of the league of Ireland. What a complete and utter shit show.

This shambles lies with Imrie I’m afraid. With the proposed ‘bigger budget’ we had been assigned for this season he signs a ‘striker’ who's about 5 stone overweight, signs 2 duds from down south, would love to know what his thoughts were on scouting these 2 other than 1 scored & set up a goal in an fa cup tie against fucking Ipswich. Signs an injury prone centre half who’s popped his shoulder 3 times since the end of last season. Signs shaw from Inverness who was already injured but was rested for the league cup games & was supposedly meant to be back for the Partick game but here we are into September & still no sign of him in a match day squad. I get injuries can happen but this one is taking the piss. Signs a 37 year old winger because he wanted to sign him a few seasons ago but it never worked out even though we were crying out for a no.9 striker. Replaces Lewis Strapp with Zak Delaney Offers a contract to a 40 year old centre half on the back of he’s a ‘good professional’. Alarm bells were already ringing early in the season after the defeat to East Fife but was willing to give the team the benefit of the doubt as it was early days but struggling to wins against Brechin & Cowdenbeath is unacceptable. id rather Imrie scrapped this supposedly new style of football we’re meant to be showcasing his season & go back to the big bad physical Morton that everyone hates to play against. Changes needed & needed quickly.

JET might face criticism for his obvious flaws, but again he’s put a chance on a plate for a teammate. This time it’s McGinn missing an absolute sitter. Our wastefulness is a huge concern.

Imrie has really fucked up the recruitment this season. Moffat & Lyall, Bannatyne all fine but Jet, Reynolds & Davies appear to be worse than useless.

I see absolutely no reason why we can't win this because 'Queens Park' are not actually any good either. I'd be content with a draw though and moving on to the key game against Airdrie next week.

Is this a Glasgow Caledonian definition of 'graduate'?

2-0, no doubt they'll have a suitable gif prepared for this unfortunate turn of events.

He's 22 and he's already had a whole season in League Two and half a season in League One. If he's going to be good enough for the Championship he needs to show it now.

“We’ve had a great week at training…” Is it at the all you can eat pasta buffet ?

Problem is we don't currently have the players to revert to hoofball nor do the current crop have the ability, pace or guile for our new passing game to be effective. Ergo we're fucked and imo Imrie should fall on his sword. The past few months have been an unmitigated disaster.

Aye, but smashing our wage structure for 1 player sounds like a foolproof plan...

This is the thing, the logic behind signing Reynolds and Davies in the first place is defensible. Managers careers live and die by those gambles on recruitment but you can see why he made them. Then it became very quickly apparent in the League Cup that both of them will never be good enough and he took another gamble on JET, a different kind of gamble but one that also made sense. We can definitively say already that he got them all wrong but they can all be put down to the trials of being a manager with a small budget. When you're already in that position, you've made three gambles which have exploded in your face, you absolutely need your one last signing with the money left to fix your season, signing McGinn makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. He may well be a better player and despite not being one even a better centre forward than all of them, but that's really a case of bad money after bad money when no matter how highly you rate him, he is clearly not solving the centre forward problem that is absolutely crippling us. In the context of when he signed him it's a worse case of money on a bonfire than Ally Roy.

For Moffat and Lyall to be genuinely 'good' players at this level then they need to be chipping in with goals on a regular basis from their positions on the park too. That's one of the fundamental problems in this squad.

Almost 62 years since this mob last beat us in the league. This is a real low.

Can’t wait for Gareth to eviscerate Dougie in the post match interview. Let’s hope Wilson & Garrity are back soon. We have zero depth & Imrie’s recruitment has been appalling.

Apparently the disciplinary rules changed for this season so a red card in any competition only means a suspension in that competition regardless of what it was for, SFA haven't published the new rules for this season on their website as they usually would but other players who got straight reds last weekend are starting today so we're fine.

The Neill Collins juggernaut has broken down at High Valleyfield.

To be played 12/13 October. We're already away to them in the league on 26 October, as if it wasn't boring enough already.

Job done ultimately but that was an abysmal performance, which could easily have turned into an all time humiliating stain on this football club's history. We simply don't have a squad good enough to not struggle to break down a poor Lowland League team. While we're good enough defensively to not be near a 13/14 level rabble in terms of goals conceded, today was the day I became fairly sure this squad will be doing exceptionally well to make a 30+ points total, because we simply aren't going to score goals from open play against Championship teams. Garrity is lightyears ahead of Emmanuel-Thomas, McGinn, Davies and Reynolds as a centre forward, it's not even his position and it's still to be seen whether he's good enough for this level in his actual position. That is our biggest threat at centre forward and it says far more about those four than it does about Garrity. Until we sign a footballer who's worthy of even claiming to be a striker we won't get near winning league games, and if that doesn't happen until January we're already down. We also remain horribly short in defensive options, next week with Delaney suspended will be a right laugh. King or Blues as full backs against a Championship team is not a remotely credible option yet here we are, a million anywhere across the front three attackers stockpiled so we can have no full backs.

Why an earth would Garrity be loaned out to a league one club? He has started every game this season and has been one of the positives so far.

Hands of Cowan? I prefer the Hands of Reece!

Nice to see the 18s beat Celtic 2-0 in the Scottish Cup tonight, and even better to see the club’s social media account actually acknowledge that the academy teams exist. The 18s are a good bunch of players this year. You should go to Parklea to watch them if you’re free on Friday evenings.

I’ve just watched Dougie’s post match interview. How can a professional football club, with a large and increasing admin staff, not know that Gillespie was suspended until the Friday afternoon before the game? So much for the proclaimed “professionalism” of the club and the 3 year plan, 75% of which has already been implemented. Why are we paying all these staff members if they can’t even get the basics right? I don’t think this has ever happened at the club before, even during Covid when the staff were all furloughed. What a shambles. Time for Dale and Laird to answer some questions about what they are doing to the club. The buck stops with them.

The main one that bizarrely wasn’t rated by all within the club and is now coming back to bite them. He’s scored four goals already this season and I’m not entirely sure our attackers have even scored that between them so far.

That’ll be Robbie Muirhead, who was offered a contract by the club but chose to leave. Which doesn’t match any of your claims.

If you’re a player at a club like Morton and you’re more than aware that some board members aren’t a fan of you despite your record at the club and they don’t think the budget should be wasted on you then it’s a pretty easy decision to leave when you’re not offered what your proven value to the team is.