Game tomorrow night. What, if anything, is it in aid of?

Beat it, ya bigot

I would imagine to give some of Celtic's injured players some match practise in a friendly where the tackles will not be flying in, also to put some money into the Cappielow coffers so both teams get the benefit.

Someone posted this on the Morton board:

"The Game is so the Ton can Look at Celtic players in the reserves that are surplies to requirments as they only signed 2 16 year olds full time and bundles of english clubs are offering them deals this was all due to tommy burns Passing away and Chris McCart taking over so they did not offer all the lads Full Time contracts so its just a game for players Like McGlinchey & Ferry & co to find other clubs also you will find they are playing Dundee,Livingston,St Mirren and also played Manchester Utd and Spurs in the last 2 weeks to get some players off the books to bring younger players in at Celtic"

Morton are taking the piss by charging £5 in to a glorified bounce game, probably to get the local "Celtic dollar." Season tickets are valid, though, so I'm going to head over.

FAO Vikington and Co.

Whoring, Pot and Kettle and Black come to mind.

CLYDE ARE BOTTOM OF THE FIRST DIVISION AND ARE FULL OF (rhymes with..) CREAM BUNS comes to mind.

Oh noes.

Erm, we've not got a game on Saturday due to Airdrie palying in the Challeneg Cup so makes sense to have a game against decent opposition to keep the fitness levels up...

Why?

What Celtic players will be playing for Morton tomorrow?

We played a bounce game against St Johnstone last week. What exactly, if any, is your point caller?
Free week, work on attacking play continued and - crucially - no Cetic has-beens given the Morton shirt to wear to 'stregthen' 'any' 'bonds' between ourselves and this random Glasgow club. I can think of at least one side in this division who clearly fail as much in the criteria above as they do on the pitch.

With the Clyde boys on this one.

If it's a bounce game, keep it behind closed doors.

Or charge your fans to watch it and be accused of whoring. He's right. Pot, kettle black etc.

While I'm not defending the club charging for a bounce game, I'd say there are degrees of whoring and this is at the low end of it. After all, our fans - season ticket holders at least - are not being charged, and nor is this some unseemly festival of brotherhood with Celtic.

So i can sell the rest of my Poppies

There is a difference between playing someone in a friendly and playing a team with former legends from said team playing for your team to boost the number of away fans. If Clyde had just played Rangers in a friendly this summer there would have been nothing wrong with it.

Sure the doors are being opened for this match, but season tickets get in free and its only because we dont have a game this week and fans might want their weekly installment of free flowing football.

see the morton spin doctors are out in force.

Its like comparing between bernard manning and jim davidson on who was the biggest racist.

No it isn't.

We are simply playing a friendly against one of the OF as, funnily enough, many clubs have without allowing former players of the OF club with no connection to ourselves play for us. Clyde were not.

If Morton were planning on fielding some ex-Celtic "legends" in their team (which is what Clyde were being critisised for) then I'd agree with you.

Was Bernard Manning racist?

No, he had lots of friends who werent white seemingly.

Don't see the big deal. I thought it was unjust the shite Clyde fans took for the "*** Wankfest" we had at pre-season.

The Ton Season book holders are getting in for f**k all. I'd imagin Ton fans without a book wouldn't really bother going anyway. But we all know Greenock and the Port is full of TIMberlands so they will get a fair amount of shelsuit wearing kestral lager swigging devil dog owning halfwits attending Cappielow for this game.

So at the end of the day. Yaes are just opening the doors to all the local halfwits who'll pay £5 of their Giro money to watch "their team". And Morton will have a good couple of quid at the end of it for which is just a bounce game.

The moneys there to be made. Why not?

I wouldn't waste my money going to watch that pish in a training match. I hear the Morton caterers have a huge pot of tottie soup on the go for the Orish.

f**k the old Firm

If they get a Giro then it's only £3, we allow students and unemployed in as concessions.... unlike some people (Not pointing directly at some plastic paddies in Lothian )

the cowshed will be stuck for choice who to support, its a win win situation for the ton faithful well apart from the oranje section of the support

What he said.

Tut tut Morton.

