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It's definitely the 2003-04 one I'm thinking of, I wasn't at the games in the first DDF season.

The one I remember was the 6-4 win vs. Arbroath. I recall Scott Bannerman scoring from at least 35 yards. It looked like it was going miles over but dipped at the last second at the Sinclair Street end and went in. I recall it being one of the best strikes I'd ever seen. Am I misremembering?

Fair play to the club/Murray for getting Corr shipped out quickly. Good luck to him. Never the required standard for us but I hope he does well in League One.

Got his hands full juggling Venezuela and Greenland

Kilmacolm is really an outpost of Renfrewshire stranded over the border. It's much more like Bridge of Weir than it is Greenock. I'd be fine with ceding it, Hong Kong style, for 99 years. Skelmorlie should be ours though.

Was inevitable really

Storer is the white Jordan Pickford

Billy Davies' shock troops take the lead through Michael Garrity.

Only if we win

Garrity, Lyall, O'Halloran and Brophy up top, Shaw and Moffat on the bench.

This is the kind of thing where one or two sentences in a long Instagram video can look more like the whole thing. Laird's tirade was just a sustained volley against the fans. Here this Smith guy seems to have made a couple of offhand frustrated comments but that wasn't the overall tenor of the message.

Aye, it's Murray. Announcement forthcoming. Of all the 'predictable' candidates he would have been my pick.

At the very least, allowing the statement to go out to 'keep the peace' with Laird, Dalrada, whoever else is at best very very poor judgement. The fact of the matter is that for whatever reason he's presided over a litany of mishaps. Probably the worst shape we've been in off the pitch since the Scott era, including the various snafus in the Rae's tenure such as being unable to register Tidser. I don't know if he's been subject to threats and libel, like he says he has, but those are matters for the police and courts (respectively) and are separate from his performance as chairman, which has been totally risible. Why does he get to set the terms of his departure and issue what may well be a completely false narrative in doing so? Who works for who here?

I have no ITK insight here but I'd be very surprised if that was true. Pleased, but surprised.

Technically Not Head Coach

Tidser is never a full-time manager. Fine at a plucky (read: financially doped) social club perched on top of a coal pit somewhere in "thuh kungdom". I'd rather take a punt on McIndoe if we're looking at a manager from the lower leagues. If we pick Tidser we're just admitting all that talk about Morton in the top flight was bluster. Small mercies.

Bullet well and truly dodged if so

Can't believe how much we're spending for so little return. I'd have taken a plucky Imrie team over this season.

That's the thing, I'm not even necessarily saying "technical head coach" is doomed to failure, or there's no role for it at Morton or another club. I'm just not going to be told "oh it's perfectly normal, it's like a DoF." It's completely one of a kind.

If you want a laugh search Google for "technical head coach" in quotes. We made it up. It is 100% made in Greenock. Clydebuilt. An Inverclyde original, like James Watt or Catman.

I'll stick my neck out and say that when Davies leaves, whenever that is, we won't hire another 'technical head coach.'

It's not impossible that a club that loses its secondary benefactor would cease a DoF model, but given that a "technical head coach" is completely unique we have no idea whether or not it's contingent on the Dalrada partnership, or whether the position of "coach"-analogous-to-manager would exist without it, etc. The uncertainty is because they're making it up as they go along, which isn't necessarily a problem - every idea has to start somewhere - but it's pretty disingenuous to act like that's not what's happening.

The fact that you have to switch the titles around to make it make any sense indicates that it actually is pretty unusual. Reporting to a "technical head coach" until the summer (then what happens?) is unique. It doesn't mean it's destined to fail but it is the weirdest system imaginable. If a DoF is set to leave in summer it's obvious what happens next - a new DoF comes in. If a "technical head coach" leaves do we advertise for a new one? No, probably not, since it's made up. This is the biggest problem of all. He utterly failed at full-time management, completely and totally, commanded zero respect from his players, set them up badly, and suffered a string of dreadful results. Because he's a nice, driven guy and because Billy's lurking in the stand like the Phantom of the Opera he's going to suddenly undo all that? Aye, stranger things have happened, maybe he'll prove me wrong, but IMO his limit is League One with a part-time squad, a big budget, and zero expectations of success.

Additionally, cash-strapped Celtic just lost their fourth in a row.

Tightened up nicely in the second half.