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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.

Only if you look at it in the most simplistic terms.

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.

I’m torn between already having the opinion that Imrie partly changed his style of play because his peers didn’t respect him the way he wanted to, but I also cannot look past that his recruitment record was well above average for a Scottish Championship manager until Laird and Dale decided they wanted to get involved in the recruitment process. Some on the board definitely got what they wanted this summer when we lost effective Championship players that weren’t always easy on the eye and unless something drastically changes in the next couple of weeks with key additions then their chickens are going to come home to roost.

Heard earlier that the general manager has made the decision to remove ball boys and replace them with Morton in the community attendees. You can argue the fairness of that either way but the wee boy I know was absolutely gutted. Massive Morton fan who gets bought all the club strips and merchandise etc who absolutely loved his role and is now disenfranchised from the club. Losing loyal and valuable office staff, kit men and now ball boys since the arrival of Dale. Funny that. he was a media guy at his previous clubs and was brought in to do general manager duties with no experience in working in a football department yet he couldn’t get his hands on doing player negotiations/recruitment and fluffing his CV quick enough while we go in to the first game of another season with the matchday experience a shambles again. Do your actual job Dale.

Played really well although Accies are honking. Got to be clinical though. It’s cost us past two seasons and we can’t afford it to happen again this season. First goal is key in this league and hopefully we don’t regret giving them a chance to regroup for second half. JET is going to become a cult hero surely. Big battering ram with Ronaldinho skills who can barely run the length of himself. Having a focal point up top makes such a massive difference to this team.

Can’t say it won’t be interesting to watch anyway. Blues on the the bench for one of the first times ever under Imrie and the two main early attacking signings benched. I don’t think all three have been up to standard yet so I have no issue with it.

I can see Crawford being one of our most creative players and redeeming himself this season, but unfortunately I can also see that being in a struggling team with gaping holes through its spine that can’t be filled because we’ve used up a part of our budget giving him a contract.

Future hall of famer Jack Harkness signs on loan at Stirling Albion from Rangers.

Even the kids Ton club is what £30 is it not? There were surely some kids there having the time of their life that aren’t signed up to that and parents that could have been convinced to part with their money.

Available on TonTv again for £7.99 I think it said.

Being given his debut by Klopp in the EFL cup quarter final vs Aston Villa is doing a bit of heavy lifting in that article as well considering Klopp was on the other side of the world with the first team and Bearne only came on as a sub for the youth team that Liverpool played that day.

Corr dislocated his shoulder at Raith a few months ago and has done it again twice since signing for Morton. You can’t legislate for every injury but you shouldn’t be coming out with nonsense like that in interviews because it will always come back to bite you. The fact he’s the general manager and spending far too much time speaking about football matters rather than almost everything else off the pitch that seems to be at a standstill makes it even worse. The only actual thing that I can think of that he’s implemented in his time so far is integrating the women’s team in to the club, which although admirable is not something I’ve seen discussed about the cost of that and if it’s sustainable for a fan owned club at our level to cover that cost? I genuinely don’t know the answer to that but I can’t imagine it’s cheap and if it’s self sustainable at this level or the level the women play at or ever will be. so much of the things he does from his middle management speak, five pillars, getting involved in football matters and almost being the front face of talking about them plastered all over internal and external media outlets as well as being the saviour of Greenock Morton Women’s team screams of someone trying to pad their CV for his next employer rather than someone who’s actually implementing any real change or progress at the club.

Even Bearne scored 3 goals in 26 games for Kiddiminster Harriers according to his Wiki. JET scored zero in 9 games.

So that was Crawford, Oakley and Lyon scoring tonight then and Lewis McGregor looked good before going off injured at half time vs Aberdeen. Mcgrattan came on for him but didn’t really do much.