Ron Aldo Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 I never bought a season ticket so didn't get an email but I'm outraged all the same. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
18May1991 Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 It’s the lack of transparency that is concerning me 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busta Nut Posted September 2, 2020 Share Posted September 2, 2020 I got sent my daughters and It said on the letter my card had been updated for the new season. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pettigrew Posted September 2, 2020 Share Posted September 2, 2020 1 hour ago, Busta Nut said: I got sent my daughters and It said on the letter my card had been updated for the new season. Any word on the race cards? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geedub-MFC Posted September 2, 2020 Share Posted September 2, 2020 Do you think he meant hold all the aces? Fucking hell 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thisGRAEME Posted September 2, 2020 Share Posted September 2, 2020 1 hour ago, Geedub-MFC said: Do you think he meant hold all the aces? Fucking hell HAHAHAH IT IS ISN'T IT. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeadStar Posted September 2, 2020 Share Posted September 2, 2020 Mon we'll just play a 5-2-3 like Wolves from now on. It'll be a chuckle. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capt_oats Posted September 2, 2020 Share Posted September 2, 2020 (edited) McGinley making an appearance in the training ground footage. Edited September 2, 2020 by capt_oats 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted September 2, 2020 Share Posted September 2, 2020 3 hours ago, DeadStar said: Mon we'll just play a 5-2-3 like Wolves from now on. It'll be a chuckle. Not content with stealing our signing targets, Motherwell have now moved on to formations. Next thing you'll be filling your stands with cardboard fans. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phillips455 Posted September 2, 2020 Share Posted September 2, 2020 3 hours ago, RandomGuy. said: Not content with stealing our signing targets, Motherwell have now moved on to formations. Next thing you'll be filling your stands with cardboard fans. We are also stealing your early league form from last season as well. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazylegsjoe_mfc Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 13 hours ago, capt_oats said: McGinley making an appearance in the training ground footage. That's positive. I'm sure the "six weeks out" that was suggested for him would take him until the Aberdeen game. Robinson previously said Carroll was due back in October too, hope that's still on track. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archie McSquackle Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 On the other hand, Donnelly was on crutches so looks a long way off. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 10 hours ago, Phillips455 said: We are also stealing your early league form from last season as well. Congratulations on your impending top 6 finish. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazylegsjoe_mfc Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 Was also left trying to do the maths after Jake Hastie claimed he was nine years old when we played Llanelli in 2009 and still nine when we play Panathinaikos in 2012. I hope he's got a financial adviser/accountant that deals with that five grand a week he gets. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thisGRAEME Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 14 hours ago, RandomGuy. said: Not content with stealing our signing targets, Motherwell have now moved on to formations. Next thing you'll be filling your stands with cardboard fans. Tbf, we've stolen the McDiarmid Park atmosphere as well, so chuck that on the list. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capt_oats Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 No longer our player obvs but The Athletic have done a profile on McKinstry (if anyone happens to have a subscription). The move to Leeds seems to be working out for him. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pettigrew Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 22 minutes ago, capt_oats said: No longer our player obvs but The Athletic have done a profile on McKinstry (if anyone happens to have a subscription). The move to Leeds seems to be working out for him. Stuart McKinstry’s days off at Leeds United are spent on the road with his father, driving home to the west coast of Scotland. They stay for the night before making the return journey, getting McKinstry back to Thorp Arch for training. Leeds took the boy out of Motherwell when they signed McKinstry but they had no chance of taking Motherwell out of the boy. He was 16 months old when his family took him to his first game at Fir Park, sorting out his allegiance before Rangers or Celtic could get their hooks into him. He was a mascot, a youth-team player and very nearly a schoolboy debutant for the Scottish club after making the bench against Kilmarnock on Boxing Day in 2018. Motherwell suffered three injuries in the first half and manager Steve Robinson’s substitutions were used up in a flash. “I can’t pretend I wasn’t a bit gutted for him,” says his mother, Karen. McKinstry, Leeds’ 17-year-old winger, comes from the tightest