[vikingTON]

Stirling are a side who make Morton look mediocre all the time.
A fair result in the end - Stirling would have won had it not have been a haresh sending off,
Tjhe equaliser was signposted for 15 minutes before, but we didn't heed the warnings.
I may be rather drunk but there is no way Morton d3eserved to win - we simply did not desetrve 3 points for such a poor 2nd half performance.

[The Phoenix]

vikingTON, on Nov 3 2007, 23:31, said:

Stirling are a side who make Morton look mediocre all the time.
A fair result in the end - Stirling would have won had it not have been a haresh sending off,
Tjhe equaliser was signposted for 15 minutes before, but we didn't heed the warnings.
I may be rather drunk but there is no way Morton d3eserved to win - we simply did not desetrve 3 points for such a poor 2nd half performance.

No maybe about it - I can confirm you are definitely drunk.

[midTONs]

The Phoenix, on Nov 3 2007, 22:27, said:

Every chance the hospitality extended today will be reciprocated at the Cricket Club (right next to the Away Stand) on 2nd January.

Aussie Barbeque and Fancy Dress anyone?

Sounds magic, we'd be up for the that. The Albert Hotel Morton Supporters have already penciled the New Years game in for an early start so hopefully you lads can sort something out.

Good day today, cheers to all the Stirling fans that made it Gourock.

[BasraTon]

vikingTON, on Nov 3 2007, 23:31, said:

Stirling are a side who make Morton look mediocre all the time.
A fair result in the end - Stirling would have won had it not have been a haresh sending off,
Tjhe equaliser was signposted for 15 minutes before, but we didn't heed the warnings.
I may be rather drunk but there is no way Morton d3eserved to win - we simply did not desetrve 3 points for such a poor 2nd half performance.

Viking, you are pished my friend

[vikingTON]

The Phoenix, on Nov 4 2007, 00:33, said:

No maybe about it - I can confirm you are definitely drunk.

After that game its quite reasonabl.
17 Morton-Stirling games watched: little to no good memopries from them.
Drink drink drink!!!!!!!!

[The Phoenix]

midTONs, on Nov 3 2007, 23:34, said:

Sounds magic, we'd be up for the that. The Albert Hotel Morton Supporters have already penciled the New Years game in for an early start so hopefully you lads can sort something out.

Good day today, cheers to all the Stirling fans that made it Gourock.

I'll confirm asap whether this is a 100% runner - could be the pre match event of all time if you can get a crowd in.

[midTONs]

vikingTON, on Nov 3 2007, 23:38, said:

After that game its quite reasonabl.
17 Morton-Stirling games watched: little to no good memopries from them.
Drink drink drink!!!!!!!!

Be quiet vikingTON, you'll have all the Stirling lads telling you how Davie Wylie was the best goal keeper they never had.

[The Phoenix]

vikingTON, on Nov 3 2007, 23:38, said:

After that game its quite reasonabl.
17 Morton-Stirling games watched: little to no good memopries from them.
Drink drink drink!!!!!!!!

That should be a word - it sounds dead impressive.

[vikingTON]

BasraTon, on Nov 4 2007, 00:36, said:

Viking, you are pished my friend

Yesh yesh yesh.
Shame I wasnt drunk this afternoon.

[BasraTon]

vikingTON, on Nov 3 2007, 23:41, said:

Yesh yesh yesh.
Shame I wasnt drunk this afternoon.

I concur there

[davidh1874]

vikingTON, on Nov 4 2007, 00:41, said:

Yesh yesh yesh.
Shame I wasnt drunk this afternoon.

Young man, aren't you a little young to be drunk?!?

[vikingTON]

davidh1874, on Nov 4 2007, 00:29, said:

Young man, aren't you a little young to be drunk?!?

You're never too young to be drunk.
Also, it is legal fro anyone over 5 years to consume alcohl on private property with consent of the owner yada yada yada.
Franztastic!

[davidh1874]

vikingTON, on Nov 4 2007, 01:33, said:

You're never too young to be drunk.
Also, it is legal fro anyone over 5 years to consume alcohl on private property with consent of the owner yada yada yada.
Franztastic!

I trust that is supposed to read 15 and i will assume the "owner" was not your dear mother?

Happy hangover

[vikingTON]

davidh1874, on Nov 4 2007, 00:45, said:

I trust that is supposed to read 15 and i will assume the "owner" was not your dear mother?

