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All the best to him, good solid player who got way to much abuse on here.
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11 hours ago, Kmcalpin said:
Our fans wouldn't like his brand of football or his reluctance to use bring young players on . He has done very well at St Johnstone and built solid teams. Not great to watch, not exciting but they're competitive, consistent, physical, streetwise, experienced and don't make many mistakes. He likes players with a combative and abrasive attitude like your Murray Davidsons, Liam Craigs and Paul Patons. Not making mistakes is his trademark. In our league that will guarantee you a mid table slot. He's not great at bringing young players on.
For some years now St Johnstone have paid higher wages than us (not by a huge amount) despite having smaller crowds. I'd like to know how they balance the books.
Their budget seems to me to be focused on buying experienced players that they get a low return on for transfers -with one or two exceptions ie Steve May- which is ok if you have a continual sponsorship income from a firm owned by your club owner but we don’t have that luxury and need to gamble on younger inexperienced players who we hope to develop and sell on to keep us in the league.
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No chance he will be allowed to play against his parent club but agree he put in a decent shift last night.
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Last night I thought it wasn’t a penalty but on highlights it was. Nothing wrong with their second either - just a wee tug and a bit of 50/50 - but the defender didn’t dive to the ground to cheat the referee unlike what Celtic players have done in the past.
Very happy with the result.
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McHugh but I have to say there weren’t a lot of players who were in the running
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43 minutes ago, covenanter said:
Really! Why are these people still owed money?
Can anyone give any example or know of any other clubs where once it’s sold to new owners the original owner then gets any money they invested, wisely or not, during there time of ownership and also profit from future sales they had nothing to do with?
JB and Les are culpable for there choice and subsequent waste of transfer fees and silly wages. They chose to throw their money away.
Before I invest more in the Well Society I want the society to tell these two they’ve had enough money from this fan owned club .
you’re so way off the mark your lack of understanding is farcical. Best you do some research before you post again on this subject.
Heres a start for you
club statement from Dec ‘14
Motherwell Football Club and the ‘Well Society can confirm that they have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Mr Les Hutchison.
If the transaction set out in the MOU is concluded, Mr Hutchison will provide the club with working c apital finance, alongside the ongoing funding support provided by the Society, which has just provided another lo an totalling £100k to the club
This finance will take the form of an interest free loan, repayable over a maximum period of five years.
During that time the Society Board have committed to growing both membership numbers and funds in order to demonstrate that the supporter base is fully behind the concept of fan ownership.
Once Mr Hutchison’s loan has been repaid in full, it is anticipated the Society will become the ow ners of the club. Mr Hutchison will effectively act as facilitator for the transition of ownership of the club to supporters, provided there is clear evidence that more of our fan base is willing to support the initiative.
We have now entered a 30-day exclusivity period to enable financial and legal due diligence to be undertaken.
Mr Les Hutchison stated: “I look forward to working with the Society and the Club to help them achieve their objective of fan ownership and be financially sustainable within five years.”
Mr Brian McCafferty, acting Chairman of the Society, added: “We would like to sincerely thank Les for his generous loan to the club which has kept alive hopes of community ownership. We emphatically believe the partnership between Les and the society provides, by far, the best solution to both the club’s short-term financial needs and its long -term sustainability and success.”
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5 minutes ago, steelboy said:
I wouldn't be surprised if there's a large cash element in Scottish football.
We obviously have a far higher wage bill than Accies and St Mirren.
The figures quoted are basic wages. We might pay more in other benefits ie signing on fee, appearances, win bonuses, final league position etc which could put us above other clubs when taken into account.
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I recon that the VT guy got his numbers mixed up and so they just went with the clip they had. No way was that deliberate
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5 hours ago, Electric Blues said:
The more I watch that goal the happier I get, not just with the goal itself but for what it says about Johnson's current and future confidence. He could - and almost certainly should - have passed, taking the easy option for a striker struggling for game time and without a goal for a while. The fact that he obviously made up his mind what he was going to do early on, and then had the belief and the ability to execute it is surely exactly what anyone wants in a striker.
I think initially Campbell (?) was blind side of Johnson — who no doubt could hear our screams to centre the ball and was probably thinking where the fuck is the guy I’ve to square it to - and when he did turn the Aberdeen defender he saw a way through to goal and took his chance well. So in short I don’t think he should or had the chance to square the ball into the centre.
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Why was Campbell booked?
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Hard one today, no poor shows but think Grimshaw was outstanding - looks back to being the player who we had on loan. Long may that continue.
Would also like to mention Mbulu the guy looked very assured in defence
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Thought I’d bump this up as a reminder
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3 hours ago, steelboy said:
Ross County at Fir Park tomorrow.
Turnbull is away with Scotland but I wonder if we might see Campbell playing as he's still young enough.
