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No sure how the quality will hold up here as I have had to use file compression to get it under the 2mb limit but here's the back page of the Sunday Mail, April 16 1922 reporting Morton's cup win. Looking at the other results that day, it was a slightly different set of clubs in the senior leagues!

Billy Steel playing for Morton v Third Lanark Cathkin Park 1948

Inverclyde was one of the areas hardest hit by Maggies de-industrialisation when we lost the shipyards and all the related industries such as Kincaids engine works and Hasties steering gear. Probably something north of 20,000 jobs went out of the local economy and that has reflected on the population with Greenock's being close to half what it was in the sixties. Crowds dwindled and it became hard to justify opening the Wee Dublin End to home fans and it was given over to away fans but only for larger games. I don't think it came as a firm decision one way or another but just evolved that way from the mid nineties on.

That stand still exists. When St Bernards went belly up, Morton bought the stand which was dismantled and re-erected at Cappielow and remains as the basis of the present day main stand

Sorry guys, no! To put you out your misery- it's Montrose. Compare and contrast the crowd for this sort of match then and now!

Sorry, but no, it is not Hearts!

Not St Johnstone and I don't think Mike Jackson was a keeper!

Here's a picture of a match at Cappielow, I think circa 1963. Allan McGraw running in after a goal by Jimmy Wilson (with his arms in the air) Its before the Wee Dublin End was enlarged and benched. Note the crowd! Also the playing surface has improved somewhat since then! Trivia quiz - can anyone identify the team we are playing?

Samsung Gear 3 looks like a general use smart watch that is getting there in terms of being genuinely useful both as a watch and as usable tech on your wrist. I dare say the Apple Watch is good also but you need an iPhone to get the best from it and I just will not consider Apple prices. As for my Microsoft Band 2, it remains supremely useful as a fitness tracker but not much else. I am also on my second as on the first the strap which contains the battery split - a known fault - and was replaced under warranty. I see also there will be no Band 3 as Microsoft are pulling out of that market.

Forbes has been great for us pretty much since he arrived. OK, he has had the odd anonymous game but mostly he has been one of our main menu men! This season alone he has 6 goals but somewhere around 12 assists. One of the first names on the team sheet! And a word for Jim Duffy here. The number of no hopers he has signed and given them their mojo back is unbelievable. Forbes was one but there are others, the latest being Gavin Gunning a player who is way better than this League!

A bit to learn on the defensive side but absolutely deadly running with the ball and has a decent delivery. Probably more assists this season than the rest of our league topping development squad put together. Perfect delivery man for Peaso and the boy will learn from him. Definitely a first team prospect at Cappielow and probably with higher aspirations.

For clarity on the Tam O'Ware issue. Both he and the manager had shouts of "F****n B****rd" directed at them at Ayr from a person or persons in the Morton support. That is why Tam was so upset and reacted and also why the chairman decided, rightly or wrongly, to speak out. Nobody believes or expects that players are immune from criticism when they do not play well but sectarian abuse is not and never has been part of Greenock Morton and should not be tolerated. For me, anyone masquerading as a Morton fan who indulges in that should be banned - they are not welcome at Cappielow.

I am totally against the rise of anti semitism in Europe and in particular in this country but goodness the Jews on question time tonight did themselves no favours with their totally one sided myopia concerning the nature of what goes on between Israel and Palestine.

I would be careful in dismissing a technology. I could see little point in tablets when the iPad came out - why would you need one if you have a reasonable laptop? That lasted until my wife bought me one and now it's attached at the hip. Tablets and PCs do different jobs and maybe smart phones will do something I am not seeing at present.

Thanks for that. I was actually appointed on 1 November and my record since then is played 4, won 3 drawn 1, zero goals conceded. I remain undefeated!

That's pretty disrespectful to Forfar and Morton. Forfar were the best team we (Morton) have played in the league so far and Dunfermline found that out also. Your "vast superior team" looked pretty ordinary to this watcher on Saturday. They will have to do a lot better to justify their position as favourites to win the league.

Dunfermline have a bigger squad than most including ourselves and so injuries and suspensions will have a proportionately bigger effect on Morton than Dunfermline. For that reason they remain clear favourites. I still think though the Telegraph are right insofar as they say you can't win a championship in August but you can go a long way to losing it. We will all see where are more clearly in 5 or 6 weeks.

Never a great situation not to be under some pressure. Players switch and think they don't have to try too hard and then you lose momentum and it can be hard to get it back again. Its an important season for both our clubs and I was quite taken by a quote in the Greenock Telegraph match report today which said: "THEY say that league titles aren’t won in August. What is less acknowledged is that you can still go a long way towards losing them in those first four weeks. In the last decade, the champions of Scotland’s third tier have on average lost just 4.8 of their total fixtures. Statistically speaking, a poor start can effectively end a promotion charge before it’s begun."

I feel for Dunfermline fans. Any Morton fan can read some of the posts above and immediately empathise. We are both clubs punching below our weight and Morton fans also know what it is like to finish well clear in second place and lose the play offs. In our case we lost to Peterhead who then lost to Thistle who got promoted having finished 15 points behind us that season. Its not clear to me what happened to Dunfermline in 2014. Presumably last season's comfortable second place was down to the first half of the season then?

With respect, they only know what being in the union up to now entails. They have no idea of the future. We don't know what extra powers we will get. We don't know how the Barnett formula is to be changed or scrapped. We don't how much worse the deal for Scotland will be once Westminster has the independence threat removed. Last time we voted no (at least according to the rigged vote) Margaret Thatcher proceeded to decimate Scottish industry. We do know Scotland would be at the very least capable of being a successful independent nation. There is therefore at least as big a need for Better Together to make a case for what the union will mean for Scotland going forward. The only certainty after September is uncertainty! That applies whether there is a Yes or No vote.

Confidemus is 100% correct. Yes campaigners have every right to be angry about the treatment of Scotland over the last 40 years. Amongst other things there's The looting and squandering of our natural resources The wealth gap 20% of Scottish kids living in poverty Foodbanks Bedroom tax Iraq and Afghanistan To name but a few. The only reasons I can think of for voting no all revolve around narrow self interest ranging from the Scottish politicians in Westminster wanting to keep their gravy train in place to people worried about their pensions/benefits/jobs despite all the assurances in place. Very few No voters like the degree of poverty or the necessity for foodbanks but by voting no, they are signalling "I'm alright Jack" and that they are prepared to tolerate these issues in our society. No wonder yes voters are angry!

Given they were the highest placed Fife team last season and the season before that and will probably be this season, Kings of Fife is a reasonable title!

My Nexus 4 has had two upgrades in about a month. What I did notice is that the upgrade cured a problem with bluetooth dropping on my phone which was really annoying when trying to connect it the car. Some people apparently have had battery life issues after the upgrade but I have not. My wife's Nexus 7 is on 4.2.2 and does not download anything when I ask it to check for upgrades. Its not an issue as all she uses it for is web browsing and facebook but I am not sure why it is not upgrading.

Page as first choice centre back? Was truly awful for us last season apart from the match at Parkhead where he played like Puyol. But then the rest of the team produced one off form that night. Other than that he was one of the poorest of last seasons desperately poor summer signings batch.

Will Rangers make it to the start of the season? How many season tickets have actually been sold and is it enough to sustain the club?