The Greenock Morton Thread - It's Better Than Yours

[TONTROOPER]

7 minutes ago, Yflab said:

McGinn is too good for your shitty club. Even at his age.

BREAKING NEWS:

Paisley still inundated with....'SLUMS.'

wee shame that.

[Guest]

8 minutes ago, TONTROOPER said:

BREAKING NEWS

The last time Morton were in the top flight, Thatcher was still in power and Sandy Lyle won the Masters. The average cost of a house in the UK was £60,000 and the Berlin Wall was still standing.

It’s coming up to your centenary celebration of the last time you won your only major honour in Scottish football.

It’s just over 100 years since St Mirren had a decent rival in Abercorn FC.

wee shame that.

 

[TONTROOPER]

15 minutes ago, Yflab said:

wee shame  .... St Mirren v St Johnstone

[1320Lichtie]

Thank you for that and good luck in the final. 
 

Had good fun with the group of lads that come up to the Monument on the final Friday night game. 
 

See you next season hopefully.

[Terry_Tibbs]

How is Gus doing?

[Guest]

6 hours ago, TONTROOPER said:

wee shame  .... St Mirren v St Johnstone

[baba douche]

You sly dogs ! Played us all like a fiddle.

 

[SpoonTon]

18 hours ago, Yflab said:

We have witnessed OF supporters in your home end at Renfrewshire derbies. WTF is that about? 
 

In all seriousness, it mostly comes from a time when under 16 were allowed in for free or £1. So you'd get a bunch of random kids, some of them OF supporting (every town in Scotland is infested with them), coming along. No need to buy a ticket, just pop along and walk in. 

[Guest]

13 hours ago, TONTROOPER said:

wee shame  .... St Mirren 

At least we have never had to stoop so low to rattle buckets to collect money from our rivals to save our club. 

It should be noted that Saints fans gave generously to help your club out in your hour of need. 

Oh btw what are you planning to do with our old Love St stand roof? Imagine having to buy our cast offs to improve your ground? Just a shame you had no money to cover the wee Dublin end. Still at least your club never stooped as low as to buy our second hand urinals when we departed Love St. Aberdeen hold that honour.

Face facts - you will forever be our poor neighbours in terms of success on and off the park.

Edited May 12, 2021 by Guest

[Rudolph Hucker]

1 hour ago, Yflab said:

At least we have never had to stoop so low to rattle buckets to collect money from our rivals to save our club. 

It should be noted that Saints fans gave generously to help your club out in your hour of need. 

Oh btw what are you planning to do with our old Love St stand roof? Imagine having to buy our cast offs to improve your ground? Just a shame you had no money to cover the wee Dublin end. Still at least your club never stooped as low as to buy our second hand urinals when we departed Love St. Aberdeen hold that honour.

Face facts - you will forever be our poor neighbours in terms of success on and off the park.

Dearie me, what a pathetic post from someone so easily rattled.......

St Mirren, and many of their fans, did indeed help Morton out at the time when the accursed Hugh Scott was trying to kill the club. That was gratefully acknowledged by the club and the fans at the time and ever since but, if it makes you feel happy by bringing it up yet again, then just you fill your wee boots.

Re the purchase of the old stand roof, Morton didn’t “have to” purchase it at all. It was bought at a time when the rules re top division stadia demanded  that all fans be seated and all of that seating had to be covered, so it made good financial sense for both clubs for Morton to strike a deal with St Mirren which gave us a roof at a reasonable price and gave St Mirren more than the scrap value would have been.  Morton had no intention of building that roof immediately; it was there for as and when we might need it when we gained promotion to the top league. Nobody was to know that the criteria for top league stadia would soon make the need for roofing the whole ground redundant, just as nobody was to know that Morton would only come close to that promotion twice in the last twenty-five years. By the way, you forget to mention (or didn’t know) that the clubs also struck a deal for us to buy the floodlights (and the bulbs, don’t forget the bulbs) that now stand at either end of the Cowshed. Since these things seem to matter to you, let me personally thank you and your club once again for that mutually beneficial arrangement - I’m more than happy to do so, from the heart of my bottom.

And re your last line - you’re probably right,  but so what? Personally, St Mirren mean no more and no less to me than any other club do, except when we have a game against you.  At any other time you’re just another club.

 

Edited May 12, 2021 by Rudolph Hucker

[Aufc]

Fucking hell. This is like a mini version of the old firm. Thankfully we wont be in the same league next season either way so will be able to avoid this.

