Chippyminton
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At the Airdrie vs Hearts game, the pundits (including Dougie) were standing on the pitch, not sat on top of an ivory-tower pile of space-taking scaffolding. A better solution all round IMHO - and easier for them to get to the pie stall.
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3 hours ago, JS_FFC said:
Has anyone suggested just making it a two team tournament between Rangers and Celtic yet? Everyone else can play in the junior cup instead.
Great idea. Whilst we're at it, we should just make Celtic or Sevco default champions and have the rest of the Premiership coming in as joint bottom.
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1874 = Morton FC founded.
1874 = Heart of Midlothian FC founded.
1874 = First Scottish Cup final played.
150 years later - all three come together. There's not another fixture globally (nor is there ever likely to be) which celebrates a combined history of 450 years - just 50 years shy of half a millenium. That's an incredible legacy for both teams, and also for the competition we're playing in. Win or lose, supporters of both sides should be proud of just being at this game, and of the Scottish fitba history it represents.
We'll go into this as complete underdogs, and it's worth mentioning that we have the lowest budget in the Championship, just to put this gaping chasm into perspective. Hearts played some lovely, flowing football against Airdrie, scoring some absolute stoaters along the way. Unlike the lacklustre Motherwell the other night, they look and play like a proper Premiership team - right up there with the best the country has to offer. Shankland's a machine and the understandable media focus because of his epic strike rate, but there's quality running throughout the whole side, and they'll be incredibly difficult to control, let alone beat. They also have a keeper who isn't a bombscare, and they'll bring a fantastic travelling support who I'm sure will once again help turn Cappielow into a deafening, hoaching cauldron.
That said, we're unbeaten now in 13 games, not having lost since 18th November 2023. and Irrespective of the fact that our opposition is nowhere near the quality of Hearts, that's still quite the achievement. In Dougie Imrie, we have a manager who has the ability to get his players to run through brick walls for him, and the fighting spirit and confidence in the camp is as high as I've ever known it. He also has the ability to read our opponents exceptionally well, and put individual gameplans in place which are highly specific to whoever we're playing. The magic of the Scottish Cup for me, though, is that games can sometimes be won by on-paper inferior teams through sheer guts, determination, and just wanting it more. I'm sure everyone reading this will know just how up for this we'll be - it has the makings of an absolute classic blood-and-guts cup tie. My head says that it will be a Hearts win, but my heart's hoping for the wee miracle.
Mon eh Ton !!
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The capacity issue at Cappielow for the Motherwell game was a bit of a last-minute stramash. Our GM's on the case straightaway which is good to see. With better forward planning it will be hoaching.
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3 minutes ago, Hendricks said:
Oh wow! Going to be a major scrabble for them then, that's nowhere close to meeting demand.
There was a bit of a late-on stramash regarding the maximum available capacity for the Motherwell game. I know we lost a fair bit because of the BBC gantries taking up so much space, but I'm hoping that the lessons learned from the Motherwell game will help fix it. Will undoubtedly be a tough game for us. Looking forward to it.
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18 minutes ago, Venti said:
Hearts are gonnae pump us aren't they?
We'll definitely go into the game very much as underdogs, but we've nothing to lose and whatever the outcome, the payday will be a decent one. Couldn't help noticing how quiet and flat the crowd seemed a lot of the time. Compare that with the Cappielow atmosphere for the Motherwell game, I couldn't hear myself think. I think that Morton away is going to be a very different proposition for Hearts, despite their undeniable poise, class, and quality. We'll be snapping at their heels from the get-go - they'll bring a fantastic travelling support and the atmosphere will undoubtedly be tremendous once again. My glimmer of hope is that it's not so very long ago since they struggled to a 2-1 over Spartans. All it takes is another sub-par performance like that and we'll cappielowtise on it. See what I did there?
Fair play to Airdrie - yous battled well and didn't drop your heads at 3-0. Some of those Hearts goals were absolute peaches.
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Good luck to the Rose at Pittodrie tonight. Many of you probably saw us put Motherwell to the sword on telly last night. League positions don’t matter in the cup - it’s all about your XI on the pitch and how badly they want it.
Best wishes from a still-buzzing Greenock.0 -
9 minutes ago, Cowshed said:
He looks good
he looks fine
George Oakley’s on my mind and he’s scoring all the time
That picture made me smile almost as much as the result did
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Fantastic result for us. We grafted hard and made it difficult for our opponents. Fair play to all of the Motherwell supporters on here who've been absolutely sound since page 1. Cheers also for the congrats from supporters of other teams. Roll on the quarters.
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7 minutes ago, Allroy for Prez said:
Very impressed with Morton. They’re more up for it.
Honestly can’t tell who the premier league team is here.
It’s that crazy-gang fight and spirit which has got us where we are right now. Dougie Imrie somehow manages to get our players running through walls for him. It’s obvious how much quality there is in the Motherwell side, the way they stroke the ball around is impressive. But we just haven’t allowed yous to play and you haven’t really created anything. 1-0 is about fair on balance.
