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  1. A point of note ahead of tonight’s game- I hope we’ve denied Clyde permission to include Alex King in their squad.
  2. I saw both Bo’ness and Luncarty last season. Obviously things will have moved on but Luncarty were a horrible mob. It was last Christmas I saw Bo’ness beat Cowdenbeath 3-1 which was great because, Cowdenbeath. It was courtesy of a hat trick from a boy that’s since moved onto Tranent though, but they’re currently sitting 5th in the Lowland League and I expect them to get through the tie with a bit to spare. Later on in the season I saw Luncarty lose 4-3 at Newtongrange Star and they made Airdrie c.1991 look like a Sunday School picnic. How the Raith fans would put up with playing a team like that after their whining about us earlier in the season would be worth seeing. As well as kicking Newtongrange about the Park, their intimidation of the referee (who only had officials from each club as his assistants was quite a throwback. Not often I take something so memorable from a game that I’m not too concerned about the result of, but whenever I see Luncarty’s name mentioned, my immediate thought is “gang. Apparently if we’d got Luncarty away it would have been moved to St. Johnstone (citation needed) which would have been proper shite, so maybe a good thing it’s at home, although Newton Park for Bo’ness would have been great. Very much a hills-have-eyes sort of a town.
  3. Bo'ness or Luncarty at home. Straight forward, pity it's at Cappielow though.
  4. It's that time of year when Morton's interest in the greatest competition in sport begins, with the draw for the third round of the tournament taking place at 7.30pm on the Scottish cup's YouTube channel. We join the other nine Championship clubs and the ten League One clubs as third round entrants, with the following clubs from below still involved: SPFL League Two Bonnyrigg Rose, Dumbarton, Forfar Athletic, Peterhead, Stranraer, The Spartans Highland League Brora Rangers, Buckie Thistle, Formartine United Lowland League Albion Rovers, Broomhill, Cowdenbeath, Tranent East of Scotland Premier Division Broxburn Athletic, Dunbar United, Jeanfield Swifts West of Scotland Premier Division Cumnock Juniors, Pollok Incomplete ties Luncarty (EOS Prem) v Bo'ness United (LL) Postponed from yesterday, to be played on 4/11/23 Musselburgh Athletic (EOS Prem) v Clyde (L2) BBC Scotland Channel, to be played tomorrow. I would doubt I'm in the minority when I say an away trip to an unfamiliar venue would be nice. Nobody in the Championship or League One for me. I know some won't have been to Edinburgh City, but it's really shite. Of the SPFL clubs, only Bonnyrigg away is enticing IMHO. I've visited before but would quite like to see Morton there. Any of the Highland League clubs would be acceptable, although personally I'd prefer Formartine, having visited the other two. Pity the dream of Wick Academy will have to wait another year. Only Tranent appeals in the Lowland, with two ex-league clubs and a circus act playing out of Dumbarton still involved. Foresters Park is a nice, well kept wee ground which is well worth a visit. Bo’ness, who should get past Luncarty could be quite tasty though- a strange wee town with a support that might not be the most welcoming, and a ground that could provide a decent atmosphere for a game against a club like ourselves. Anything in the East of Scotland League would be fine, Broxburn's quite an open ground which would have no capacity issues, and I really fancy visiting Musselburgh, should they take care of Clyde. No idea of what Jeanfield (from Perth), Luncarty or Dunbar are like to visit. Cumnock would be a good awayday- similar standard to Beith, but a much better ground, although an artificial pitch. Pollok would have capacity issues for a visit from Morton. Anyone else got any preferences? No doubt having looked at these mouth watering possibilities we'll end up with Raith or Dumbarton away.
  5. Brian McLean emptied by Lowland League-bound nomads, “Clyde”.
  6. There’s probably more chance that it’s a fuck up on behalf of whatever marketing agency the club have commissioned to design the anniversary badge/range of products. It could be argued the club should have audited it, but have acted in good faith and are now facing fans’ criticism as a result of someone else’s failings.
  7. Aye, but when someone’s the first to spot something they have to make it known how clever they are. I’ll be like a kid in a sweetie shop. I’m a total mug for a pin badge so I’ll be getting them, and no reason not to get a couple of new key rings a tankard and a whiskey glass, even though I don’t drink spirits. I’m going over to Seville for the game next week so the shorts should hopefully do a sufficient job of pissing off the “no club colours on tour” element of the Scotland support.
  8. The smarmy tone of the guy who pulled it up on Twitter’s annoying me far more.
  9. Would you not have to go to games to boo?
  10. There were a lot of old men shouting at clouds, as is often the case at such meetings. One guy making a fuss about why the club board and the MCT board don’t include the same people and another bizarrely accusing the club board of lacking ambition to get promoted because the manager chooses to pick Kirk Broadfoot every week. All four candidates were elected onto the MCT board and Sam Robinson stood down, but will remain on the club board. A lot of the business was box ticking, such as correcting the wording of some of the constitution to align with how the world works nowadays when discussing gender etc. and Sam made the point that operations behind the scenes are a major focus, with someone at Alloa previously telling them that they saw Morton as a full time club with a part time infrastructure, the opposite of themselves. A point of note was that football wages account for 70% of turnover, which I would say isn’t too bad for a club of our size- I could be wrong. I asked about the land that’s been excavated between the ground and the Norseman, and it’s very much a case of watch this space in regards to a community hub, but don’t expect anything too soon, and they might initially use shipping containers before something more permanent to test the water on the appetite for such a facility. Gordon confirmed that there had been no contact at all from Inverness re: Dougie, and told us of some very nice news the club received yesterday. I’ll leave that to the club to announce rather than blabbing on here, as it’s something to make a song and dance about.
