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Not Sparrow, SOD for me. Everything else i agree with

Attended the online meeting tonight re the Active Investment proposals. Came away feeling re-assured that the proposals have been well thought through and form part of the Society's longer term strategy for fan ownership. Highlights...... As part of the "growing the Well Society" project there has been feedback from some potential members to suggest they may join if they could see tangible benefits to the club rather than just being a "rainy day fund". Hence the "why now". The reserve fund currently sits at £1.3m so even if changes are voted through, the reserve of £1.5m will be reached within the next 2 years at current subscription levels. Plan is that monies will only be given towards specific infrastucture projects in the form of loans. It is envisaged that at some point these might be realised in the form of greater shareholding, but there would have to be a process in place to ensure fairness to existing shareholders. Monies loaned WILL NOT just disappear into the day to day running of the club. The club must balance its books and any Society monies will only be used to improve the clubs finances by investment in specific projects. As part of the consultation process, fans are invited to put forward suggestions for projects to be considered by the club. Re the feasibility study. Work has been ongoing re this for several months with multiple options being explored and further questions asked. It is anticipated this work will continue for some time with any decision on where the club plays its football being a longer term issue. The Society Board were pretty open during the meeting and there is a lot of work going on behind the scenes in terms of the various workstreams that maybe cant be shared right now, but left me feeling that things are heading in the right direction.

I totally get that our game needs a tv deal and we need to try and maximise that as much as possible to stop our league falling further and further behind, but some of these ko times are getting beyond a joke. Who really wants to go to a game of football at 8pm on a Saturday? Who even wants to watch it on tv at that time? Is it any worse than 12pm on a Saturday or Sunday though? I really dont know. Bottom line though is that we arent going to get the good tv slots as they are reserved for the English Premiership and even if we were to switch broadcaster, they are unlikely to want to go head to head with that. Not sure what the answer is, but I agree its just another turn off for the game here.

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They can shove it up their arse to be honest...the ridiculous kick off times foisted upon the national team seen me draw a line under attending regularly a good while back now, and I'll do the same with club games, as I have absolutely no interest in 8pm kick offs on a Saturday night. The 5.45pm ko against Hibs is borderline and I'll decide nearer the time if I can be arsed with that.

Really good interview. He's been immense since signing. Hope we can make it permanent but worry is other clubs take notice

It's not specific to you, if I'm honest. I hear fans doing that all the time. We're nowhere near the English Premiership. Virtually no league on the planet is. The Premier League isn't just England's domestic football league commercially. It's one of the world's biggest sports media properties. It regularly has something like 1.45 billion live viewers in a season, is broadcast in 190 odd countries and has 2 billion+ followers worldwide. I'm not saying our TV deal is great value, by the way. Scottish football clearly punches miles above its weight. But stadium popularity and global broadcast value are two different things. If you want to argue the SPFL undersells Scottish football, compare our deal with Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, Norway, Austria or Ireland and look at what broadcasters pay per game and per potential viewer. But anyone comparing a highly successful national football competition with one of the biggest global entertainment products on the planet is mental. And just because they're located down the road doesn't make any difference to that.

I was only giving an opinion

Why are you comparing our TV deal to the English Premiership? It's hardly even the same sport at this point. We're not competing with them. Do you think the Swedish, Norwegian, Danish or Finnish leagues compare their TV deal to the English Premiership?

The money sky pay us compared to what they pay the overhyped English Premiership is ridiculous. The 8.00 Saturday night ones are ridiculous,

There's a simple answer. Knock back any TV deal that wants control over kick off times. However, we'll need to be prepared to see a fairly sizeable reduction in money coming into the game. Can't have both. A TV company pays good money for content, and they deserve to have a say in how the deal is executed.

Thats the aspect of VAR that really annoys me, it was brought in for" clear and obvious errors" only, now every goal is actively checked for reasons to disallow it. If you need umpteen different TV angles, freeze frame, and close up zoomed in still images etc to spot the ball glancing off an arm below the T shirt line etc, its not clear and obvious. The whole thing needs binned, but unless the clubs get together and tell the SFA its a heap of crap, nothing will change.

We really don't matter now at all , if you go to the games or have a season ticket you will take it on the chin because you turn up no matter what to watch your team. It's all to suit the TV , fans are at the vey very bottom of the list of things that matter. The clubs have take money from both the fans and TV . But TV wins without question everytime. VAR was set up specifically for TV so it would give them extra air hours talking shite about it . Everyone going to matches now agrees it's shite and ruins a matchday experiance, especially in Scotland . It really pisses me off that the true attending supporter means so little in the big scheme of thing. If it wasn't for us supporters going to the game then even the most exciting games would seem shite. Celebrating a goal has had the shine taken off it thru TV and VAR . Look at Lowreys goal at the weekend checked by VAR, what the fuk. And the penalty against us was a joke.

As someone who watches from afar, I don't mind as I'll have the afternoons to do whatever I like. Must be frustrating for folk attending the games though, especially if it is an away game.

The curse of Sky?

Yep, football was Saturday 3pm or Wednesday 7.30pm and they finished at 4.40 or 9.10

You having a laugh 😆

Ahhhh remember the days when we had 3.00 ko's?. Home to St Mirren on 31st oct will be our first 3pm Saturday ko and we only have 2 more this calendar year seeing as 2 more now. Been moved. ( rangers 8.00ko sat 21 Nov!!!, hibs 5.45ko sat 28 nov)

Oh we are capable if the manager gets team selection correct, Celtic are pish (in relation to their normal standards) however with Motherwell I always fear our unerring ability to shoot ourselves in the foot when it's easier to do something. Anything we take from that game is a bonus, thought I expect a defeat.

Let’s hope Maloney is in charge for this one. I never used to have any issues with him but his antics at the side of the park and shouts to our dug out and our fans in the POD at that last home game has turned me against him for life. Odious wee runt.

We finished off that nasty, bitter shit stirring prick when he was there first time around in May 2005 and it would be poetic and justified if we did it again especially after the events of their last visit here in May. But it looks like he is seriously considering his future right now and even aside that I just don’t see us having what it takes to trouble them. But then again I thought the same ahead of 22/05/05…

Same with some our players, will take time to get used to new system and league. We paid big money for Hodge and Kanga especially and I have no doubt they will come good

The injuries have definitely been a factor but they are easing fortunately. I dont think we will be 4th but hopefully of top 6. Think this will be season of transition. Look at Falkirk, they were flying ast season but lost their main players.

Like many Bodø/Glimt players, he's struggling after leaving the club. They play a certain way, and it suits certain players, but clearly taking someone from that approach and trying to shoehorn him into the way O'Neill's teams tend to play isn't proving to be all that effective to this point.