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  1. 4 hours ago, capitanus said:

    I think the 'reporting of numbers' reason for refusing entry is a far fetched one, to be honest.  If that is ever given as a reason, it would reek of 'clutching at straws'.  Your mate had a valid ticket and he turned up late, the reason for his late arrival is his business and he shouldn't need to justify himself to a fucking football steward.  It's not as though opening a gate and letting him in would require a big effort and given the circumstances would have been the decent thing to do.  He wouldn't be disrupting the game and would very unlikely be disrupting anyone elses enjoyment of the game.

    I often run late when i'm going to a game, and I recall two instances during Douglas Rae's era when I once was late I was let in for half price as I missed most of the first half; and another time I was let in for free as I arrived and we were 3-0 down.  A few times I'd arrived and had to go in via the stand and go through the gates to the Sinclair Street end.  None were a big deal for the stewarding staff concerned. 

    All of this seems to be night and day compared to what we're reading about what people are experiencing nowadays.  YET the club is FAN owned.  It's not owned by an obnoxious cow of a Head Steward.

    The only possible justification I can think of (and this is a real stretch) is that the away turnstiles at the WDE were closed, so he had to turn up at the main stand entrance, so as an away fan, would (not really) have needed escorting up the stairs and through an empty corridor to the away end of the main stand, which would have required taking a steward from their position. We are, of course talking about escorting a middle aged man who has paid a not inconsiderable sum of money to be entertained, not a Category A prisoner.

    Unfortunately for the head steward though, things come up and now and again you have to juggle your pack. It’s called management, something she’s clearly not capable of, or not prepared to do.

    So instead of opening the gate and inconveniencing one or a couple of her team for the best part of three minutes, she’s cost the club his £22 entry fee, upset both him and a regular Morton fan with her conduct, given the club’s admin staff and General Manager a headache to appease said upset fans, and seen the tale dragged onto social media.

    I hope it was worth it.

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  2. 9 minutes ago, The Bewilderedbeast said:

    What they should then outlaw is the keeper then being allowed to immediately catch, or pick the ball up. He should have to play it with his feet. 

     

    They did it with pass backs,  too easy for a defender to go down holding his head knowing that his keeper will ultimately be in possession with the ball in hand.

    Drop balls are unchallenged now anyway, which is a nonsense imho, so it wouldn’t make a great deal of difference anyway.

    With the back pass law introduced in 1992, there isn’t an active goalkeeper who played before its introduction so they’re all comfortable enough anyway.

    What I would say is that Inverness spotted a weakness in the referee and played on it. Referees are possibly under a bit more pressure over head knocks just now after one of (not even the latest of) David Munro’s catalogue of 2023-24 monumental fuck ups when he didn’t stop play to allow treatment for Michael Mellon’s head injury in the recent Dundee v St. Johnstone game, when the injury turned out to be serious after hems told the players to get on with it.

    That however, doesn’t mean that he shouldn’t have been stronger with them going down constantly to disrupt the flow of the game- as was emphasised in the second half when Samuel went down to receive treatment for a lengthy period only for them to replace his strike partner McKay a couple of minutes later. Had Samuel really been in any discomfort, there’s no way McKay would have been withdrawn.

    We were out-shitfested by Inverness, but so too was an incredibly weak official.

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  3. 8 hours ago, tonnick said:

    To continue the biblical theme Carragher just before HT went down with a head wound apparently severe enough for the ref to halt play. Someone must've said something or had a sly dig and he miraculously springs to his feet sparking a stramache lasting several minutes, headache all gone happily for him. The ref restarts giving possession to ICT when we were attacking. Sums up the game for me.

    A drop ball inside the penalty box always goes to the defending team’s goalkeeper. We questioned it at the time but my mate checked up on the rule at half time as he thought that might have been the case.

    Much as the referee was extremely weak, lost control of the game early and allowed Danny Devine to referee the game for him, he was correct in this instance.

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  4. 54 minutes ago, Scott said:

    Imagine the outrage from those Fifers if a Morton player made that challenge on one of their own. 

    Indeed. After their whining over our tactics on the second day of the season, David Munro-show, a game in which Hamilton was lucky to last longer than half an hour, it’s quite a turnaround to see their inbred mob lapping this stuff up.

    For all Morton’s faults with social media down the years, I can’t remember a time that the club’s official channels have deliberately gone down the route of antagonising other clubs. Fair enough a website like this doing it, but official accounts should rise above that.

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  5. How does everyone see this? Funny or unprofessional?

    Different if it were to come from an unofficial fans’ site, I certainly wouldn’t want Morton getting involved in shite like this, especially when you see how the Partick fans who were in hospitality go on about what Allan Moore allegedly said 11 years ago.

    If Raith fail to win promotion, as I sincerely hope they do, there are going to be a lot of sticks left lying around for fans of other clubs to beat them with.

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  6. 22 minutes ago, Hej said:

    Do you think they'll give season ticket holders first option for tickets, or a free for all? 

    Don’t know if they’d be able to do that with Fanbase, but they certainly should do everything they can to make sure that happens.

    With capacity reduced the way it was for Motherwell, this is probably the most in-demand game at Cappielow since 1996.

  7. It also means that our league game at Ayr on 9th March will be re-arranged.

    With all the quarter final games televised, I’d be hoping to avoid the Friday night slot, as we play Dundee United at home on Tuesday 5th of March.

    I know there’s no real difference in reality between playing Tuesday/Friday and Wednesday/Saturday but I do feel there can be something psychological about playing what could be perceived as two midweek games.

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