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There's not many humble billionaires, sadly. And even fewer humble football club owners. But if fans don't like him, then even more reason to support the Society and take over his shares. Although, the fans haven't exactly been full.of praise for our squad recently, either.

I'm wary of any 'quotes' that appear in the tabloids as it is so easy to take things out of context. I'm wary of the Daily Mail even more so. He seems pretty open, though, so I'm sure if someone asked him what he meant, he wouldn't hesitate to tell them.

FTFY

This.

Same here. Remember the dogs and also my dad took us to the main stand for games like that. When we were dossing around in the First Division, post-fence days, they almost always opened the gate and we'd swap sides to get a closer view of Willie Irvine's goals.

Nah, this was a couple of weeks ago.

Some of the membership levels have a perk where you get your picture taken with the team. They organize it on the same day the official squad photo is taken.

FWIW, My dad was speaking to Craigan at the Well Society team photo day. Craigan, without naming any names, said he understood the cry from the fans to blood more of the youngsters, but the guys that are close to step up aren't quite there yet and need a bit more time. On numbers alone, like I said my earlier post, we are definitely lacking. Playing U17s in the 20s is not an ideal development strategy.

If we don't have senior players in the squad (like the recent Rangers game) our U20s team is certainly short on numbers. Crags has played U17s lads in there, which is not ideal.

Yes.

Exactly. More details required. In fact, they might already be available, I don't remember. But a refresher would be useful.

"The club (and the ground) is owned by Les Hutchinson which he appears to have bought for free." "Providing a loan isn't buying something" You're arguing against yourself now. You have raised some valid points in this thread, but I'm not sure this is one of them.

The money is loaned in lieu of bank loans during the season.

On the Chariman's blog today, I noticed the quote "And when the club repays the loans, ownership will transfer from Les Hutchison to the society.." So it does seem that it's the club that is servicing the loan. However, we really do need some clarity on the exact nature of the financing.

Saw this in the Scotsman today, lifted from a report in the Sheffield Star I can't imagine Norwich will be too happy with him if it's true.

It is, yes. Check it out on our official youtube channel.

Sometimes I think the people claiming to be underwhelmed have never been to a Motherwell game or read a single thing about our club. Got to love all the prejudgements too.

Just listened to his interview on youtube. "what sort of player are you?" "I like to get my foot in and pass balls simple" That'll do nicely.

I reckon the free transfer will be another name we're not familiar with.

Seems like a good bit of business. Wonder who our contact is there that helped with the deal. I was thinking we might have had a Liverpool youngster on loan given the McAllister connection.

Two hours to get the deal done. The announcement could be longer.

Sorry, you'll just need to plough through the pages of mince like everyone else.

Nobody said that. So, no.

Given the loans made from the Society to the Club over the past couple of years that have kept the club afloat, I wouldn't ever consider it a failure. I'm not saying it will meet it's final goal, but if it didn't exist we might not even be having this conversation. We'd be discussing if it was Morrisons or Tesco moving into Fir Park.

I think the one the clubs use is kept up to date, but no - they don't rely on the ratings for players. I presume they review their stats rather than ratings and use it a just a small part of their overall assessment process.