It's lovely to view the blossoming of yet another special bond. It's wonderful to see such consonance between two really smashing clubs.
I just know that they're right for each other, walking hand in hand (unashamedly) down the road to happiness and prosperity.

Ignoring all the shite, I really hope Paul McGowan plays tonight and shows what he can do. Maybe that will convince Irons to maybe make a move for him. I think he's better than this level but right now I've not heard of any SPL clubs being interested and Strachan is clearly taking the piss by putting him on the bench occasionaly and pretending he's part of his plans just to up his value. Hopefully he realises this before he's offered another extension. I still believe we'll see him in a 'Ton shirt again at some point.

Cue the Morton fans posting about "getting over Paul McGowan." It's not that easy when he's quite clearly one of the most talented players we've had in recent years, and is not getting a game for his current club whether it's one of the OF or not.

Right on cue.

It's just not going to happen. I'd love to see him back at Cappielow as much as anyone but he's off the radar now. I know he's still not getting a chance at Parkhead, but even the friendly appearances he made in the summer put a spotlight on him that takes him beyond our reach.

Sorry to say, get over him. It ain't going to happen.

'fraid you are probably right Toby. We've missed our chance. He probably won't break through at Celtic but being a Bellshill boy ? He is much more likely to go to Motherwell or another established SPL club.

We've already played Rangers twice this season.

Am I right in thinking that its not that Irons wouldnt want to sign him but more he cant afford what Celtc are asking?

You mean like the famous Morton v. Rangers cup final, "the blue final".

The prototype unseemly festival of brotherhood.

Ah, now we have the Old Firm scrapping over who isn't connected to us, as well as some Clyde fans missing the point.

Once we start collective bargaining with our so-called rivals for sponsorship deals and ticket surcharges then we can talk about strange bedfellows.

As it stands the clubs in the senior game with the closest connections on and off the pitch are Rangers and Celtic. Nobody comes within a mile of them.

Main stand only, ah well should be good to rip the pish out of the greatest fans in port glasgow so what do I take my red hand o ulster or my tri-colour decisions, decisions, think I'll play it safe an go with my Canadian flag...who can hate a Canuck.

I hear they have ran out of tottie soup at Cappielow.

Dont worry, the famine is over.

so why don't they go home?

They'll go home to the port when the games done, haud yer horses!

FT 0-0 pissed off I missed this cracker. FTOF

Despite the 0-0 scoreline it wasn't a dreadful game. Morton started extremely well but Celtic's fitness shone through as they closed the game the stronger side.

I wouldn't say there was an especial stand-out for either side, and on that showing there are no Celtic players I'd be falling over myself to sign. However we know that some of them are capable of far better: McGowan had an absolute shocker, I thought.

Finlayson was one of our best players, and substitute Ryan Harding, amazingly, looked solid and composed.

Crowd was considerable, and, surprisingly, mainly Morton fans.

If that's the calibre of player McGowan is now i'm quite glad we didn't waste £100,000 on him.

Masterton had a good game, looked up for it and he was right in looking for the ball for a change.

A decent run out for the players.

Mcgowan is just back from injury, i'd even go as far as to say he shouldn't have played tonight and if it had been any other team he wouldn't have. He is a class player, espescially at this level.

How can you say that? He's never played at this level.

What, we're just going to forget about his series of matchwinning performances because he didn't turn on the style in a bounce game into which he'd stepped after a lengthy period of injury?

At bounce game level ?

Its not like he's been out for a long, long time. He didn't look anything like the player we had a few years ago. Yes, its probably not a great game to judge him on but from that performance, I wouldn't waste my time on him - I would love to be proved wrong though.

In the second divison.

Right, so we're going to ignore those?

because he's easily good enough to play SPL football, infact he's better than most SPL strikers and could do a good job at at least 6 or 7 SPL clubs.

Well do they count for much, seeing as we've moved up a level ?

Quite alot of our title winning team seemed like they could cope in the first division, and on the basis of last season, quite evidently couldn't. McGowan had a great season, that's a fact but it says f**k all about how he'd cope in the first division.

I didn't realise we had went from second division football to Premiership football. He was a class above any striker in the league that season and that includes Liam Buchanan.