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  1. 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.
  2. Billy Dodds emptied by Inverness.
  3. 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
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. Anton McElhone leaves Celtic. Good luck to him in his future endeavours- one of the few good guys in a horrible period at Morton.
  14. 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.
  15. If that alone was the case then fine, crack on. Instead though, you’ve come on here, citing minor differences between the replicas and the original shirts and perceived quality issues as the reason for your displeasure, and publicly so in a manner that could discourage others from buying a perfectly good product from Morton. That you’re now downplaying your stance on the matter comes as little surprise- people often do it when called out for acting like a fanny, but don’t think for a second that you shouldn’t be dug up about your stupid temper tantrum.
  16. You really need to dry your eyes on this. Retro shirts are rarely, if ever, exact replicas of the originals. Mine haven’t arrived yet, but having seen Dean’s on Saturday, if you’re going to complain about the poor printed quality, the badge is the same quality as the one I had in the nineties. What do you want? Quality or accuracy? You can’t have both. Maybe you feel you’ve got neither but the quality is definitely consistent with the shirts of the time. Stamping your feet and demanding a refund over tiny little inaccuracies is pathetic.
  17. Has anyone checked in on ChampTon yet?
  18. Efe Ambrose signs for Queen of the South and is deployed in Operation Keep Falkirk Down Again.
  19. Andrew Dallas has somehow managed to bag a move to Barnsley.
  20. Brian Graham is appointed as captain of Partick Thistle Family Club. An obvious move, I can’t think of a single man who embodies everything about his club in quite the way Graham does. Tadger.
  21. It looks as though Matchwinner’s method of distribution is different with the clubs whose shirts are on that image, and Morton are wanting them sold through the club rather than directly through Matchwinner. Although given the length of time this is dragging on now, I wonder if the club will look at cutting their losses once this batch finally gets the green light, given how poor the service has been. Checking back my emails there, it was the 1st of May that I ordered those tops. Eleven weeks now, and not even a chink of light at the end of the tunnel. I feel sorry for the club here, but even still, the last update from them was three weeks ago, on 28th June. They really should be kicking arses and giving us a bit more info now, too.
  22. It would have had to have got agreement from the other four clubs in the group, as all prices are set as the same I’d have imagined, but it would have been good if there could’ve been an agreement for the clubs to do their two home games for £25, or even better, a four match package of home and away games for £50.
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