[The Ghost of B A R P]

1 hour ago, Yflab said:

At least we have never had to stoop so low to rattle buckets to collect money from our rivals to save our club. 

It should be noted that Saints fans gave generously to help your club out in your hour of need. 

Oh btw what are you planning to do with our old Love St stand roof? Imagine having to buy our cast offs to improve your ground? Just a shame you had no money to cover the wee Dublin end. Still at least your club never stooped as low as to buy our second hand urinals when we departed Love St. Aberdeen hold that honour.

Face facts - you will forever be our poor neighbours in terms of success on and off the park.

You still going?

[GiGi]

1 hour ago, Yflab said:

At least we have never had to stoop so low to rattle buckets to collect money from our rivals to save our club. 

It should be noted that Saints fans gave generously to help your club out in your hour of need. 

Oh btw what are you planning to do with our old Love St stand roof? Imagine having to buy our cast offs to improve your ground? Just a shame you had no money to cover the wee Dublin end. Still at least your club never stooped as low as to buy our second hand urinals when we departed Love St. Aberdeen hold that honour.

Face facts - you will forever be our poor neighbours in terms of success on and off the park.

No one here is gonnae shag you mate. If you try a wee bit harder on the Falkirk thread one of them might.

[The Ghost of B A R P]

We still don't know what division we're in next season, but either way, I think it would be unrealistic to think that we'll see a total clear-out of the squad (no idea, tbh, what will happen with the manager).

A number of us have said, quite rightly, that the likes of Nesbitt (to take maybe the most commonly discussed example) has flattered to deceive and should get a 'thanks and goodbye'... along with the vast majority of the other unsigned players.

Two problems with that: a. we don't know what any individual player earns; b. we can judge what we see... but there's no way to 'judge' the player we might sign to replace him (see also a. money). If it was a case of 'would you rather player x than Nesbitt', you can make a judgement; but 'bin Nesbitt and see what we get' is too easy.

MCT (and whoever is manager) won't be making moral judgements ('he deserves to be punted'), but practical assessments of what we can get. And they'll be doing that to a very tight time-scale.

So I'd be looking to retain maybe eight of the current squad immediately after the play-off final, regardless of which way it goes... then trying to sign another eight who are better than what we have (then adding a couple of loans and integrating two or three boys). Easier said than done, of course, if we go down...

In addition to Strapp and Lyon (who have signed, although Strapp might disappear), the other six for me would be: McAdams (obvs), Ledger, Fjortoft, Jacobs (c), Nesbitt, McGuffie. I'd pause over Oliver and Colville if we're in League One, but that's it.

[Bishop Briggs]

You've just signed Scott Fox on an emergency loan from Motherwell.

[Rudolph Hucker]

are you in a different time zone??

 

[TheGoon]

On 18/05/2021 at 15:31, Bishop Briggs said:

You've just signed Scott Fox on an emergency loan from Motherwell.

Source? 

[Rudolph Hucker]

Postcard. 

[Trogdor]

Well done Morton, you're a good bunch of b*****ds. Certainly better than Airdrie. 

Edited May 21, 2021 by Trogdor

[Rudolph Hucker]

Well, we did it the hard way, but we’re still in the Championship next season.......

Tonight marked the last Morton game under the stewardship of the Rae family.  I imagine that the beneficiaries of the late Douglas Rae will be delighted to see the club disappear from their list of assets/liabilities (delete as you feel appropriate, Rae family), and that Crawford Rae will be relieved that efforts of the players tonight have saved any further tarnishing of his stewardship of the club during this dreadful season and, indeed, over the last few years.

On June 1st Greenock Morton Football Club will move into fan ownership in the form of Morton Club Together*. While members of MCT have been working in tandem with the current regime this season they still have a huge task ahead of them both in getting the running of the club onto a competent basis and in appointing a management team & playing staff good enough to keep us from finishing in the bottom two next term. I wish them well, and I hope that many more supporters will join MCT in the months to come.

Maintaining our Championship status tonight was hugely important for the club and for MCT. Relegation would have been financially disastrous and may have meant an extended stay in the lower divisions. Now we have a period of adjustment and consolidation to move through - but that in itself is an achievement of sorts, as at one point this season it looked as if we might soon not have a club to support at all.

Well done to MacPherson and the players for their efforts against Montrose and Airdrie in the playoffs, and good luck to the club over the next twelve months and beyond.

Onward and upward.

 

 

* edited to correct name and to appease the tiny of mind.

Edited May 22, 2021 by Rudolph Hucker