Somerset Park, Ayrial view. Lawn bowling to the right.
Morton visit Somerset Park for an afternoon's association football against Ayr United. Ayr won both encounters in the first half of the season. Which is shocking because Morton are in second place and Ayr are in ninth.
Are Ayr? Ayr are.
Andy Barrowman has left Morton. The club has now lost its #1 and #2 scorers of the first half. But Ross Forbes, formerly of Dunfermline, has signed. Rumours swirl around Michael Tidser.
Recent Morton away colours:
2014-15: navy and cranberry
2012-13: yellow and blue
2011-12: red
No evidence yet of Greenock ever having worn green.
Last night's match between Rangers and Hearts was abandoned after 20 minutes because of snow. Today's Motherwell versus Kilmarnock match is postponed due to wind damage at Fir Park. Elgin City versus Clyde is also off. Other fixtures depend on this morning's pitch inpection. But our one is on.
[Ayr 1 - 1 Morton. Peter MacDonald scores. Morton slither to third place.]
This is the first season in which relegation and promotion are possible between tier four (League Two) and tier five (the Highland and Lowland Leagues). It's quite foreseeable that next season Edinburgh City will be up and Elgin City will be down. Though Elgin City FC were founded in 1893, they only entered the SFL in 2000. They have played Morton five times in world history, once in Round Three of the 1967-68 Scottish Cup (Morton won), and four times in 2002-03, the Ton's Third Division season (Morton won three with one draw.) If Elgin City return to the Highland League, and Edinburgh City leave the Lowland League, both leagues will have an odd number of clubs, unless some as yet poorly understood mechanism comes into force.
fitbastats.com now has all 42 SPFL clubs' stats up. I encourage all of mankind to make use of that site.
It's the fourth round of the Scottish Junior Cup. Matches to watch:
Port Glasgow versus Auchinleck Talbot [postponed]
Hurlford United versus Bo'ness United [postponed]
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