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The players who were still contract who left: Mark McLaughlin has his own company and is a successful businessman. Going part time suited him given he is at the tail end of his career and I don't think he would have taken a big wage drop to go to Dumbarton Tomas Peciar, I would have loved to have kept but was getting married and his finance could not settle in Scotland. He went to a Swedish Club which apparently suited her better. Jonathon Page was a fringe player at Cappielow and had an offer from Dunfermline where I think he has appeared pretty regularly. Again, there was probably not much difference in wages and first team football beckoned. Not sure why Habai left and went to Livi where he will almost certainly be on less money. Cham is a young lad with not much English living in a cold and wet West of Scotland and with virtually no chance of getting in the team. The chance of going home appealed, I guess.

It goes frrom bad to worse for us. Our kitman, Andy Bryan, who started as a ball boy at Cappielow 40 years ago has been snapped up by Stoke City to be their head kit man. He will be hard to replace because he did a lot more than wash strips at Cappielow and knew everything about the place.

He was an unused sub in our exit to Caley. I am not sure if that counts for the purposes of him being cup-tied.

He was an unused sub in our exit to Caley. I am not sure if that counts for the purposes of him being cup-tied.

To be fair, Thistle fans always say ex players are complete duds. Generally, if they can't cut it at Morton, you can be assured they are complete duds! Look at ...ahem!!....Brian Graham for example

There is now an announcement on our official site that he has left by mutual consent. Usually that means the player has something else fixed up and given Shiels interview, that could be Dunfermline? Good news for us!

OK! No bother. We will see what happens.

See Kenny Shiels interview at around 3 minutes here http://inverclyde-tv.com/stories/4304-view-form-the-dugout-23rd-january-2014 Page has been hopeless generally but he was not alone so he might do better with better players around him. His bright spot was the win over Celtic where, in common with most of the team, he played out his skin.

I am mortally offended!

You get people who believe that paying at the gate entitles them to shout the vilest personal insults at anyone on or off the park in every support and , of course, Morton's current position brings them out in force. If the basic desire of a football fan is to see his team win then I don't see what abusing players already low in confidence is going to do to help the team. Of course, not many of those who deliver that sort of bile have the IQ to understand that! There is a basic lack of human decency in shouting things which in any other public place would get you arrested. I don't like where Morton are in the league or how they have been performing but I will not deliver hate filled diatribes at someone because he is having a bad game. If that makes me a "happy clapper " then I will take the title

Good player in his day and scored a lot of goals for us.

Tidser has either been on the bench or starting for Rotherham every week for a couple of months - suspension for sending off aside. Rotherham are at the top end of the league challenging for a play off spot. Why would they lend him an SPL team? Makes no sense at all.

We are already heavily into community engagement with all sorts of programmes through Greenock Morton Community Trust. A manager who supports efforts to get the area behind the team can only be good. I also thought he did well at Killie given the budget restrictions - he seemed to have a eye for a player who could do a job at not too much cost, That will fit right in at Cappielow!!

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What do you mean strange penalty! Ambrose stopped the ball with his hand and whether accidental or not, Celtic gained an advantage because without that stop, Campbell was one on one with the keeper. Ref got it 100% spot on!

This year could be a good one to stay in the Championship. Assume Hearts and ideally St Mirren come down and Sevco plus Dunfermline come up, the league could be Dundee/Falkirk Raith Morton Dumbarton Queens Alloa/Cowdenbeath/ Livi Sevco Hearts St Mirren Dunfermline Tastiest second tier for years

Yes indeed! And what a steal he has been! To date our community programme has been hugely successful and more or less self funding. The basic aim is to help generate the next generation of Morton fans but it also has the advantage of identifying local kids with the talent to be taken into our youth academy before traditional poachers of our area - the old firm, St Mirren and Aberdeen - muscle in.

Morton ran summer soccer camps across Inverclyde which were attended by hundreds of kids, all of whom qualify for a free matchday ticket. The only restriction is that, under a certain age - (12?), they have to be accompanied by an adult. Through the school term, we are in every school in the area and run "Mini Morton" after school coaching sessions which, again have free match day tickets available to participants. I thought we had pinched the idea from Falkirk?

Five started against East Fife - Gaston Taggart McLaughlin Bachirou Campbell Against Annan it was three - Taggart Bachirou O'Brien

He is a penalty box poacher and in order for him to be that, he needs service which in the last couple of games has been sadly lacking. If he is not getting that, he is a total passenger hence the criticism. Morton's failing in the last two games has been our same old same old! When teams sit in we have difficulty breaking them down and at the same time, are vulnerable to being caught on the break. Annan was classically that and East Fife was heading that way. We only took them apart when they were chasing the game. I am hoping that things will improve as the team gels and our foreign legion become more accustomed to the Scottish game but I am not betting the house on it!

It was a bad day at the office. Morton missed enough chances to win umpteen games and when we were on target, the Annan keeper (who should have been man of the match!) had a blinder. One of those days and move on! It appears to have happened to another five first division clubs in much the same way.

I think there may well be a tad too much optimism but some optimism is not wholly unfounded. And calling yesterday's match as a pre season friendly well understates it. Nobody was holding back on the tackles in either team and there were bookings to prove it. I don't think anyone is saying we are going to win the league but we look a far more competitive side than any of us imagined would happen a few weeks ago.

We are allowed a wee bit of optimism. All of our signings are showing promise. Contrast that with how St Mirren fans are feeling about their new players. Of course it might (probably?) go pear shaped but compared to how we were feeling a couple of weeks ago, we are entitled to feel good.

Dundee look to have a very strong midfield but yesterday our midfield dominated St Mirren's including Teale, McGowan and Harkins. I think on our game, we will hold our own against messrs Rae & McAlister etc.

Cappielow has the best pitch in the first division and seem able to keep it that way throughout the season. The main argument for a plastic pitch is the extra revenue it can generate on other than match days.