EanieMeany

All of the pubs in Gourock are a bit shite. Was in Monty's on Saturday and their "entertainment" was some old guy blasting Jamiroquai songs and shouting random words in between. No TVs now either.

Not strictly football related, but all-round arsehole Steven Gerrard is gurning about how people who break into footballers' houses should face tougher punishments and that the law is too leniant. No mention of footballers who assualt DJs or who batter their girlfriend on the streets of Liverpool*, funnily enough. Liverpool and Rangers. What a vile mix. *Jon Flanagan, if anybody isn't aware of it.

Probably about exactly how it is now, to be honest.

PSG are average at best, and bottle merchants in to the bargain. Good effort from Man United but nobody's going to be disappointed about getting them in the draw.

Probably wants to go somewhere where he might find some people who share his attitude to women.* *Allegedly.

Celtic supporters are a bunch of fuckin weirdos.

Brendan Rodgers pissing off to Leicester, triggering an absolutely delicious meltdown from every Sean and Paddy in Scotland.

I remember there just being a really eery silence for much of that Stenhousemuir game, such was the grim inevitability of it. I'm not sure if if was like that or if it's just how I remember it, but the latter part was certainly true. Nobody was surprised by what unfolded. As I mentioned before, there was just so many things that went wrong but it was perhaps the most unforgivable of Rae's managerial blunders to not only allow McCornack to finish that season, but to get a bit of the next one too. Again, we were shipping goals at an alarming rate even when things were going well, so regardless of anything else there were clear, systemic issues on the pitch that the manager wasn't resolving: when things are going so pear-shaped so quickly, desperation alone should motivate you to bring somebody else in to see if it can at least slow the rot. Allowing him to go into the next season is basically the root of our ills ever since though, it absolutely solidified the culture of unprofessionalism, failure and mediocrity that McInally exploited. It really was a dismal period and as someone else said, one we still haven't recovered from nor look likely to as it stands.

n Yep, for all the shite that went along with it, the worst thing about that season was that a genuinely thrilling side to watch went tits-up at the most basic level. It's a shame that such a good team with so many good players fell apart so spectacularly. You'd have more than fancied that side to have went up and done well too, yet look what's happened since.

Doesn't make for pleasant reading, it has to be said. There was a rumour that the victim's pals turned up at a game at Cappielow with the intention of attacking Williams but were stopped at the gates - no idea what truth there was in it (hopefully none), but grim stuff all the same.

Rowan Vine in "being an absolute fanny" shocker. Similarly, Ross Caldwell in "being absolutely shite" shocker.

Ooft...it really was. He scored a few crackers in this time. I was never really sure what to make of Bannerman. At times he could be a pretty decent player, other times he was pretty stinking but when you score a league-winning goal it absolves the bad moments, to be fair.

Just to bring it back to ex-players, Ian Diack played for Arbroath in that game. Morton really have made some incredibly pointless signings in the past. Edit: According to Soccerbase, Diack signed for a "nominal fee". Can't remember if there talk of a fee at the time, but it wouldn't be at all uprising if we had paid money for him.

Yep, would agree with that. The Ross County game was the previous season though, but the general point stands. At the risk veering too far off-topic and retreading old ground, something that gets missed in the analysis of that season is that as lethal as our attack was, there was always big question marks about the other end - conceding 4 goals at home to Arboath and still winning by 2 goals tells its own story. Even at the time it was a concern that that could be problematic if teams could stop us scoring, so as well as the off-field issues which spilled over on to it, there were footballing reasons for the whole thing collapsing too. I felt then and still do that if we had punted McCormack around February it could still have been salvageable...something that's been a recurring theme under the Rae's stewardship. An absolute fuckin disaster whichever way you look it.

I really do think that's the trajectory he was on if he had the mentality of a guy like Chris Millar, to use a team-mate as a reference: people tend to talk about him in the context of his first season, but in the first half of the following one he was even better, something which gets over-looked because of how it panned out. You tend to think has career finished after he left, but he managed a decent number of goals for Clyde in the First Division and then for Ayr, so even for making a cunt of things he didn't actually do as badly post-Morton as you'd tend to think (even if it's not close to what he should have done). Also, have a look at these two goals (1:00 and 2:20): I'd agree with that as well, ultimately the blame lies with Williams himself but I just find it a pretty sad story all round. You had a prodigiously talented young guy who seemed to have the world at his feet before it all went wrong, it just seems a real shame although it's hardly a one-off story in Scottish football.

Certainly was. That day at Ross County's one of the real highlights of the last 20 years, regardless of anything else that happens it'll always be a stand out for me. Alex Williams was dynamite.

I know football's about opinions and all that, but it's hard to avoid the conclusion that anybody suggests Jenkins wasn't a seriously good player both at Morton over his career has a pretty weird understanding of the game. Since the turn of the century he was one of the best players in the lower leagues over his career. First time I saw/remember seeing him was when Stranraer put us out the Scottish Cup after we beat Ross County, remember thinking "this big fanny wi th daft highlights can't possibly be good". Wrong.

Absolutely. For all the bawbaggery that surrounds Celtic, Rangers are a rallying point for every arsehole in the country. We'd all be much better off without such a vile institution in our midst.

What more can you ask for? I don't really have any specific memories of him tbh, I just remember him tending to be shuffled about a bit in the Duffy tombola and thinking he would have done well if he got a proper run as a defender. He was only 21 or something at the time as well, so hardly the finished article. Don't have any particularly strong feelings about it either, right enough, other than that him signing for a championship team and doing a decent job wouldn't be a surprise.

Wouldn't be surprised to see Miller ending up at a Championship team eventually, to be honest. Had his moments for us and never really fully established himself but there was enough about him to suggest he could go on to be a decent player.

Ross County must be playing out of their skins to beat East Fife, who are top of their league and a match for anybody in this one and, apparently, an irresistible attacking force.

It certainly was.

If you're moving to a team at the same level, it really would be smart to simply say "I felt it was time for a new challenge" and leave it at that rather than giving it big licks about how great the new team is. Get it right up him.

Liverpool's failure to win the league in so long is surely karmic retribution for Scousers' rubbish "is right" patter.

In all seriousness, what an absolute joy it was watching Peaso over his time here. One of the things that really stand out was in one his first games back from a lengthy lay-off, ball came dropping out of the sky just in front of the Cowshed and he took the kind of touch that'd be on every highlights reel going if Messi done it. Stunning. What a player.