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8 minutes ago, redstarcvedza said:
One of the advantages of football (Old Firm excepted) is that in general it is apolitical. As Motherwell fans do we really give a monkeys about the private politics of our players, owners, management team or fellow fans ?
I mean, yes.
No Tories thanks.
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Anyway, on big Theo, just look at him…he’s thriving
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51 minutes ago, Handsome_Devil said:
I can no longer remember the massive list of guys we failed to get but there was more than half a dozen and not one of them makes you think we missed out on much at all. So far, at least.
I think I said at the time that not getting a replacement for Biereth through the door in January was a failure regardless of what happened. Which, tbh, I stand by.
I agree that I don’t think we’d have been any better off had we got KVV, Eamonn Brophy, Stevie May, Aidan Keena, the laddie who ended up at Hibs or any of the other names chucked around but while clearly it’s great that big Thelonius has gone on the tear he has, finding ourselves in the position where, by our own admission at the AGM, we were phoning around anyone who would answer at 10pm on deadline day and in some cases being openly laughed at as we scrambled can’t really be chalked up as a W. Otherwise we presumably wouldn’t have been in full blown panic mode trying to get hold of literally anyone before finally bringing back a guy whose loan we’d cancelled a fortnight earlier.
Having said all that, another goal involvement for Jack Vale at the weekend. Some boi.
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41 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:
That loss is last seasons, FWIW. So that's what they lost in winning the Championship.
True.
Although the reporting has mentioned they're expecting a similar loss next year for this season so @thisGRAEME is just 12 months ahead of the curve.
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Bailey Rice getting his arse handed to him is it?
We cannot be stopped.
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What is this witchcraft?
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17 minutes ago, eliphas said:
Unless I'm not following we'd have another round of fixtures to go...
Someone else can explain in more detail but you need to have 38 games maximum or something like that to allow for European/International commitments which means you can't have another full round of fixtures as that would take it to 44.
It's essentially why the split exists rather than all the "it adds excitement/meaningful games". It's purely functional.
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"Far from ideal build up..."
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Lads, honestly, I'm still giggling watching this.
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13 minutes ago, rowsdower said:
I dont actually think we'd lose 5, but that seems to be whats generally mooted as the downside of top six. With absolutely nothing to lose, we could be a dangerous prospect for the teams that have something to play for. Then you have killie and hearts just seeing out the season...
I was at peace with "just don't be stranded at the bottom come the split" in December, so I'm not going to be distraught if we don't get it done next week.
Aye.
Fwiw, I don't think we'd lose 5 either.
We'd definitely draw a couple.
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57 minutes ago, rowsdower said:
Dundee will beat Aberdeen if it comes to it. Aberdeen are soft and think they're safe, which they probably are.
Being in with a fair shout of the top six in the last pre split game is great considering the run we had. I absolutely would prefer losing 5 games in the top six over being best of the bottom six. For one, it's more money, and also I'd rather f**k up the title for someone (ideally with a goal from Oli Shaw), over dooming Ross County to a playoff that they're going to win anyway.
I don't think it matters what half were in, Theo Bair will still find his way to 20 goals.
I'm kind of the opposite on this tbh.
Like, don't get me wrong - all things being equal, if we have a good team I'd far rather be in the Top 6 than not and to be clear us getting Top 6 next week would be very, very funny but I think there's definitely an upside to being best of the bottom 6 in a season like this.
Not least we've already seen the no wins in X games crowd getting bent out of shape this season and given Kettlewell is still getting grief even after we're winning games at the moment per @crazylegsjoe_mfc's excellent post earlier I can't see that us losing 5 on the spin in the Top 6 and getting leathered on someone's trophy day is going to do anything for vibes.
Assuming we're safe early then landing the plane in 7th or 8th with the sort of post-split run we had last season would be absolutely fine for me.
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43 minutes ago, Handsome_Devil said:
Halliday has had a poor couple of games - hard to tell whether it's just a wee loss of form or he's not actually fully fit after injury.