Happy hangover

Actually the law says 5 years and over.
What a wonderful loophole.
My hangover will br franztatsic - although my internets broke so I wont be able to share it.
Hence friend's house.
I love everyone!

[Piehutt]

Strange how other fans see the game. Not criticising, just commenting.

Honestly thought we were the better team and should have buried Stirling. Certainly in the 1st half we could have won the game, only chance I remember for Stirling was when our keeper got caught in no mans land and the guy dealyed his shot which was stopped on the line.

We had a good few decent chances and looked far more of a threat.

Stirling certainly started the 2nd half well and their goal was coming.

Don't think the red card did us all that many favours tbh. Just ensured that Stirling would settle for a point, where as if they'd had 11 men it would have been a more open game which would have found a winner from someone.

The penalty... fckin hell, total disaster. Thought if we'd edged it then it would have been the right result, as it was Stirling will def be the happier side with the point.

[Wug]

I thought Stirling were the better side. That said, I was waitng for us to step it up a gear and thought that we'd win comfortably if we did. That never happened.

[RedWeb]

Here are our pictures from the game:

RedWeb Pics From Morton v Stirling Albion (03/11/07)

Cheers,

PaulC B)

[centralTon]

vikingTON, on Nov 4 2007, 01:50, said:

Actually the law says 5 years and over.
What a wonderful loophole.
My hangover will br franztatsic - although my internets broke so I wont be able to share it.
Hence friend's house.
I love everyone!

VT. i think you may be correct about buying or consuming drink, you are wrong about the sending off. McKenna clearly barged Greacen on three occasions for his first booking ( pointed out by the ref ) and when he was booked later had to go. Maybe a bit soft, but thems the rules, remember last week, refs decision stands. Thought we scraped a draw today from the jaws of victory.

[RedWeb]

centralTon, on Nov 4 2007, 01:11, said:

refs decision stands

Usually

[port-ton]

Wug, on Nov 3 2007, 17:56, said:

If I was a Stirling supporter I'd feel pretty hard done by. They were by far the better team today - until the sending off, obviously.

Really don't know what happened today, we started well but then seemed to do absolutely nothing after that. Stirling started to take control of the game in the first half without really creating much, their number 11 looked quite a good player. Even though Stirling were probably playing slightly better I was still pretty confident that we could break up the park and score a second pretty easily. How wrong I was!

After the break we couldn't get a kick of the ball and their goal was well deserved. I didn't really see it (behind a pillar) but heard it was a f**k-up by Greacan?

Just before the goal McInally had taken Walker on for Gardyne, putting McAnespie in centre mid (who was having an absolute shocker). You could see he was looking for a bit more strength in the middle of the park as we were getting completely outplayed but it just didn't happen. Was no surprise to see McAnespie go off just after that.

I thought Stirling had 2 decent penalty appeals turned down, one hit Harding's (?) hand but looked like it just played him. The one after was where Harding was all over Cramb but somehow the ref gave us the free-kick for backing in. The sending off was probably right, 2 bookable offences.

Then, step up Jamie fucking Stevenson. Hero Boy. Harding did well in the box, a wee step-over and he was brought down. Stevenson (just on the park and all he had done up until then was 1 blocked shot and a couple of mis-placed passes) then grabs the ball. Everyone around us was asking why the f**k Weatherson wasn't hitting it. Anyway, boy wonder then skied it, one of the worst pens ever.

Can't believe that we didn't create more against 10 men for nearly 20 minutes, it was a really, really poor performance. Okay, Stirling probably were the better team and, on reflection, a draw was possibly all we could have hoped for after that performance. It's ridiculous saying that, though. With all due respect to Stirling, these are games we should be winning. Not good enough at all.

ill comment on the game later, but first game we played stirling last season we were drawing 1-1 and got a penalty and weatherson hit the ball even higher than stevenson, he hasnt been allowed to hit a penalty since so imo stevenson was correct choice to hit penalties.

[LargsTON]

steve-ton, on Nov 3 2007, 20:40, said:

A professional footballer should not miss the target from 12 yards with just the keeper to beat.

RosscoTon, on Nov 3 2007, 21:19, said:

Completely agree. Any player who misses from 12 yards are just simply not good enough. Roberto Baggio should never have made it as a footballer. That penalty miss surely confirms this.

Took the words right out my mouth.

Pele missed a few so he'd have been as well goin back to bricklaying.

[port-ton]

StewartyMac, on Nov 3 2007, 18:57, said:

My thoughts on today.....

