Party fever had hit Cappielow as Inverclyde united to celebrate 150 years of Greenock Morton Football Club but the next century and a half got off to a flyer thanks to second half strikes from Serb striker Filip Stuparevic and first-half substitute Michael Garrity. The last century and a half had brought the community thrills, spills and everything in between was Scottish Cup wins were followed with escapades in the top flight followed by flirting with going out of existence all together. The fanfare of this special occasion saw faces old and new in an Inerclyde-wide effort to come out and back the team ahead of a game that saw them come up against a side who believe they have plenty to shout about.
Raith Rovers were the team looking to gate crash a second party in as many weeks, fresh off the back of ending Falkirk's long unbeaten run at Stark's Park last time around. Morton however, were looking to get back to winning ways, and in a similar fashion to the way that they'd disposed of Airdrieonians at Cappielow a fortnight prior. Mullen, Ballantyne, Baird, Broadfoot, Delaney, Wilson(Blues,59), Moffat, Lyall(Gillespie,74), McGinn, Crawford(Garrity,36), Stuparevic(Reynolds,73) Woods, Davies, King, O'Boy Wilson(57) Blues(85) Stuparevic(48) Garrity(54) Gillespie(90+8) Dabrowski, Freeman(Dabo,64), Hanlon, Murray, Stevenson, Byrne(Brown,46), Matthews(Mullin,83), Pollock(Fordyce,77), Easton, Connolly(Jamieson,64), Hamilton McNeil, Smith, Mullin, Gibson Stevenson(69) That saw Imrie m.