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This is your thoughts at 2110 on a Saturday night? I'd be checking your hard drive.

It's fact unless the morton employee that told me was lying, which he had no reason to.

Refused to play claiming he was injured if memory serves me right. Basically worked his ticket. Fantastic player but ultimate shat on the club who gave him a platform to eventually make his big move.

We offered £20K? We're on the bones of our arse, that can't possibly be true.

Fuck that rat bastard

Mods, please.

They can search me if they want because I always let my 9 year carry any weapons or booze anyway.

36%? Our gas and electric has nearly doubled and will treble at the turn of the year. I'd imagine most folk are the same. Ive said it a million times but fan ownership simply can't work at our level and we're now seeing alarm bells ringing. We're about to sink without trace unless someone or a group take the club on.

I've not read all this thread but on Radio Scotland the other night Imrie made it quite clear that the aim was survival this year. Looking at the squad I'd have to agree but I must admit I had much higher hopes after the turnaround of last season.

Was just about to post this. Interesting to see how he does.

I wasn't impressed with Baird first time but I trust Imrie to get the best out of him.

I realise it's an enormous jump in levels but there's a young boy at Largs Thistle just now called William Sewell who's just banged in 41 goals this season. He's a very composed finisher with pace to burn. I'd suggest he's more worthy of a look than retaining the likes of Ecky Easdale. Apparently a few senior clubs sniffing about already.

There's a female steward who needs emptied from her position. Any time I've been at Cappielow she's been at the centre of any flashpoint and her attitude stinks. Short in height, long brown hair with a council facelift.

I started at 4 and and reached 5 a few months ago.

You seem like a right fanny. The type of fan who'll clap the club I love into its grave.

I couldn't give a fuck about Lithgow in all honesty. I don't understand how anyone can get so worked up about it after so much time.

In amongst my bitterness it does seem that there appears to be one bad apple upsetting things. Gordon Ritchie is the name I keep hearing popping up.

Get fan ownership and MCT to fuck asap. An absolute disaster from day one.

Why? At the moment your contribution to MCT is money down the drain. At least if we had competent owners running the club you'd almost certainly see your money produce a far more successful team on the park if it went solely towards the playing budget. I'd be on board with that and maybe I'm off the mark but I'd suggest many more would be in the same boat. The reason Arbroath are waltzing past us is because we have absolute Muppets trying to run the show on the back of 800 subscribers to this disastrous model. We also have no wriggle room to enforce change as we'll be perched on a continual financial precipice under MCT. I know this was also the case under Rae but it doesn't have to be the case going forward. We'll revisit this chat in a year when we're treading water in league one for now I'm out.

I was told what that offer was recently and we've dodged a bullet. Morton would suddenly become a far more attractive proposition to buyers if MCT was there as a vehicle to boost the playing budget and supplement wages every season going forward. I'd be all for that but outright ownership at our level? It's madness as we're currently realising as the days and weeks go by.

All you're doing is reinforcing what I'm saying about large swathes of our fanbase simply accepting our fate. There won't be any gradual improvement under MCT, only managed decline. Raging is stretching it a bit, I'm too apathetic to be raging. I rarely even visit this forum anymore, I was only compelled to post when I listened to that pitiful Q&A. I've been to one game all season and I've no idea when I'll return, that's a position I never thought I'd find myself in as a hardcore supporter who up until recent seasons rarely missed a game home or away. Tbh it saddens me to feel this way but I'm not prepared to endorse the current farce by contributing financially where the club can't even be arsed getting the basics right. I'd rather spend time with my daughter on a Saturday than show blind faith based on the promise of jam tomorrow. Some other mug can take the baton off me in that respect. You shriek about ultra-competent owners? I'm not asking for that at all but just for once in 34 years id like us simply to be run with a basic degree of competence and take it from there.

Look at St Johnstone. A core support of around 2500 even now yet double cup winners last season and regularly punching levels above themselves. The only advantage they've had over us - albeit major - was McDiarmid park effectively being handed to them. In that respect a lot of our current problems can be traced all the way back to John Wilson who had control of the club at a time when we had football grants available and a conveyor belt of talent being sold for substantial amounts; which brings me back to my original statement, we've been grossly mismanaged for decades.

If that's true they must be run by the local knitting bee.

Sorry but I can't accept that nonsense at all when I see clubs of similar or lesser stature leaving us in their shadow both on and off the park. Morton fans are almost conditioned to accept our fate and where our standing in Scottish football lies. Thats through decades of mismanagement at every level of the club. It's a sad state of affairs. Morton isn't a lost cause by any means but it requires more than MCT to give the club the seismic shake up it needs to finally progress to a more realistic level. We're certainly better than an annual relegation battle in the championship but under the current model that will indeed be our ceiling. It doesn't need a sugar Daddy, there's massive prize money in the championship now but that's somehow been forgotten. We just need strong leadership which we've never had in the three decades I've followed the club which is a crying shame.

The sooner this whole fan ownership nonsense is fired into the sun the better for everyone. By all means use MCT as a vehicle to supplement wages and boost the playing budget but we simply don't have the numbers required to make us anything other than a tinpot outfit for the rest of what may well be our short history. It beggars belief how anyone could think this set up would work in the first place with less than 1000 contributors. Dunfermline have 3000 and are hardly riding the crest of a wave. Advertise for new owners, investors, whatever....who cares. Just anything but MCT.