Toby's Content - TheMortonForum.com Jump to content
TheMortonForum.com

Toby

Members
  • Posts

    8577
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    333

Posts posted by Toby

  1. I wonder if the unforeseen circumstances surrounding the rescheduling of the AGM were that the notice was provided to shareholders on 19th March, which is less than the required 14 days notice required for a 28th March meeting.

    I may be wrong, as my knowledge of company law is somewhat limited, but I believe the new date of the AGM now falls out with the required ten month timescale from the date of the accounts, which would have been 31st May 2023.

     

  2. 7 minutes ago, The Bewilderedbeast said:

    They seem to he happy to deal with non issues, but as we discussed on here a couple of times, they seem to home in on easy targets.

    It's almost like they have "to deal with SOMETHING " to justify their existence and the more mundane that something is the better they like it. 

     

    Aye, there couldn’t have been enough weans standing at the front of the Sinclair Street end yesterday to keep them busy.

  3. 1 minute ago, The Bewilderedbeast said:

    What was their gripe with the flag?

    So far as I made out, they hadn’t played with the stewards that the message on it wasn’t offensive and asked permission to display it.

    You’ll just about make out from my photo that there’s a skull with a couple of crossed swords, and the badges of Reggiana and Morton. Really nothing to get bothered about in the slightest, whlie they were nowhere to be seen as the pyro was getting set off against Hearts the other week (not that I really object to the young team using that).

    It was a mountain out of a molehill. I get that it might appear that I’m probably over-egging the significance of this, but I think it’s important that every minor issue is raised on here, so as to provide an easy reference point of all the security company’s failings and wrong-doings.

    • Upvote 1
  4. While you do in theory have to provide the same discount for away fans, that’s where multi-game offers are the way forward, and to be fair to the club, they did offer this for the four games from Airdrie until next week’s game against Queen’s Park.

    My only criticism of that would be that the Airdrie game came just before the end of the month, when many folk are typically paid, so shelling out £70-odd for a modest discount just before your wages come in isn’t always ideal.

    Doing a monthly deal might be an idea- if there are two home games in a month, offer a £40 ticket and if there are three do one for £60.

  5. 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.

    • Upvote 2
  6. 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.

    • Upvote 1
  7. 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.

    image.png

×
×
  • Create New...