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There's a community trust in Berwick looking for a gormless lackey right now, time to reunite with your big mate Warren at an appropriate level for both of your skillsets (East of Scotland Division Two before the decade's out).

I wouldn't go quite that far - he's probably good for ten goals a season at this level, which as our stats since coming up in 2007 show is enough to 'do a job' for a lower midtable team.

This post is incorrect for two reasons: 1) The only reason why Falkirk are ripping their knitting about paying for these specific costs is because they didn't get promoted as well. If they had been allowed to slither up alongside Raith and faced the same legal challenge from Hearts, they'd have been the first to bring out the begging bowl. It is 100% pure hypocrisy. 2) It's likely that many clubs are reluctant to contribute money at this time to fund three clubs' frankly pointless legal representation. Only one of them chose to air this on social media because this is in fact an laughably see-through ploy to convince their fanbase that Falkirk FC are Standing Up For Themselves against the corruption of Scottish football. It's a tactic lifted straight from the Sevco playbook and judging by the latest shrieks of delight from their gormless, clapping seal fanbase - who let's not forget this time last year were parading Gregor Buchanan around the place like the next Paolo Maldini - it's had the same effect. There are clubs that have handled themselves with supreme dignity and class throughout both this saga and other recent controversies in Scottish football (see Famous, The). And then there is Falkirk FC. Everything that they say is rendered null and void as a result of their actual conduct. Edit: I guess that counts as a third reason as well.

Do we even want to change a football club that does stuff like this? The predictable incompetence is almost half the fun by now.

Every taxi driving gossip in the town will certainly be fuming that they can no longer offer the inside scoop on what's really going on at Cappielow within 0.3 yards of pulling away from The Norseman.

While this is true, we need also to take stock of the SPFL's first fan-owned club - Stirling Albion - who have spent the entire decade since as a basketcase irrelevance even by their club's modest history before that. And that's at a level where if the worst came to the worst (at least before the pyramid opened up a bit) you could just run as a glorified social club for years until you sorted things out off the park. A club of this size operating in a stadium like Cappielow simply cannot afford a similar drop down a level for a decade as a new ownership model finds its feet. There are definite pitfalls to community ownership when done badly and I don't think that some of them can even be anticipated yet: some mistakes will be discovered when mistakes are made in the job. Even if done well it's going to require a degree of patience that does not come easily to the fanbase of any football team along the way, as well as serious oversight. If you managed to write that while keeping a straight face then you deserve an Academy Award.

It might help it obtain some of the begging bowl grants that Warren and his big mates were after from the government. There are many worse ways that this spell of rudderless uncertainty could have gone for the club in the past couple of years - not least given the way this season ended - so it is to the Rae's genuine credit that they're willing to see things out on honourable terms. The devil will of course be in the detail. Personally, I think that MCT should welcome some external investment in the club in exchange for shares, if there were some sort of gradual buyback option available; hopefully talk of never selling the club doesn't rule out any sort of similar option, as otherwise you're limiting your options straight off the bat. The ground is not so much a concern in terms of ongoing payment as to what our balance sheet is going to look like for the foreseeable future. 'Morton fans trying to run a football club' sounds like the tagline for a head in hands mockumentary on Netflix but hopefully they'll be able to prove me wrong in having those doubts.

Yep, was playing for them two seasons ago until Annan signed him in the January transfer window. They got through to a Junior Cup QF against Lochee and just launched high balls to a midget instead and got pumped. Bonus fact: Dean Keenan captains Troon and is still a rocket.

We're going to need another three or four tiers for Dylan Dykes to find his true level, getting a chasing from Rothesay Brandane.

He and that fat mess Akinfenwa being on the cusp of Championship football sums up how much overpaid dogshite the EFL truly is. See also Lucas Akins and Clayton Donaldson's career arcs.

Can't wait to find out what job Stephen Stirling has landed himself in this endless chain reaction for Morton-Stranraer jobbers.

I found this part of the update surprising and would appreciate some greater clarity on where things are likely to stand between MCT and the club for the duration of the crisis. Was the funding removed because the club indicated that it had little need for it given the furlough scheme and other support measures being in place, or did MCT feel obliged to do so under the subscription terms that its members signed up to? Would MCT therefore be willing and/or able to reinstate its support and release these funds to the club, if requested, to help cover ongoing costs before first team football football resumes? I don't think that the scheme should act as a glorified ATM for the club whenever it wants ready cash but there is an obvious benefit to both parties in having as much flexibility as possible to respond to events right now.

Go back to playing with your crayons champ.

Not convinced that other teams will necessarily fall for the trap in our 'two left backs and no right back' formation tbh.

Paul Slane played for both Ayr United and Clyde and so automatically wins any most dung SPFL footballer award. Even his fellow traveller in the shite footballer/shite patter stakes Dean Keenan only managed the former.

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Good idea: perhaps they could put it all in a charity bucket until the day that they waltz down the QB and buy the club outright.

No it isn’t: once you follow King Snake you deserve all the failure you get.

That's not what the club statement says.

Well it would be surprising if it wasn't reeking of pish for a change. Re: Chaplins, it's worth nothing that they've got a highly objectionable piece up on the wall in the form of a signed and framed Michael 'King Snake' Tidser jersey. That needs to be smashed like a plate at a Greek taverna and then ceremonially burned.

Tinpot league found.

Thomas ‘King Snake’ O’Ware will be privately furious about this, as he contemplates seaside league football with his stupid wee outfit next season instead.

Can’t believe the mods have allowed this highly objectionable content to stay on the site this long. Sort it out please.

Thomas ‘Tam’ ‘King Snake’ O’Ware ships both goals and is hounded by his own fanbase as Partick lose to seaside league permadiddies ‘Raith Rovers’ (someone check this) in the Challenge Cup. What a terrible, wee shame.

Gary Harkins signs for Stenhousemuir.