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    Motherwell FC - A Thread For All Seasons

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    4 hours ago, thisGRAEME said:

    I'll never forget him playing in central midfield and Zidane turning some St. Mirren jobber, and convincing myself he'd be brilliant. 

     

    1 hour ago, capt_oats said:

    IIRC he actually joined the club as a midfielder but was converted to a defender by the time he was turning out for the Dev team.

    I think the St Johnstone 1-5 game @well fan for life mentions above was the point at which Robinson bailed on him as a viable centre back which is when they decided to repurpose him as the ML1 Busquets.

    I mean, who did it better:

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    Again, the COVID years are not canon. 

    However I think our perspectives were all fucked due to watching Robbie Crawford being left to play midfield through a stream that chucked it every 5 minutes. 

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    'Well vs Hibees

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    3 hours ago, ropy said:

    As much as a Shaw goal wouldn’t have affected our top six ambitions, an extra 2 points would have been handy.

    Oh aye absolutely. We can't put the whole blame at his feet for our failings this season. He is a tragically bad football player, make no mistake.

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    'Well vs Hibees

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    4 hours ago, Pepper said:

    Shaw should certainly have finished his chance and given VAR something to check but he looked well offside to me at the time and again from any replay I've seen. 

    No one mentions Moses' terrible first touch though, if he'd taken it in his stride and not had to check back it would have been an even easier change with everyone still onside. 

    Would have been a travesty for us to finish top 6 this season so can't complain at the outcome. 

    I'm not sure what replays you've seen but it's onside.  Fortunately the last defender is holding the cut of the pitch while failing to stop the cross. Shaw is just utter humpty.

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    But on the subject of terrible football players, that lad Youan is a good laugh. Runs faster than just about anyone in the league but absolutely hopeless with a ball at his feet. 

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    Motherwell FC - A Thread For All Seasons

    in Scottish Premiership General Chatter

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    I suspect Dan Casey might be a better player when he's no spent the close season necking pints of Guinness while he's sizing up his options. He's capable at this level for sure but has been up and down all season. 

    Davor is fine, he's better than a lot of the shite we've stuck in there in the last few years but he's not a world beater. Happy to have him as a hod carrier for people who are a bit more capable of creating things.

    Halliday I'm also happy to hold judgement on til he's had a full pre season. He'd barely kicked a ball in months before turning up in January.

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    Motherwell FC - A Thread For All Seasons

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    7 minutes ago, Handsome_Devil said:

    I still think it's highly unlikely we'll make it but even if we do, for the sake of argument, four points is a lot to make up in five games. Psychologically it's little - as we remember from our own pant-wetting in this scenario - but in practice you're probably looking at two zeros v the OF and you can expect St Mirren to benefit by the league scheduling our trip to Paisley last, so the margin for error in two tough games - Killie on the plastic, Hearts at home - is tiny.

    Essentially I'd love to have round 33 being live but even if it all works out, I wouldn't be checking where the passports are sadly.

    You think I'll be worried about Europe if we miraculously make top 6? I'll be too busy laughing myself to death.

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    When did your team shite it big time?

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    On 30/03/2024 at 22:01, YassinMoutaouakil said:

    I've never seen a single second of the game as I was on holiday at the time but losing 2-0 at Ibrox when we were top of the league and they were midtable in the 3rd division is an all-timer. Don't think I'm alone in never really forgiving McCall for it.

    It's been over a decade since this and I am still furious at McCall for his build up to this game. We shat the bed a week before a ball was even kicked. 

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    Motherwell FC - A Thread For All Seasons

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    7 minutes ago, MurrayWell said:

    Anyone going into this without a degree of scepticism hasn't been paying attention to Scottish football over the years. 

    Investment could be great, would be more than welcomed if the terms of it are best for the club, infrastructure and community going forward. Important to keep an open mind and consider what folk are willing to bring to the table. 

    Some of the rhetoric around this seems to be that we are desperate for investment, I'm not sure that's the case. When the image is painted that clubs really need investment, that's when to be most vigilant of anyone coming in making promises. 

    I think we're not desperate for investment, but it'll help us secure things longer term. Unfortunately we can't sell a Turnbull every 6 months so we need to look at other things. However I do wonder what the Well Society's idea would be long term. On Saturday there they had a lot of folk cutting about with flags etc. but there's a ceiling for the number of folk who will join due to the size of our fanbase. Having folk out rattling buckets for contributions isn't going to change much and, at worst, suggests we're really *really* fucked. 

    We absolutely should be wary of snatching money. But we should carefully consider offers. Obviously there's going to be ones like the Aussie offer which seemed to come with a million red flags attached. But if it's that some wealthy c**t wants to shoulder a bit of our running costs for a few percent then it's absolutely worth considering. 

    If the Well Society have anything about them they'll take the details of this and turn it into an investment for dummies level of summary so that people who aren't clued up on these things can digest it and make a decision. People like me, essentially. 

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    Motherwell FC - A Thread For All Seasons

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    There is also the possibility that a wealthy investor could give us the breathing space to actually grow fan ownership into something that isn't just for making ends meet. For example if there was someone US based who had perhaps sold an engineering company to make a fortune. They then might want to help us get fan ownership working with their input. 

    Would be unthinkable though. 

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    Motherwell FC - A Thread For All Seasons

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    4 hours ago, Jim McLean's Ghost said:

    Here is my main issue. Why is all this being handled with secrecy. We don't even know who these people are. We are supposed to be a commuity club and if there was a genuine offer that had proper benefits for the club and wider community they would be publicly saying so. instead it is being done in a clandestine manner with no information actually coming out.

    Just because folk pay 10 quid a month doesn't mean they should immediately be informed of everything the club does. Not sure there's much merit in giving the details of a relatively complex financial arrangement that publicly names the interested party out to a load of people who have absolutely no idea how this stuff works. 

    For me the club have done the correct thing here. There's an interested party, the initial details have been deemed acceptable enough to fully explore so they are doing that before putting it out to the shareholders including the Well Society. All this coming off the back of the exploratory vote that said fans would consider outside investment.

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    Motherwell FC - A Thread For All Seasons

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    1 hour ago, PauloPerth said:

    Not sure why Motherwell fans are upset about that article, there’s nothing untrue or critical in it.

     

    We just collectively laugh at Nicolson after he said it was "utterly inexplicable" that we overlooked Tommy Wright in favour of Graham Alexander when we were in a relegation shitfight.  Obviously that whole situation ended up in disaster later but in that first season we wound up comfortably staying up and Tommy Wright seen Killie get relegated.

     

     

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