Alibi Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 Morton rend to win when going into a game with low expectations. Fair to say that nobody has been terribly impressed with the team so far this season, QoS away pssibly excepted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coventry Saint Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 2 minutes ago, Alibi said: QoS away pssibly excepted. I think there's at least one other exception there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IainMorton Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 I think most Morton fans go into derby games in more than hope than expectation. The only time I knew we were going to win was the 3-1 midweek game at Cappielow last season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madton Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 The last scoreline of 4-1 suggests a pumping but there is no doubt the 2 pens and sending off had a massive impact on that game. Going into tomorrow, I'm hoping that its one of these ones where one set of fans are so pessimistic than we someone get a result. Defensively we should be ok, joint best defence in the league and we should cause problems with Jai up top, but our midfield will be far too slow to cope. Probably line up. Gaston Doyle Lamie Oware Russell. Forbes Harkins Murdoch Thomson. McHugh Quitongo. Bench- Doolan, Oliver, Barr and a couple of kids...( lack of options is frightening, yet apparently we have a first team squad of 21) Only change from the 4-1 game will be Tidser for Harkins but Tidser missing out is a massive loss. Everything points to a 1-0/2-1 to the home side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glenburn bud Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 I'm not buying into all this nonsense about the apathy towards Morton from their fans. You can be certain that they and their team will be well up for the battle. Current form and league positions count for nothing in Derby games. Hopefully our players are up for this game as much as our fans. A win keeps the momentum going and also helps us stay in pole position. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dullard Bluteau Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 The way Saints have been playing the last few weeks, any kind of win would be very welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DWBud Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 4-1 Saints, Jack Baird with all 6 and big Thomson to get red carded cause he has one a they faces x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcd54 Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 11 minutes ago, DWBud said: 4-1 Saints, Jack Baird with all 6 and big Thomson to get red carded cause he has one a they faces x So is that 5-1 or 4-2 then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DWBud Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 So is that 5-1 or 4-2 then? [emoji14] Listen, Jack Baird with all 6 is all that matters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IainMorton Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 3 hours ago, glenburn bud said: I'm not buying into all this nonsense about the apathy towards Morton from their fans. You can be certain that they and their team will be well up for the battle. Current form and league positions count for nothing in Derby games. Hopefully our players are up for this game as much as our fans. A win keeps the momentum going and also helps us stay in pole position. Our fans will be up for it, no doubt. It’s just that we don’t know until kick off what Morton team will show up. If we are bad, we can be really bad. If we play well, we can be excellent. There seems to be no middle ground with this Morton team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Branch Ton Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 9 minutes ago, IainMorton said: Our fans will be up for it, no doubt. It’s just that we don’t know until kick off what Morton team will show up. If we are bad, we can be really bad. If we play well, we can be excellent. There seems to be no middle ground with this Morton team. Not sure it matters how we play. This season apart I cannot remember us playing well in a league fixture against St Murn and winning. I hope we are crap, they totally outclass us but get a player sent off unjustifiably and score two on goals. Bliss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coventry Saint Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 48 minutes ago, DWBud said: Listen, Jack Baird with all 6 is all that matters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toby Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 3 hours ago, glenburn bud said: I'm not buying into all this nonsense about the apathy towards Morton from their fans. You can be certain that they and their team will be well up for the battle. Current form and league positions count for nothing in Derby games. Hopefully our players are up for this game as much as our fans. A win keeps the momentum going and also helps us stay in pole position. I wouldn’t say it’s something to read too much into. The fans at the game will obviously be right up for it, it’s more the floating fan that won’t go out their way unless things are going well that’s the issue. I expect Morton to put in a far better performance than we have in the last month or so because we’re likely to be trying to hit on the break rather than expecting to dominate the game ourselves, although it probably won’t be enough to get a positive result. We’re generally pretty good at raising ourselves for a bigger occasion too. Although on your point about current form and derby games, that’s something I don’t get with the St. Mirren fans. At the start of this thread there was some “typical St. Mirren” patter and now we’ve got “form goes out the window in derbies”. Yes, we’ve won a couple of derbies recently, but it had to happen eventually. If ever there was a derby that stuck to form, and if dropping points to Morton was untypical if any team, it’s surely this derby and St. Mirren? You can’t exactly brag about utter domination and then moan about your club’s historical failings in the same (stinking) breath in the context of this fixture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coventry Saint Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 You can tell the Ton fans aren't up for it because there hadn't been a single 'Get them telt/let's put these spoon burners/skunks back in their place' post yet. That's either because you think that was achieved at Cappielow a couple months back, or because we are, in fact, now in our rightful place at the top of the league and therefore Morton can offer no further assistance in that regard. I can't decide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Branch Ton Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 28 minutes ago, Coventry Saint said: Yep, red card after 5 mins this time instead of 50. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coventry Saint Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 On the plus side, Ton fans, it must be nice to be involved in a match thread that's reached more than 10 pages. (That's right, kids, this is a threadwank post.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Cicero Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 Can't deny I'm nervous regarding tomorrow and hoping Quitongo has a major dose of the shits tomorrow morning as his pace can destroy our defence, always hard to predict however must be optimistic given our fantastic home league record. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy boo Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 You can tell the Ton fans aren't up for it because there hadn't been a single 'Get them telt/let's put these spoon burners/skunks back in their place' post yet. That's either because you think that was achieved at Cappielow a couple months back, or because we are, in fact, now in our rightful place at the top of the league and therefore Morton can offer no further assistance in that regard. I can't decide. The latter without a doubt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby_F Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 4 minutes ago, Paul Cicero said: Can't deny I'm nervous regarding tomorrow and hoping Quitongo has a major dose of the shits tomorrow morning as his pace can destroy our defence, always hard to predict however must be optimistic given our fantastic home league record. Are Harry Davis or Scott McKenzie anywhere near a return yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btb Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 2 minutes ago, Bobby_F said: Are Harry Davis or Scott McKenzie anywhere near a return yet? Scott! Are you still in San Francisco? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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