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On 02/10/2023 at 12:41, TheGoon said:

I don’t feel the risk of the manager being poached should make that much of a difference. Ultimately, anyone that’s consistently good here won’t be here long. If Imrie receives a better opportunity than we can currently offer, I’ve already made peace with the fact he’ll likely accept it. 

I would say our current issues are much more down to recruitment (or lack of it), questionable selections, and just being found out a bit without a functioning right side - rather than any ‘the players have chucked’ it stuff.

Imrie is guilty of cronyism and ageism. Someone needs to vet his recruitment policy and oversee the development of younger players. If the likes of Joe Jordan, Joe Harper, Neil McNab we’re here now they too would be shunted out on loan never to return.  Whoever decided to sanction Imrie’s recruitment of Broadfoot , out of obscurity, and Power is should be kicked up the arse. It’s utter bollocks that we can’t give younger players like McGrattan a regular place,

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Back to back shaming home defeats. Not to worry though Dougie probably has another couple of over the hill mates in the pipeline who need something to fill in between their next tattoos. 

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What fresh form of hell is this dog’s bollocks of a team. . Sooner Imrie, who is nowhere are good as he thinks he is, is off to Dundee Utd with his most of his useless former acquaintances the better. So Strapp is not in his plans but he brings in Miller and Crawford. Says it all.

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19 hours ago, Lex said:

The Imrie revolution
Morton

What a surprise,  Imrie’s toadie gives you a red dot without deigning to otherwise defend Imrie’s’ clusterf**k of a squad assembly. We are doomed to a future of watching journeymen centre backs and holding midfielders running about a bit pretending to press but playing aimless cross field passes and/or hoof ball as there is no outlet. Sod trying to find and develop creative players. Wouldn’t be surprised if KIng isn’t loaned to Greenock Juniors if he has a dip in form.

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On 17/09/2022 at 13:29, DreamOakTree1 said:

That’s a head scratcher for me too. Our best player on the bench every week!? If King is so good why not fit them both into the team as Steve Clarke did with Tierney and Robertson? You have to respect Imrie’s knowledge and experience and assume he will know best, which might explain the acceptance or apathy on here, but with this conundrum it looks so obvious a solution to move King forward to accommodate Strapp. So there must be something wrong or Strapp is carrying an injury. We have Blues and Kabia on his side of the pitch! Does Kabia’s loan deal mean he has to play every game? We’re struggling to get the quality of players we need for this level, King has shown his versatility and yet Dougie still decides we can compete without one of the division’s best players? Please fix it or explain it Dougie!

Of course he ain’t going to fix it. Anyone who thinks two home defeats in a row is a “one off”, gets tactically outwitted by Dick Campbell yet again, can’t coax performances out of the club’s most valuable assets in Lyon and Strapp and favours cronies to ability is probably better off running the Tory Party than managing Morton. 

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On 02/09/2022 at 17:33, gmfc said:

I hope it does not bite him on the arse.

Lyon and Strapp were the clubs most valuable playing assets not so long ago. . Imrie’s inability to manage and develop them is a huge negative on his CV in my opinion.  Coaches who can set up and manage workaday drones and win percentage games  for a season or two are fairly common but only the best can really develop talent. Imrie falls well short of that at the moment. 

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5 hours ago, Mr.Blue said:

Know what's even sadder?

You taking the time to pull together a 5 point reply to a sentence which simply stated you're a w****r.

But mine wasn’t really a reply was it? I was merely making an observation that on Christmas Day a nonentity chose to spend his time posting an inane comment in the vague expectation that his Christmas present would be a few green dots from an even bigger bunch of deadbeats, dopeheads and wannabe censors. 

Carpe Diem little boy blue and keep blowing your horn. 
 

 

[Killie v Morton - Not that any of us can be arsed.]

1 hour ago, Sortmeout said:

I’m still pretty embarrassed that we are in the same division as Morton so try my best to avoid the match threads.

Not sure why. I went to Kilmarnock once. It was a depressing shithole. Worse than Falkirk.

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17 hours ago, Mr.Blue said:

You are a prize w****r.

