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I think we sold extremely high, and made out like bandits, I would pass.

I’ve never paid much attention to him before, but looking at his recent stats, am I overlooking something? He played 37 matches last season, 36 the season prior, and 41 the season before that. Is he typically seen as an injury risk?

You raise many points which can open up into other discussions but do confirm that we do compete with them and had this mythical gulf been so great we certainly wouldn't have out performed them.. In relation to some people assertion that the financial gulf between us and 4 or 5 other teams is a severe one , I don't agree , its over blown. That's not to say it never will be if the Well society don't realise their plans to increase or income streams and attendances. The staffing costs are the staffing costs and we paid them. You are correct its not straightforward, that's why I said these figures will ebb and flow season to season because clubs will come into funds and have reduced funds depending on the season they have. Before anyone pipes up I know we ran a deficit in 2023, so did St Mirren, so did Kilmarnock. Kilmarnock's even bigger than ours at £1.9 million. As for KVV he cost Kilmarnock £140,000 for 6 months. Why the Kilmarnock Director personally funded it is their business, maybe because they were running a £1.9 million pound loss!! . If Motherwell had had an urgent unexpected bill for £200,000 is anyone seriously saying we couldn't have paid for it. Of course we could, so to suggest we couldn't have raised £140,000 to pay for KVV is nonsense. We made a sound financial decision not to sign him. Any club can make stupid irrational signings if they wish. Had the club desperately wanted him they could have raised the money , would have been a crazy decision but they could do it. Christ the Well Society is sitting on £750,000 the club could have asked them had they been so desperate to get him. Anyway much of the argument - I realise you are not of the opinion we cant compete - but for those who do think that, we are arguing about hairs on a bald mans head. For people to suggest we cant compete with RC , Kilmarnock, St Mirren and St Johnstone because they pay far bigger wages is nonsense, albeit the way Motherwell moan you'd think Albion Rovers could give us a run for our money financially. ALL the clubs discussed are mid ranking teams of a similar size who compete on pretty much a level playing field. Finally going by the logic offered in the argument that we cant compete financially with clubs mentioned, that means Hibs cant compete with Hearts , is anyone seriously suggesting that's the case?

He seems to have played 30+ games most seasons, so not injury prone (until we get hold of him at least).

Why let that get in the way of a good story!

Indeed they do. SK will get slaughtered if he sticks to 5-3-2 boot it long to no one, lose possession rinse and repeat.. The fans will accept a defeat if we go down fighting trying to play football and creating chances. I fear the same kinda pish we've watched more often than we should recently.

1700 tickets sold which is phenomenal. Nae pressure Kettlewell and players but you owe these supporters big time. Let's do this

Cue................ba boom Ps. I got him to sign an autograph with a pencil, he got a feckin skelf 🤣🤣

While your on the subject grizzly i think this is the longest period in his history big JON OBIKA has stayed fit 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 unless heez done his hammy putting his shorts on 🫣

I think Casey has his critics too - and I think SOD gets a disproportionate amount of criticism compared to some other players - even when he's playing well

Feel we watched a different Lamie if you think he did 90% right he was a bombscare

I would say yes. Bring him home

Cannae beat facts

Our strategy should be reasonably straight forward Balance of squad , defenders/midfield/attack. young homegrown talent - who would be better than we can afford and ideally sell them on. 24/25 year - who didn't make it with bigger club and need a chance. average Joe- established pros who we can afford. seasoned pros - who're past their best and stepping down to our level to help improve out youngsters loan signings - compliment your squad/short term gaps. It's about balance - these all need to be balanced out. Recent years we've lost basics of not enough mix of players for positions and for me too many risk players with injuries. eg more strikers now than midfielders ! Add to that there's several players who don't even seem to make it to testing them out - guys from NZ, Japan, Australia , Stupavic etc - complete lack of due diligence. Bottom line. I'm far from convinced we have a good recruitment team.