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Couldn't agree more. This is back to my comment about documented roles and responsibilities which appear to be missing both at MCT and GMFC.

Why, I don't buy that. They had Gordon Ritchie staked out at the club for months and his role was to learn the ins and out of how the club operated. There was no reason why they couldn't have been organised other than there was a lot of navel gazing going on rather than planning for when they actually got the keys or at least a key to the front door. I get really frustrated at the lack of basic good management and forward planning that hasn't taken place long before the papers were signed. It just smacks of folk who don't know how to organise and plan ahead.

This is just another example of how disjointed the organisation is. Whether you agree with the Lithgow thing or not there should have been one statement released and it should have come from the club and not MCT. There needs to be a proper demarcation of responsibilities or else there is a danger at some point of the club and MCT releasing different communications on the same subject. There needs to be defined roles and responsibilities, written down so that everyone understands their role and where their responsibility starts and ends, for everyone involved at Cappielow or else it will end up a shambles.

But it's not a short space of time. They have known this has been coming for months and looked to be ill prepared for the changeover. I get that people have day jobs but if you can't commit the time you shouldn't get involved. There must be a few retired Morton fans that can at least keep a website up to date in their spare time. As for whittling down the numbers, what's keeping them? I'm also realistic to understand that money is the driving force behind any succesful enterprise but if MCT keep pissing fans off then that money will dry up and we are well and truly fkd if that happens. Time somebody at MCT got their finger out and got this organised so that we at least act like a professional organisation rather than one looks good on paper.

Far to many chiefs and not enough indians. The leadership team is full of people who are qualified in one aspect of business or another. But nowhere does it say what they are responsible for at Cappielow if anything. There are far to many points raised that are not being addressed which says to me that nobody is willing to take responsibility for getting them fixed. Even the small things don't get addressed, there is no attention to detail. Like I would never have known that Gerry McGeehan had stepped down if it hadn't been mentioned here. Surely somebody is responsible for keeping the both MCT and GMFC websites current. All this does is gives the impression that MCT/GMFC are not on top of things. I would have got my arse kicked in my previous employment if I wasn't keeping information current and not being on top of what was going on. What's happened to our SLO has he been muzzled as I can't remember the last time we heard from him. This is all very disconcerting as it just gives the impression that nothing has changed since MCT moved in which is not what we were all hoping.

Aw you're hurting my feelings.

I'd call that a great opportunity missed.

They've just employed a guy who's job it is to do just that.

Given a week at Cappielow I reckon I could have these problems solved. What are those folk who are running the place actually doing? Do they know what they are doing?

When Douglas Rae took ownership the club and assets were transfered from Miltonview (Hugh Scott) into a holding company Regionsign, Jim McColl and Prof Pickett being the only directors, before being transfered to Golden Casket Group and Douglas Rae. At no time in any of these transactions did anyone raise a concern about what was owned by the club in the way of land mass. In fact the club under Douglas Rae did have a dispute with Arnold Clark who were using the entrance to the Wee Dublin End to store cars. There must have been some sort of land registery search at that point to see who owned what. Then again Ms Donaldson was in charge so maybe not. Morton have Arnold Clark on one side and Messrs Easdales land on the other. The railway and road have always been there so no change. Surely coming to an agreement as to who owns what could be settled very quickly and new boundaries drawn for everyones benefit. Not unless the disputed area is where Mark Farrell keeps his gear which used to be a tenement building. But I would have assumed this would have been purchased by Morton many moons ago.

You have to wonder why all of a sudden this has become a problem. This is not the first time the club has been sold land and all to a buyer. John Wilson bought the club land and all and Shug bought it from John Wilson land and all and Douglas Rae bought it from the administrator land and all and at no point in any of those transactions were there any question about what they were buying. MCT are buying the club land and all but all of a sudden we have a land dispute as to what is owned and what is not owned all because the land part of the deal is being put into a different company. I know land disputes can become emotional but how come I get the impression from this latest update that there's relief that they have found something that can be used as an excuse to delay the deal.

Crawford Rae has played a blinder. He transfers all responsibility for running the club to MCT while he still holds onto all the assets. Then he waits to see if MCT fall on their face where he can step back in and put the club into administration and blame MCT for the failure. MCT have be naive from the start to trust Crawford Rae he's played them like a fiddle. Time MCT grew a pair got this deal signed or walk away.

You really are hurting.

ouch that must have been sore. I guess I managed to swing and hit. You talked to Dunning yet to get few lesson on how to get your point across without resorting to your usual vain prose? That boy could teach you a lesson or two.

Aye really.

You did, you just did your usual verbal diarrhea. You need to take lesson from young Dunning who's post make you look like the real amateur on the forum.

You conveniently missed out this part "would it not be easier all round just to pay them and put all the speculation as to what's going on in the background to bed". Good try but I'm afraid no coconut this time, champ.

You been hiding under a rock or something. It's been public knowledge for quite some time.

Graham McLennan is recovering from an op to remove a brain tumour.

Is there any leadership at Cappielow right now? We just appear to be drifting along and I'm concerned that since Graham McLennan took ill that nobody is stepping into his shoes while he recovers. We need somebody to take the bull by the horns and declare that they are in charge right now. I know that the legal part of this deal is what's holding things up as that's what I'm told and I know lawyers are a law unto themselves but would it not be easier all round just to pay them and put all the speculation as to what's going on in the background to bed. I'm hearing the real hold up is to do with Crawford Rae. I so want to see fan ownership being a success but I get more and more concerned as time goes by that there is nobody at the helm and the ship is drifting towards the rocks. C'mon MCT somebody step and take charge before you switch current subscribers and new subscribers off.

Not necessarily true. I'm sure there will be someone out there who believes that this is the ideal opportunity for them given their current situation. The advert was taken down pretty quickly which suggest they had a big response. Like others I just hope it's not a shoe in with somene already in mind. I'd hate to think that the tail, our major sponsor, was wagging the dog so to speak.

In my experiance they never are 30hr weeks , you end up getting sucked into the job and working more hours for the same pay.

I'm starting to fear that Morton will be run like a bowling club. Anytime I've been at the club there are people wandering about, I'm sure they are MCT people, but to a stranger they could be anybody. It just looks so unprofessional not the image the club should be projecting. And not having a chairman just look like virtue signalling. Look at us we don't need a chairman we are fan owned. C'mon guys get your act together. At least the guys from Gateside Prison who were painting had Morton gear on and looked like they belonged at the club. Here's hoping the the GM is allowed to set some standards for the folk who are going to be there on an ongoing basis. Let me just say that any time I've been there Brendan looks the part.

You think, only three out of the six directors appear to have any role and responsibility at the club. Gordon Ritchie After the appointment of a new general manager, Gordon will return to his intended role as legal advisor to the board. Graham Barr Graham will be the representative on the board tasked with engaging with the club’s new General Manager on the marketing, communications, and commercial elements of the club. Nick Robinson Since then, he has modernised nearly every part of the club’s back-office function and has been actively involved in most aspects of the operation of the club. Not sure what the other three are doing. The only person that would appear to have a clearly documented role and responsibilty is the still to be appointed General Manager.

Listening to all the talk about Irons and when and how he was fired. Iron's was fired right after the game at Raith Rovers. That's where the decision was made and was nothing to do with Grady and McManus. Dougie put Grady and McManus in place for no aother reason than to save money as Irons had blown the budget he had been given by Dougie. Dougie never forgave him for that. As a matter of interest this was the first time Dougie had given a manager control of his budget. It never happened again.