wellsince75

There was an offer a few years back and there's some interest now. The board are keen for the Well Society to keep their rights. Happy to explore a shared joint model and if an out and out offer came through to own it would be put to the society. All quite sensible stuff really.

The existing business model is broadly accepted to be flawed as its dependant on cup runs and selling players. The club are working hard to find alternative funding channels, meanwhile running the club with a level of due diligence to ensure we don't over spend. Given there's no single multi million investor willing to let the club drain their riches I think fair play to the club for looking for alternatives. I'm not a fan of the video but I'm supportive of us trying new things, some will work, some won't. Full marks to the club for trying to move us forward.

All I said is I don't think he's a natural goal scorer - there's a huge difference between how he vs Mika reads the game and get's onto the final ball. I'm not poo pooing the guy. He's a physical, hard working lad, scored a cracker of a goal the other week and every game he works his socks off. Genuinely didn't mean to come across as churlish, he's added value in recent games and been better than others on our books.

completely on board re comments re being amateur level or not being regarded as a footballer. No need for anyone to be be rude about any of our players.

think most 23 year old strikers have double figures in terms of total career goals scored. No-one is doubting Bairs effort and he's clearly in a purple patch. I know this isn't popular to say at the moment but he's not a natural goal scorer, positioning, awareness etc just aren't there. BUT he's a hard worker , gives it all and going through a good patch so fair credit to the lad.

I was hoping that we had investment lined up, hence the new investors wanted to move on our chairman, bring in their own people and work with the society. Good luck to the club.

Thought good, honest, straight forward talking. Here's some snippets/my interoperation of what was said. Worked hard to replace CEO initially - interviewed 4 but didn't work out. Looking for new CEO to be in place before end of March. Retaining players - we worked hard to keep likes of Max J, KVV, Sean Goss but couldn't match what they wanted/needed. Investments had on pitch and hard to solve the draining issue. It was right to do so but mistakes were made in that project that cost £££'s How club is run is 50% getting team on park and 50% running the business. Our current spend currently matches that. We live within our means. Investment on players. Aim to sell on some players, some seasons it works, others it doesn't. Have someone who can bring investment into the club and can provide financial security for when we need it. We're currently OK but would be great to have investors who are Well fans willing to sit along side society. Comms/Media. We used to spend more money on this but it cost us/impacted playing budget. We decided to scale back when people left to rebalance the on field/off field spending budget. Views of pyros - they are illegal and we'll follow the law on these issues. Governance. Club is running well off the pitch. 4 exec directors running club, 2 are from society and included in all decisions that are made. On the pitch. When there's bad results on the pitch there's always the look for manager to go (not unique to us) 2 previous managers have left. There's always a big impact/expense when managers leave. We've just had 3 poor months of results which he broke down game by game. He believes we have a superb management team here and players are behind. We can't just go churning through every bad run. The management team need to be given time and when you look back over time we've done well with longer term mgt team. Budget. Having investment will help but will sit down and we're recruiting. We've had players move on and others injured, we're looking bring players in. He will continue to support. Number of directors/governance. We're looking to increase this to help club run. Jim and Derek will be standing down. Final thoughts. Recognise that results matter and appreciate frustrations but have confidence that we're running the club, doing our best and it's key that we get on the pitch performances back on track.

Biereth is on a season loan with us. I thought he was back training with the Gunners due to us having a short break https://arsenalyouth.wordpress.com/2024/01/06/mika-biereth-trains-with-arsenal-first-team-ejeheri-and-bandeira-involved/

Main is a hard working, no nonsense, get stuck in player. Could be a great combo for someone like Biereth and IMO is better than we have. BUT He's not a goal scorer. For that reason I'd rather we focus on sorting other areas of the park , starting with midfield which is woefully light in both numbers and quality .

there should be a job in recruitment for you at FP. Very decent pedigree and would add value to our midfield

he may well end up signing a perm deal with Annan. More that his contract with us expired.

Are they ? I thought Spencer and Shaw were on season long loans with Wilkinson on 2 years .

in his 39 games Won 16. (41%) lost 12 (31%) Drawn 11 (28%) SH lost 57% of games GA lost 41% of games SR lost 40% of games. Appreciate the run of winning games isn't great but it's on par with other managers and our lost record is sigiificantly better. On paper it's hard to argue/debate why he should be sacked .

much better team performance. One player not to get a mention is Mika, I thought some of his link play in the first half was excellent Similar to McDonald when he dropped back a bit, the guy has a good football brain and we could do with a few more who have this instinct. Really enjoyed the first 30 mins, nice to see us having a go at a team and entertaining us.

SK for me has potential. He has less than 100 games in mgt and like any rookie has made mistakes. For example his win record for his c40 games isn't much better than Malpas's tenure but what sets him apart is he's a quick learn. Previous managers would have persevered with their signings but guys like Wilkinson, Obika aren't getting game time. Similarly Paton & Slattery getting dropped is a good sign of a manager putting pride aside, learning and moving on. The issues go way beyond SK. Reducing squad size should have equated to bringing in better quality but SK got a poor budget and no youngsters really being ready. (other than Miller at 16/17) I do think he made a chops of perm signings but if he can move them on and bring in better I'm up for sticking with him until we sort out the other senior roles at the club. The club clearly have a plan re new investors, I'd much rather learn about that, make those changes and move forward.

Hurrah for 3 points

He’s been awful from september onwards

We’ve gone from a team looking to win to a team not wanting to lose . need to get on the front foot and put some energy into the game

That’s the best we’ve been as an attacking force as I’ve seen all season. mika able to drop deep and have a strike partner makes a difference . Bairs miss in the first minute - well the boy made up for it didn’t he

Wow

First time we’ve scored 2 first half goals all season . another 2-3 goals and I’ll be able to relax

According to the MFC website it's w 3- 4 -2 -1. Both Gent and Spencer on the left. Didn't see that coming.

need a few midfielders . Hoping we offload Wilkinson and Shaw.

How are we feeling - confident for a win ? Could be first goals the winner today.

His press conferences annoy me. Not sure if he's being cute or arrogant. I don't see/hear him recognise how poor we've been or how poor his signings have been. He regularly bemoans individual errors, small squad and injuries as the reason for our woes. I don't see him taking much accountability . We deserve to be in the position we are as other than workman like performances we have zero guile/skill throughout the team. (other than Mika) We thought our midfield was weak last season, Likes of Goss & Cornelius would walk straight into our starting 11. I don't believe there's anywhere to hide for either team tomorrow. I'd be stunned if both managers were in a job come the New Year. A draw could see both managers get the boot.