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  1. Only a dribbling imbecile would try to present the last 12 months as a stunning win for Lewis Strapp, Morton academy champion, at the expense of the big, bad bullies who now run all of Scottish football for some reason. Anyone who actually attended the Q and A sessions with the management last season - replete as with similarly braying idiots like yourself - would be fully aware of the reality of the situation. As well as anyone who has actually picked up a fucking paper in the last month to register Calum Waters' long term injury. An utterly, utterly pathetic effort.
  2. Copied from my response to your post on P and B.
  3. It probably evens out with progression to another round of the cup - if we beat Montrose, of course. But aye, no windfall spending unless we get yet another OF draw in cup.
  4. Blow to the club to lose a big crowd home game and hospitality cash too. On the other hand, we now have an unbroken sequence of fixtures between now and Christmas that we can take serious points from to get us back within the pack. It's the crunch time for our season.
  5. Aye because we have so much quality to spare as shown by our league position.
  6. Ray 'Ray' McKinnon slumps to a 1-0 defeat at lowly, managerless Elgin City, who pull level on points with his Forfar 'cracks'. Looks like the prick will be back on the Lochee taxi runs soon.
  7. It's the gap to Airdrie and Queens Park we need to be watching, so last night's result was the best outcome. 8 points with games in hand is nothing over the rest of the season, but it's probably going to take well into the New Year to recover that.
  8. I suspect the vast majority of responses to McGregor leaving was a shrug of the shoulders. Just because nobody was gathering a flaming torch wielding mob to empty him from Cappielow doesn't mean that he was seen as a valued member of the first team. For comparison's sake - is anyone going to be up in arms if Garrity stays, goes out on loan or leaves the club this January coming? No harm to either of them as individuals, but this supposed to be a professional football club that must make those utterly ruthless decisions all the time. If we're going to indulge in revisionism whenever an ex-Morton player scores against us and correct our 'mistake', then we'd be languishing in West of Scotland Division Three right now. As for Strapp, Imrie took repeated criticism and endless braying about that decision at the time. He retorted by saying that we should see where Strapp ends up, and here we are, in October. The fanbase can't have it both ways here - if we exercise a right to be critical of the original decision then we should have the good grace to accept that it has in fact been vindicated up to this point. It's not in top 10 of my list of possible complaints right now, that's for sure. None of that has got to do with trashing individuals - unless we're now setting a different standard for anyone who came through our own ranks compared to the rest who can get slaughtered on a semi-regular basis.
  9. Point of order incidentally: your ridiculous commemoration day is being compared to the club's 150th anniversary commemoration, only in the sense that LinwoodTon's crayola drawings of a new Morton kit design (trounced in a competition by 7 year olds) needs to be compared to the Mona Lisa. They're both artistic creations - but any sensible viewer knows which one is completely fucking tragic by comparison. Thanks for playing anyway.
  10. You're the one who assigned the wrong fucking country and continent to celebrate your idol, champ. Still, I'm sure that the peoples of Africa will be delighted to have a white guy from the Dirty Wee Port representing their culture with, err, strings of garlic and berets - not at all Braverman behaviour right there.
  11. Your knickers may well be twisted but the facts were not.
  12. As opposed to distributing an entirely wrong flag of origin as part of a 'celebration day' of some mercenary, which was in no way dodgy or indeed plain gubbins.
  13. Is this a Dull Men's Club parody thread now?
  14. I asked you roughly 24 hours ago what factual point you were disputing with your 'aye keep telling yourself that retort'. Your subsequent Catherine wheel of fail brings us no closer to an actual fucking answer. The idea that you're in any position to lower standards is laughable, your abysmal contributions speak to that. The only question is how long it will take you to join Dr. Zhivago and Ed de Ball in the dustbin of forum history.
  15. If you're not a complete moron and understand that all managers make errors in judgment, of course it is. The only test is whether the manager's collective decisions amount to a net positive or a net negative - and only a complete moron (you, again) would actually dispute that this has been the case. I couldn't care less if one or two deserving players fall by the wayside in the name of collective progress, because I'm not hanging out of any of their arses. GMFC is a professional football club and not a social club. The problem for those who were braying endlessly about 'releasing' a former POTY (in what nick of a team, btw?) is that the market has fully vindicated that decision, what with it being the last week of September tomorrow and Strapp being without a club. The widespread tears and snotters about signing Waters instead look utterly foolish now. That was entirely the correct decision - though we are still badly lacking a backup option.
  16. Telling myself... what exactly? What is the factual issue you'd like to dispute? Be extremely specific.
  17. Was he not training with the burners a couple of months ago? No harm to Strapp at all, but Imrie got a huge amount of pelters for making his decision in the spring and he stated (IIRC - at one of the fan events) that we would see where Strapp ends up by the end of the summer. Well here we are, and that judgment looks vindicated. A club would sign a player with an already known injury, if they viewed it as a key addition to the squad. Perhaps a call that Imrie deserves subsequent credit for, that we can trade for the Broadfoot weird yin.
  18. While a straightforward comparison of the scorelines today shows the stupidity of the view that a youth player, pretty capable though he is, can single-handedly change the fortunes of a team.
  19. Having someone 'useful' around the squad now (which King undeniably is) has to be traded against the benefit of playing regular, competitive, 90 minute football. I'd expect us to be down an experienced central midfielder or two in 12 months' time - preparation now is needed to help King to step up reliably instead of just the occasional cameo.
  20. He's scored 2 goals in 36 appearances at this level, which is not bad at all but makes your claim unrealistic. The reality is that unless the middle of the squad gets completely hollowed out by absences, King wouldn't get too much game time here this season but can get it elsewhere. I'd prefer not to have signed Wilson and prioritised support elsewhere, but that cover needed for injuries and until French signed has now left us overloaded in central midfield. I doubt we'd have seen King play more than 180 minutes between now and Christmas other than the Kelty game tbh.
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