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6 hours ago, ChampTon said:
End of the day, it is only a rumour. It's the first I've heard of it and I presume many others. If it was considered legitimate I'm sure most of the fan base would know by now.
It's fact unless the morton employee that told me was lying, which he had no reason to.
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On 8/28/2022 at 3:29 PM, ChampTon said:
Never understood the hate for Fred.
Is there something that went on behind the scenes before he left?
Guy has went on to have probably the best career of a Morton player in the last two decades? Also netted us a good fee when be moved to Malmo.
If I remember correctly, didn't look out of place either when he played in Europe for Malmo/Ostersunds.
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.
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12 hours ago, macca937 said:Low has left Arbroath. Hearing we offered the 20k few weeks ago that Arbroath were looking for, they turned it down. The boy is Morton daft and was app promised they would release him if ft football was offered, hope it works out . Cracking player
We offered £20K? We're on the bones of our arse, that can't possibly be true.
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2 hours ago, Pedrodelawasp said:
Wee Fred will be playing in the Europa League for Omonoia against Man U, Real Sociedad and Sheriff Tiraspol
Fuck that rat bastard
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2 minutes ago, SassenachTon said:Just out of interest Toby - what exactly was the jumper? My reason for asking is that I attended one particular game last season wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with;
WHAT DO WE WANT?
DYSLEXIA !!
WHEN DO WE WANT IT?
PISSFLAPS !!
None of the stewards seemed to mind that. Poor taste on my behalf in retrospect maybe - but not a problem to the goons.
Mods, please.
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They can search me if they want because I always let my 9 year carry any weapons or booze anyway.
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2 hours ago, Cet Homme Charmant said:
Pretty grim reading. My first impression on reading it is that MCT have bitten off more that they could chew and harsh reality has now well and truly hit home.
One statement I found a quite baffling was, 'This has continued into the 2022/23 season, with energy and utilities being one of those unplanned costs that we have to pay. The club utilities bill has increased by 325% for example.'
Firstly, surely energy and utilities costs were not 'unplanned', and secondly, how the hell has the bill increased by 325%, when the average domestic energy increase is 36%??
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.
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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.
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1 hour ago, Jamie_M said:
Signs for Stenny.
Was just about to post this. Interesting to see how he does.
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I wasn't impressed with Baird first time but I trust Imrie to get the best out of him.
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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.
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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.
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5 hours ago, Cet Homme Charmant said:
When it comes to MCT's ownership of our club, I've went through the following five stages of grief:
1. Very optimistic
2. Cautiously optimistic
3. Slightly concerned
4. Very concerned
5. Total and utter despair to the extent that I fear for our very existence under their tenure
They're taking us only in one direction, and it's the wrong one. There's no doubting their intent, but there's now overwhelming evidence that they're simply not up to the job. There's no shame in that, as long as they can recognise it and pass the baton on to those who have the financial wherewithal and business acumen to turn this shiteshow around.
I started at 4 and and reached 5 a few months ago.
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16 minutes ago, helensburghton said:
Direct discrimination no matter the previous circumstances is totally unacceptable in any workplace! No wonder the team don't applaud the crowd before kick off! Totally on the same level as you!
You seem like a right fanny. The type of fan who'll clap the club I love into its grave.
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1 minute ago, TONofmemories said:
This. I find the whole releasing statements etc really cringeworthy, tbh.
They fucked up not addressing it earlier but there's an element of folk making a song and dance about not much. It happened over a decade ago, he's been employed since and is presumably remorseful and has had to live with his actions since.
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.
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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.
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Get fan ownership and MCT to fuck asap. An absolute disaster from day one.
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1 hour ago, vikingTON said:
If MCT were being run as a scheme to supplement wages only, then I for one would be out. That's what a season ticket, prize money and commercial revenue is for - an extra guilt trip fund is taking the piss. Now that we've removed the previous owners, the purpose of MCT funds should be to give the club capital investment to bring it at least fucking close to the 21st century.
I'd be content for up to half the club to be open to investment and as an incentive to gain genuine outside expertise, but selling outright when we've just secured our only asset would be a recipe for disaster.
We don't actually face this binary choice right now though. If fucking Arbroath can waltz their way past us on the pitch, then we are in fact doing something very wrong with the resources that we already have. Going for 'stability' was the wrong call because it meant accepting more of the same utter shite that summed up last season's nick of a display, only with fans at the game to get raging about it. This was pointed out all along, and now here we are and it's not even Halloween yet.
If we are poorly led then the solution is to force obvious change through pressure on matchdays (i.e. the manager situation) and remove those responsible for crap decisions when they come up for election down the line. Cards should be well and truly marked.
We should of course have started that process with the Finance Director, who was happy to insist that getting Alan Moore to fund his own Ryanair trip to scout a Slovak pub-league for players would not end in disaster because his account books said so. When you allow that level of 'football insight' in the room and present club policy, you are asking for trouble from the start.
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.
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1 hour ago, Cet Homme Charmant said:
Sadly starting to come round to that way of thinking myself. I can't stop myself from wondering what the other offer that Crawford knocked back in favour of MCT was, and if they'd still be interested.
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.
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52 minutes ago, TopCat said:
Gradual improvement under MCT is the only show in town. Being raging about 30 years worth of our useless chairmen and Morton's rightful place is old-man-shakes-fist-at-cloud stuff. We've only just managed to slither out from under the last useless regime and their massive pile of debt.
MCT might turn out to be a total disaster (and the signs so far aren't exactly inspiring) but sitting hopefully waiting for a new ultra-competent owner to pop out of the woodwork is speculative birthday card pish.
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.
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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.
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5 minutes ago, port-ton said:
Did Dunfermline supporters not sell the club or a big chunk of it to German investors? They definitely have investment beyond their community funding which makes their season even more hilarious.
If that's true they must be run by the local knitting bee.
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57 minutes ago, TopCat said:Ownership aside - we're not in a position to compete financially with the likes of Dunfermline - they're a bigger club with a bigger fanbase and a more expensive playing squad. Their underperformance is down to their tinpot management setup making a mess of the budget they have.
Unless some idiot with a penchant for frittering money like early-years Dougie Rae turns up at our door then that financial gap isn't going to close. Even then, a big chunk of Rae's stewardship was an outright disaster, there's no reason to expect success from someone new.
We're already a tinpot outfit because we're a Championship club with a core of 1800 fans and a diminishing pool of potential new supporters. The best we can realistically expect from MCT or a new owner is a marginal improvement on that. There's no point doom mongering just because you don't like that situation.
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.
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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.
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This is your thoughts at 2110 on a Saturday night? I'd be checking your hard drive.