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1 minute ago, AdamMFC said:
Are the pie stalls taking cash or are they cashless?
Cash only, mate.
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9 minutes ago, cet homme charmant said:
Disagree. The capacity restrictions should have been announced days ago, not a few hours before KO
Understandable - but we have to remember that Dale's been having to react to a fluid situation which has been changing practically by the hour as more and more tickets have been getting sold. He's taken decisions based on the here & now, on safety, and on providing the best matchday experience for everyone at the game. That's his job - and don't forget that the buck would stop with him if anything bad happened as a result of poor capacity management. Plus - he's reacted very quickly to concerns supporters have raised, and he's addressed them in a clear, concise and honest way. I don't honestly see what more he could possibly have been expected to do.
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1 hour ago, Ferguson said:
How many Premiership teams would go to East End Park and win 5-0?
Given that extra-special Pars masterclass in comedy defending, I'd hazard a guess at all of them. Even Livingston would give them a blootering.
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1 hour ago, cet homme charmant said:
Wow, it's almost as if Greenock has a sub-Antarctic microclimate
FTFY
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Stoked.
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5 hours ago, Stevie Aitken's Love Child said:
Probably easiest to park in Douglas Rae Road, at the sugar sheds on the other side of the main road from Cappielow. Gets you right out onto the main road after the game.
+1 on this. If you pull up Cappielow on Google Maps, you'll see that there are quite a few residential streets close to the ground. They're usually well worth a shot as well.
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Good thread this. Arbroath for me as well, and by a country mile. Always good craic with their supporters before and after games, steak & black pies, plus the improvements they’ve made to the ground are impressive. Somerset Park in at 2nd simply because I’m fond of old-school, traditional grounds rather than Lego ones.
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7 hours ago, cet homme charmant said:
Edit to add: with the arguable exception of Dundee United
Who we recently sworded 3-2 at Tannadice, resulting in Jim Goodwin's glorious salty-teared post-match interview cringe-a-thon, blaming everyone and everything apart from himself and his actual team who'd screwed up the game courtesy of his awfy shite tactical blunders and the general haplessness of the team he'd picked. Monumental, perfectly-coiffured-and-immaculately-bearded bad losership on an epic scale. Plus - he trotted out the traditional 'Morton are thugs and hammerthrowers who play hoofball' pish to insultingly cap it all off.
Since every single Motherwell supporter (to a man) throughout this entire thread has been universally decent and respectful, I expect no less from Mr. Kettlewell when he hopefully explains the reasons for his 'on-paper-superior' team's narrow defeat.
Possibly. Let's see how the stars align on Friday
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6 hours ago, Neil86 said:
Morton ticket office very helpful fwiw, good guys.
Glad you got fixed up mate. Enjoy the game.
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7 hours ago, TheGoon said:
Absolutely destined for the Neil Warnock derby should we make it through.
Aye. And with any luck, Neil’s love of Morton will make him pick the most shite Dons starting XI to give us the best possible stab at it
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22 minutes ago, Neil86 said:
I've made an arse of it and bought a ticket for the home end.
Would I be able to phone morton ticket office and sort this or do any morton fans know if there is a way I can do it online.
All our online ticket purchases are done via the Fanbase App, an organisation who we partner with. Your best bet is to give the club a call directly. I'm sure someone will be able to fix you up. The number's 01475 723571.
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I sadly won't be finishing my work until 8pm and I'm gutted that I won't be there. We'll obviously be giving Motherwell the respect they're due - they're a Premiership team with all that entails, but we're going like a steam train just now with our longest unbeaten run in 40+ years. I can't think of a better set of circumstances for us to be facing such a tough opponent. Massively looking forward to this.
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3 minutes ago, AuldReekie said:
Absolutely brilliant turn around from Morton after we played them off park earlier in season. All their best qualities are the exact ones we were missing.
For us though, that's the worst possible result at the worst possible time. Completely undoing the good effort last week. New boys thrown in at deep end and drowning. Confidence absolutely battered. Dropped right into the relegation battle. Management team might be fatally wounded. Next week is now a real battle for different reasons - I don't think he's quite there yet, but there might be no way back for McPake if we don't win.
Biggest issue for me is lack of aggression and physicality. We try and play nice football, but we seem slower than the opposition, second to a lot of balls, lack of any consistent pressing game.
Long week ahead.
Understandable on every count. FWIW look at our stats for the first part of the season played with our threadbare squad - you'll immediately understand why we were bottom of the league, you'll figure why you sworded us in the first two games, and why it must have seemed that you were playing a different side today. Fact is that you were playing a different version of us - we now have a mostly fully fit & available squad, and our 'unbeaten since November 18th 2023' says it all. So keep your chins up Pars - and look at what happens when that resiience, belief, and confidence returns. There's at least one team who I'd prefer to see go down rather than yous. Clue = it's not Arbroath.
Best wishes from Greenock.
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Cheers for the info. Friday-night fitba under the Cappielow lights is magic.