Toby

An update email will be provided this week.

What I’ve said was that I’ve found my experiences of working with him to be positive, although there have been points that I’ve disagreed with him. I didn’t say he wasn’t at fault for anything, just like I’ve conceded fault on my own and the MCT Board’s part in certain issues.

I can’t comment on previous apologies as I wasn’t involved in the MCT Board at the time and don’t have the patience or energy to search back. But from day one our experiences of working with Graham has been nothing but positive, even in challenging times. That’s not to say we always agree, but it would be concerning if we did agree on everything.

Don’t think he was entirely serious.

No, David and Graham aren’t in any way related.

In answer to both questions, no. A majority had been reached between our board and the representative we have on the club board to make it unnecessary to take it to the club board. Brian and Paul are brothers.

Forgot about this one. Who were the sectarian bigots who hounded Jim McInally out of Cappielow for being a Catholic?

Regarding the club statement, after our own statement and the feedback from that I requested the club statement be removed. My request was met with a majority disapproval. With the meeting, you note that I’ve said at least fourteen days will be provided. I’ve also said the meeting will take place in January. That remains the case. Regarding your point about my own agendas and questioning, I’m a Morton fan who has posted on these forums for 25 years or so, and have as much right to ask what I wish as you have to ask what you wish. That I’m an MCT director doesn’t change that, and I’ll continue to ask what questions of others I please. And your vote of no confidence against me- as a former director, you’ll be able to advise the membership of my failings, so rather than voting against me, like I said to Danny the other day, I invite you to raise a motion of no confidence against me.l and allow the broader membership to decide. If I’m not performing, or my conduct isn’t to the taste of the members, I’ll step aside. The decision to keep the statement on the club’s website is a joint decision between the boards of the club and MCT. While I may not agree with that decision, I also take responsibility for that. Now, after losing my new year, I’m going to enjoy a day out at the football with my mates, so will park this until tomorrow at the earliest. Happy New Year, “Roger”.

Thank you Danny. I did take it extremely personally and don’t understand another way I could have taken it. Perhaps that’s my problem and I’m a bit too precious. Can I ask about your Facebook post? ”Pathetic statement. More or less siding with laird. Give it up guys. You used to be proper supporters like us. Sickening and woefully subservient.” This also comes across as a very personal criticism, however if a genuine concern about my performance as a director, I’ll again extend the invitation to raise a vote of no confidence against me if this is how you feel.

Well would you care to elaborate? The MCT Board accept we get things wrong from time to time. Had we decided to disregard the fans, yesterday’s club statement would have been met with a wall of silence, which would have been the easy thing to do. Instead, on Hogmanay I was preparing a statement and replying to members’ emails. I can guarantee you there were things I would much rather have been doing at that time. Apologies to those I still haven’t got back to, I will. Since the new board took a while to get our feet under the desk, we’ve provided monthly updates via email, as well as dipping into this forum to informally answer queries and criticisms where we can. As the MCT Board’s communications lead, I’ve made that my personal business. If you feel the quality of our updates is poor, that’s fair enough. If you feel we’re not performing, we have to take that sort of criticism on the chin and try to improve upon. However, to suggest that we are misjudging or disregarding the fans is, in my personal opinion well wide of the mark. I put my name to the statement as I do all our formal communications, so take full responsibility for them. If you feel that I am disregarding the fans and members, I’d invite you to propose a vote of no confidence against me. Should that vote go against me, I’ll gladly step aside.

I really don’t know what route you’re going down, here. Is that statement directed at myself?

What we accept we got wrong was not challenging the inclusion of those allegations on the club’s statement, as we don’t believe the club’s official channels are an appropriate platform for them to be aired. That doesn’t mean that we dismiss the allegations, and nor should we. You may feel that they’re not valid, but the position we take is that if someone makes an allegation about our board or members, we’re obliged to take it seriously. We would take such a stance if such an allegation came from a player, fan, volunteer or any stakeholder in Morton or MCT about any other stakeholder. What your, or anyone else’s opinion of the accuser is should not prejudice how seriously we take their complaints.

Yeah, we screwed up on that one, hands up and prepared to take what criticisms will rightly come our way for that.

Former Morton player and Manager Douglas Imrie loses a football match in December for the first time in his managerial career as big-spending Raith Rovers are felled by county cousins Dunfermline Athletic. The big-spending Fifers are expected to respond in the way they know best, by opening the purse strings and investing heavily in their expensively-assembled squad as the January transfer window approaches.

Who were the sectarian bigots who hounded Jim McInallly out of Cappielow for being a Catholic?

I try, sometimes I fail. Sometimes I don’t try hard enough. The communication that came from MCT yesterday advised that we plan holding a meeting in January. That’s still the case, and given that January is just around the corner you can be assured there’ll be a meeting in the very near future. In the meantime, I try to answer what queries I can on here. That doesn’t mean I have the answer to every question, though.

I really try not to get into a bun fight with folk nowadays, but I addressed the point about Graham’s interaction with the MCT board 2-3 hours before this, the second post from you asserting that he doesn’t engage with us. While it comes across as a dig at Graham and is without foundation, it also, perhaps inadvertently points to a dereliction of duty on the MCT Board’s part to suggest we would allow this to happen. I’ll assume you didn’t note my reply on the other thread as I quoted Greacan2000 rather than yourself.

Sam’s relinquishing his role as a director of GMFC Property Ltd, not the club.

Missed this earlier when I replied to ask Spot Ton who the sectarian bigots who hounded Jim McInally out of Cappielow for being a Catholic were. We’re in frequent contact with Graham. I wouldn’t say daily, more like hourly. He’s been a great help to the MCT Board.

Who were the sectarian bigots who hounded Jim McInally out of Cappielow for being a Catholic?

We’re obliged by law to provide 14 days notice and when a date is finalised will provide notice of at least 14 days. I’m not being deliberately difficult in saying this, but I don’t want to give you a date that we’re yet to set in stone.

There’s an MCT update email due to be sent out this week, which will cover a few topics, and now we’ve got our feet under the table I hope to provide this monthly. Any more frequently, unless in exceptional circumstances just bores people.. The subject of a member joining the club board was discussed at a meeting a few weeks ago, but with the manager situation, the weekend’s turnstile issues and a couple of other matters, we had to shelf that subject, but will discuss it at length when we meet up this week. We’re actively working on it, and hope to appoint someone in the near future, but I’d be lying if I gave you a precise date or nominee from our board. As regards the Dalrada deal/meeting. This is planned for January and we’ll advise of our intentions in the update mail, and follow that up with a mail that provides adequate notice when we establish a date for the meeting.

Frank McKeown (remember him?) appointed manager of Dumbarton.

On the subject of Murray, I wonder if the terms of his contract at big-spending Raith Rvoers is a reason why he’s not got a job yet. Given the exorbitant salaries the big-spending Fifers are rumoured to pay, and Murray having signed a lucrative new deal not long before being sacked by the big-spending Stark’s Park club, could it be a case that by going back into management he may have to forego some of the mammoth compensation agreed with the big-spending Kirkcaldy club?

Who were the sectarian bigots who hounded Jim McInally out of Cappielow for being a Catholic?