  11. I wouldn’t say Ferguson quite fits into the bracket of an Alex Rae or a Bomber Brown, tbh. Of course he had a spell at Rangers, but it was a fairly brief, unhappy one, for a number of circumstances before he found a club that he was lauded at in Everton. It’s going to be an absolutely box office appointment one way or the other though, he’ll provide no shortage of entertainment. First off the bat, I’ll be watching with interest to see if Daft Raymond will shamelessly try to slither out of Forfar to take the assistant’s role.
  12. Billy Dodds emptied by Inverness.
  13. I’d see Stuart Gray’s in a bad way. Best wishes to him of course, but I can’t mention him without bringing up that goal against Partick in 1997. Quite magnificent. https://x.com/pauljohndykes/status/1701945271964303511?s=46&t=mPi-CBP2m1lKxRNMQCkJuA
  14. Seen a few Twitter accounts saying that trying to get Adam Devine from Rangers on loan would be a no-brainer. Don’t know enough about the boy, and don’t really like us having to do any business with, or take any favours from them, but at the moment I’d bite your hand off for anyone, just to get Broadfoot out of the team. What the percentage of his wage would be would probably be a massive stumbling block, and I had heard that we were previously blacklisted by both the Old Firm after McPake and Welsh’s experiences, but there doesn’t appear any other obvious option with the exception of Doyle when fit. Incredible that we can have such bad luck with injuries and it seems like the only one who’s not getting injured is Broadfoot.
  15. Another point about the lack of depth at the back- whilst the amount of penalties he’s conceded is getting the attention, Broadfoot’s picked up bookings in all three league games (and two of the Viaplay Cup matches) and is a suspension waiting to happen. I’ll be interested to see how he handles a notoriously bad-tempered fixture when matched up against that thug Graham, who’s not unknown for intimidating and bullying referees to get things his way.
  16. Charlie Mulgrew’s chucked it. You’d be looking at another Nacho Novo-type in him, who’s more interested in turning up at Celtic functions and appearing on TV or podcasts than actually doing his job. There are reasons United canned him, and I very much doubt they’re all financial.
  17. Any agent worth his salt would have ensured such a clause was in place for his client in signing an extension last season, especially considering how good he was for us. If Crawford hadn’t signed his new deal he’d have walked for nothing, so I suspect Morton had little choice but to accept such a clause to keep a hold of him. It’s hardly a fuck up on Morton’s part- there are aspects of contracts that suit one party better than another, but accepting a compromise doesn’t always have to be considered an act of folly.
  18. It depends on how you define essential- I’d certainly say that at the very least it’s a game changer, and as I mentioned the other week, I was pleased my pal’s dad (who you of course knew) had access to the Morton games on streams for a season or two before he passed away. For a guy like him it was essential- he simply wasn’t able to go to games and being able to see the games was a great thing for him in his final days. I think it’s a bit thoughtless to consider something like that as a luxury that can be dispensed with in the same way the match programmes were last season. You’re certainly correct in your concerns about gatekeeping, but that’s just a new challenge to overcome, just like the move from split revenues, the introduction of live TV, the explosion of live TV in the 90s, Bosman, streaming platforms themselves and many others. I’d say peoples’ expectations change as regards what is essential- it’s not that long ago that many houses didn’t have an internet connection, and still in living memory for some that their houses didn’t have inside toilets. We may well find in the future that streaming is deemed an essential source of revenue in the same way that TV, initially treated with such caution, has become today, given the exposure it could give to a club like Morton out with the environs of Inverclyde.
  19. Is that not the whole point in selling it on a multi-match basis, though? I accept that folk are more likely to buy a stream instead of going to an individual game, but unless they live abroad or as I suggested the other week, are housebound, are they really going to be that arsed about a season’s worth or a half season’s worth of it is available in the UK? Okay, perhaps Alibi, but I’d say he’s the exception, rather than the rule. I remember you missing out on a really enjoyable season in 2012-13 because you were studying in Slovakia at the time, and I had a degree of sympathy for you. Now, folk living outside these shores do have access to something that would have been of great benefit to you back then. I’d like to think I’m wrong, but rather than counting the pennies on Morton’s behalf, it’s coming across as you wanting to see someone deprived of a recently found pleasure in life for having the temerity to live abroad.
  20. None of that’s great, though. I get that the guy’s entitled to a holiday and don’t grudge him that but this is really grating now.
  21. I know some folk have now got their tartan shirts, and assume that as I ordered both for delivery, mine have been held back so they can arrive together. But that’s now 14 weeks ago today I ordered those shirts, and I’ve still got nothing. Nearly two weeks since the last update and no confirmation that sending them together is the policy. An indication that the tartan tops can be collected from Cappielow, but not if that applies to shirts ordered for delivery, and no sign of the chevron shirts when the initial indication was that the complicated design of the tartan ones were the reason for the initial hold up. If this was anyone else, I’d be going off my tits by now. I suspect we’ll get another update email from your man Ross Dunbar when he sees some grumbles on here, but to be honest, I’m getting a bit sick of being thanked for my patience. For all the positive steps the club have made and are making, this fiasco has been terribly disappointing.
  22. Other clubs’ main investors didn’t bung the SFA £2.5 million for purchase Greater Hampden. I agree it shouldn’t happen, but Haughey’s bought their way into this privileged position. It stinks, but they’ve got Scottish football by the baws, and can do as they please.
  23. Anton McElhone leaves Celtic. Good luck to him in his future endeavours- one of the few good guys in a horrible period at Morton.
  24. Admittedly, trying to kill this one stone dead is probably the second best option behind engaging your brain and not making such a stupid complaint in the first place, so well done on that one.
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