steelboy

The rumoured proposal is the American taking 51% of the club for £1.5m investment. The question put to the Society members was about losing the majority shareholding. It's fair to assume that's what's going to be on the table even if the money is different. We don't even know if anyone is asking about long term protections in the negotiations. We seem to be expected to trust McMahon to act in the interests of the shareholders when he has already spent a large sum of his own money promoting the idea of giving an American the majority shareholding. Clearly he has a personal interest. Hopefully we will be able to put questions forward to get details about not only what the American wants but also what he has ruled out before any vote but the way things have been handled so far doesn't make me optimistic.

This is slightly complicated by the fact that a member of the executive board, the head of governance of the Society and the largest private shareholder are all the same person. The Society members and private shareholders have different positions. The Society board has to act in the interests of the membership, it shouldn't be giving a thought to private shareholders.

A load of shite like wanting to secure that no one can ever sell Fir Park for a profit and pocket the cash?

I've got a feeling if it's a deal which gives away the majority shareholding McMahon will be putting pressure on the Society board to stay neutral. The fact it's apparently going to come down to a Yes/No decision before the Society gets any input at all is absurd. If this guy actually had good intentions he would be coming to the Society and directly asking what concerns we have rather than cutting us out.

On the one hand you have the club chairman Jim McMahon funding a marketing campaign to give the impression that we need an American investor when he was in secret talks with an American investor. On the other hand you have "We believe the fan ownership model has - over the piece - been successful". They can't even bring themselves to say it's worked without adding in a weird qualifier. What does - over the piece - even mean?

Of course the Society should be taking a position of whether or not the Society is capable of being majority shareholder. Any Society board members who feel that it isn't should resign (particularly if they also happen to have a significant private share holding).

Are the Society going to be completey silent on this? They don't have to talk about the Yank's offer but it's strange they haven't put anything out highlighting that fan ownership has given the club a solid platform for the past 7 years.

McGinn's form is in decline and although SOD has been better recently he's still got too many errors in him and is rotten on the ball. I would guess the two of them will be on decent money as well. As we have seen with Gent and Spencer there are younger and better players available.

The problem with our squad is Lamie, Tierney, Maguire, McGinley, Obika, Wilkinson, Elliott and Shaw. Change them for a decent centre half and centre mid and we'd easily be top six.

Vale played well when he dropped back into midfield. I'd be tempted to start him there next week.

The manager's tactics and starting line ups.

Brilliant come back. What a difference after Halliday went off.

Aberdeen game we lose a goal second phase from a corner. St Mirren game Kelly goes walk about and they score from a corner. Today direct from a corner. A joke of a keeper and manager.

There's surely no way he'll be here next season???

Peak Liam Kelly Worst goalie in the league by far.

60 minutes and no shot on target. The fact that people think this is an acceptable standard is mental. The manager should have been gone before Christmas.

Liam Kelly doing bunny hops on the line when the ball is getting crossed 6 yards out yet again.

Spittal's got an airpod in listening to the Hearts game.

It would be crazy to risk Lennon Miller on that park.

It's great to see him standing up for our position against the SPFL regarding the Dundee game. It's night and day from Burrows changing a fixture at short notice to suit Rangers and Neil Doncaster a couple of years ago.

People seem to be very excited about the connection to a household name brand in Netflix when he hasn't actually worked there for a number of years. There is definitely a PR campaign running in the background here with the emphasis on the bid coming from a 'family' which always has positive associations rather than say 'producer of straight to TV movies'.

I can't read the article because of the paywall but i'm sure Stephen McGowan is the journalist who Les Hutchinson seemed to talk to a lot back when he was doing his takeover.

There's no way we should be agreeing to play on astro.

Simple question... Who is currently on the Executive Board?

Do Virgin Money have a shareholder who own 71% of the shares?