BishopBrennan
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Partick have apparently offered a deal to Gorgeous George. I'd assume this will be to serve as backup to Brian Graham, so hopefully it's not enough to entice him to that lot.
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40 minutes ago, Madton said:
I think Raith will come down looking to play well and give them some momentum going into the playoffs. Their players will be playing to ensure they are in the starting 11 for those games. Think it will be about 3 weeks before their semi final so can't see them resting loads of key players etc unless they have niggles whereas I'd imagine most of our lot will be thinking about their summer holidays. A good few will know they aren't getting new contracts either.
Comfortable away win for me. Raith -1 is nearly 4/1...
I'm not convinced by that to be honest, Raith have been struggling in recent weeks and look as if the wheels have fallen off.
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Whether we like it or not, we don't deserve the playoffs. While our form fell off a cliff after Oakley's injury, Airdrie have hit excellent form (Saturday aside). They've taken 20 points from 10 games, whilst we've won 8 points in the same period (only Arbroath took less points in that period). We could feel aggrieved last year, missing out by a single goal is unfortunate, but this season we can't make the same claim.
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That's some ball from Blues on his left foot.
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I'd be surprised if Strapp is still here next season, but that said it's also another off-season he's heading into with a knee injury. I think at the very least he deserves to be playing at the top end of the Championship.
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I've been told that we're signing Jay Bird from Arbroath in the summer. Bit of a strange one.
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1 hour ago, shaddypeekey said:
POTY: Mullen. Its nice to know we've a relatively safe pair of hands in the goal, although Oakley and Wilson are a close second.
Mentallest decision of the year: Sending Alex King on loan again.
I suppose you could argue that King could have replaced Crawford in the '10' role after his form dipped, but I still think King will have benefited more from spending the season playing regularly for Clyde than he would have been starting 5 games and making 10 sub appearances for us this season.
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Player of the Year - I'd have Iain Wilson in 1st place, Ryan Mullen in 2nd place and probably Oakley in 3rd place. Wilson's improved our midfield massively, Mullen has established himself as a good Championship goalkeeper with tremendous distribution, and Oakley has been irreplaceable. 8 goals in 22 league appearances whilst playing as a target man is a very good return as well.
Goal of the Season - George Oakley's winner at Tannadice. An absolute screamer.
Best Signing - Lewis Strapp. If we didn't sign Strapp, I think we'd currently be in 9th place instead of Inverness. He is better at every facet of the game than Waters IMO. For all we haven't scored a huge amount of goals from his long throws, the panic they cause in opposition defences is always amusing.
Worst Signing - Tyler French. The Dundee fans had us thinking we'd signed the next Cafu, but to say he hasn't really found his feet at Championship level is generous.
Most Significant Goal - George Oakley's winner at Arbroath. A great turn and finish that not only broke that horrible winless run against Arbroath but also sparked our unbeaten run to life. A real turning point in the season.
Best Game - Dundee United 2-3 Morton. Peak 'Big Bad Physical Morton'.
Worst Game - Morton 1-4 Partick, Morton 0-3 Arbroath or Airdrie 3-1 Morton.
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Fucking rancid.
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8 hours ago, HamCam said:Quitongo is a conundrum in he is one of the few players in the squad, when fit, who offers an X-factor but the problem is he is injury prone and with a small budget can we afford to keep taking the risk?
Quitongo would be one of the first out the door if it was up to me. He has attributes very few at this level possess, but even when he is fully fit he's woefully inconsistent.
Wilson and Oakley both have bad injury records, but the difference with those guys is if they're playing twenty games in a season rather than forty, they're going to give a solid contribution in 90% of those matches. Quitongo doesn't have that. Add in his technical deficiencies, lack of game intelligence and poor decision making in the final third and it's an easy decision for me. He's simply a luxury we can't afford.
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Here is the state of play for next season:
Contracted for next season - Mullen, Murdoch, Baird, Wilson, O'Boy, King, Bearne, Davies.
Contract expiring - MacDonald, Strapp, O'Connor, Waters, Blues, Muirhead, Quitongo, Crawford, Broadfoot, McGrattan, Garrity, Power, Gillespie, Oakley.