Not sure what’s sadder;

a) You reading and commenting upon this dross on Christmas Day

b) You having to edit a five word post

c) Master influencer Toby giving up his time on Christmas Day to green dot you when he could have been posting on selfie’s of him kissing Doug Imrie’s jock strap on Facebook. 

d) Those applicants for the Morton manager’s  job who didn’t even make it to the interview short list given the successful candidate’s  far from extensive achievement record.

e) The fact that even under fan ownership most fans have no idea who was on the interview panel and what the assessment criteria was. 

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46 minutes ago, AsimButtHitsASix said:

You seem like the sort of guy who wonders what peoples' willies look like. Probably why you have no issue with Lithgow getting his out.

That’s a bit of a puerile response even for you Butthead. 
 

I have never said I condone the actions you seem obsessed with. I merely take exception to self important sleekit sycophants like Toby and then you perpetually generating faux moral outrage when you lead far from perfect lives yourselves. 
 

Perhaps if you had just stuck to the over the hill error ridden defender line, and not tried to conflate the two issues, the get him out of here message might have gotten through rather than the club circling the wagons and issuing desist messages.

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2 hours ago, AsimButtHitsASix said:

I would hauf an ecto with Dougie Imrie anytime 

I don’t doubt. You probably have that tattoed on your flaccid little member. You seem that sort of guy.

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30 minutes ago, AsimButtHitsASix said:

I love Branch Ton's moral compass.

Things that are not OK:
Serving food
Eccies
Tattoos

Things that are fine:
Flashing women

Women can flash at me as often as they like dopehead.  For “serving food”  substitute “ sanctimonious weak mouthed hypocritical numpties”.

Interviewer: Do tell me candidate how you would motivate an underachieving forward who has spent most of his career bumming around  in poor quality teams and who seems to be  more concerned about his sleeve tattoo than becoming a better player. “

Candidate: Shout at him and tell him to give 110%

AssimButt: Give him a few eccies.

Mmm

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Aw come on, we will get nowhere by simply stating the blindingly obvious and mouthing platitudes. You would hope that our renowned rigorous CV and competence based assessment interview panel didn't fall for that tosh again. As if Gus didn't know draws were no good, though I'll concede he was overly concerned at not losing 3 points to our relegation rivals. Until such time as the tattooed man explains how we will win games, with this and then his own new squad, and then goes on to demonstrate this by achievement I'll reserve judgement. 

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4 hours ago, Dunning1874 said:

While you can read too much into interviews, that's really encouraging and he's saying all the right things. He's talking up the potential of the club both in the short and long term rather than indulging in 'plucky little Morton' stuff, and talking about the minimum standards he expects. While a manager talking about desire, commitment and getting fans onside can sometimes come over a bit John Hughes, in the context of what's going on with this squad that's exactly what we need to hear from the manager.

It'll all be irrelevant if things don't change on the park, but it sounds like he's determined to bring a real professionalism to the club off the park.

Words are cheap. A headless chicken giving 110% is still a headless chicken. We need to play smarter and cut out errors. That requires improved technique and better concentration. Those not up for that need to be binned.

Tbh I would need some time to have confidence in someone who thinks a body covered in ink blobs is a positive attribute.

 

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1 hour ago, AsimButtHitsASix said:

Wouldn't be against Imrie with Rice as an assistant mind you. Just not the other way round

Brilliant stuff. Forget all this proven track record of success bollocks and let’s go for guys who were involved with failed teams.

Presumably in your world a ban for breaching SFA rules on gambling is a big tick on the old CV.

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2 hours ago, AsimButtHitsASix said:

You really are claiming having the odd illicit substance is worse than sexually assaulting vulnerable women in front of their children?

Incredulous

Oh playing the old *when did you stop beating your wife?" sidestep are we.

Next you will be telling us you only buy the odd illicit class A drug from sustainably sourced suppliers with low carbon footprints who don't sell to children and pay VAT and IT.

Interesting too that your incredulity seems to prevent you commenting upon why you seem to condone a player taking a class A drug but continue to libel a rehabilitated offender.

 

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2 hours ago, AsimButtHitsASix said:

I just want to make sure I've got this right.

You're using the fact that someone sells food for a living giving me a green dot as a way of attacking me. You're using a long dead cricket player enjoying some disco biscuits as a way of attacking me and you think I'm the one who sounds fucked up, brain dead and carrying a grudge?

