BishopBrennan

I watched their Champions League play off against Dynamo Zagreb and thought they looked very good. I've never taken much interest in the Swiss league as it was always a one-horse race, but this looks like a significant changing of the guard. In terms of raising their profile outside of the Swiss game, a good Champions League result or two would go a long way towards that.

Played out of position again? That'll be the next four years of his career up the shitter.

The standard is improving all the time and increasing profile of the game will only help that. The standard across the board is improving with every tournament that passes. The good teams are improving all the time and the poor teams are becoming less poor. The games are often highly focused on technical and tactical ability which can make for some really entertaining football on offer. As for commercial viability, I reckon given the same input and effort the SWPL would be a more commercially viable league than the likes of League Two or the Lowland League. Give me Glasgow City vs Hibs over Civil Service Strollers vs Edusport Academy.

It's a great achievement for the national team. I've been to all of the home fixtures during the campaign and the performances have been excellent. Getting more players into full time football has definitely had a positive impact compared to previous campaigns.

Stop being a tool.

https://soundcloud.com/tellhimhespele/bobby-barr-part-one Don't know if it's been posted here or not, but here's an interview with Bobby Barr. He mentions Morton right at the end without going into too much detail.

FTFY. And Sir Richard plays where he wants, the big handsome fucker.

Nah, no thanks.

He was refusing to play after Pollok refused to accept Stenhousemuir's bid of £0 for him.

I’d love to see the tweet, but Oor Deano spat his dummy out after being called out over that tweet about Tumilty. Even Gordon’s attempts to gain relevance weren’t this pathetic* *this statement may not be accurate.

Paisley is a Glasgow suburb. There is nothing to differentiate Paisley from the likes of Pollokshields and Anniesland.

St Mirren's banner at Ibrox today.

That was a decent result for Hibs tonight.

Awk dry yer eyes.

He wasn't brilliant. He was bang average, although managing to wind up at Pollok is some effort

Trying to secure a January release before coming home IMO.

Ha ha ha ha ha

Dundee made a statement saying they were standing by him, so presumably he is still there. Unbelievable that he's avoided the jail.

And I'll bet you still read every single word of it. Or did it not have enough paedophilia jokes and racist comments in it for your liking?

Fucking hell, that's harsh.

Well aye, my overarching point was he gets the same amount of attention and conversation than anyone else who played for Morton in the last 10-15 years. The only thing that changes that is the massive chip on his shoulder.

When was the last time he was mentioned on here without him making a comment about Morton/Morton fans?

I posted this on P+B, might as well stick in on here as well. Despite his obvious ambition to stay front and centre of Morton fans' thoughts, Scott McLaughlin has been an absolute irrelevance for years now. The fact that he still jibes at us on Twitter shows his utter desperation to remain relevant, and shows him up for the jumped up wee c**t he is. Here are my memories of his tenure at Morton; McLaughlin started off his career in a decent enough fashion in the loan spell and I was happy enough, if not overwhelmed, that he joined permanently. He had good energy but lacked any sort of ability to read the game or positional awareness. Him stating in the podcast that he never considered himself a holding midfielder probably supports that. In the season with Gretna in the league, once we fell away from chasing Gretna he just seemed to vanish. In the run of games leading up to the playoffs he was horrendous; shitting out of tackles, not bothering to track runners, barking orders at far better players than himself and regularly taking charge of set pieces (again at the expense of far better players) only to see his delivery fail spectacularly were just some of his dislikeable traits. When McLaughlin talks about the ruptures with the fans, it's important to give a bit of context. This was in the aftermath of the betting scandal, which absolutely tore the club apart at the seams. The boardroom, the staff and management and the supporters were all absolutely fuming and blaming the other groups for the issues at the club. I'd argue that some of the issues we see among the Morton fanbase stem back to the betting scandal, although I know the Morton fanbase has always had a fractious element. At this point in time, Jim McInally was creating a siege mentality in the dressing room that caused a severe disconnect between the club and the fans. When you combine this atmosphere and the recent history of the club with us festering in the Second Division despite being a full-time club, it was pretty obvious that things at Morton was rotten to the core. This wasn't helped by reports coming from the training ground of some less than professional shenanigans like players turning up drunk and having naked table tennis tournaments and it became pretty obvious that McInally was not up to the job. It became pretty apparent that the chairman was not going to sack McInally no matter the results, so the supporters became more and more vocal until McInally's role was absolute untenable. He was correctly hounded out of the club and replaced. I still maintain, while I remember McLaughin getting it tight, that the abuse wasn't as constant or visceral as he describes it in the podcast. While he was at the club he was criticised because he was playing poorly and looked like he didn't give a f**k about it, I wouldn't put it much beyond that. He never became a proper pantomime villain until he left us and took every possible opportunity to get it right up us. That, of course, is his right but we also had the right to point out that he was an absolute chancer who was more interested in dressing room antics than actually performing well for a club desperate to get back to the First Division. McLaughlin was the archetypical Jim McInally player. He was happy to claim full-time money and strut around a part time league like the dogs bollocks, but then when things went wrong he would look absolutely anywhere but at himself when called out for his failings. His 'awk it was all a bit of banter' type attitude on the podcast, he both fucking hated Morton fans and absolutely lapped up the 'big bad Morton fans' narrative whenever it suits his agenda. I sincerely hope that Morton manage to consign the atmosphere at Morton during McLaughlin's tenure, managers like Jim McInally and players like Scott McLaughlin to the history books.

There's one far less likeable coward who reads the forum even more regularly than Scott does, checking if he's being talked about or not.

He'll be reading this with a raging stauner because we're still talking about him.