steelboy

That's a great fee for Bair. Hopefully it helps us get a bit of quality in for the final third.

Planning his Just East order for later on. The lack of creativity is a big problem. Wells grew into the game and was impressive second half. There's not really much else to take from that other than Edinburgh City will be getting relegated again.

We were luring them into a false sense of security by having Paton hit the first 4.

10 signings. 2 contract extensions. And we are trying to play football through O'Donnell, Halliday and Paton. A goal for Balmer now from a Halliday cross.

Stuart Kettlewell: The only person in the world who watched Scotland at the Euros and thought 'this is brilliant'.

If it works as well as last season then we'll be looking for a new manager.

Offt that midfield. 1 up front at home to Edinburgh City. No Seddon in the squad which is a worry.

There should be a margin of error like in cricket which gives the attacker something like an extra 10cm to reflect the error in the cameras and determining when the ball was played.

Spoiler: We're not keeping Bair.

RWB, a creative centre mid and a striker should be the three.

Erik and Courtney recovering from their experience of the Well.

If you had ever seen him play you would know Miller sits deeper and passes to more advanced players.

You don't think Nicholson and Paton being our only two creative players is a bit of a problem? A team built around Harry Paton is a team that's destined for relegation.

It probably means he can buy another one with the payoff. If Kettlewell doesn't get some creative players in look for it driving up Airbles road around November time.

Van Der Gaag sacked by Man Utd. Radcliffe obviously needs a scalp to save some face.

The U21s have only had one competitive fixture which was against Kazakhstan since last November so there was no point in moving them up when the u19s had a chance to qualify for the European Championship and potentially the u20 World Cup. The u21s have been doing well in their group anyway with Barron and Cameron starting in midfield. Miller and Watson will be involved in the big qualifiers coming up against Spain and Belgium.

The last time Miller was in the u17s rather than u21s it was when the u17s had bigger games. He would definitely have learned more from playing Italy u17s than Kazakhstan u21s. Yamal has been playing for Barca under top level coaches and in the same system as Spain. Miller is coached by Kettlewell and Ricky Foster and and despite having great technical skills had pass completion of less than 70% because the team is so poorly coached that he often has no one to pass to. Our young players are slower to develop because of the lack of quality coaching in the country. Abderdeen gave a 16 year old his debut this season. Miller played a few days after his 16th birthday and Celtic gave Ben Doak a game aged 16. I think Yamal would be fine here.

He's still with Canada for the Copa 3rd/4th place game which is Saturday night over there.

There's some incredible stuff on P&B with the club claiming they hadn't seen Barmack's spending plans before he published them on Friday. So either the Executive Board supported Barmack's takeover without asking him for a business plan or his published plans are different to his privately stated business plan. Either way it's a fiasco.

I think what sums this whole thing up is that they don't even respect us enough to give us 51%. The 50.1% is so obviously a way of making it as easy and cheap as possible for Barmack to eventually get majority control.

https://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/24438541.motherwell-board-tarnish-legacy-handling-investment/ Graeme McGarry with another spot on article.

https://x.com/MotherwellWorld/status/1810343964286861434 Kettlewell is obviously saying the right thing by staying out of the debate about investment and fan ownership but i've got to admit if I got a notification for a 35 minute Youtube video where he gives his take on the full saga i'd be getting the beers and popcorn out and sitting down to watch.

The response on Twitter to the outgoing chairman's statement is quite something. I've obviously been keeping an eye on this for a while and on Twitter I've been noticing an increase in the number of fans favouring reject over the last week or so. And the flip side is no increase at all in accept as far as I can tell. Facebook might be different but I stay well clear of that.

McMahon "As has been pointed out, this is a vote on the Barmark proposal not the WS outline plan. But there is one key area where some read across is vital – new investment." Translation: This vote isn't about the Well Society plan but i'm going to make it about that anyway because I'm bitter and desperate. Talking about 'stringent safeguards' days after Barmack has published a business plan which commits to spending millions more than he is putting into the club is absurd and hypocritical. The club and Barmack's unprofessional behaviour during this process has been the biggest boost the Society could have hoped for.

That's a great statement to make today. Compare it to Wilson who had nothing substantial to say and there's surely only one way for sensible fans to vote. I've already got my Reject vote in.