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Now you mention it. I once plugged myself into the mains one night and now I recall I jumped exactly like Souttar did. You may be onto something…….

Basically this. A weird jump from Soapy. Deserves to give away a penalty for jumping like an arse. Then they score a goal - fair play. Benfica are no Motherwell .

Not words I ever thought I would read describing our defence. But every dog has its day . 3rd top goal scorers in the league yet in the bottom half. If only our defence played like this every week. Just over the moon. Faddy can rest easy. We won’t have to watch his goal in black and white again….

Did not say who too . Absolutely fantastic. Well done the team and more so the Manager. To think some wanted him shunted. He has worked miracles last season and again this season. In the unlikely event we get top 6 he should get a statue. Will enjoy tonight big time, tomorrow, the day after, next week. The whole break until the next game.

Did not think so at first. But one angle clearly shows SODs did not get the ball. He had no need to go to ground. Meanwhile Kelly comes for a cross. No where near it. Lucky to get away with that. We have got ourselves into excellent positions on the edge of the Rangers box. With a wee bit more composure we should have another goal or two. Will no doubt end up 2-1

You were saying. As sure as day follows night.

This would be a fucking total joke if this is given. Corrupt as f**k.

Ask Graham Alexander. Except don’t or you might think you are a shoe in for a play off place.

I have backed Rangers +3.5 goals which pretty much means it will either be a 2-1 win or a 3-0 home win. Any result where we get anything is more welcome than any financial return . But I just don’t see it. Key point being we have conceded more goals than most teams bar maybe Livi. If the Rangers team that beat Hearts turn up it will be a similar or worse outcome. Even then we may yet score a goal. Another Spittal 25 yarder. So a home win with 4 or more goals is a decent shout.

Fair points. And you may well be proved right. I suspect that any offer will be underwhelming. But and it is a BIG but. We may yet see a proposal for outside investment that ticks many boxes. @Busta Nut has asked what this may look like. Wish I knew. I have said on numerous occasions I cannot see why anyone would invest in Motherwell and expect an ROI. I mean I saw the other day that the guy who bought Everton has ploughed £750m of his own money in and where are they right now. Dundee United another obvious example.min our neck of the woods. A larger club but despite £10-£15m invested sit in the Championship and may yet be there again next season. There is no money to be made in football, unless you invest in one of the very top clubs and manage it prudently. Which no one seems able to do or very few clubs such as the likes of Brighton and Lille with huge net transfer gains.

Oh I am. He could rediscover his form of the first loan spell and season. But at the moment I still view him as a weak link. Factually he has the lowest save % in the entire league. If we had any other player who was bottom of their respective stats / charts I would expect us to move them on. The fact he is our captain and he obviously has discreet pictures of the Manager should not impact on that. Of course it will but it should not imho.

Not sure why the result is not great ? I would actually be more worried if it was the other way around. I assume we will still get to vote on any proposals and at that point hopefully more than just a third would be bothered to vote. If the proposals should there by any look weak or woolly or resemble a poor option then I and I would expect most others would vote against outside investment at this point in time. But an openness to consider options is imho encouraging. It may even entice any sleeping interest to come forward or give a green light to those currently in discussions which actually might turn out to be attractive to the fanbase.

Hard to disagree with the above. In fact I fully agree. If we do keep Mugabi and SODs then it should be as squad players both of which I would be fine with. But we desperately need to change or at least try to change CB and GK unless we want the GA column to be similar next season.

I agree and how I voted. I suspect the actual number of Society members that are active in the Well Bois, Block E etc would be proportionally lower than other more mature / older voters.

100% this. Our goals for and against column only go to confirm your and most of our thoughts. Hindsight is a wonderful things but I have been banging on about the GK and CB position for a couple of seasons now. Probably lessened in the summer due to the impact Butcher and Casey had at the end of last season. But we need a total refresh in that area next season to address this. You could argue that your league position is more determined by how many you concede rather than how many you score. We have scored 7 more goals than both Killie and St Mirren but conceded circa double that amount than both of those teams who sit comfortably in the top 4/5.

Was I busy saying that top 6 is not out of the question.

Christ knows where we would be without him. He has turned into our most valuable player by some distance. Shame we won’t be able to keep him. As long as he does not end up in Paisley. surely he would have better suitors..

Would have liked Aberdeen not to lose tonight but by f**k this is funny. At least we know that when Warnock gets fired Cormack will appoint the next Manager pronto

Rangers to win and +3.5 is the bet. Saddens me to say. But no way they are not scoring 4goals + against our defence.

I am swithering tbh. Supported him all season. But his line up and recent subs have been surprising. We outplayed Celtic 1st half Sat. So let’s leave Vale and Gent on the bench. Two of our better and most potent performers of late. Go figure

Looks like we can play all evening and not score. Add to the fact Aberdeen are shite and this getting rather worrying now. Back down to 10th as it stands

This has come as a complete surprise to absolutely nobody…….. Well Kettlewell apart that is. Do we have a back up keeper. Do we

See we are back to 1 attempt on goal = goal. Softest defence in the league. We were concentrating on attackers when we needed defenders and decent goalie.

Pretty much what I said. Apart from the self sustaining bit. It would appear if we were to become self sustaining (as we effectively are at the moment) then we will inevitably drop into the championship. Very few clubs in the top flight are self sustaining and that is the core issue. We are struggling to compete. The custodians of the club have a duty to try and ensure we stay a premiership club and they and most fans recognise that to do that we could really do with outside investment. The Chairman and CEO made that perfectly clear as the rationale behind this money raising effort. Not at any cost however. So you say let’s fall into the Championship and so be it. The problem then is like Falkirk, Dunfermline and Partick etc you have even less revenue and are stuck in the lowers leagues for years potentially. A vicious circle. And the the very fans who say I would rather that actually decide not to renew season tickets or attend games because they never really meant it and watching Motherwell lose in the lower leagues is not as much fun after all.

Did McMahon not fund that video himself or have I misunderstood that ? The criticism of the video is interesting. Not saying it is not warranted in some respects. However MacMahon or Weir made it clear they opted for this approach rather than the more laborious / expensive approach of employing a specialist investment company. Which is what one would do if they were actively seeking to put the club up for sale. Something I am not sure they could even do with the Well Society being the majority shareholder. So they probably had very few options open to them to make it as public as possible that MFC would benefit from outside investment. As to the vote. I suspect it will be close. But I agree with a previous comment that fan ownership being seen as some sort of sacred or unchallengeable solution is as daft as saying we should accept the 1st serious approach regardless the terms etc. I would welcome outside investment if it was going to make a difference and there were enough safeguards in place to protect the club, the infrastructure and the long terms interests of the supporters. If that is not available then we need to do everything we can to get behind the Well Society proposals. That means all of us that can afford to need to dig a little deeper into our pockets. Not easy when many are struggling to make ends meet. In fact you could legitimately argue this could be one of the worst times to ask fans to contribute more. I expect that the current custodians of the club are fully aware of this.