Pure Mental Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 Justice at last for that utterly pathetic draw we contrived against that relegation rabble back in August. Onward, Upwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevie Aitken's Love Child Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 That is a massive result for us. Huge moment for Reece Lyon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colkitto Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 JJ looking for a reaction from the players and got one. A bold team selection that had the knickers wetters in a frenzy. He had to make changes and it worked . So well done JJ and the players! Great 3 points! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AsimButtHitsASix Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 Half an hour v Ayr and 90 minutes v County aside JJ's naw been too awful to be fair. Cannae grumble about the league position considering the limitations of the squad and him coming into it when it was built for someone else's tactics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 Remarkable that a Morton side lacking its only competent striker all season and whose campaign has resembled a rickety ghost train lurching out of control at every bend has the same number of points as the swashbuckling Borders' Bumpkins/Team Dobbie. If Johnstone is actually fit to start sometime soon then we might just have a credible campaign on our hands. Or it'll be back to a comically bad showing on Saturday instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyline Drifter Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 Far better performance from us than Saturday but we didnt really get our rewards. Better side 1st half but Morton took the lead with a well worked set piece. Much the better side second half. It was lit up by two great goals. Dobbie's is a worldy of a strike on the volley from about 25 yards. Lyon's was a beauty too. Not as far out and it sat up nicely for him but he hit it really sweetly. Smash and grab for Morton but its no more than we did to Dunfermline a couple of weeks ago. Thats football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QosLoyal Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 Far better performance from us than Saturday but we didnt really get our rewards. Better side 1st half but Morton took the lead with a well worked set piece. Much the better side second half. It was lit up by two great goals. Dobbie's is a worldy of a strike on the volley from about 25 yards. Lyon's was a beauty too. Not as far out and it sat up nicely for him but he hit it really sweetly. Smash and grab for Morton but its no more than we did to Dunfermline a couple of weeks ago. Thats football.True. Stirling was great tonight and Norman jnr done well. Gutted with result especially with 2 tough away games where there is potential for another 2 defeats. Hopefully i am wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Distant Doonhamer Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 12 minutes ago, Skyline Drifter said: Far better performance from us than Saturday but we didnt really get our rewards. Better side 1st half but Morton took the lead with a well worked set piece. Much the better side second half. It was lit up by two great goals. Dobbie's is a worldy of a strike on the volley from about 25 yards. Lyon's was a beauty too. Not as far out and it sat up nicely for him but he hit it really sweetly. Smash and grab for Morton but its no more than we did to Dunfermline a couple of weeks ago. Thats football. Yep them`s the breaks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
overthetop Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 Morton showed us how to defend tonight. Can’t defend like we did and expect to win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUPERSOUTH Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 1 hour ago, palmy_cammy said: Well on top for 35 minutes without creating much. We then sat back and invited Morton onto us and a goal had a certain inevitability about it. No great surprise it came from a high ball into the box with Martin flapping about like some stupid flappy thing. He pisses me off so much. We’re getting lots of joy down our left with Todd and Marshall carrying on Saturday’s form. Can’t say the same about the other side of the pitch. Stirling is hot and cold. Mercer is a joke with everything he touches turning to shit. Dobbie looks sharper than Saturday but has been well marked but the Morton defence. Unfair on Mercer who sent over a number of good crosses second half just no penalty box striker to knock them in.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
palmy_cammy Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 1 hour ago, palmy_cammy said: Well on top for 35 minutes without creating much. We then sat back and invited Morton onto us and a goal had a certain inevitability about it. No great surprise it came from a high ball into the box with Martin flapping about like some stupid flappy thing. He pisses me off so much. We’re getting lots of joy down our left with Todd and Marshall carrying on Saturday’s form. Can’t say the same about the other side of the pitch. Stirling is hot and cold. Mercer is a joke with everything he touches turning to shit. Dobbie looks sharper than Saturday but has been well marked but the Morton defence. More of the same second half really except we dominated for 40 minutes and created a bit more as the game opened up. Despite all this it took a bit of magic from nowhere from Dobbie to get the goal. The Morton defence will be tired after the shift they put in making blocks and challenges, but Gaston wasn't overly worked. Again there was a certain feeling of inevitability when we didn't get a second during the frantic spell after our equaliser were we won a lot of corners. It became even more inevitable when Buchanan came up for a long throw as you could sense the panic among our defence from the stand. It eventually fell for Lyon who volley it home beautifully from the edge of the box. Much like our performance at East End Park, the home team will say it was a smash and grab, the visitors will say it was a perfectly executed