Loans expiring - FrenchMacDonald - Release
Strapp - Keep
O'Connor - Keep
Waters - Release
Blues - Keep
Muirhead - Keep*
Quitongo - Release
Crawford - Keep*
Broadfoot - Release
McGrattan - Release
Garrity - Keep
Power - Keep*
Gillespie - Release
Oakley - Keep* I'd be looking for upgrades on these players but I wouldn't be against any of them staying in the correct circumstances. Crawford has really struggled for a large part of the season, Muirhead has blown hot and cold but still has plenty of goals to his name and Power is now at a point where you could argue whether his negative contributions outweigh what he brings to the team.
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2 hours ago, AyrshireTon said:
Because at that point we were looking the better side, albeit we’d left it late. A winner was a possibility in a game where we ought to have been behind, yet rather that go for it, Mullen was told to hold onto it. The guy in front of me absolutely lost it at Imrie for that.
Imrie was entirely correct IMO. Having two positive passages of play after 10/15 minutes of being under the cosh doesn't mean we should suddenly start trying to force a winner. Given how poor we were in midfield, and the large gap between the midfield and defence for the majority of the match, settling for a point was the correct approach at that point.
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14 hours ago, The Bewilderedbeast said:
It'll be interesting to see who goe and who comes in.
At the Q&A session with the board a couple of weeks ago, John Laird made it abundantly clear that Morton would no longer be a club that players come to, to end their career.
Would imagine then, that Broadfoot and Power may well be going and there'd be no more signings like Ambrose and McLean.
It absolutely should not be the chairman deciding that. We're one of (if not the) lowest paying full time clubs in the country. The idea of completing ruling out recruiting older players dropping down from a higher level is absurd.
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6 minutes ago, ChampTon said:
Surprised they weren't in attendance since Celtic and The Rangers weren't playing today.
Only a handful of them are real Morton supporters.
The majority of them were in Amsterdam for the Scotland game.
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33 minutes ago, Scott said:
Where were the team training today in the video posted on Twitter/Facebook?
Inverclyde Sport Centre in Largs.
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Fair fucks to whoever let off the fireworks in the car park at full time. Outstanding work.
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Excellent news. I don't think it's a coincidence that our performances and results improved as he gained match sharpness.
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6 hours ago, Jamie_M said:
Is Jamie MacDonald injured again? On the bench for the last 3 games in December then disappeared again for the last 2 games.
I'd be fully in favour of trying to get MacDonald off the books and bringing in a player on a lesser wage to deputise for Mullen for the rest of the season. I'd imagine MacDonald is quite a high earner so if we can use it to benefit us in other positions I'd be all for it.
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Even for this dank corner of the internet's standards, this thread is grim.
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I'd love to see Iain Wilson signing beyond his loan spell. I'm hoping that come February 1st we're sticking a pre-contact in front of him. He's been excellent in the last couple of months.
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Aye, that's a cracking result. Arbroath's form is dreadful at the moment. Terrible wee shame.
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I've been to Germany four times and never had an issue, I can only imagine they will be pulling out all the stops during the Euros to ensure public transport runs without a hitch.
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On 12/7/2023 at 12:13 AM, capitanus said:
We go again tomorrow. I wonder what the next debacle will be.
Incidentally, what is everyone's thoughts on the draw? The choice of venues? Munich is the ideal place for the opening tie, albeit they know how to milk the fans with the prices, however Cologne and Stuttgart are too far apart creating a lot of needless journeys. I cant help but think that this could have been organised better.
Having to travel across a country with great transport and great beer, with your mates, in the height of summer, watching Scotland? I'm struggling to think of a downside.
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None of the content is especially harmful, but I've went from having tweet notifications for the MCT account turned on to switching them off because I can't be arsed with my phone flashing up 4/5 times in a 20 minute period with nonsense quote tweets. There's a balancing act in effective social media communication and this isn't it. I'm not suggesting it's a massive issue, more of an irritation, but someone needs told to calm it.
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Strapp and Oakley are the only two players that I'd be willing to offer wage increases to in order to get them signed up for next season.