CMWellfan

Well spotted that's what i meant to type

Moult to Rangers? http://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2017/04/26/rangers-fans-want-motherwells-louis-moult-will-they-get-their-wi/

The Erasmus programme is a grant for youth development. Literally, free money for youth development. I linked to the programme and explained the set up a few pages back. In the recent past, £1.8 million a season was pumped into Scottish clubs via Erasmus. My contact has said he is pretty sure, but not certain, that MFC did not apply for the grant. I would like confirmation that the club did, and if not, why not.

Just heard from a contact that the club didn't apply for the Erasmus programme this year. If true..... What's The Well Societies position on this?

I'm of the opinion that the The Well Society board or mods should be running the suggested thread.

I'm in Scotland. I'll meet you at the game on Saturday and we can discuss this further. I'm always interested to meet trolls in person. PM me to make arrangements.

My second point also stands - ninety pages of zombie arguments about whether or not we should support The Well Society now render this thread unfit for purpose. It should have been locked on the day we took over ownership of the club, and a new thread started.

Wake up, Andy. We have been offered a deal by Les Hutchison to match the money we raise this year. We don't have a thread dedicated to that offer, which is rank stupidity. So do the right thing and start that thread - encourage supporters to have fund raising nights etc so that we can reduce the debt by as much as possible this year.

Lets try again - Lock this fucking thread and start a new one. 90 pages of now irrelevant posts -the WS now owns the club. Start a new thread called The Well Society & Double Your Money Pledge Keep the offer by Les Hutchison to double our fundraising this year in the public eye

Ask the mods to track my IP record you insignificant little weasel. And try sticking to the topic rather than letting your small-minded jealousy spew all over the screen.

Typical reaction from the Halfwit Brigde, Motherwell Supporters Club. Go check the Erasmus link on that thread. Free funding to send our development players overseas. I bet you're that thick you googled Erasmus.

On a related note with coaching - there seems to be a meme that coaching roles at Motherwell are some kind of pension scheme for long-serving players. Even Robinson alluded to giving roles to veterans in a recent interview. Give it a rest. There should be a ban on players moving direct to coaching at Fir Park. If the club wants to play the Santa Claus routine, find the funds to send these anointed sons out for a year to clubs like Barca, Ajax etc. In fact, go do a deal with a Norwegian second division club. We'll send them a coach and three development players free of charge. The coach can act as our Scandinavian scout too. Try using a wee bit of imagination, Motherwell.

Pretty sure he was only with Dortmund for one season. He went a good player and came back world class in my opinion. To me it showed what an insightful coach could do. It's also why I want to see our youth players being sent out on the Erasmus programme ( details on under 20's topic ). Watching Lambert at Fir Park, I would never thought of him as the superb holding midfielder Dortmund made him into. PS - 3.00 pm kick off on a Wednesday afternoon to suit German TV? Remember that? And I think they paid us half a million pounds to agree to that kick off time.

Do you mind, I like going off-topic to annoy the pedants on this forum. I agree re Thomas. Craig Moore? Looks like he's been unlucky. That young Irish boy looks the part too.

Aye sorry, drunk in Bangkok last night. Shouldn't post when inebriated. I think the match I'm referring to was Feb/March 94? If we had won that night we would have gone top of the league. Re McLeish, he played for us a few times pre or early season then packed in. Was that 94/95? I suppose I should Google it, memory is fading. Around the same time as the St Johnstone away game, we played the first match under the Fergus Era at Celtic Park. Pretty sure we took 4,000 fans that day, and I was shocked to see the total attendance was only 36,000. The so-called "best fans in the world," abandoned Celtic when they were a losing team. Arnott scored first half, we won 1-0, beating a Macari team. One memory of that day was a double Celtic substitution when he brought on the midget pair Simon Donnelly and Brian McLaughlin? Looked like a couple of weans coming on the pitch. Aye, the days when we held a hex over Celtic. Long gone.

How about the 1-2 defeat to St Johnstone with George Burley omitted from the team? Billy Dodds was in some form that night. I remember McLeish playing for us pre-season and cramping up. Was it against Clydebank?

I find it hard to believe that there aren't any teak hard centre halves playing non-league. Part of our development strategy next year has to be getting our near first team prospects out on loan. The under 20 league is becoming farcical. Way too many school kids playing, sixteen years olds and the like. Our 18/19/20 year olds need to be playing adults.

Interesting article in The Scotsman re Hearts, but with some names that may be useful to us - http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/teams/hearts/the-issues-with-hearts-recruiting-a-scottish-core-1-4378911

First - contract extensions for Moult, Bowman, McHugh and Heneghan. Let's not lose these guys for nothing in January 2018 when they can sign pre-contracts. I expect another couple of non-league players this summer. Johnson, Moult, Bowman and Frear are showing the value of fishing in that pool. What we are lacking are the 6/10 Scottish performers which are the backbone of St Johnstone, Particky and others. Guys in their mid twenties that churn out consistent performances. We are unbalanced, with too many kids, veterans and newbies in the squad. Do we even have a Scottish player under 30 with a few years premier league experience? I think not

Can't be bothered doing the wee league thingy. Motherwell 34 points at the split. McDonald and Moult to dig us out. I would even consider resting both of them against Rangers. Let Bowman play up front as lone striker. If either McDonald or Moult, or god forbid both of them, come off that Ibrox pitch injured, it's time for a collective whitey. It's also getting to the stage we need to consider a 30 day contract for a couple of defenders. I hope the club are poring over the unattached players list. Even if McManus steps on the pitch again this season, he's unlikely to be match fit. And rushing Tait back gives me the fear.

Tait, McHugh, Heneghan, Bowman, Clay and Frear have been shocking? I reckon McGhee's transfer signing record will come good. He'll never get over giving eight contracts to guys in their thirties that collectively, delivered next to nothing.

Tell that to Peter Lawell. He'd laugh in your face. Celtic managers have worked within the clubs tight ethos for years, instructed by the board and supervised by Lawell. And they have made a fortune from it.

Who was it on here that said the Well Society was told that the manager ( McGhee ) was in full control of the football side of the club? Is that true? Did it really happen? Who the fuck in their right mind thought it was a cracking plan to give playing contracts to eight players aged 32 plus? This is lunacy. It's down to the board and Burrows. I don't expect the board or Burrows to puck the team, but the notion that any club would gamble their future on a short term management appointment ( as they have been since McLean ) is MENTAL.

Calm down. We will not be Third Lanark.

There's a "wtf," moment awaiting many members of this forum, not all. There's plenty here that know I'm telling the truth. ............. Robinson? It would be an act of self-delusion if anyone thought for one minute he was the best candidate for the job. Who here posted, "sack McGhee, bring back Robinson." No one. But now we have him and he has my support. I like the idea of him being our George Graham - "1-0 to the Motherwell," would be a great new chant. We can't outplay teams like Celtic, so lets choke the bastards to death. Get to it, Steve.