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  1. New kit for 2023/24

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    4 hours ago, Tartan_Special said:

    No sign of that any time soon as the society have announced fan suggestions for 24/25 kit using Macrons custom kit app.

    I know and the suggestions shared so far show why it was a wild shout from the Society!

  5. 2021/2022 Rebuild

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    9 minutes ago, ohwulliewullie said:

    We have 4 goalies though. With Carson’s range of passing, he could be the missing link as the creative midfielder were looking out for. 

    Be better outfield than Stevie Woods was at Kilbowie back in the day I'm sure.

  8. 2021 AGM

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    40 minutes ago, Andy_P said:

    Graham Alexander "took the floor" once the board had answered the submitted questions and spoke well, and at some length, about him taking the job, his first weeks in charge and his hopes for the future.  He spoke of his and his families excitement to re-locating Scotland to be fully committed to the job.  He had a gut feeling when applying for the job and when talking to the board that this was a challenge he wanted to take on.  He spoke of the warm welcome given to him by all within the club and the good people he had found.  He mentioned his disappointment as not having been able to interact with fans but expressed gratitude for the welcome from supporters who had sent warm wishes, letters etc.  He is keen to meet fans when the time comes.

    Who sent him a snood was the question I was left with after his bit!

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  9. Coincidence?

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    10 hours ago, Welldaft Mk1 said:

    I see from FPC (115 AGM) that the word is Gallacher is only contracted to end of season.

    No word of any extension triggered by appearances. Maybe that was just guff. Either that or they are keeping schtum.....

    Flow understandably wouldn't go into contractual specifics in the meeting.  Doesn't mean the clause doesn't exist.  Presumably signing a PCA elsewhere ahead of playing the extra game would render it null and void though.

  12. Former Motherwell Fc Players Thread

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    Decent write up in the Athletic about Stuart McKinstry:

     

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    Stuart McKinstry’s days off at Leeds United are spent on the road with his father, driving home to the west coast of Scotland. They stay for the night before making the return journey, getting McKinstry back to Thorp Arch for training.

    Leeds took the boy out of Motherwell when they signed McKinstry but they had no chance of taking Motherwell out of the boy. He was 16 months old when his family took him to his first game at Fir Park, sorting out his allegiance before Rangers or Celtic could get their hooks into him.

    He was a mascot, a youth-team player and very nearly a schoolboy debutant for the Scottish club after making the bench against Kilmarnock on Boxing Day in 2018. Motherwell suffered three injuries in the first half and manager Steve Robinson’s substitutions were used up in a flash. “I can’t pretend I wasn’t a bit gutted for him,” says his mother, Karen.

    McKinstry, Leeds’ 17-year-old winger, comes from the tightest of families, so much so that when Leeds made him an offer to join them last summer, he toyed with the idea of saying no. Even when the club invited him down to Yorkshire, wowed him with a tour and gave him a shirt with his name on the back of it, McKinstry worried about leaving his parents and sister behind.

    “I wanted him to go for it,” Karen says. “So I asked him if it would make a difference if his dad went with him. That was it. He said, ‘If dad comes with me, I’ll go tomorrow’.”

    His father John, who was a Motherwell trainee in the 1980s, had a job in logistics north of the border. His company agreed he could work remotely but if they had refused his request to relocate, he would have quit and gone with his lad regardless. The two of them now live together in a flat in Wetherby, away from Karen and McKinstry’s sister Lauren.

    “It can be a struggle,” Karen says, “but it’s what we had to do. When Stuart came back from Leeds after going down for the first time, I could see his wee brain going round and round. Seeing what was down there blew him away.”

    During his visit, McKinstry took in an under-18s game against Everton. It did not leave him feeling out of his depth or inadequate. Leeds were confident he was more than up to playing for a leading academy in England — so confident they were willing to pay Motherwell £400,000 for him — but the decision was McKinstry’s. Neither he nor Leeds have looked back since he chose to take the plunge.

    McKinstry was told to report to Thorp Arch on July 1 last summer but got a call soon after to tell him that Marcelo Bielsa wanted him there a week early to put him through the examination all academy players in the highest age groups are given by the Argentine manager.

    Leeds’ head coach liked McKinstry’s style and told him to expect some time with the under-23s, a reassuring seal of approval. The winger showed quick feet, looked comfortable using either one, and had the pace and upper-body strength to beat a full-back and open up his flank. He played seven times for the under-23s last season, scored twice in a Premier League Cup tie against Wolverhampton Wanderers, and his name has been mentioned positively in dispatches from Thorp Arch over the past 12 months.

    What stood out more was his performance for Leeds Under-18s against Manchester United in the FA Youth Cup in February.