of families, so much so that when Leeds made him an offer to join them last summer, he toyed with the idea of saying no. Even when the club invited him down to Yorkshire, wowed him with a tour and gave him a shirt with his name on the back of it, McKinstry worried about leaving his parents and sister behind. “I wanted him to go for it,” Karen says. “So I asked him if it would make a difference if his dad went with him. That was it. He said, ‘If dad comes with me, I’ll go tomorrow’.” His father John, who was a Motherwell trainee in the 1980s, had a job in logistics north of the border. His company agreed he could work remotely but if they had refused his request to relocate, he would have quit and gone with his lad regardless. The two of them now live together in a flat in Wetherby, away from Karen and McKinstry’s sister Lauren. “It can be a struggle,” Karen says, “but it’s what we had to do. When Stuart came back from Leeds after going down for the first time, I could see his wee brain going round and round. Seeing what was down there blew him away.” During his visit, McKinstry took in an under-18s game against Everton. It did not leave him feeling out of his depth or inadequate. Leeds were confident he was more than up to playing for a leading academy in England — so confident they were willing to pay Motherwell £400,000 for him — but the decision was McKinstry’s. Neither he nor Leeds have looked back since he chose to take the plunge. McKinstry was told to report to Thorp Arch on July 1 last summer but got a call soon after to tell him that Marcelo Bielsa wanted him there a week early to put him through the examination all academy players in the highest age groups are given by the Argentine manager. Leeds’ head coach liked McKinstry’s style and told him to expect some time with the under-23s, a reassuring seal of approval. The winger showed quick feet, looked comfortable using either one, and had the pace and upper-body strength to beat a full-back and open up his flank. He played seven times for the under-23s last season, scored twice in a Premier League Cup tie against Wolverhampton Wanderers, and his name has been mentioned positively in dispatches from Thorp Arch over the past 12 months. What stood out more was his performance for Leeds Under-18s against Manchester United in the FA Youth Cup in February. Leeds lost 1-0 after Henri Kumwenda’s red card in the second half but McKinstry shone while the game was 11-vs-11, cutting the opposition open with his speed of thought and balance, and showing a willingness to carry the ball. He gained some versatility at Motherwell, who liked to use him on the left wing and give him scope to cut inside onto his stronger right foot. There were two moments in the space of six second-half minutes at Old Trafford where his trickery and confidence revealed itself. Manchester United tried to double up on McKinstry (marked below in blue) with their left-sided players but he found a way to evade them on both occasions, skipping into space and delivering dangerous crosses into the box. Those attacks demonstrated an ability to work in tight spaces and fashion chances from difficult positions — the wing play Bielsa looks for at first-team level. Leeds are nurturing their academy in a way where the potential in it is rife. They have midfielder Nohan Kenneh, a supremely-gifted England Under-17 international, who turned professional in January. They have Charlie Cresswell, a tidy, composed centre-back who is the son of former Leeds striker Richard Cresswell. As a result of concerted recruitment this summer, they have former Fulham right-back Cody Drameh and a striker in Joe Gelhardt who already looks to coaches and senior players at Leeds like a steal from troubled Wigan Athletic at £700,000. It is a competitive and aspirational field, and one Bielsa watches with interest. McKinstry is very much in the pack, a player Leeds always reference when you ask who might make the step up next. The club tied him to a new three-year contract on Sunday. He had his home comforts in Motherwell and plenty to cling onto when, as Karen jokes, “they came and took my boy away” but Leeds was a different world and too big a draw for him and his family to resist, even though it split them in two. It was Motherwell chief executive Alan Burrows who said to McKinstry: “Go to Leeds and take a look. At least take a look and see what you think.” He gave Leeds a chance and Leeds got their man. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Brightside Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 "Motherwell liked to use him on the left wing and give him scope to cut inside onto his stronger right foot"Doesn't sound like us at all... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busta Nut Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 It's sounds like we lost out on a very decent talent. I am claiming he learned his trade watching me on the wing during the old 'Welltrust's first season, his ma used to bring him along to watch his da play for us then. Will be good if we see him in the first team squad. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busta Nut Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 19 hours ago, DeadStar said: Mon we'll just play a 5-2-3 like Wolves from now on. It'll be a chuckle. I'd be game for that 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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