Scary Bear Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 We can make it 20 league wins in the Championship. Might as well go for that and try and build some momentum for the play-offs. Morton looking to hang on to 5th place. How is this one going to go? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heid_The_Baw Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 Up against the brutal Morton, we need to be careful of picking up injuries. Result doesn't matter for the league but does for momentum. Get through the game, lick the inevitable wounds and move on. -5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alibi Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 7 minutes ago, Heid_The_Baw said: Up against the brutal Morton, we need to be careful of picking up injuries. Result doesn't matter for the league but does for momentum. Get through the game, lick the inevitable wounds and move on. This "brutal" Morton thing is a load of nonsense. In reality we are not a team of tall, strong players and on more than one occasion this season we've been kicked off the park by opponents (Airdrie at Cappielow being one prime example). Part of our problem this season has been the number of injuries we have sustained - from Jai Quitongo being assaulted by the usually mild mannered Andy Murdoch to George Oakley being targeted by some double barrelled mutant from Monklands. I think Raith are more than capable of giving as good as they get in that respect. No idea what we'll be like on Saturday, whether we are trying as hard as possible to hang on to 5th and the extra prize money that means, or more likely with thoughts on a wee break in the sun before next season. Would be nice to beat Raith although in truth there isn't really anything vital to play for with this one as we're now safe and Raith are safe in second place. We will have Strapp and Wilson out which weakens our team considerably. I'm guessing a dull 1-1 draw but it's Morton so you never know. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kev Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 4 minutes ago, Alibi said: This "brutal" Morton thing is a load of nonsense. In reality we are not a team of tall, strong players and on more than one occasion this season we've been kicked off the park by opponents (Airdrie at Cappielow being one prime example). Part of our problem this season has been the number of injuries we have sustained - from Jai Quitongo being assaulted by the usually mild mannered Andy Murdoch to George Oakley being targeted by some double barrelled mutant from Monklands. I think Raith are more than capable of falling to the ground screaming like little girls as soon as a big bad brutes like Callum Waters coming within 5 feet of them No idea what we'll be like on Saturday, whether we are trying as hard as possible to hang on to 5th and the extra prize money that means, or more likely with thoughts on a wee break in the sun before next season. Would be nice to beat Raith although in truth there isn't really anything vital to play for with this one as we're now safe and Raith are safe in second place. We will have Strapp and Wilson out which weakens our team considerably. I'm guessing a dull 1-1 draw but it's Morton so you never know. Fixed that for you 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie_M Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 Morton players to not give a f**k about 5th or prize money. Raith players to not give s f**k about 20 wins or momentum. Snoozefest incoming. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raith Against The Machine Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 15 minutes ago, Alibi said: This "brutal" Morton thing is a load of nonsense. In reality we are not a team of tall, strong players and on more than one occasion this season we've been kicked off the park by opponents (Airdrie at Cappielow being one prime example). Part of our problem this season has been the number of injuries we have sustained - from Jai Quitongo being assaulted by the usually mild mannered Andy Murdoch to George Oakley being targeted by some double barrelled mutant from Monklands. I think Raith are more than capable of giving as good as they get in that respect. And the one hundred and four yellow cards you've received in the league this year were, what, mistaken identity? 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammit Bawdeep Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 26 minutes ago, Alibi said: This "brutal" Morton thing is a load of nonsense. In reality we are not a team of tall, strong players and on more than one occasion this season we've been kicked off the park by opponents (Airdrie at Cappielow being one prime example). Part of our problem this season has been the number of injuries we have sustained - from Jai Quitongo being assaulted by the usually mild mannered Andy Murdoch to George Oakley being targeted by some double barrelled mutant from Monklands. I think Raith are more than capable of giving as good as they get in that respect. No idea what we'll be like on Saturday, whether we are trying as hard as possible to hang on to 5th and the extra prize money that means, or more likely with thoughts on a wee break in the sun before next season. Would be nice to beat Raith although in truth there isn't really anything vital to play for with this one as we're now safe and Raith are safe in second place. We will have Strapp and Wilson out which weakens our team considerably. I'm guessing a dull 1-1 draw but it's Morton so you never know. It really isn't, you're a shower of hammer throwing knuckle draggers, the card count speaks for itself. -6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferguson Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 You'd think the Raith players were being sent for 90 minutes in the Gulag the way these threads go. With Wilson and Strapp out and Baird and Blues likely to join them we'll either see a rejuvenated team with a point to prove or a disjointed scramble as we've seen more often than not this season. Anyone's guess how this one will go, 3 points would be nice but I won't lose sleep if not. Thoughts go out to the Raith players in advance. