santheman

Wouldn't be surprised to see him roll up at Killie. McInnes's type of player.

tbf I haven't really read anywhere except on here that there's a targeted attempt to give up fan ownership. That's not to say that won't happen as negotiations progress and vested interests come to the fore. All the social media stuff I've read is along the same lines, ie keep an open mind as to what any offer might materialise. I think there's a cats chance in hell of the WS members giving up control unless it's a truly extraordinary offer and even then I think its unlikely going by the members I know I've been speaking to, only one person out of 20 odd said they would be prepared to vote away our majority, the rest not under any circumstances. Not a very big sample granted.

Difference is ALL their fixtures are known from the start of the season so pure chance if you had a Liverpool/Arsenal/ Man City winner takes all on the last day. Ours can be manipulated to avoid that because of the split.

Only in Scotland. Any other country it would be the showpiece winner takes all finale.

I think when you take into consideration that Kettlewell was working with a much reduced playing budget and we were paying salaries to 2 managers (possibly 3 if you believe rumours) then to end the season relatively safe from relegation, looking like breaking even financially and seeing another academy product potentially earning us some good money and the prospect of some outside investment then I'm happy with that. Things could have been a lot worse.

Billy Bowie a director of Kilmarnock and his company who are one of Killies main sponsors personally funded Van Veens wages reputed to be 6k pw and their playing budget this season is considerably higher than ours so not a good comparison. And yes they have a good manager who also doesn't come cheap.

We all thought the same today till we looked at the league tables and realised we're no different to all the teams round about us. Hibs won 9 Mwell won 8 St J won 7 Ross Co won 6 Puts it into a bit of perspective

I know 2 of them and they're in the same boat as most of us. Waiting to see what the offer is then making up their minds based on the facts and figures. Everyone will have their own opinion and particular conspiracy theory.

Best post of the week mate.👍

This. He said that he had been looking at various clubs here and in England before settling on Motherwell so he could probably have had the choice of several clubs to invest in without the fan ownership model to contend with so if he'd simply wanted to buy a club outright there are plenty he could have chosen before us. Only another few weeks before we know the facts and figures of his offer so it'll give us something to talk about over the close season

That was shot down in flames at the time as comparing apples and oranges.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68790801 An insight to our potential investor

I didn't say it was a fluke but without it we would be in a far worse position. There's no guarantee that we're going to produce a Turnbull every other season. The fact that we have money in the bank and the WS and yet Kettlewell had to drastically cut the playing budget tells a story.

So far and only because of the Turnbull money. Next season you've got both Dundee clubs with owners seemingly happy to pump millions into their playing squads. Hibs with 5m American investment. Kilmarnock with Billy Bowie and his blank chequebook Hearts hoovering up all the better players in our league with 15m sitting in the bank from their foundation and Budge and Co happy to keep putting money in. Ross County with Uncle Roy's blank chequebook. Aberdeen with a rich chairman putting his money where his mouth is (not that its helped this season of course) St Johnstone with a potential American buyer with money to burn by the sounds of it. Even St Mirren have Gilmour putting money in albeit in the form of soft loans. Old Firm take care of themselves. That leaves us and with no form of outside investment unless you class the WS as that. Money doesn't always buy success of course but it makes it a damn sight easier. Do we sit back and hope that the teams with more money than us manage to keep f*****g things up and we keep "punching above our weight" and continue to get lucky with bargain basement buys to stay in the top flight. I'm still of the opinion that the WS retain control of the club but if we want to keep competing at this level in light of whats happening at other clubs we need to look at every option otherwise we might find ourselves in the never ending cycle of trying to avoid the dreaded bottom 2 places every season and the type of football that brings

With a possible vote to make grass pitches mandatory for our League it might take them a bit longer than they think🤔. 0https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/premiership-clubs-vote-banning-plastic-32311245