Greenock Morton v Queen's Park

THE MANAGER

DOUGIE IMRIE

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message FROM THE BOARD

Welcome to Cappielow for today’s cinch Championship match against Queens Park, our final home game of the 2022/23 league season. Thank you for reading our digital programme for today’s game.

As communicated last week, this programme is a trial of a new digital programme and we will be keen to hear feedback from supporters. Thank you to everyone who let us know their thoughts about last week’s version, it was great to see a positive response. We would like to extend a welcome to players, staff, management, and supporters from today’s visitors.

Queens Park arrive at Cappielow today sitting second in the table, just one point behind leaders Dundee.

It was great last week to pick up a valuable three points against Raith Rovers which kept us in the mix for a playoff spot. The aim is the same again today, pick up three points and take it to the final day of the season where we will face a trip to Cove.

At today’s match we welcome the pupils, parents and staff from Kings Oak Primary School in Greenock. There are 160 pupils, 145 parents and 24 school staff present thanks to the support of Dalrada who initially suggested the idea of inviting the

school along and have supported through the provision of tickets.

Through the work of Dalrada and MCT, the kids have been presented with a goody bag when they entered the stadium where the items within have been donated by Buchanan’s and Tesco Store Greenock. Everyone would like to offer a huge thanks to Crawford Rae and his staff at Buchanan’s and the staff at Tesco Store in Greenock for getting on board.

We hope that everyone enjoys their day, and we send them home happy with another three points.

Off the pitch, it was great to welcome many of you to our fan event on Thursday evening. A huge thank you to everyone who came down to The Chartroom.

This week we also announced the top two MatchWinner kits which will soon be on sale. We can’t wait to see these retro kits brought back to life.

Away from Cappielow, there’s also “An Evening with Morton” at Port Glasgow Town Hall on Saturday 6th May to look forward to where we will have 300 in attendance celebrating all things Morton. We said it last week, but we need to say it again - thank you, as always, for your incredible backing across the season, we hope you enjoy today’s game!

AHEAD OF THE GAME

SATURDAY 29 APRIL 2023

TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE FROM THE FOLLOWING OUTLETS:

Cappielow – During office hours Monday to Friday, 10am-12noon and 1pm-4pm. (Offices are closed Wednesday)

Smiths of Greenock – During opening hours, 9am – 5.30pm.

Purchase online –https://www.gmfctickets.co.uk/

Ticket Office – Matchday, 12pm – 3pm

Tickets are available to purchase on matchday from the Sinclair Street ticket office from 12pm right until kick-off.

2022/23 GATE PRICES

Adult – £22

Concession

(Over 65s, 18-20 year olds) – £16

12-17 Year Old – £12

Under 12 – £3

^Please note, proof of entitlement must be provided for concessionary tickets, while proof of age is required for children between 12 and 17 and those between 18 and 20. Prices apply irrespective of the day or time of purchase.

Children Under-12 must be accompanied by an adult when purchasing a ticket and at all times within the stadium. Any child unaccompanied will not be permitted entry to the ground.

Those children without a season card will be required to purchase a physical match ticket with scannable barcode at a cost of £3.

AWAY FANS

Queen’s Park fans will be housed in sections F&G of the Main Stand and will enter via the Sinclair Street turnstiles. Away tickets are available to purchase online or at the ticket office on matchday.

Purchase tickets online HERE .

SOCIAL MEDIA

The players have had their say, have you?

Voting for our end of season award night remains open until midnight on Sunday 30th April!

��Following last week’s voting, we are pleased to announce the winning shirts of our @matchwinneruk vote.

FAN EVENT

Greenock Morton and Morton Club Together are we’re delighted to give fans the opportunity to come along to chat to staff and board members about everything going on at the club.

As a community owned club, we want our fans to be at the heart of everything we do. In attendance on the night we’re:

First Team Manager, Dougie Imrie

Finance Director, Michael Harkins

General Manager, Kerr Mactavish

Head of Commercial, Ross Dunbar

MCT Directors, David McCluskey Ruaridh Allen from Fanbase.