You really are exposing yourself now,---albeit as a complete twit. Your disco biscuits carry a seven year jail time for possession. But heyho let's not let your appetite for them and your condoning the actions of sportsmen users get in the way of posting endless moralising pish filled with pejorative assertions about players.

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1 hour ago, AsimButtHitsASix said:

Personally I'm all for the use of MDMA before any situation. It is a fantastic recreational drug. I highly recommend you give it a go.

But, just so we're keeping score, you think selling food and dropping an ecto are on the same level as hunting down multiple women to sexually assault?

Oh dear, now you truly are just sounding like some fucked up brain dead moralist with a grudge.

I hope  down the line your rehab works well and isn’t interrupted by some deluded loon who thinks it cool to harass MDMA abusers trying to reform. 

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13 hours ago, AsimButtHitsASix said:

No idea who yer on about but, in general, selling food is probably more acceptable to sexual assault.

Kinda weird yer comparing the two to be honest.

And what about using MDMA before a cricket match given  you have adopted such  an offender's name as your online ID?  Methinks that you are an utter charlatan who simply gets off on faux outrage.

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18 hours ago, AsimButtHitsASix said:

Because I'm self important and pompous and, therefore, attach importance to my own posts.

Your slevvering ravings, however, are immediately forgotten about after I've finished laughing at them

Shame your sense of self importance didn't prompt you to attain a better command of syntax before your functioning neuron .deteriorated. The world would be a better place  if you kept your moralistic pish to yourself.

There is a certain irony in the fact that you are being white knighted by a twisted wee dick who earned his coin peddling junk food to kids on behalf of a globalised entity. Where does he feature on your opprobriumometer?

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11 hours ago, AsimButtHitsASix said:

Yes the club have made two statements: neither of which address the issue. I don't see what's hard to grasp about that. But you are, unequivocally, a floundering mess so I understand your difficulty in understanding something so basic. You're inability to understand, for instance, the definition of sexual assault had you pathetically trying to insinuate something against me. Like the cowardly refusal of MCT to answer you also hid away rather than explaining what you meant by that previous, now deleted, post. 

You'd be surprised how little I care about sex offenders being reminded of their past crimes. If he doesn't want to be reminded of the time he drove around finding vulnerable women to sexually assault he probably shouldn't have drove around sexually assaulting women. 

And, well, they haven't drawn a line under it have they? They haven't mentioned it at all. Fans have, in reasonably large numbers, and I would say further comment is needed. Even from those who have no issue with the signing have said their refusal to acknowledge fans concerns is an issue. 

I don't attach any importance to P&B or the forum (certainly less than MCT do anyway). And, yes, there was debate and controversy about it and the club refused to acknowledge it then it died down. It's never brought up until the club manage to publicly skirt around it. I don't know if you know what a forum is for but when the club, for instance, publicly release statements condemning chanting about sexual assault, publicly release statements saying they wont be answering questions about the decision to sign a player with previous charges for sexual assault or publicly release statements condemning fans for reminding players about their previous sexual assault charges then I think that makes them worthy topics of discussion. It's the club that bring it up without, actually, bringing it up. It's an elephant in the room.

Also strange that you seem to be able to gauge the wider support of Morton fans despite, clearly, being a Wee Nigel. Who are you canvassing about this? The  majority of Morton fans I know do not frequent this board, only a couple as far as I know, and maybe double that use the Morton board. If anything the ones that use the message boards are more accepting of Lithgow's signing that those who don't. Of the, say, a dozen Morton fans I speak to regularly I know of three who haven't been to Cappielow since he signed. Our average crowd is down about 200 or so from pre-covid levels. There could be many reasons for this and maybe the folk I know who aren't going back while he's there are the only ones doing so. But no-one, not you, I, nor the club can dismiss the idea that crowds are lower than they could be because we signed a sex offender. 

This idea that it is only an issue for a tiny proportion of fans has no basis in reality. It may well be the case but there's no poll that you've conducted to evidence your claims. The Morton board had a wee vote when he signed and it was about 75/25 split not bothered/against the signing. Are we a big enough club to dismiss the worries of a quarter of our fans? Is any club big enough? Considering we are a fan owned club can you think of any other membership led organisation that would just outright dismiss the concerns of a quarter of their members without even acknowledging their concerns?