    Leeds lost 1-0 after Henri Kumwenda’s red card in the second half but McKinstry shone while the game was 11-vs-11, cutting the opposition open with his speed of thought and balance, and showing a willingness to carry the ball. He gained some versatility at Motherwell, who liked to use him on the left wing and give him scope to cut inside onto his stronger right foot.

    There were two moments in the space of six second-half minutes at Old Trafford where his trickery and confidence revealed itself.

    Manchester United tried to double up on McKinstry (marked below in blue) with their left-sided players but he found a way to evade them on both occasions, skipping into space and delivering dangerous crosses into the box. Those attacks demonstrated an ability to work in tight spaces and fashion chances from difficult positions — the wing play Bielsa looks for at first-team level.

    Leeds are nurturing their academy in a way where the potential in it is rife.

    They have midfielder Nohan Kenneh, a supremely-gifted England Under-17 international, who turned professional in January. They have Charlie Cresswell, a tidy, composed centre-back who is the son of former Leeds striker Richard Cresswell. As a result of concerted recruitment this summer, they have former Fulham right-back Cody Drameh and a striker in Joe Gelhardt who already looks to coaches and senior players at Leeds like a steal from troubled Wigan Athletic at £700,000. It is a competitive and aspirational field, and one Bielsa watches with interest.

    McKinstry is very much in the pack, a player Leeds always reference when you ask who might make the step up next. The club tied him to a new three-year contract on Sunday. He had his home comforts in Motherwell and plenty to cling onto when, as Karen jokes, “they came and took my boy away” but Leeds was a different world and too big a draw for him and his family to resist, even though it split them in two.

    It was Motherwell chief executive Alan Burrows who said to McKinstry: “Go to Leeds and take a look. At least take a look and see what you think.”

    He gave Leeds a chance and Leeds got their man.

     

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  16. Former Motherwell Fc Players Thread

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    On 6/28/2020 at 2:15 PM, weeyin said:

    As a team, Wigan have been hovering above the relegation zone since Kipré joined, but any time I have watched them the big man has been on top form. Would not be surprised if he gets a lucrative move.

    They've just announced they are going into administration...be interesting to see what that means for the big man's next move.

  18. 2019 Finances/AGM

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    58 minutes ago, dennyc said:

    So the monies paid out do not show as an expense on the Profit and Loss Account for the year  then? 

    No - would show as an outgoing on the cashflow statement in the accounts but would never hit P&L.

  19. Scottish Cup 2019 - 2020

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    36 minutes ago, ohwulliewullie said:

    Aye, it felt down compared to previous seasons there. Assuming we sell out our 1600 at St Mirren, and maybe have some overspill as well in the other stands, I can’t remember a time when we had that much. St Johnstone towards the end of the season with Higdon etc felt like a lot as well. What was the official count at Nancy?!

    Took a decent crowd to Gretna back in the day... http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/scot_prem/6960744.stm

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  22. Game 21: Hamilton Accies (H) December 29th 2019

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    25 minutes ago, Kmcalpin said:

    Looking forward to Sunday's derby but we must take nothing for granted. Accies would like nothing more than to dampen our day. They'll prove a difficult opponents as always and I doubt they'll come to Fir Park to slug it out with us toe to toe and to entertain us. Hopefully the likes of Donnelly, Long and perhaps Cole will be available. Does anyone know whats wrong with Cole and Long?  

    Long was a doubt before the Killie game so maybe the plastic didn't help whatever was wrong.  Per this, Cole was ill yesterday:

    motherwell-close-to-signing-new-striker-as-devante-cole-replacement

     

  23. 2019’20 game 19: Kilmarnock (A) Sat. Dec 21st 3pm

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    Not seen the highlights, but been surprised by some of the narrative around Saturday - I thought we were worthy winners overall.  It was a long way removed from the Dick Turpin game Dave references above.  

    The Seedorf for Hylton change seemed bizarre at the time, given it was just after the incident on the touchline where Hylton was adjudged to have fouled O'Donnell.  Disappointed that he wasn't given the opportunity to go straight at him again.  Almost as if the change is pre-programmed somehow.

  24. 2019 Finances/AGM

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    31 minutes ago, steelboy said:

    St Mirren had 34 non playing staff. 

    It seems strange that we have 70. Possibly hospitality workers?

    16 admin; 12 football staff; 30 youth development incl coaches; 9 Ground staff / cleaners; 3 catering is the split in the note to the accounts. 

  25. 2019 Finances/AGM

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    52 minutes ago, Kmcalpin said:

    Thanks for the excellent summary Andy.  I think that quote illustrates just how vital the continuing Well Society support actually is. Without it I don't know where we'd be. Its essential therefore that members continue to contribute even a modest amount each month. Maybe even some doubters will think about signing up. The money is now going to the club as opposed to previous owners.

    The Society need to do more on this front.  With inflation that 180k is worth less each year and I assume most folk who contribute are on fixed amounts with no annual uplift.   

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