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Careful now, someone might start quoting the scriptures at you.

McCoist is a prick.

This whole situation goes from bad to worse. So we learn our Chairman (and others) strongly endorsed a Business Plan he had not read or tested, presented by a gentleman with no experience in football. At the same time the owners of the Club were excluded from any meaningful discussions. Rather than undertake his legal responsibilities the Chairman turned the spotlight and pressure on the Well Society possibly in the hope they would come up short and the deal would be waved through. And now we are in a state of concern awaiting the outcome of a vote that should not have been forced upon us. Just let that sink in for a minute. Jim McMahon is the man we trust to safeguard our football club. Hardly points to him adhering to his duty to act in the best interests of MFC and the Shareholders. Following diligence shown by the Society Board (including the production of a document detailing a practical and realistic way forward) coupled with numerous valid questions being asked by a concerned fan base, we are now told that no plan was presented to the Exec Board. I assume the other Club Board Members just accepted assurances given by Messrs McMahon, Dickie and Feeley? Not one of the projections or assumptions had been investigated it seems prior to recommendation. By anyone! So no inaccuracies, financial miscalculations or vague promises are anything to do with the Executive Board. Really? Those other Exec Board members, who must now be embarrassed by the truth of the whole situation, should intervene to bring this farce to an end. Then both Boards can work in harmony to identify a way ahead that is in the interest of all parties and secures the future of our Club. And given the fact that only now has the full background become known....days after the vote opened.....how valid is that vote? Would some folk have voted differently had the full background been known to them? Some Legacy this Mr McMahon.

Sack the Executive Board now. This isn’t some random sponsorship deal gone sour, this is a takeover bid, and their lack of care and due diligence is beyond belief.

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I think you're probably correct on a couple of fronts; he always struck me as someone who wanted to be involved in everything (rightly or wrongly) so perhaps there wasn't as much autonomy as you'd have wanted after he left. I was always told the best compliment a manager can have is that when they leave, they don't need to be replaced because the team they've left just gets on with things. I know the context is a bit different for a football Club, like, it needs a CEO, but a gap of 6-months with Derek Weir as interim should have been fine. It does show that the length of time the recruitment process took has probably been more detrimental to the Club than anyone expected it to be.

There's some incredible stuff on P&B with the club claiming they hadn't seen Barmack's spending plans before he published them on Friday. So either the Executive Board supported Barmack's takeover without asking him for a business plan or his published plans are different to his privately stated business plan. Either way it's a fiasco.

A Rangers man supporting England? (Lee Dixon said it was never a pen)

It probably means he can buy another one with the payoff. If Kettlewell doesn't get some creative players in look for it driving up Airbles road around November time.

Watson and Miller should be playing in the senior squad instead of some of the dross Clarke selects.

And yet arguably not the worst mr McMahon out there if you know you know.

Stop posting positively about the squad - I might start getting excited about the season ahead

I understand and share your frustration (maybe not the best word) but lets wait until the results of the two votes are available. If they go as I think most of us want to go then surely there has to be recrimination at both board level. We also will need elections firstly to the WS including a new chairperson. That board and its chair as 71% owner has to assert authority over all sections of the Club as it has not done so far.

I wouldnt imagine so. I dont expect to see him in a Motherwell shirt again. He will probably be given a couple of weeks holiday during which time his transfer to whatever club has offered us most money will likely go through. Thats based on absolutely nothing but rumour and Tom Feeley saying we will sell him.

Welcome to the club; your membership badge is on the door and we'll teach you the handshake when you're in the back.

Add another one to the reject list folk’s

Aside from Wild Sheep sports, which is a small media distribution company, he doesn't own anything. He's someone who's very skilled in media, and has worked as an employee at Netflix. He's not a serial entrepreneur or investor of note.

No narrative from me just a good few years of seeing the bigotry, hatred and religious intolerance that comes with the ugly sisters and their wider fan base, particularly in west Central Scotland, no doubt the "Well fans on parade" were supporting their big team as the saying goes.

Thanks for the sanctimonious post that has become your trademark but go and tell that to the numerous hangers on ive seen today including very young children holding and waving ulster flags while their alleged parents obviously the worse for drink sing " no surrender " The description of them in a previous post was accurate. The bigotry between the blue and green uglies is Scotlands shame and has no place in modern society.