We've already signed him on a PCA btw.
I'm not exactly an Andy Halliday stan but aye, it's not even the injury he picked up with us - he'd hardly kicked a baw for Hearts this season when he signed.
It feels quite daft for anyone to be making any sort of assessment of him given how little football he's played.
Prior to signing with us in January he'd played 46 minutes. As it stands he's only played 458 mins total.
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30 minutes ago, thisGRAEME said:
To me it's more like Robinson. He continually fucked starting lineups then fixed it, and improved pretty steadily.
Kettlewell never gives me the "what the f**k are we even doing?" that Alexander did regularly.
This is it for me as well.
I think the noise around Kettlewell is very similar to the grief Robinson got: some folk have just decided they don't like him and that's that really.
See when you hear stuff like "I hope he proves me wrong"...generally people don't actually like being proved wrong.
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5 minutes ago, pozbaird said:
Did Motherwell suffer many career ending injuries in home games when it was Fir Park that was an absolute disgrace a few seasons back? Fir Park is braw’ these days, but it closely resembled the current Dens Park surface, if not worse.
"A few" = 15 years.
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Keyes and Nelms looking at an unplayable pitch after overseeing the managed decline of Dens.
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4 hours ago, nelsjfc said:
Interesting to see what's going on motherwell - doesn't sound like the threat of playoff worrying investors too much there.
Hopefully we get some update soon with what's going on at saints.
In fairness, if things are as rumoured on our thread the level of investment we're looking at is much more modest largely because we're not actually looking to sell the club (despite the impression our chairman seems to have inadvertently created).
In that respect I'd imagine your scenario with the Browns selling up has much more riding on it than ours.
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2 hours ago, RandomGuy. said:
Found this line in the STV report interesting. Would it be making the money club this way, or themselves?
In fairness there are a number of inconsistencies with that article.
I mean, it's semantics but Barmack wasn't Vice President of Netflix as an entity as implied by the article. He was VP of different departments including Independent Content and International Content. If you look at their current leadership structure they have loads of "Vice Presidents" - https://about.netflix.com/en/leadership
More factually we're not "partly" fan-owned. We're fully fan owned and have been for fucking ages.
Also, that quote you've (fairly) picked up on was rumoured to have been the other bidders who comprised Australian/Middle-Eastern/US "investors" whose approach we seem to have binned. They were the mob who wanted to bring in their own CEO and what not.
As it stands it's not actually that clear what's in it for Barmack in terms of ROI but the wording in the STV article is a bit of a mess:
Quote"The club subsequently entered talks with Barmack who is said to be keen to utilise his television background to grow income as well as a US-based multi-national consortium which felt it could make money through recruitment and sale of players."
It's two separate approaches.
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41 minutes ago, StAndrew7 said:
I like him.
I enjoyed him taking shots at Dundee.
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It's Ewan McVicar's da
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11 minutes ago, Neil86 said:
I wonder if that is who he co-founded the company for fantasy football games with?
@capt_oats the more i'd read into him the more I leaned away from the documentary idea.
I suppose for balance it's worth pointing out he was at Netflix when they did the Juventus series in 2018.
He's quoted about it in the article below:
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14 minutes ago, Busta Nut said:
Isn't Netflix $14b in debt?
There you go.
$14.54B
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Motherwell FC - A Thread For All Seasons
in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
Posted · Edited by capt_oats
100%. I've never really got the whole "keep politics out of sport" stance for exactly this reason.
Especially in this case, given that part of the brief that surrounded the McMahon video was (I'm paraphrasing) the hope that we could seek partnership with someone in line with the "values" of the club and matched our ethics.
Given the trend toward 'sportswashing' that's prevalent in both football and sport in general it's a fairly natural response to want to establish what the values and ethical stance of the club is in the first place or as a fan owned club what we think those ethics should be.
That is, one way or another, political and tbf, it's a subject that @crazylegsjoe_mfc covers well in his response to @Wellin's post on the previous page.