MVP: LlW

Team DPs: 44

GM are rivals to 2 teams.

Got a balanced squad - but need fillers to cope with ELs. An extra high SL Forward would be nice.

Morton FC was founded in 1874 in Greenock on the banks of the river Clyde. The first strip registered with the SFA was two inch blue and white hoops, blue shorts and red stockings, and the club play in a similar strip today. The original membership paid the club a fee to play for the team, rather like joining a sports clubs, but something unrecognisable in the modern game.

After a brief but nomadic existence Morton moved to Cappielow in 1879 and became a professional club in 1893 – they joined the Scottish League the same year, alongside Hibernian, Clyde, Partick Thistle and Motherwell. Morton won the Scottish Cup in 1921-22, the league second tier on six occasions and third tier three times. The club nearly went bankrupt in 2001 but managed to pull back from the brink and since 2014 are healthily placed in the Championship under manager Jim Duffy, a former club captain.

The name was changed in the recent past from Morton FC to Greenock Morton to reflect the area the club is from.

SEASON 59 Review

A bad season with relegation to the 3rd division. We couldn't get going all season and even in the cups we didn't manage to upset anybody.   1 win in the SESL group was not enough to get into the KO round and the Cecil wasn't much better - a 2nd round KO. The league seemed to suggest we might stay up - winning and losing alternatively but we hit a bad spell with more defeats than wins or even draws. We are where we arenow - and need to re-group to come back up.

Season 61 Preview

The team is fairly balanced back to front but we are short of squad fillers so ELs will become a problem for us in the future as we try to get into a promotion spot.

Need to bring in an apprentice defender and buy in a decent forward and I think we should do okay.

Season 55 update

Last season was a success: Morton managed to stay in Division 2 then won promtion in S54 via playoff, occasionally delighting fans with some dazzling displays. Other times disappointing them by total mediocrity or even worse. Such is football.

This year the mighty Morton will aim to stay afloat and keep out of the relegation battle. A boring mid table finish would do just fine.

With two youth signings, the fans have something to look for this season, other than ageing journeymen as has so often been the case. Goalie Ben Den, a former Scottish schoolboy international, has come through the ranks and signed his first professional contract. Den is truly a local lad: his childhood home is just across the corner from Cappielow Park.

Defender Ally Dally is the other new signing. He comes from Glasgow, where he played for Celtic all through his junior years, but failed to make the grade to first team football and was released. The tall centre half has been described as "a new Marcel Desailly" by the Cappielow Park faithful who have seen him in action in pre-season.

For manager Tap this new season is his 18th in charge of GM, having been manager briefly in season 11 and then from season 38 onwards. How time flies!

Season 51 (?) update

After a surprise promotion, Morton are in Division 2 again. Expectations for the season are as always: relegation dogfight, with anything other than relegation being deemed as a surprise.

- We must start to rebuild, but who doesn't always in SESL, manager Tapani Olkku says.

In the summer GM have signed two promising youngsters. Centre half Bill McPherson signs on a free transfer after being released from Spanish side Celta Vigo. The former Scottish U-19 international is happy to return to Scotland.

- I was going to play for Real Madrid but ended up in Vigo, and it was nothing like Real Madrid, so I stopped training and went to the beach. Which in that area is not warm.

Asked about his new signing's potential unprofessionalism, Olkku doesn't admit being concerned.

- He is fresh after a 2-year resting period.

Goalkeeper Petri Kolari joins Morton from Finnish side Myllykosken Pallo for 300K. Kolari has previously had trials in England with Bolton, Oldham, Bolton and Middlesbrough, but it was GM who managed to secure the youngster's signature.

- I have a feeling that in here I will have chances to break through to the first team. Besides, Scotland has always been special to me since watching old videos of Andy Goram as I was growing up, Kolari says.

Season 49 update

Back in Division 3, once again... the team fought hard to stay in Division 2 but it proved to be in vain - with the last matches going badly, Morton found themselves going down to the bottom tier. The results don't lie, they say.

Is there ever a time when it's not about rebuilding and consolidation? This year it is, anyway.

- We need a new crop of youngsters to come through. We have some talent in the youth teams, but we will have to look across the sea too, says manager Tapani Olkku, who remains in charge of the team despite relegation.

- Yes, I have a good working relationship with the board. Or the club are so skint they can't afford to sack me.

Target for the season: upper mid table finish.

Season 48 update

Somehow Greenock Morton are back in Division 2 after severall less than memorable years in the bottom tier. Promotion celebrations have been wild and lasted a long time, in fact, the team's preseason started late due to some players not reporting back on time. This gives us a great platform to build on, mentally if not physically, team spirit being at an all time high, confidence too.

The only aim for this season is to stay up. To help with the cause, we have signed promising Danish defender/midfielder Jorgen Jorgensen from AC Horsens. The Danish U21 international joins the squad with immediate effect and will hopefully be a cornerstone in the team for years to come.

Midfielder Jim Kerr has been named club captain for the upcoming season. 6/5 MF Kerr is starting his fourth season at Morton after coming through the youth ranks at Peterhead and then coming to Morton via Buckie Thistle, Edinburgh City and Kilmarnock. To date Kerr has played 132 SESL matches and scored 8 goals.

- It's an honour, of course. As a squad we're in transition, as everyone always is in this league, and us senior players have a big role in leading the way, Kerr says.

“There were few more fearsome sights in world football” than Joe Jordan

Hello everyone - I'm back for another season in SESL after a long while and we'll see how it goes as I have no expectations what soever.