tactical plan. In fairness to Morton I think they have a case with the latter theory. They sat off us and allowed us all of the ball whilst making sure Dobbie was well marshaled at all times. With no Harkins to unlock the middle of the pitch we were left with trying to get crosses in from our full-backs. These were mostly dealt with comfortably by their defenders, as were any follow up second balls. Their centre-halves coped with Dykes' aerial threat all night as well. We then ran out of steam at the end of both halves and ended up getting punished. Pretty much the perfect away performance. As for us, nothing we didn't know already. We can't deal with balls played into the box. We have a goalkeeper who is a liability. A right-back who tries extremely hard (to his credit) but is simply not good enough for this level. A ball winning midfielder who is far better at losing the ball than he is winning it. A right-winger with no positional discipline who drifts about the pitch wherever he feels like offering no help to his teammates. And a bench the manager has no faith in. Despite the defeat there were a few positives. We were let down tonight by a lack of quality, rather than a lack of effort or endeavour. It's hard to be too disheartened when that is the case. In the main it was a decent enough performance that would have won at least a point the majority of the time. Marshall seems back to his best and is linking up really well with Todd and Norman put in another assured performance. He is very composed on the ball for a young lad and does the simple things really well. He tired a bit tonight but that is understandable after making his first two starts in a short period of time. On to two tough away ties that we really need to get something from now after tonight's setback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkoRaj Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 Been saying for a while now that 3-5-2 is probably the best formation with the players we have. Hopefully that continues. How did Lyon do aside from the goal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madton Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 30 minutes ago, overthetop said: Morton showed us how to defend tonight. Bloody hell.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Tennis Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 Thoroughly pissed off that we managed to lose that tonight. Morton had two ten minute spells at the end of each half, and scored in both of them. The winner was admittedly a beauty. We played quite well, but it was a game that screamed out for Harkins. Despite our pressure, we created little that was clear cut and if that's the case, then results like that can happen. It does seem to have been a bit like what we did at Dunfermline the other week, so while there's no real injustice, it's galling when you get a match like that. It feels a bit pivotal. Win that and we move up to third with a third successive win. Lose it, which looked pretty unlikely after Dobbie scored, and all we can see is tough away games looming. Bugger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toby Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 Just now, Monkey Tennis said: Thoroughly pissed off that we managed to lose that tonight. Good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ghost of B A R P Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 Fantastic win for Johansson tonight... needed that. Fantastic to see the team bounce straight back after looking a soft touch (again) on Saturday. And fantastic for a boy whose first experience of senior football was that mauling against Ayr to ping in a winner in his second... Mon. The. Fuckin. Ton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ghost of B A R P Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 p.s. to say what a pleasure it is to inhabit a thread with these civilized Dumfries types... much more pleasant than some of the rabble you get in here... #queenoftheton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
football maniac Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 Well played Morton. After getting absolutely smashed on saturday you would think their confidence would be abit fragile but they came here and defended brilliantly. Buchanan won countless headers and the wingbacks were effective in stopping our players from putting in crosses from dangerous areas. We didnt play badly its just we missed that creative touch. Todd and Stirling each had one excellent half each but couldnt sustain it for the full game. I thought Marsh was very good and Mercer had a fine game. The criticism he gets is ott imo. He uses the ball well and has decent quality in his crossing. Hes also far more assertive in his defending than when he first came. Norman was my star man tonight. Hes a battler but not only that he also has a bit of composure and uses the ball pretty well. We really suffered having a small squad tonight as this was a classic case of a game where impact subs could have made a massive difference. I looked at our bench and saw literally nothing. We all no Irving, Gourlay, Ivison the manager has no intention of using and Bell would only be used if we were winning comfortably, while Murray was just about our only one who could make an impact. Semple is obviously fine defensive cover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19QOS19 Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 Mercer's dead balls were ok but there were two occasions he got by his man (very well it must be said) and was in a great position both times with lots of time and both times it was right at the Morton GK. He did the difficult part well and made a complete balls up of the easy part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SueSue Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 Semple is also our best defensive header of the ball as well as the most comfortable in possession.... He must be rested enough now to get back in the team. Was very harsh on him to be dropped out initially. Unless there is more to him dropping out than we know about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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