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First of all, fair play to Raith.
On another day we might have forced a draw there - put them under some pressure in the second half but too often our final pass (or choice not to shoot) was wrong, and Raith stood up to it all well I thought.
The main annoyance is the first goal - not sure why our defender doesn’t win that header? There was a clear shout of ‘man on’ but that shouldn’t have meant him duck out the ball so am wondering if he lost sight of the ball in the floodlights? In any case, it should have been a routine clearance and who knows what happens the rest of the game then.
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Just now, AyrshireTon said:
Presume we're only behind the goal, so where's the catering for away fans now?
Hope it's still not that guy with a bucket of pies under a tarpaulin.
We’ve got a small section of the stand too - you need to buy your ticket in advance btw, stand or terracing
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Thanks mate
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Any parking at the ground for away supporters?
Or should I park on the main road across from the racecourse?
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Not sure where to post this but just to say thank you to the folk at Perthshire today.
My wee boys mad about seeing different grounds and I took him for a peak into Keppoch Park - the guys shouted us in for a look about, some pictures and some memorabilia for him to take away.
I understand the ground and clubhouse is open every day for people to come in, and on top of that they don’t charge home supporters on a match day.
Thanks folks and look forward to coming back up for a game soon.
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Are ICT going to be able to make it to Greenock with the weather and knock-on effects?
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1 hour ago, Bring Your Own Socks said:
Plenty of parking. No charge.
Thank you
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Is parking available at Hampden? Or would I have to find somewhere local?
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Obviously never good to go bottom but I’m not panicking yet.
Any talk among our fans of Imrie having run out of time is ridiculous IMO. We’re only seven games into the season and while this has been our worst run under him, he and his teams have continually shown resilience when in a bad moment in the past.
And which manager doesn’t go through spells like this? showing you can come out of it should be what we ask of managers, not that they’re sacked the first time they happen.
Yes it’s disappointing we’re clearly not going to live up to the high expectations we had coming into the season, but I’d like to think people are grown-up enough not to turn on Imrie.
And injuries haven’t helped. Saying all that, the team is noticeably worse than it was last year: Power, Boyd, Bearne & Broadfoot all massive downgrades on those that left in the summer (and even then, some of those were short of what was needed). Wilson too, as I said when he signed, though tbf I thought he done well and showed for everything today.
So I to would hope to see Imrie get these guys out the team and get back to some of the basics that have been the hallmark of his teams. Something poetic that his loyalty to certain players and older heads at the expense of young players was on show today when Lewis McGregor scores the winner and Lewis McGrattan comes on and is our main threat.
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Just now, Mr.Blue said:
Well that was fucking Awful. Not sure if the penalty was a stone waller or not but regardless broadfoot has given away 2 pens in 2 games. Not good enough.
Few fans in the cowshed need to have a right good look at themselves. Some of the shouts today were laughable and embarrassing. Almost as if we have the right to just turn up and walk over Arbroath. I know every team has its fair share of morons but f**k me.
Arbroath totally deserved that win and once again they school imrie's morton.
On leaving the ground my son and I spoke to a few Arbroath fans. Good guys and very gracious in victory ( I told them it was ok to say we were absolutely shite).
Sadly need to correct you on that front: 3 in 3!
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2 minutes ago, Dunning1874 said:
It wasn't a deliberate choice not to play through midfield - Arbroath didn't allow us to by constantly sitting on Power and shutting him off as an option for a pass out of defence.
Imrie still doesn't escape blame for that as a huge factor in not having any alternative to Power resulting in the defence going long all the time was Blues hiding continually rather than bothering his arse to show for a pass. Had he been subbed at half-time when we were still in the game rather than getting the 90 minutes we might not have been so easily dominated in the middle of the park and that's on Imrie, but going long all the time was down to Arbroath's tactics successfully forcing us to rather than wanting to.
Oh shoosh, you’re not the insightful tactician you think you are here.
The fact Wilson came on and found plenty of time and space on the ball but still went diagonal to McGrattan and Boyd shows you the players were told to do that.
And that’s fine in 80-90% of our games - we play the territory game and try to play in fits and starts off of second balls, throw ins, corners. And it’s been successful.