Speaking after the event, Head of Commercial, Ross Dunbar said, “Thursday’s fan event at The Chartroom in Inverkip was an ideal opportunity to get feedback from

the supporters on the season past. We were delighted with the numbers and appreciate every fan making the trip down.

“The gaffer gave an insight into being a firstteam manager and the planning for next season’s squad. We’d like to thank Ruaridh Allen from Fanbase for joining us to give us a look at the new ticketing system for 2023/24.”

Match HIGHLIGHTS

CINCH CHAMPIONSHIP - SAT 23 APR 2023

Matchwinner Kit Vote Results

Following last week’s voting, we are pleased to announce the winning shirts of our Matchwinner kit vote. Supporters have voted in favour of the 1991-93 Home Shirt and the 1993-95 Home Shirt.

There was a total of 1,526 votes from 763 responses with a full voting breakdown found below:

1989-91 Home Shirt – 251 Votes

1991-93 Home Shirt – 347 Votes

1992-93 Away Shirt – 155 Votes

1993-95 Home Shirt – 530 Votes

1993-95 Away Shirt – 243 Votes

Pricing and order details for the winning tops will be announced in due course, thank you to everyone that took part!

FROM THE ARCHIVE

MORTON v QUEEN’S PARK

Queen’s Park failed to extend their lead at the top of the Scottish Championship table, falling to a thrilling five-goal defeat at Morton.

Grant Savoury gave Queen’s the lead before a quick-fire double from George Oakley had Dougie Imrie’s side ahead. Jack Baird netted a crucial third for the hosts to ensure Connor Shields’ first goal for the Spiders would have no impact on the result.

Queen’s stay four points clear of Ayr United, having played a game more.

Morton shift up into fourth.

Attendance: 1572

Referee: David Dickinson

11/02/2023 CHAMPIONSHIP

MORTON 3

QUEEN’S PARK 2

STARTING XI

Schwake, Brian

O’Connor, Darragh

Baird, Jack ⚽ (48)

Waters, Calum Anderson �� (11)

Grimshaw, Liam David �� (82)

Blues, Cameron

Quitongo, Jai �� (45)

Crawford, Robbie

McGrattan, Lewis

Muirhead, Robbie

Oakley, George ⚽ (20) ⚽ (22)

SUBSTITUTES

Gillespie, Grant

(on for McGrattan, Lewis, 66 mins)

King, Alex

(on for Oakley, George, 74 mins)

MORTON ON THIS DAY

Saturday, April 29th 1978

League (Division One)

STARTING XI

Connaghan

Hayes

Holmes

Anderson �� Orr

Veitch

Russell (34, 68)

Brown

Miller

Goldthorpe

Ritchie

SUBSTITUTES

Evans

Thomas

FIRST TEAM 22/23

PLAYER SPONSORS

IN THE COMMUNITY

Morton in the Community girls and women are flourishing at present with a fantastic group taking part. We have reached record levels with 113 girls under the age of 16 and a first team competing in the SWF championship operating with a squad of 20. After promotion last season, this season has been a challenge for first team. We have a relatively young squad with an average age at 22, the players are showing lots of potential and gained a lot of experience for going into next season. So far this season has seen debuts for seven pathway graduates who are still able to play at under 16s.

Today (Saturday 29th April) our under 16s squad face the long journey north to face Ross County in the last 32 of the Scottish Cup on and we wish them well in this tie!

Girls Pathway Co-Ordinator and First team head coach Colin McEachnie said “ These are exciting times for the club as we continue to grow, with many more plans still to be implemented as we continue to look at increasing the participation of girls in Inverclyde and nuture them into a successful women’s first team”

OPPOSITION

QUEEN’S PARK

CLUB MATTERS

Queen’s Park come to Cappielow deep in the hunt for an automatic promotion place in second spot, but also in the midst of a poor run of form.