With the previous talk about him needing a rest, I’d like to think that he gets a break and some time off rather than getting thrown into this game.
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Though Cadden was the better of a great team performance
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6 minutes ago, CoF said:
Best attacking performance today for many months despite being played at right back.
Agree, shows that it was maybe the system we were playing earlier that hampered him and not a dip in form.
Glad to see him back doing what he does best.
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38 minutes ago, weeyin said:
This malarky with the US putting their clocks back the week after the UK means I have to wait an extra hour for kick off.
It's murder.
It’s Trump’s fault if u ask me.
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11 minutes ago, weeyin said:
Need another 3 before I start feeling comfortable.
Need to sub Main to have any chance of that.
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I’m sure that I heard somewhere that the reason he’s still with us is that the development fee we are due was more than any team had offered for him so we were happy to run down his contract and let him leave - I believe that if he signs another contract with us his development fee is void due to his age.
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20 minutes ago, Big Stall said:
You only need to watch the Humphrey interview on youtube to see how much the bois can and do bring, as well as how much it means to the guys on the park.
The bois and any hangers on, need to watch the interview and get back to what they are good at. Forget the nonsence, just 90mins of noise!
To a certain extent the Bois have become a victim of their own success. A few years ago the Bois were the envy of the fans of other club in Scotland - even OF fans I know said they made coming to FP something different - and many other clubs youngsters have tried to emulate them but today (and to an extent last season) some of them seem to be more intent on making a name for themselves and as such have dragged the mainstay away from their original ideals.
I really hope that they get back to why they were started (to create an atmosphere and kick the club and older fans up the arse when required) but I fear that the “hangers on” - who I believe are not really Motherwell fans but others to young to be allowed to go see the bigot brothers alone - will end up causing conflict between the bois, the club and other fans.
In short it’s up to the real Bois to get back to basic, self regulate as before, get back the closeness with the club and older fans and reign in the guys intent on causing strife everywhere.
Dont get me wrong I’m not asking them to be angels — a lot of us older guys weren’t - and a bit of an edge is what they’re about. I’m not saying they should run away from guys giving them shit but having a go at other teams fans who are not bothering them is out of order - if someone pushes them they should push back but don’t be the pushers.
End of - slightly drunken - rant.
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1 hour ago, texanwellfan said:
I think several people have mentioned 4-4-2 instead of 3-5-2 and I’d tend to agree although it’s a dynamic game and regardless of what you call your line up it’s about how you instruct the players to play but I think playing 4-4-2 line up as follows would perform much better
Carson
Tait Aldred Hartley Dunne
Caden Campbell Turnbull Frear
Bowman Johnson
Tait and Caden work well together. Frear can have a bit more freedom to take on players and not worry about getting beat. Hartley and Aldred are center backs so now they can both play as center backs. We might be able to actually get some decent service to our forwards and actually create some decent amount of reasonable chances. There will be options from the bench to work with to keep that formation.
1 hour ago, couttsy said:I agree with the sentiment here (going 4-4-2), however playing two guys under 21 together in a two man central midfield would be very risky.......Think I'm in a minority, however I think Mchugh has been one of our better performers so far this season, not saying much I know, but I still think he needs to play..................
Pretty much agree with both these posts but my main concern is with fitness of Turnbull & Johnson. They would have to be replaced at somepoint leaving only one spare sub for injury or formation changes.
I’d be happy with either both starting and bringing on Bigi & another striker later or Bigi starting with Turnbull coming later.
Giving Campbell a rest is an option but fitting McHugh or Rose into a midfield 5 is an option I’d dismiss as we don’t have a striker who can play alone nor do we have the midfield that can support a lone striker and add goals.
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Sorry to hear that Chris has had to retire, great player for us and a great out ball player. Our defence could punt it up the wing and be confident that he would try and chase it down taking the pressure off but also good enough to have it passed to him in attack and see him make defenders panic as they didn’t know how to handle him.
All the best to him.
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Typical I go down to Yorkshire & it’s a 2-0 win for the youngsters- how was the game?
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1 hour ago, well_said said:
No chance of Livingstone in the first team, the rumours are that robbo is not speaking to him.
Reason?
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Great memories of this guy - would like to see him back again. From BBC
He's had £23m worth of transfer fees spent on him but has never played in the Premier League, and now Ross McCormack is heading out of the Championship to Australia for the second time.
When he moved from Leeds to Fulham in 2014 for £11m it was a record fee paid by a second-tier club in England.
But the Scotland striker's career has hit the buffers since Aston Villa paid £12m for him in 2016 - he scored just three times for the club and has not played a league game for them since January 2017.
2018’19 Game 17:St Johnstone (A) Saturday 15th December 2018
in Club Chat
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Horrible game & weather but I stayed the night in Inverness and had s great time in Foxies - journey back home next day wasn’t good due to my hangover.
Great start today let’s keep it up