Frazzie

I've stuck an optimistic £1 on all six SPL games ending in away wins.

You could just copy and paste this after every game this season because we have the two worst in the division.

Fair point.

The real question is whether McCall has given up on Europe or not. Inverness could drop like a stone and we could steal 4th and hope Celtic play Aberdeen or Utd in the Cup final. It's a long shot but it's possible.

Some people want to stand and some want to sit- very valid reasons for both preferences, but the point is that the option should be available to do either. Assuming that the standing section would cost less to maintain than a seated area would also imply that the admission price should be cheaper. Lower cost + better atmosphere = more folk..... surely?

If Hollis had a Faroese granny his loft would be full of blue velvet caps aswell.

I have. Uh oh.....

I am posting this from my phone, and I'm standing as I do. Can anyone confirm if I am currently safe?

What he said.

I hate articles like that. It is written in a tone that implies his opinion deserves consideration, while at the same time spouting completely ill-informed, half-baked bullshit.

A load of pish.

No they won't.

What did the 'Well fan do? Also hope a copper gets his jotters for alerting the media.

Aye, get it played. It's only going to be more miserable if we have to do it on a Wednesday night in January.

McCall is former team-mates with the boys manager so he's probably been aware of him for a while, and he can't rate Stewart all that highly if he's being playing Hollis and Gunnar ahead of him anyway.

Reading between the lines of our recent results which have been away wins and home pumpings, are we now better-suited to playing away? Hard to fathom that with our obvious lack of pace.

Sixth spot, combined with our cup exits, would make it a fairly poor season in my opinion. But I'll take it at the moment.

Maybe the novice keeper who played is a better goalkeeper than our novice keeper?

Same.

Is it not just £1k up front?

Not entirely true. I broke one at Inverness entirely by accident when I fell over the row in front celebrating a goal.

I think everyone would agree that the period of their stewardship has been a succesful one on the pitch and this rarely, if ever, comes without some level of investment from the board. There is two different types of football success for a club like ours - cup wins and European qualification. One comes with a guaranteed cash cow, one comes with a potential cash cow/potential loss scenario. Unfortunately for our book-balancers, the success we have had on the field has been of the latter variety and the draws haven't been particularly kind to us once we've got there in terms of maximising our profit.

Sorry if I'm over-simplifying this, but as far as I'm concerned if the 'Well Society want money from people they should make it as flexible as possible to pay. So it's obvious that the £300 membership would cost £25 per month for a year and the £1000 membership would cost £83.33, but what if I could afford more than £25 per month but not £83.33? Why not charge me £36.11 for three years and give me a Steel Membership immediately, then upgrade me to Amber when my Direct Debit is finished? Obviously that's just a quick (and probably flawed) example, but the point remains. Most members don't care about benefits, prize draws or anything else - the £20-£25 won't be the difference between anyone buying a season ticket or not, plus the 'Well Lotto is up and running - people join the 'Well Society to contribute towards safe-guarding the future of our club and want to put in as much as they can manage if they think it's genuinely going to help. I also think the annual fee should be mandatory to keep your membership and not be fed back into the club to fund daft benefits - I can only imagine what this seasons highlights DVD will be like!

I think a major balls-up from the Society is that the annual fee (£50 for me, more for the higher levels) does not need to be paid to retain your membership (and vote), but is only to activate the "benefits". I am fairly certain that the vast majority of members did not sign up to receive anything, and I genuinely couldn't tell you what the benefits are, but I've paid my £50 for this year anyway. I may not bother in future.

I forgot all about it.