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I don't care which school he went to.

This time last year Kettlewell was still manager and we were about to get pumped out of the Scottish Cup by a poor St Johnstone team. Who would have thought, back then, we would be getting treated to the best football most of us have ever seen at Fir Park and with a squad whose value is currently well in excess of the Miller Millions. Just goes to show you what a twist of fate and some bold decision making can do for a club like ours. Its quite frankly laughable that the old board didnt think that fan ownership was a going concern and we needed the outside investment of someone with absolutely no experience if running a football club. Penny for the thoughts of all the Colins' now?

I heard that all levels at Well are playing same system as first team so just shows what JBA is implementing. I think a new contract with various terms would be great

Open a club shop in Harare.

I have no problems with "Colins", whatever they might be. I don't agree with their views but, don't agree with calling them out over their views. Apart from calling out the odd roaster, I've never been concerned about the views of other fans. Live and let live. There are more important issues for us to be thinking about. It just divides our fanbase and thats never a good thing.

Sorry Colin! No offence intended! 😆

If the right hypothetical 20% offer came along, I’m sure we’d all be willing to listen. The red lines on fan ownership are already drawn, and we’ve shown what can be achieved without extra investment.

Agree 100% that focusing on what we can do best as we are now is the correct decision but I also believe that we can find another Tony Bloom willing to invest similar to the deal Hearts have. Proving we are a solid reliable club is the first and hardest part which we’ve done. What I would say is that any deal should leave the society with a majority share holding and that if the society has to give up say 20% of their shares then the current private shareholders will have to give up 20% also rather than the society having to bear all the losses.

Yup, good points. I do like Welsh though and I think he’s really suited to us. Be good to see him stay. i have to admit I’m quite excited by this transfer window. Can’t wait to see who we get a hold of. I keep checking every day expecting the usual guy in darkness teaser from the club. I wish they’d hurry up.

I’m not really sure who’s going to invest in a fan-owned club like Motherwell. We’ve been over that before. The focus should be on Motherwell investing in itself, by putting money into players, staff and facilities, which is what we’re seeing now.

I’d like to think that he’s not even considering leaving this season but I am hoping for at least another season but I’m sure he will have offers. Will be up to him if he wants to see how far he can take this. more importantly for MFC is that we continue to find coaches with the same approach. JBA is obviously not the only coach in the world who has this outlook but probably the issue for us is finding replacements in our price range.

Agree that “Colin’s” was not the best term to use (stupid being even worse) and being a backer of the society I can’t give you the complete view of those who thought the Barmack deal was the way forward but from discussing over the last year with some who did I can give you my view of their thoughts then and now. At the time - and I think this is generally agreed - the club needed investment (the “Miller Millions” has changed that for the moment but wasn’t an option at the time) the Barmack deal and society deals were the only two options. Initially most were willing to look serious at the Barmack deal but when the details were revealed most rejected it. Those that I’ve spoken to mostly concede that in hindsight the rejection was probably correct but also say - probably correctly - that the society has failed to follow up with their investment plan/promise, so without the Miller money the club would have been in the same or worse financial position as before the bid and I find that hard to argue against apart for being able to say we’re still a fan owned club without having to worry that Barmack could have stripped our assets to get his cash back and folded the club. In my discussions I’ve managed to get at least one of them to restart their society contributions and hope that more will start again using the argument that the society money is for emergencies and not the day to day running of the club and as things are going well at the club the society’s bank balance should be slowly increasing putting us in a better position for any future downturn. I’d like to personally add that the society board -and to a lesser extent the club board- needs to use this time and feel good factor to find ways to generate maximum income for the club and not just rely on the increased attendance money.

Colins?. Yup great transformation and full credit to board for finding wimmer and then Askou who has been unbelievable. Just loving this season

We were actually talking about this on Saturday. No Motherwell team has ever been as prepared for / suited to European football as this one. I know the chances of Jens still being here next season are slim, and Im not suggesting Europa League, but I think we would make a better fist of the Conference League than Aberdeen made this season. It would be nice if we could just fend of suitors for a little while and let us and the team enjoy the success of their endeavours (should we not fuck it up between now and then). Nice to dream......

Hopefully at least another season to lift a euro trophy 😀

For the avoidance of doubt, you would then get the tram 🤣

Celtic are not in crisis. It is media driven hysteria fueled by fans who think that they have a right to win every single game in every competition they play. The actual reality is that they are sitting two points AHEAD of an excellent Motherwell side who have hardly put a foot wrong all season. They have a squad of players that any other team in the league can only dream of and a bank balance that will allow them to buy their way out of any domestic trouble in January. Any half decent manager (JBA included) would take Celtic to the league title this season if given the chance. The rhetoric from the media is genuinely laughable. Of course it sells papers and gets hits on websites so it is a very lucrative perfect storm to manifest. Nancy looked haunted, Luke McCowan is haunted, the players and fans are devastated, it is apparently a crisis the likes of which the history of mankind has never seen etc etc... It is total, made up nonsense!!! Fortunately, I don't think JBA will be exotic enough a name for Celtic but would he do well with Celtic, yes! Would he go if approached, definitely yes!!