Indeed with just four points from a possible 15, their last five games sees them seventh of 10 in the current form table, well adrift of Morton who now have eight points from 15. A late winner at home to Hamilton two weeks ago has masked a poor run which has seen the Spiders lose three in a row, conceding

seven and failing to score in that run. Away form also seems to have deserted our visitors as their last win on the road came more than two months ago with a 4-1 thumping of, you guessed it, strugglers

Hamilton

With a home clash against title rivals Dundee FC to end the season next week, Queen’s Park know that only a win will do today.

Lesser Hampden Park

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THE BOSSOWEN COYLE

Owen Coyle is a vastly experienced manager who has wide experience in the game from both a playing and managerial perspective.

Having started with Dumbarton in 1985, Coyle enjoyed an almost exclusively Scottish playing career which took in almost 700 games. His only spell across the border was with Bolton. After starting full time as boss at St Johnstone, Coyle went on to manage a number of clubs including Burnley, Wigan and Bolton, before moving to the States to Houston Dynamo. After a spell at Jamshedpur in the Indian Super League he was announced as the new boss of Queen’s Park in March 2022 and took up the role in June of that year.

WATCH OUT FORGRANT SAVOURY

Grant Savoury progressed through the youth academies of Celtic, but didn’t make his Scottish Premiership debut. In January 2020, he was out on loan to Edinburgh City, but due to COVID, the season was restricted with Grant returning to Parkhead after playing just 6 games. In October of last year, Savoury signed a contract for two years at Peterhead FC. He played 28 official matches, in which he scored 6 times and provided 5 assists. He appeared in three matches against Queen’s Park FC. Grant signed for Queen’s Park, on a two year contract, in June 2022.

LAST 5 GAMES

CLUB TOGETHER

It was great to see the reaction to last week’s digital programme launch for the Raith Rovers match. We felt it was a hugely important medium in that two-way communication with fans, so hopefully today’s version continues along that path in the lead up to a full launch next season for fans to continue to enjoy.

Thanks to Dalrada, Brian Bonar and the work of the MCT Team, the Queen’s Park match sees the club welcome pupils, parents and staff from Kings Oak Primary School in Greenock.

They’ve been provided with tickets for the match, along with a goody bag which has been kindly donated by Buchanan’s and Greenock’s Tesco Store.

We’re continuing to iron out the future strategy for Morton Club Together, but one key area we know we will be focusing on is our junior fans. We want to make Cappielow a secure and welcoming place for our young fans, who will be the lifeblood of the club in the future. One of the reasons why community ownership is so important in the first place is so that we all have a club to continue to support and love. We know there’s some challenges around this, but we’re determined to work alongside the club and Morton in the Community to ensure we’ve got as many youngsters engaging with Morton, whatever that looks like.

We keep talking about that two-way communication with fans, so it was great to see that in action this week, with the fan event at Inverkip Hub. David McCluskey was representing MCT at the event and had a great evening chatting to members and fans alongside representatives from the club. We’ll be continuing to encourage and work alongside the club to host much more of these types of events going forward. Talking of David McCluskey, one of MCT’s key aims going forward is to level

up our ways of working. We’d previously communicated to members about our upcoming database management system we’re in the process of moving to, but another project we’re starting alongside that is to completely overhaul the roles and responsibilities within MCT. That has begun with David McCluskey being voted by the board to become the chairperson of MCT. He is now responsible for leading the overall MCT strategy and driving us forward to achieve our aims.

MCT members also recently voted on whether they agreed with the MCT board’s choice of proposing Sam Robinson to be a candidate to join the football club board. We were delighted to see 96% of members who voted agreeing with us. We see having a crossover between the MCT and football club board as absolutely vital, and we’d like to congratulate Sam on being accepted onto the football club board.

We hope everyone attending the Queen’s Park match enjoys it and cheers the team on to another three points.

Breakfast rolls, a cuppa and some good company!

Everyone welcome, age 18+ Wednesday mornings from 9.30am at Cappielow Park

FIXTURES/RESULTS 2022/23