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken Soup Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 Watched Raith v Inverness and I thoroughly enjoyed the hilarity of Inverness somehow failing to score or take anything from the game. That said, several Raith players were guilty of throwing themselves to the deck on multiple occasions, as we’ve seen from them in our matches this season. In the absence of any real meaning to this game, it would be some laugh if we did finally live up to the Big Bad Morton moniker and brutalise them ahead of the playoffs. Picking up some points to help us secure fifth would be a bonus. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colkitto Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 I really hope the mentality for this game is keeping our 5th spot. In essence it's a nothing game for both clubs I suppose. Surely Bearne will get a run out from the start along with Jai. Garrity may be injured as he came off in the 1st half last week. McGrattan may get a look in too. Would maybe rest both Robbie's or give them 60 mins each. Could be the last game at Cappielow for Morton for a few of them, who knows? 1-0 Morton 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovers_Lad Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 1 hour ago, Jamie_M said: Morton players to not give a f**k about 5th or prize money. Raith players to not give s f**k about 20 wins or momentum. Snoozefest incoming. This Personally dont care 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MORleyTON Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 In Hospitality for this one with a few mates from Leeds. Hoping it's not a snooze fest or a hiding. Last home game so hopefully we go for it and fight for 5th. Got a feeling it'll be 2-2. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevoraith Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 One thing you can guarantee on a match thread involving Morton is a bunch of Morton fans getting annoyed and red-dotting everyone who says they are a dirty team, despite them having more than 50% more yellow cards than the team with the second most yellows in the league (incidentally Raith). More than a sixth of all the yellow cards in the championship this season have been shown to Morton players. But they’re not a dirty team. 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CountryBumpkin Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 3 minutes ago, stevoraith said: One thing you can guarantee on a match thread involving Morton is a bunch of Morton fans getting annoyed and red-dotting everyone who says they are a dirty team, despite them having more than 50% more yellow cards than the team with the second most yellows in the league (incidentally Raith). More than a sixth of all the yellow cards in the championship this season have been shown to Morton players. But they’re not a dirty team. To have only one red card is impressive though, given the number of yellows. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Specky Ginger Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 The fact Colin Steven is refereeing on Saturday is as big a concern re availability of players for the playoffs as injuries. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pub car king Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 Do bookings count for the play offs? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 Certainty wouldn’t risk Vaughany in this one. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Specky Ginger Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 57 minutes ago, pub car king said: Do bookings count for the play offs? Straight reds certainly do. That's why the prospect of Colin Steven at this stage of the season is so frightening. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ghost of B A R P Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 5 hours ago, Raith Against The Machine said: And the one hundred and four yellow cards you've received in the league this year were, what, mistaken identity? Aye, the only defined yellow-card offence is 'brutality', so you have a good point. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpoonTon Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 2 hours ago, stevoraith said: One thing you can guarantee on a match thread involving Morton is a bunch of Morton fans getting annoyed and red-dotting everyone who says they are a dirty team, despite them having more than 50% more yellow cards than the team with the second most yellows in the league (incidentally Raith). More than a sixth of all the yellow cards in the championship this season have been shown to Morton players. But they’re not a dirty team. Broadfoot's a dirty player (although quite a few of his 14 bookings have been for dissent). Baird recently seems to be following his example. Power's a player who can put a heavy challenge in. On the other hand, Robbie Muirhead has 10 bookings this season and I don't think anyone has ever accused him about him being that type of player (usually the complaint being the opposite). We've only had one sending off all season, which was harsh (one 24th of all sendings off, if you wondered). We have a physical side to us, absolutely, but it's more "what you see is what you get" physicality rather than "someone is going to get injured" dirty. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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