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4 minutes ago, DreamOakTree1 said:
Sounds promising! Perhaps Dougie was just posting a timely reminder which isn't a bad thing.
I don't think stating an ambition to manage at a higher level is ever a bad thing and Dougie must know that his chances of making that move can only be enhanced if he takes Morton there or has them performing consistently well .
I'm glad that you cleared up that 'with or without Morton' matter as your first quote was misleading and didn't reflect at all well on Dougie particularly at this stage of what has been a difficult and ultimately disappointing season.
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33 minutes ago, DreamOakTree1 said:
Dougie's just said he wants to manage in the SPL with or without Morton. Is this a message to the board that he'll need their backing to make a real challenge next season?
What exactly did he say?
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3 minutes ago, Ferguson said:
Very inconsistent, Broadfoot has kept him on the bench when he's been fit. He's not been terrible but he's been poor for a lot of the season. Imagine we'll be looking to upgrade in the summer.
I think that is a bit hard. He was out for a considerable amount of time with injuries and then was put in at right back which is not really his position. For some reason or other Dougie seemed to have decided that Broadfoot/Baird was a better option than the Baird/O'Connor central defence partnership which had served us so well last season.
If we can get a solid right back signed and make the obvious decision to keep Strapp I would be more than happy with a backline of
New RB O'Connor Baird Strapp.
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2 minutes ago, Dunning1874 said:
Genuinely baffling that Broadfoot and French keep their places. It being hard to choose which one to drop doesn't mean going for neither.
Glad to see Gillespie for Power at least.
O'Connor must be thinking, 'What did I do wrong?'. My answer would be 'I don't have a clue either'. However over the piece Dougie has done well and I hope there is some method in this madness.
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4 minutes ago, Ferguson said:
Hopefully kicks on from here, clearly a talent and is improving on the weak points of his game despite his lack of minutes. Could be the bright spark we need in the last few games.
I'm a wee bit disappointed we haven't seen more of him this season since in his cameo appearances before last week I thought he had done relatively well. He beats men, holds the ball up well and his distribution is good. He can also 'get stuck in'.
If he gets a run now he could make a big difference to our last few games with a play off place definitely within our grasp.
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27 minutes ago, wEEgIE bOrEd said:
Not "doubling down", no: simply pointing out that you're wrong. We did (formerly) concede soft goals & lose points because we were defensively & tactically inept, and our "obviously outstanding keeper" has genuinely saved us from some absolute tankings.
Don't think I've ever in my life encountered fans so unwilling to accept that their assessment of a player's abilities – based on seeing them at their absolute worst, literally twice a season – might not be quite as well-informed as that of people (fans, other players) who see a guy play numerous times over the course.
So weird.
Brilliant strikers miss sitters and brilliant goalies make mistakes, however the nature of Ferries' mistakes at Cappielow certainly suggest that he is not destined to be a great keeper. However he is still relatively young and as you rightly point out we've seen him on fairly few occasions. On the basis of his generosity to us I wish him well.
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55 minutes ago, Mayos Noun said:
Was hoping for O’Connor in place of Broadfoot and Garrity in for McGrattan.
I suspect you are one of many re O'Connor/Broadfoot. Glad to see Bearne getting a chance.
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Ryan Mullen has been excellent for us this year and we missed him badly when he was injured and I'm very pleased he is signed for next season.
Looking at the video of the game from yesterday I struggle to understand why he didn't save the Dunfermline goal. It looks like a routine catch which he just completely misjudged.
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1 hour ago, Alibi said:
If the rules stipulate a minimum of 5m clearance from touchline to hoarding, is that not sufficient for a run up to a throw in? How much room do you need? Especially as could presumably get a good start by pushing against the hoarding. I doubt the clearance from the Cowshed perimeter wall at Cappielow is any more than 5m, if it’s even that.
if Partick didn’t have the required clearance from the touchline, presumably the referee should not have accepted the pitch as satisfactory for the game to start. Would be a laugh if they were penalised or told to play the game again…
I read it as .5 metre not 5 metres. At Cappielow I don't think there is a 5 metre space between the pitch and the walls at any point. Maybe just behind the goal ends but I doubt it.
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6 hours ago, Dunning1874 said:
Garrity beat McMillan and got crosses in several times, when no one had gotten by a full back before his introduction.
Hard to judge in a way because the game was obviously done at 2-0 and Partick were happy to let us have the ball so we might not have looked as immediately drastically better after the subs had they happened at 1-0, but regardless Garrity offered more in his first five minutes on the park than Muirhead has in the last five games.
