steelboy Posted November 30, 2018 Report Share Posted November 30, 2018 24 minutes ago, weeyin said: (But if you had a better idea on how we could have saved the club at its time of need, it would have been good if you had mentioned it at the time). Funnily enough I did mention it at the time. I said the club should have been sold to the society immediately but I was told this wasn't possible by Dempster. What then happened was the Society bought an absolutely worthless 5% of the club for £250,000. Then Boyle started threatening to sell us to South Americans despite having given up his shares ie Dempster and the other trustees would do it. After that the rest of the majority shareholding was sold for £1 (which Dempster said was impossible) to Hutchinson who then started wasting money and almost got us relegated. Now we are paying off a huge bill for the pleasure of having Baraclough, Straker, George Long, Wes Fletcher and other diddies plus paying for scouting systems and a club restructure which lasted about five minutes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clackscat Posted December 1, 2018 Report Share Posted December 1, 2018 We are where we are, you can debate till the cows come home the relative merits of Boyle and Hutchison, and the legal agreement, but thats what it is.....a legal agreement.So how to best support the club and move forward. In my opinion that is to support the Well Society, whats the alternative?Sent from my SM-A320FL using Tapatalk 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ropy Posted February 1, 2019 Report Share Posted February 1, 2019 A bit more double your money till the end of the season, Hutchy debt coming down, I guess this is the time to chip in if you haven’t already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmcalpin Posted February 1, 2019 Report Share Posted February 1, 2019 Just now, ropy said: A bit more double your money till the end of the season, Hutchy debt coming down, I guess this is the time to chip in if you haven’t already. Yes some good news which should help the Club and Society's finances. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmcalpin Posted April 21, 2019 Report Share Posted April 21, 2019 Just a quick post to let everyone know that the Society will be organising a Bucket collection this coming Saturday at the Dundee game. They were looking for volunteers but I haven't heard any updates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brazilian Posted June 7, 2019 Report Share Posted June 7, 2019 Knowing that a lot of members have been frustrated in the past , about missing email communications, here's a direct invite to check if you received an important membership contributions update recently . If not , take the chance to correct or supply your preferred email contact info Quote We have also emailed all members last week to give you an update on the total you contributed (as of 31/12/2018.) If you never received an email please let us know by emailing well.society@motherwellfc.co.uk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superward Posted June 7, 2019 Report Share Posted June 7, 2019 On 11/30/2018 at 10:04 PM, steelboy said: Funnily enough I did mention it at the time. I said the club should have been sold to the society immediately but I was told this wasn't possible by Dempster. What then happened was the Society bought an absolutely worthless 5% of the club for £250,000. Then Boyle started threatening to sell us to South Americans despite having given up his shares ie Dempster and the other trustees would do it. After that the rest of the majority shareholding was sold for £1 (which Dempster said was impossible) to Hutchinson who then started wasting money and almost got us relegated. Now we are paying off a huge bill for the pleasure of having Baraclough, Straker, George Long, Wes Fletcher and other diddies plus paying for scouting systems and a club restructure which lasted about five minutes. George Long was good in the playoff man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siebsbarmyarmy Posted June 7, 2019 Report Share Posted June 7, 2019 58 minutes ago, Brazilian said: Knowing that a lot of members have been frustrated in the past , about missing email communications, here's a direct invite to check if you received an important membership contributions update recently . If not , take the chance to correct or supply your preferred email contact info I was actually just thinking about this recently as I have had nothing from the Society for long long time. Been a member for a good few years aswell. Couldn’t tell you how much I have contributed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeyin Posted June 7, 2019 Report Share Posted June 7, 2019 Mine came from Craig Hughes rather than the usual Well Society email address, so worth checking spam folders etc. too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brazilian Posted June 8, 2019 Report Share Posted June 8, 2019 13 hours ago, siebsbarmyarmy said: I was actually just thinking about this recently as I have had nothing from the Society for long long time. Been a member for a good few years aswell. Couldn’t tell you how much I have contributed. yeah there might still be a few who have never had confirmed contact, as many dont expect (or want) regular contact, so when something is missing , its no't noticed. the quote I posted was from the weekly Well Society email , that has been very regular every Friday evening for at least the past 6-12 months. andcomes from wellsociety @mothxxwellfc.co.uk I think thats an 'opt in' communication , but I encourage members to request it, its fairly unintrusive and for example this weeks announced the Society AGM date (27th June) the email the quote refers to, about individual members , was, as pointed out by weeyin, sent from Craig Hughes at the Club , received from email address Craig.Hughes @ moxxxxwellfc.co.uk if you go looking for it I received mine on 29May but suspect they were sent out over an extended period as they include reference to Hutchinson extending his 2x offer until end of May. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmcalpin Posted June 8, 2019 Report Share Posted June 8, 2019 17 minutes ago, Brazilian said: yeah there might still be a few who have never had confirmed contact, as many dont expect (or want) regular contact, so when something is missing , its no't noticed.... I received mine on 29May but suspect they were sent out over an extended period as they include reference to Hutchinson extending his 2x offer until end of May. I received mine yesterday so its almost certain, as you say Iain, that the emails have been posted over an extended period. If anyone hasn't been receiving them get in contact with the Society as there could be various reasons for that. wellsociety@motherwellfc.co.uk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daver Posted June 8, 2019 Report Share Posted June 8, 2019 I received my email on May 30th and it included comment on the double your money deal being extended to the end of May. That seemed strange timing to be getting it the day before the deadline so I queried it with Craig who promptly explained the email was more of a general thing and referred to other publicising of the extended deal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rinkydink Posted June 11, 2019 Report Share Posted June 11, 2019 On 6/8/2019 at 6:45 PM, daver said: I received my email on May 30th and it included comment on the double your money deal being extended to the end of May. That seemed strange timing to be getting it the day before the deadline so I queried it with Craig who promptly explained the email was more of a general thing and referred to other publicising of the extended deal. I fed back similarly on the 30th and got a response this morning. Happy to be shot down by those closer to the trust, but from my vantage point, I think more could / should have been done to maximise the double your money offer, leaving no stone un-turned in a bid to drive down that element of the debt. Getting an email about on the day before its expiry doesn't suggest that sense of urgency. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeyin Posted June 11, 2019 Report Share Posted June 11, 2019 1 hour ago, rinkydink said: I fed back similarly on the 30th and got a response this morning. Happy to be shot down by those closer to the trust, but from my vantage point, I think more could / should have been done to maximise the double your money offer, leaving no stone un-turned in a bid to drive down that element of the debt. Getting an email about on the day before its expiry doesn't suggest that sense of urgency. The email about double your money deadlines was sent from The Well Society address earlier in the month. The one from Craig Hughes was more of a personalised end-of-year statement telling you what you had contributed, and how they had been using the funds. The mention of the double-your-money was just a final reminder in case you had intended to throw a few extra quid their way, but hadn't got around to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmcalpin Posted June 28, 2019 Report Share Posted June 28, 2019 Could someone who was there give us a brief resume of the Society AGM held last night? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxteth O'Grady Posted June 28, 2019 Report Share Posted June 28, 2019 53 minutes ago, Kmcalpin said: Could someone who was there give us a brief resume of the Society AGM held last night? I saw this on FirParkCorner: http://www.motherwell-mad.co.uk/news/tmnw/the_well_society_continues_to_grow_933895/index.shtml Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
claretband Posted June 28, 2019 Report Share Posted June 28, 2019 Not sure if this has been asked before, but...I am a WS member as I'm sure many others are on here also. Beyond the regular newsletters, which are very welcome, as owners should we not get more regular detailed updates on stuff like annual accounts etc? Or would you have to request stuff like that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeyin Posted June 28, 2019 Report Share Posted June 28, 2019 17 minutes ago, claretband said: Not sure if this has been asked before, but...I am a WS member as I'm sure many others are on here also. Beyond the regular newsletters, which are very welcome, as owners should we not get more regular detailed updates on stuff like annual accounts etc? Or would you have to request stuff like that? You need to request a copy of the annual accounts - they can email a copy. Apart from that, of course, there are regular meetings that you can go along to (if you live near enough), or email topics to be discussed. I guess there is a balance between too much and too little info to be put in the emails, but any time I've had a specific question I've never had a problem getting a fairly prompt response via email. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superward Posted June 29, 2019 Report Share Posted June 29, 2019 20 hours ago, claretband said: Not sure if this has been asked before, but...I am a WS member as I'm sure many others are on here also. Beyond the regular newsletters, which are very welcome, as owners should we not get more regular detailed updates on stuff like annual accounts etc? Or would you have to request stuff like that? A summary of the AGM has came out direct from the WS before. A couple of weeks after from memory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeyin Posted June 29, 2019 Report Share Posted June 29, 2019 Got an email from the society yesterday that said AGM summary would be sent out soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busta Nut Posted June 29, 2019 Report Share Posted June 29, 2019 We aren't "owners". We make donations. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yodo Posted June 29, 2019 Report Share Posted June 29, 2019 46 minutes ago, Busta Nut said: We aren't "owners". We make donations. Wrong ,the fans own the club Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busta Nut Posted June 29, 2019 Report Share Posted June 29, 2019 The Society do. Funded by fans donations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yodo Posted June 29, 2019 Report Share Posted June 29, 2019 2 minutes ago, Busta Nut said: The Society do. Funded by fans donations. 2 minutes ago, Busta Nut said: The Society do. Funded by fans donations. The Fans are the Well Society Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al B Posted June 30, 2019 Report Share Posted June 30, 2019 7 hours ago, Yodo said: The Fans are the Well Society Incorrect The Well Society could still exist if there were no fans. It wouldnt be very successful, but that doesn't change what it is. People who think they part-own the club in any sort of issue-specific way, are ones for the watching 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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