First of all, a huge thanks to Jim and Sean and the rest of the Gourock boys for some tremendous hospitality today, a great wee pub, good buffet, and some good banter. Cheers guys, that will definitely be reciprocated at some point in the future.

As for the game, a draw maybe just about right, but the ref totally ruined it for a needless sending off for McKenna. Honestly, two fouls, two cards?? Totally ridiculous. Morton pinned us back for most of the first half without ever really testing Christie in goal, although the goal they scored was a cheap one to lose. 2nd half was a different story, at least until the sending off. Until then, we were excellent, and I honestly thought we were gonna win it. Out goal was soft from a Morton point of view, but I was going too mental by that stage to care. Morton then got a penalty, which was a clear PK, but thankfully they let Stevenson, a boy who always has a 'mare against us, take it, and he duly obliged again by aiming for his old town, Alloa!! I was still celebrating, when Lilley almost nicked it for us a few seconds later.

Overall, a hugely enjoyable game of football and a great day out. Nice one.

stewarty, a fair view of the game but i can tell you that your strikers first booking was for persistand fouling, 3 fouls to be precise which the referee pointed out when booking him, he was warned after the 2nd foul he'd be booked next time. the 2nd yellow card was for a blatant pull back when our player was running away, although you dont normally see many red cards for this, if your player hadnt been booked already he'd have got a definite yellow card for it so imo he should have been sent off.

we just cant seem to beat stirling, and it doesnt surprise me, theyre an excellent team although funnily enough i dont think theyre as good as they were last season.

i thought first half we were on top, when we scored it looked like we could run away with it but stirling finished the 2nd half better.

i also thought we started the 2nd half better for first 5 minutes then stirling dominated until the sending off.

good luck to stirling and i can see a top half finish for you because as a team i dont see many teams better than you, if you were full time id probably tip you to be chasing promotion.

[port-ton]

steve-ton, on Nov 3 2007, 20:31, said:

I disagree. Many will get much at Cappielow. Our defence is far and away the worst in this league. The goal we conceded was atrocious, free header in the 6 yard box from a corner when we had almost everyone back defending.

Today was the last straw, McInally has to go. Stevenson & Templeman should never play for Morton again.

1) although our marking may have been poor, you wont see a better delivery than the corner stirling put in all season.

2) stevenson was our only chance of creating something when he came on, i thought he showed that if you play him in the centre he can control a game, obviously its hard to come on as a sub and try and make a major impact in the game.

3) templeman came on, obviously for us to try and kick the ball up the park for him to flick the ball on, which is exactly should have happened when you put 3 up front. but as soon as he came on we started passing it along the defense/midfield because stirling put 9 men behind the ball. not one morton player played terrible today. stirling deserve more credit than theyre getting, theyre an excellent team who have lost 2 (i think) games this season.

4) did anyone else notice in the first half the ref blowing his whistle to give us a free kick and then giving a throw in to stirling instead because of the linesman? im telling you theres a conspiracy in this league against morton! they did something to the ball aswell to make stevenson miss the penalty so badly!

This post has been edited by port-ton: 04 November 2007 - 05:17

[DomDom]

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4) did anyone else notice in the first half the ref blowing his whistle to give us a free kick and then giving a throw in to stirling instead because of the linesman?

Jesus christ.

I'll say it again.

A REFEREE SHOULD BE ABLE TO RELY ON HIS ASSISTANTS !!! That's what happened at Hamilton and that's the shit arse excuse you have come up with this time. You hit something dead on the head ...

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3) templeman came on, obviously for us to try and kick the ball up the park for him to flick the ball on, which is exactly should have happened when you put 3 up front. but as soon as he came on we started passing it along the defense/midfield because stirling put 9 men behind the ball. not one morton player played terrible today. stirling deserve more credit than theyre getting, theyre an excellent team who have lost 2 (i think) games this season.

Now, I don't think Templeman is good enough as a goal scorer in this division. However, as a player, he can be an asset, and he was definately underused because of Stirling's play. The people in this thread that say Stirling outplayed us are absolutely right. They adapted and realised what it took to deal with us and got it sorted. Templeman had a decent chance towards the end btw, and he never took the shot.

[RedWeb]

port-ton, on Nov 4 2007, 04:54, said:

ill comment on the game later, but first game we played stirling last season we were drawing 1-1 and got a penalty and weatherson hit the ball even higher than stevenson

Eh ?....first game we played last season the Beanos equalised with a last minute penalty...Morton did not have or miss a spot kick in this match