McGrattan was quieter, but to some extent that comes with the territory of playing on the right with O'Connor behind you as opposed to being on the left with Strapp overlapping. He was about score a tap-in at the back post from a corner soon after coming on, but Baird got in the way.
The game had become a frantic mess at the point Bearne came on, but he at least tried to run at the full back and he won a couple of corners, which was again more than anyone in the starting XI achieved.
Garrity needs to start next week.
Thanks.
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Wasn't at the game .would be very interested to hear what fans thought of the performances of Garrity, McGrattan and Bearne when they got on.
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Glad to see the subs getting an outing. If not now, when?
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10 hours ago, Jamie_M said:
For who though?
Garrity, Bearne or McGrattan, albeit there is always the risk that making a change can disrupt the team and at that point it was still 0 - 0.
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17 hours ago, Chicken Soup said:
When reading this I did wonder if you might be the guy near me who was shouting abuse at Muirhead all game, and was swiftly clamped by his fellow supporters after the goal for loudly blaming him. If not, I think you’ll join him in a very small minority.
He led the line (not his role) in a game where we played 361 and surrendered the majority of possession, to question his workrate and blame him for the goal is just inaccurate. The shift he put in last night was incredible and his involvement in the goal happened deep within the opposition half.
One of our best chances was a Baird header which came front a great delivery from a Muirhead corner. It’s baffling that some fans find themselves “incensed” by one of our most effective assets.
An entirely reasonable take on the Muirhead matter. If I have one small criticism to make it would be that Dougie didn't take him off after about 75 minutes when he looked like he was absolutely knackered.
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4 hours ago, btb said:
Better be if you lot want to make the play-offs.
We do and he will be a great asset for us, hopefully for most of the remaining matches.
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38 minutes ago, Passionate said:
I see George Oakley was out with an oblique injury, nasty that could be his season gone... Good player too,is he signed up for Morton next season.
He expects to be back playing in the very near future.
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11 minutes ago, The Ghost of B A R P said:
5-4-1 it is… shitfest to pens the only way (cue humping).
The BBC shows the line up as 3-5-1-1
Mullen
O'Connor Baird Broadfoot
French Blues Power Gillespie Strapp
Crawford
Muirhead
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40 minutes ago, Chippyminton said:
Jai Quitongo now out, too. I fear an incoming blootering.
Jai has really not done very much in the few recent appearances he has had. I think at the moment Garrity and McGrattan offer more.
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6 minutes ago, Mon eh Ton said:
Not confident we can get a result tonight, but would quite like to see Power and Broadfoot just wind up detestable characters like Watt all game.
Broadfoot will not be available
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2 hours ago, Dunning1874 said:
How he restarted with the drop ball is technically correct. If the game stops inside the box it's always with the defending goalkeeper regardless of who had possession.
The issue there of course was stopping it in the first place when Carragher was obviously at it, as proven by leaping to his feet for a square go as soon as the whistle went, when the ball was about to drop to Crawford unmarked for a shot 8 yards out.
While the ref did absolutely lose the plot there, the reason we're losing this is Inverness being much better than us and they're entirely worth the lead.
Neither I nor any of the supporters, around me had a clue what the referee was signalling as he pointed to the ground rather than signalling for the physio/trainer to come on which is the usual with a head knock . It seemed to us that the rammy ensued because ICT thought he was giving a penalty.
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Ian Murray post match was very reasonable in his comments and managed to refrain from the daft comments of the past. A welcome change.
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1 hour ago, Stephen Malkmus said:
When The Caley knock, it's a different knock.
With no disrespect intended, when Dougie Imrie leaves Morton at some time in the future it will most certainly be for a much bigger club than ICT.
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21 minutes ago, Gmfc 23 said:
Then Dale had better be having a rethink because that's a shit show.
There's far to much space given up in the shed to presenters and easily fit an extra 1500 in there and another 1000 in sinclar St end. This needs sorted as a
I was in the main stand for the Motherwell game and it seemed about half full as was the Sinclair Street end.
Obviously the explanation provided by Dale for the capacity calculations made some sense but my impression was that they were over cautious and that many more spectators could have been accommodated.
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So first team out and a home tie against the winners of Airdrie v Hearts. Certainly winnable.
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🔴🔵 The Caley v Morton 🔵🔵
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Maybe because we were the only club in the country with the sense to vote against the introduction of VAR!