Cowshed Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 Just now, port-ton said: Mcmullan will give far more experienced fullbacks a much harder time than he gave King today. 17 years old and already played left back, left wing and central midfield for us off the top of my head. Boy has a real future of he keeps at it. My MOTM by a country mile 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Play Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 This looks like it’s going to be a tight league. Most fans from every club knew this (despite the banter about strolling the league from various fans of 2 or 3 clubs). I do not think Morton will win this league but I think they, and a number of similar clubs, can easily take points off the top 3-4 teams, especially at home. For that reason I’m not too worried about this result at this stage of the season. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Girth Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 Glad I missed this stinker. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RossBFaeDundee Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 (edited) 21 minutes ago, virginton said: As for Dundee, while the squad clearly has some quality players, it's hard to see what the strengths of the team are yet. Early days of course but it's hard to work out what the game plan is supposed to be with you: what a 'Dundee goal' should typically look like. It usually involves one of our wide players deciding to play a decent ball in, but that was definitely not on the cards today. Bowyer tried selling us that Grayson was Charlie Adam-esque with his delivery. Tidy enough midfielder but I am left severely wanting from his set-pieces. Edited August 20, 2022 by RossBFaeDundee 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madton Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 1 hour ago, Liam899 said: Wow that was horrendous to watch. Fair play to Morton, they play to their strengths and it’s hard to play against. But it’s absolutely mind numbing to watch. Couldn’t watch that every week. Scraped a point despite being very poor. On to the next one! What strengths were they exactly? You probably played more diagonal left to right long balls than us. If that's the best this league has to offer, we have nothing to worry about Quitongo running at your defense time and time again was actually very enjoyable for us. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam899 Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 1 hour ago, virginton said: Is this nonsense just going to get rolled out every week because we used one long throw-in quite effectively? As for Dundee, while the squad clearly has some quality players, it's hard to see what the strengths of the team are yet. Early days of course but it's hard to work out what the game plan is supposed to be with you: what a 'Dundee goal' should typically look like. Ours involves Quitongo and (sadly useless) Kabia getting in behind the backline. Quitongo caused all sorts of problems today but we need better quality to actually put the ball into the net. If we still had Reilly instead of Muirhead then I think we win that game. You hoofed consistently throughout the game, unless I was watching another match? It was absolutely dreadful to watch. I thought you were more effective than us though. I agree re us not having an identifiable style of play in this game. We were piss poor. -2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam899 Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 3 minutes ago, madton said: What strengths were they exactly? You probably played more diagonal left to right long balls than us. If that's the best this league has to offer, we have nothing to worry about Quitongo running at your defense time and time again was actually very enjoyable for us. Make the game very scrappy, work very hard, be very physical and very direct. Dundee couldn’t play against it. We looked totally devoid of anything. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raith_Raver Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 6 minutes ago, Liam899 said: Make the game very scrappy, work very hard, be very physical and very direct. Dundee couldn’t play against it. We looked totally devoid of anything. That's how they played us last week, constantly fouling and breaking up the play, and a ref that gave them free reign. Anti football. -10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Master Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 A dreadful game by all accounts that’s probably best forgotten and we all move on. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludo*1 Posted August 20, 2022 Author Share Posted August 20, 2022 It's a dire style of play, but it's effective and with the tough pre-season Morton have had trying to bring people in, certainly don't begrudge them it. It's our job to break them down rather than just joining in with the same sort of stuff ourselves and ensuring it's turgid. We knew going in that Imrie likes to go direct (Bowyer even mentioned it in his pre-match interview) and we just ended up hoofing it straight back to them time after time. A point on the road isn't a bad thing though. Killie drew with Morton in 3 of their 5 matches last season (including a cup tie that Killie eventually went through via penalties). 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam899 Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 Well said Ludo. Sums it up well. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fifespud Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 It's a dire style of play, but it's effective and with the tough pre-season Morton have had trying to bring people in, certainly don't begrudge them it. It's our job to break them down rather than just joining in with the same sort of stuff ourselves and ensuring it's turgid. We knew going in that Imrie likes to go direct (Bowyer even mentioned it in his pre-match interview) and we just ended up hoofing it straight back to them time after time. A point on the road isn't a bad thing though. Killie drew with Morton in 3 of their 5 matches last season (including a cup tie that Killie eventually went through via penalties).Agreed. Fair play to Morton, deserved their point for sure although I thought we were most likely to score in the last 10 minutes. We need to be better. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, Liam899 said: Make the game very scrappy, work very hard, be very physical and very direct. You're just describing 75% of all Scottish lower league matches. I didn't see much commitment to Corinthian sporting values and Dutch total football from the away side today. I wasn't expecting it either, because it's lower league Scottish football. The only difference between our style and the rest of the division right now is the quality of our final ball. Thankfully Cove at least look to be worse, and Imrie is now talking about adding one or two more players. Edited August 20, 2022 by vikingTON 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Blue Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 I thought that was an enjoyable 0-0 although feel aggrieved that we didn't win as we had a few chances. Dundee I thought looked dangerous on the break especially through mcmullan. Both teams lacking luck or finishing touch in front of goal. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam899 Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 32 minutes ago, virginton said: You're just describing 75% of all Scottish lower league matches. The only difference between our style and the rest of the division right now is the quality of our final ball. Fair point. I disagree though with the latter. From what I’ve seen of the league so far, Thistle, Queens Park, and ourselves (this game aside) all have different styles to Morton. All will go direct at various times when needed but that seems to be Morton’s main style from what I can see and what others have said. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RossBFaeDundee Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 Annoyed our struggles at Cappielow continue, but hopefully you lot frustrate everyone else going forward, especially next week. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colkitto Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 Would have taken a point before the game, so not too disappointed although Baird hit the post late on which would have given us the 3 points. Some good performances today, from King (MoM) Baird, Gillespie and Quitongo. But to be fair all our players got pass marks today. King has a great future ahead of him. Was so impressed with him today. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#Gary Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 (edited) Probably would've won that if we had two real footballers instead of Blues and Muirhead. Kabia's not looking much better. Alex King, however, is the real deal. Edited August 20, 2022 by #Gary 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Blue Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 1 hour ago, #Gary said: Probably would've won that if we had two real footballers instead of Blues and Muirhead. Kabia's not looking much better. Alex King, however, is the real deal. Harsh on blues. He does a lit of work off the ball and should have done better with one of his late runs into the box. Muirhead needs a goal to get him going but overall I'd say he played well. Kabia I'll give you. Not been impressed at all 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 1 hour ago, Mr.Blue said: Harsh on blues. He does a lit of work off the ball and should have done better with one of his late runs into the box. Muirhead needs a goal to get him going but overall I'd say he played well. Kabia I'll give you. Not been impressed at all Muirhead doesn't score anywhere near enough goals to get that leeway. While Blues wouldn't be in the top 3 of issues - and we did play quite well today - he's not actually doing much off the ball in my view. The Crawford replacement for Lyon shows what could happen if we actually got another real Championship midfielder in place of Blues. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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