Stevie Aitken's Love Child

You see, I'm of the opinion that that should be it. The final episode would, for me, have been a good way to sign off with the show.

I'm sure that picture is from the summer; what his current condition is I have no idea. Shiels has said that he is a few weeks away from being fit in today's Greenock Telegraph, but he did recently have a training stint with Bury I think, so he might have dropped a load of that weight. Surely he would have been told to do one if he turned up in that condition looking for a contract.

Apparently Gary O'Connor is training with Morton with a view to a short term deal. Last picture I saw of him a few months ago, he had fair put on the chunk, so I have no idea what his current shape might be. We also have midfielder David Robertson on trial, after being told that he is surplus to requirements at St Johnstone. He is expected to play for the reserves tonight. Edit as my spelling was shite.

Shiels wants to bring the good feeling back to Cappielow... http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/spfl-lower-divisions/kenny-shiels-sets-out-for-long-stay-at-morton-1-3234467?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

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3 of the applicants for the manager's job have been unveiled in today's Greenock Telegraph, and they are all former players. I'm sure the following names will surprise a few: Janne Lindberg - currently head coach of Finnish fourth tier side Sudet Marko Rajamaki - head coach at TPS Turku in the Finnish top tier Jani Uotinen - Youth coach at VPS in the Finnish top tier http://www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk/sport/morton/articles/2013/12/12/481877-three-former-finnish-favourites-apply-for-morton-managers-job/

Kenny Shiels managing a side containing Nacho Novo and Dougie Imrie. Can you imagine the rage from away fans?

I don't believe that the old school style would work these days, agreed, but the correct balance needs to be found. You still need someone that isn't afraid to give someone a bollocking, if they deserve it and if you feel that they can react to it and not go into their shell. That's where good man management comes in I suppose. It's a tough balance, and must be hard to stay calm as a coach when your players are just not playing as you want them to. The bare minimum that should be asked of a manager is to organise and set out a team well, regardless of quality of player at his disposal. As you say, other than seeing a 2 minute clip per week, I'm not in a position to comment on the quality of our squad, but there is a spine of good quality individuals in that team that, given the correct leadership and guidance, might be able to scrape us over the line.

Depends on what the new boss thinks i suppose. He's only scored 1 goal in 9 games, not really the impact that we were looking for.

*sigh* Anyway, someone over on the Morton forum seems fairly confident that Kenny Shiels will be the next Morton boss. Would be pretty happy with that personally, seems like the kind of character who is not averse to kicking some arses, which some of our lot seem to require.

Even just one terrace on the opposite side of the main stand, covered and available to both sets of fans, would make a huge difference. 6-8 steps high, with a roof, some bogs and a pie shop. I'm sure the same people that provided Ross County's temp stands would probably do something similar for terracing.

After reading further into it, they are looking to build a 750 seater stand. I would have thought that the fans would have preferred to have a terrace installed, with a similar capacity or maybe even up to 1,000, which could then house away fans as well as home.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-25199039 Went to a crowdfunding seminar during the summer and it really is a novel way to raise funds, not sure how easy it will be for a football club mind you, but fair play to the board for looking at something different rather than just borrowing money, whether it be in the form of loans from directors or whatever. Anyway, what sort of stand would you be looking to build? I would have thought that a terrace would have gone down better, opposite the main stand, would really do a lot to improve the feel of New Bayview.

I was just about the comment on the giant magic tree incident, that was tremendous work. The thing must have been about 5 feet high, it's the effort to make it that impressed me. It really was pathetic to see people complaining about it mind you, too many people in the world have had a sense of humour bypass it seems.

Today's Greenock Telegraph... Have garden gnomes and the word ingenious ever been used in the same sentence before?

I read as far as 'a iPod' and gave up. AN iPOD YOU FUCKING MORON!

Parks & Rec returned with a double episode in the States on Thursday past

Might be up for that, I'm only an hour and a half away. My allegiances have kind of been handed to Augsburg already however, so I'm probably never going to be an 1860 fan, but I'm always up for getting to games.

I quite fancy an 1860 game sometime actually. P&B day out at the Allianz anyone?

I've never tried to get tickets to a league game at the Allianz, but from what I understand, Bayern games sell out more or less instantly. I'm sure you'd be able to get a ticket on somewhere like viagogo or the like. There was actually an article in one of yesterday's papers, saying that Bayern have sold out every home game for the rest of the season, so even that could be a struggle. In comparison, you can walk up to the ground when 1860 are at home and get a ticket without an issue, as you would expect from a side with an average attendance of under 20,000 playing in a 71,000 stadium.

The ICE trains are the dugs danglies, comfy as you like and as you say, cheap as chips if you can get an advance ticket.

I have a mate who's nickname is Blue (his real surname is Green), and this is purely based on someone calling him Blue when he was in primary school. He's 28 now and I can't recall ever referring to him by his real name, it's always Blue. I also knew a guy called biscuit (surname McVitie) and a Morton fan who gets called Dougie due to his resemblance to Dougie Donnelly apparently (I've never seen it myself).

Just finished season 2, what a show this is by the way! I definitely fancy Rachel

I noticed that there was no episode on last week, and there is now a 1 month gap between episodes 5 and 6 according to IMDB, with the next episode airing on the 14th of November apparently. Sort it out NBC, Parks and Rec is one of the best shows on TV!