And the club can make whatever decision they want and we can all congratulate or condemn them for them decisions. If you find the topic so boring you could always ignore those that bring it up but, as usual, you can't help but get the last word in and refuse to let any argument lie which makes your faux-outrage about people still having concerns about the clubs attitude to this all the more hypocritical. 

If you don’t attach any importance to P&B forums why do you insist on posting so much self important pompous shit on it.?

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13 minutes ago, Rudolph Hucker said:

  Ok, phonefart ain’t allowing me to edit the post above at the mo, so let’s start again…….

 

Genuine question: what do you know about Stuart Duncan that leads you to refer to him, once again, as a “shonky accountant” ?  And what makes you think he has any influence on the football side of things? That’s not what he’s there for. Seems to me this is purely a personal dislike for the guy from you and you have absolutely no idea of how good, bad or indifferent his contribution to the club is, was or will be.  He’s been voted onto the board by the new regime, who have been working with him for months, so presumably he’s been doing something right.

Equally, I don’t know and can’t be arsed looking into who “Bishop Len” is, but I wonder why he’s another target of your bile. If there’s anything he’s done in the past that reflected badly on him or an employer then I’m willing to accept that as long as he can do a worthwhile job for Morton, much as I am with Allan Lithgow.  
 

Looks to me like in both cases this is just personal hatred from you, which you do have previous for. If not, let us have chapter and verse on your legitimate reasons for not wanting them at the club.

 

   err, WHIT??  First you’re complaining that Stuart Duncan is “playing football vicariously”, now you’re looking for the rest of the board to pitch in too. Selecting a football team by committee was universally given up as a failed concept many years ago.  If you’re going to continually snipe at the club, the board and individuals then how about you come up with some legitimate and specific reasons instead of the unsubstantiated and scattergun crap in that post? Or, better still shut up and give us peace?

 

Not sure why you chose to name Stuart Duncan but to be clear he was not who I had in mind.

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8 hours ago, Paisley Ton said:

I have always felt supporter's reactions and comments should be ignored by any competent professional team.

Well it seems I have been too generous.

This must be McPherson's last game in charge. If infact he is given until then. As pointed out this total is relegation Express form.

Dunfermline will come good with or without Grant and we will flounder unless a new manager is found.

Sadly MCT board does seem to be  influenced by bean counters and lacking in football people.

We must win this game and the following home game if this season is to be saved.

It was always likely that a fan ownership model would attract a bunch of wannabee "fannies". However to retain the old regimes' shonky accountant,  who plays football vicariously through his spreadsheets, is simply a backward step as is appointing a dinosaur like McPherson.  Its a win business but the Board should also  be setting the  expected playing style. If we go down we might not be too far away from being controlled by third party lenders who will be a lot more ruthless than old  Dougie.

Its also unacceptable to have numpties and abusive trolls like data breaching Bishop Len in any communication role. The fact that he is in one simply underlines the new regimes lack of judgement.

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26 minutes ago, RiG said:

TBF to David Hopkin he was only at Ayr United for a short stint picking up the pieces left by Mark Kerr.

Livingston looks better on his management CV.

No need to be fair to anyone who chose to sort someone else’s mess by importing donkeys like McGinty and Salkeld who he saw in all their glory the previous year. Can only assume Martindale was in charge of signings at Livingston.

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1 hour ago, The Ghost of B A R P said:

All good management… apart from the picking him bit (although, as I’ve said, I can see why he’s done it in certain circumstances).

We’ll see what happens now that MacPherson has options… but I’ll be gutted if we go with three in the middle… and that three is Jacobs, Oksanen, and Blues. Too often it’s been like playing with 10 men when Blues is given the more ‘creative’, forward-running role of the three; whatever he is, he just isn’t good enough for that.

The problem until this week is that there has been almost zero competition for places; now the likes of Blues and Muirhead (and everybody else) are going to have to make a positive contribution when they’re on the pitch or there’s somebody else who’ll come in and keep them out.

Let’s face it, Muirhead has been much worse than Blues and must now be a cert for the bench… as, I think (and hope), is Blues. Can’t really see a formation where he’s an obvious first pick.

I thought you said you were giving the Blues Stuff a rest. Is B A R P an acronym for Bloody Awful Repetitive Pish?