But it just doesn’t work against Arbroath as we’ve seen over and over - they have a very experienced and defence who are happy to defend those balls and they are onto every loose ball quicker than us when the balls ping-ponging about.
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Don’t want to hear player X, Y or Z be the scapegoat after that.
Fact is Dougie’s seen Arbroath enough times - and seen enough in the first half hour today - to understand that our normal game doesn’t work against them. They’re just quicker to the second balls and comfortable defending diagonals.
The blame for today lies squarely with him for not having them play through midfield when it was patently obvious we were second best. That doesn’t excuse poor individual performances around the pitch mind.
ETA: Well played Arbroath, always impressed when I see you play us.
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I hate to come on here to be negative, I really do have faith in Imrie and think he could take us up with a bit of luck.
But Iain Wilson is right up there amongst the worst players I’ve ever seen at Morton - certainly his performance away to Hamilton is amongst the worst I’ve ever seen.
He was slow, unfit and completely bereft of confidence: I can’t imagine any of that is different now that his club - in the league below us no less - is allowing him to go out on loan.
He overhit passes long, he gave the ball away when trying short passes, opposition midfielders got by him with ease. I feel Gillespie is nearing his last legs and not yet impressed by Power so I’m not against another midfielder per se - but this guy doesn’t belong on a fitba pitch.
As others have said though, defenders are the priority, Saturday gave some alarm bells. But the idea Wilson is a fullback is laughable.
If his supposed versatility is what’s sold Imrie on him - why not Strapp who’s been around the ground and still without a club? He can obviously play left back and played centre back many times. With his attitude I’d also take him at right back or midfield over Wilson, if there were not other options.
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Stream anywhere?
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Alright, I’ll be the one - when’s the draw?
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Do Cove Rangers offer a stream?
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I am well-aware that I have been sounding like an Old Firm-supporting moonhowler with this, but we are clearly getting jobbed on Saturday, sadly:
https://dundeefc.co.uk/news/further-queens-park-ticket-update/
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Really looking forward to this one - after weeks of speculating on what could and should be needed, it all comes to a head here for us and QP.
From our POV, I calculate that:
If Morton win, we’re still in with a shout at the playoffs regardless of other results.
If Morton draw, we need Partick to draw or lose to retain a chance of the playoffs.
If Morton lose, we need Partick to lose and Ayr to lose or draw to retain a chance of the playoffs.
(There are two other scenarios where we lose and can be mathematically still in it with a Partick draw but they require such a large swing in goal difference I have disregarded them).
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With apologies in advance that I’m going to sound like your typical old firm supporter; if Dundee win on Friday night leaving Queen’s Park on the brink against us on Saturday, the ref will bend over backwards to help them win to take things to the final day.
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Thank you, I see Morton have also just shared the info
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Any word on how to purchase away tickets for this yet?
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Any update on when you’ll be in your new ground?
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3 hours ago, spiders4ever said:
Yes
Thanks
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I take it you can just show the QR code on your phone and you don’t need to print out the pdf?
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The Greenock Morton Thread - It's Better Than Yours
in Scottish Championship General Chatter
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I don’t agree that Imrie is being stubborn - I think he simply doesn’t know another way to play.
He has moved to 5 at the back recently, so is obviously recognising we need to change things, but judging by his instruction to players in-game the plan remains to play direct and hope to gain possession high up the pitch whether through a dead ball or winning a second ball.
That’s served him very well so far but clearly not working now - big test for him IMO will be if he can figure out a new strategy going forward.
With the personnel we have though, that might be hard - do we try to play with wingers now in Bearne, Quitongo when fit and/or possibly McGrattan or Boyd? Do we try to bring Gillespie back in and play through midfield more (that fella’s finished as a FT player IMO, sadly)
I don’t see a quick turnaround here, best we can hope for is to be in touch come January and see if we can change up the squad - if we can manage that, it’s more likely to have been down to loss of form by other team(s) than our own play. League fixture list between now and mid-December is very tough, before we play the teams around us or we will be trying to reel in( ICT, QP, Arbroath, Airdrie).
Am not looking forward to Partick next week and having to sit through those smug gits potentially giving us a doing again.