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Oh really? Here is line fucking one of its launch material: So much for being sick of scaremongering stories then: MCT made them front and centre in its initial pledge appeal and also helpfully managed to spray them around in the national press as well. Such as? After all MCT has already established a close relationship with Crawford Rae and has freely declared its support for the vision of 'sutainability' set out by the club - with a Braeside La Masia and the Community Trust's nonsense at the heart of it. The only thing that MCT objects to - going by its public declarations - is the fact that there's not enough money to execute the current board's strategy, hence their intervention. There's no vision of radical change at all. Once again, I'm not interested in hearsay or running commentaries on what MCT or its leadership really think or what their true motivations are. The purpose and claims made by this organisation are far too important to depend on that cliquey, Trust-level form of communication. I am going to rely solely on the statements that they have made in the public domain and are published on their own website. That is the official record of what the organisation stands for and it is on that basis that people should choose whether to invest or not. And there is absolutely nothing there to suggest that the founder of MCT or anyone else in their leadership group are disillusioned with the way that the club has been run, other than the money not being there to see it through.

Here is the evidence from the source itself, from the MCT's initial Q and A on 27 April: https://mortonclubtogether.com/QuestionAndAnswer.html The clear purpose of MCT's fundraising then is to fill in a hole in the first team budget that GC had just so happened to announce just a few weeks prior to its launch. MCT also buys into the current, harebrained idea that youth development is key to the sustainability of GMFC, as well as the claptrap peddled by the Community Trust on a regular basis. Voluntarily, not out of pragmatism. There are no parts of the existing structure that MCT or its leadership have criticised or wish to set aside. And its Q and A handily concludes with a confirmation that: So this scheme is quite clearly the product of someone who is seeking an active partnership with the club and its current custodians to simply do existing policies better, rather 'being totally scunnered' at all then.

Really not sure where you're getting that from, as MCT's vision as stated on its website is all about chipping in to support the club in a scheme drawn up in obvious coordination with Crawford Rae himself. There's no talk of changing ownership, no talk about taking the club in a new direction. That doesn't make the scheme worthless, but there's no evidence that MCT's leadership are 'totally scunnered' with the club at all. They simply want to put in more money to keep the current show on the road.

The natural home for absolute jobbers like him. And rapists.

It’s true to the extent that I passed by and could see and hear a bunch of suited - now de-bin-bagged - wankers giving it the full rendition from inside the pub, before (loudly) overhearing in the following pub that Compston and his tadger mates had themselves headed to Lithgows and were making a massive scene of it in there. I believe that 2 + 2 = 4 and that’s the most logical version of events. The rebel songs from within said hovel I can personally vouch for. These are facts.

Lithgows’ ‘no football colours including Morton allowed’ Bar currently hosting a rebel sesh inside its walls with that walloper Martin Compston and his binbag-wearing, tramp hangers-on. Sad! Kill it with fire.

Jamie McDonagh faced off against Caolan McAleer and Mark Russell last night, emerging the resounding winner as his Derry City side trounced Finn Harps 4-0. It’s back to the bottom of the table for them. Sad!

It hardly takes an MBA or to be a great captain of industry like Ed de Ball to know that 'making sure the fucking pledge link works on your website' is critical before an organisation launches itself in a relative blaze of publicity.

'Chuck in an extra £200k a season to keep 2018/19's turgid dross instead of the next Cham' is really not a selling point though.

Which given the club recorded a loss of over £200k and GC has chucked funding it any more, is going to be exactly the position we'd be in unless McKinnon can slash unnecessary costs from somewhere. So while the idea of fans buying in has many positives, a 'vast improvement' of the product on the park is not one of them right now, as we haven't actually been fielding Cham and and a bunch of other jobbers again like in 2013-14.

It's a question of MCT clearly demonstrating that they understand how the business structure actually works. You can't take Crawford Rae's words at face value - not because I think that he's some moustache-twirling asset-stripper, but because he's only a figurehead representing GC's interests. GC's board will actually decide where they want any money to go, what the club should be valued at and when, if ever, their ridiculous stack of IOUs will be written off to make the club viable for new ownership. . I'm sure that MCT believes that having a friendly relationship with the current chairman is crucial to the success of the scheme, but that does not mean that they should be blind to the reality of who is calling the shots at the club. Verbal promises from Crawford are meaningless now; we will need GC to commit to any and all of this group's objectives before buying in. £200k per year would only minimise the decline of the product on the park, unless the new chief executive can identify how Iron Man managed to burn through even more than that in his last twelve months at the club and bring that to an end. And I don't actually see why the purpose of investment should lead to a massive difference in the club's valuation. GC has decided that it wants out but still clutches to a £2 million debt pile of its own making that makes the club a wild sell to any outside investor. Why are we supposed to be cravenly grateful that they're willing to part with 15% of the club if the fans bail them out of funding the club's current shortfall for two seasons? It's not as if they have a credible plan B to secure their interests instead. I think that MCT should be getting more than 15% and a commitment the money going into the first team pot: what other bids have they got on the table right now? It's a buyers' market.

Then he probably should have stated that in his response to an earlier question regarding guarantees on investment, instead of essentially claiming 'Crawford says so and therefore it's definitely going to happen' because those aren't the same positions. This isn't meant to be a dig but I'm not interested in any 'from what I've heard' running commentaries on what MCT's are really doing or thinking right now. I think that's by far the quickest route to GMST-land and complete disengagement from the rest of the fanbase tbh. It would be better for all information or claims about MCT's activities or intentions to be put out there and owned by those who are actually accountable within that organisation; and if the group has to clarify its position then its officials should be left to do that task in their own time.

But as the mere representative and not the controlling interest in the club's largest shareholder, Mr Rae's public statements cannot be considered the last word. What's to stop the Golden Casket board adopting a different stance and telling Mr Rae to backpedal from that stance on their company's behalf? MCT needs to understand that getting firm commitments from GC are more important in building credibility for this or any other plan for the club than Crawford Rae's statements in support. Because as we've just seen with the fate of his last three year plan, the ultimate decision-making power does not lie solely at his door.

Erm yes, I’m sure your gripping account of ‘going from the airport to drink in a ‘Scottish pub’ with Hamish Husband and the gang, before getting another shan bus to a venue where you got effortlessly sworded and had a meltdown about it’ will become the best-selling travelogue of the country soon enough. Next.

Yes, that absolutely pointless bin of a country indeed.

Hopefully the mods will get around to purging this reference to a pointless league in a bin of a country.

What a terrible, wee shame that is for them.

The regulars in the Station Bar were wildly celebrating Dundee United failing against Hamilton during a play off game a few years ago, on the basis that they 'had done in "The Rangers"', so I'd say that the 'staunch' tag is well deserved.

Bring. Him. Home.

'The Famous' didn't actually play against 'Man Utd', so no.

Not an ‘ex player’ of The Famous despite the Greenock Telegraph’s bizarre, decade-long campaign to make it happen.

Meanwhile in Germany, Hamburg have failed to win any of their last six league matches to spectacularly bottle any chance of promotion. Another season floundering in Bundesliga 2 awaits for this self-styled 'giant' of European football. What a terrible, wee shame that is for them.

The Falkirk board have clearly peddled this to the tabloids to take the heat off them just 24 hours before some shan 'fan protest' was scheduled to take place against them at the game tomorrow; it's one of the oldest PR tricks in the book. Watch their gormless fanbase lap it up.

When the wheels predictably came off their bandwagon.

They fucking are though. The fatal nail in their horrible coffin was already delivered by The Famous last week. Which is glorious.