CMWellfan

If I were an under-20 and offered the chance to work under the direct supervision of the club manager with a view to breaking into the first team - guess what? Two weeks in Torremolinos and straight back to training for me - you better believe it. And the club management ain't thick, they are perfectly capable of standing down development players for a couple of weeks later in the year to give them a rest. There seems to be a belief with the support ( one I agree with ) that McGhee knows how to get a player up to speed pre-season. I'd have preferred he was at Fir Park the last few weeks working with our youngsters and trialists.

That's what happens when you have a part-time manager pfaffing about at meaningless friendlies. He should be at Fir Park working the under-twenties to death to see if he can get any of them up to scratch for the first team squad.

It's a great position to be in - to have a contract offer of XXXX a week lying open with no immediate pressure to sign. Gives you a chance to look around and see if you can better it till the ultimatum is delivered. In this case, I don't think either Lasley or Hammell are deluding themselves that they will get paid multiples more than the Motherwell offer by any other British club as players. If I were them I'd be wondering if there were any player/manager type roles on the go at similar money. If they want a long term future in football they'd be stupid not to look at it just now. And that's what agents are for, rooting about to see if any deals can be done on the quiet. I'm starting to reconsider my stance that I want both of them to go. I'm concerned that the local NHS won't be able to handle the meltdown of many members of this forum> We'll be doomed, you see, when an injury prone guy and another guy who arrives ten minutes late for tackles move on. Doomed, I say, doomed .https://youtu.be/9EH1G4EwljM

The worst result I've seen in the recent past was the humiliating capitulation to Third division Rangers. We better not capitulate against them in the first match of next season, not after that farcical and embarassing 7-0 doing we took from the worst Celtic team since Lou Macari's reign.

I tend not read past your first lines weeyin, as it's bad for my mental health. Damned by faint praise - "I think we are in with a chance of qualifying from a group including Anna, Stranraer, and East Stirlingshire." Lets put it a different way - if McGhee can't get us out of the group, a stewards inquiry is in order.

I know you are very old and you can recount matches between Motherwell and Third Lanark, I can merely go back to 1975. There's a delicious pain in being a Motherwell fan, I doubt many other clubs in Scottish football torture their fans more. Added to that there's way too many Wearie Willies in our support. I watch some and get the impression that they are not happy until they are unhappy. They turn up with their faces tripping them, and if we can take a 7-0 defeat, they go home ecstatic. Bonered up on a sea of righteous indignation. The way to annoy them is to have the team play a blinder and win. They'll still find fault - they'll still come on here twenty-five years later and moan about Ally Maxwell being culpable for a goal in a cup final that we won. Now you've got me quaking at the prospect of facing Stranraer. I won't be able to sleep now, and to make it worse, the mighty East Stirling and Annan lying in wait too. Fucks sake - it will be the doctors for me Monday. Prozac I'll be needing. Thanks for that, Wee Yin -

Getting embarrassing now

It's just ridiculous that some are trembling at the idea of Stranraer away

Including half of the East Stand by the time so-called Well supporters buy tickets for their Rangers pals.

I'd have preferred Rangers away cos half of our support will bottle it and stay in the house.

I'm that disinterested in Plymouth Argyle I didn't even bother to check which league they are in. My bad, huh? Anyway, at least I made you feel good by proving someone wrong on the internet.

ffs - who was it that said last week that we are bad at marketing our players? with fans like ours.............if anyone from Plymouth Argyle is reading this...... Lionel Ainsworth is a scintillating attacking force who on his day can destroy any team. I refer you to the mockery he made of Rangers at the play-off matches last season, which just goes to show that he is a big game player. I also refer you to the posts where a fan suggested that we do a compilation of Ainsworth's best goal, he has scored many screamers in his time with us. Put simply, if you had Ainsworth in your team for your play-offs, you would now be in the Championship, and you would be on your way to doing a Leicester. Remember to sign the cheque, we'll give him a lift down. Regards, CMWellfan

Took you a while to think that witty answer up.

This is Alice in Wonderland stuff. "We know he's not good enough for Motherwell," - so we give him a one year contract.

Outstanding draw - play it at Ibrox and get some money in early doors. McGhee will be salivating at the prospect of this dough coming in before the transfer window shuts.

Aye, fine - Motherwell FC 2016 - cannae afford to travel to away friendlies - And I'm a fud. Right enough. Nothing to do with the board's appalling contract policy and our ability to go for years without selling a homegrown player. And what's the sum total of this contract? if Moore does well, he'll be offski on a free with us begging for a development fee. Which has become the norm for MFC. But of course, it's me that's the fud for pointing it out.

Fine - fuck it - give them all a one year contract and never mind generating transfer income. Clearly we are rolling in so much dough we can just give up on the idea of selling players. Great business model, outstanding. In fact, lets just go month to month with the entire squad, that way of someone has a bad game we can bomb them out.

One year contracts for the youngsters, wtf? We seem determined to avoid selling players. Or maybe our new club policy is to go cap in hand to other clubs in the development fee lottery.

There was always talk of meaningless games, but I liked the early season group format. It gave us genuine match practice early doors.

Rangers and Airdrie would be a great draw - get some money in.

Fine - we need financial stability, so no point budgeting for imaginary sales and high league finishes. I wouldn't mind if the club set it's budget there for the next three years. I fear another administration event.

Troll account because I blame the Hibs fans for running onto the pitch and assaulting the Rangers players? Then going down to goad the Rangers fans? Rubbish.

Am I for real? what's wrong with you? A thousand Hibs fans go charging down the pitch to goad Rangers fans - what did you think was going to happen? The miracle is that thousands of Rangers fans didn't jump the barrier and set about them, and they are due credit for that. A bit shocking that fans attacked Rangers players? the real shock is that Rangers fans watched it and didn't go to town. Engage your brain before posting this drivel - Hibs fans are to blame for this.

I'll pick sides and go with the Rangers fans - the vast majority showed great restraint by not squaring up to the Hibs fans. When I saw the first trickle jump the barrier I thought ffs, no - but it stayed a trickle. Good on them. Two weeks after the Hillsborough vindication, we could do without this shameful crap.

Oh yes, fantastic - we took in about £500K for the two latter players you mentioned - how much do you think the club has paid ut in wages to loanees in the past few years that have returned us zilch? We can't afford it.