Guest 'Flow Posted December 16, 2010 Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 Motherwell Football Club have today (Thursday) issued the following statement regarding the departure of Craig Brown and Archie Knox to Aberdeen. “During a difficult time for Scottish football and when clubs are about to enter discussions on a major league re-structuring, we are of the view that it is not in anyone's best interests for two Scottish Premier League clubs to be involved in an ongoing dispute. “Following constructive discussions with Aberdeen, we have reached an agreement to draw a line under the matter and have formally withdrawn our complaint to the SPL in relation to their employment of Craig Brown and Archie Knox. “We have always maintained a good working relationship with Aberdeen and look forward to that continuing in future. “We strongly believe this action is in the best interests of the club and will make no further comment on the matter. We will now focus all our resources on employing a new management team to take the club forward.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Dog Posted December 16, 2010 Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 .... provided they don't try to pinch any of our players.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonesy Posted December 16, 2010 Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 It's long past time the club grew a pair. Fucking shitebags. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shivute Posted December 16, 2010 Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 Roll over Motherwell... now play dead... that's a good boy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cambo97 Posted December 16, 2010 Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 Have you considered that AFC have paid some compensation and as part of the agreement the details have to remain confidential? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Pacino Posted December 16, 2010 Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 Shafted and accepted with a whimper again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yir Elder Posted December 16, 2010 Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 I certainly hope that Aberdeen have made some kind of concession to the club, would be very disappointed if we just let it go, as we seemingly have done with other issues lately...... That said I have trust and confidence in people like Leeann and Flow, don't think they'd put up silently with Motherwell getting shafted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnstone Posted December 16, 2010 Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 Lubed up, Bent over and royally shafted. Thats the Motherwell way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wellfan1984 Posted December 16, 2010 Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 It's long past time the club grew a pair. Fucking shitebags. Roll over Motherwell... now play dead... that's a good boy Shafted and accepted with a whimper again. Lubed up, Bent over and royally shafted. Thats the Motherwell way. +1 Have you considered that AFC have paid some compensation and as part of the agreement the details have to remain confidential? If that is true - the statement makes it look like we#re even more shit bags! Fucking shocking decision to keep this under raps. Sadly I believe we've chickened out - like we seem to do every fucking time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kris*Kaizer 2*Nunn Posted December 16, 2010 Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 Flow! come on! The one time Motherwell have a good argument and can finally get justice after all the times we've had players and managers poached from us we go and do this? Poor show Motherwell poor show indeed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bop Posted December 16, 2010 Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 Shat on. Again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnstone Posted December 16, 2010 Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 I certainly hope that Aberdeen have made some kind of concession to the club, would be very disappointed if we just let it go, as we seemingly have done with other issues lately...... That said I have trust and confidence in people like Leeann and Flow, don't think they'd put up silently with Motherwell getting shafted. What the fuck can Flow do? He either goes with what they say, leaves or gets sacked for speaking out of turn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmmfc Posted December 16, 2010 Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 I thought you were supposed to stand up to bullys? Boyle must realise he can't do anything about it. Still, what the hell has the potential restructuring got to do with any of it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GazzyB Posted December 16, 2010 Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 In fact, never mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 16, 2010 Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 Some amount of shite in this. Its not a pub where you get in a scrap for having a pop at the burd you fancy. Pick your battles and pick the ones worth winning. Brown is gone, Knox is gone, McGhee went. Makes absolutely fuck all difference pissing and moaning about it in the rags until we look like a shower of bitter bastards. Achieves nothing in the mean time and distracts everyone from more important jobs. Handled properly by Motherwell. Hopefully with an agreement not to come stealing our players. That'd be a good 'un. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beesher Posted December 16, 2010 Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 Is this not better than having this dragging on for weeks and weeks, when we are at a critical point in our season? This way we can keep focused on our on-the-field issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GazzyB Posted December 16, 2010 Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 Some amount of shite in this. Its not a pub where you get in a scrap for having a pop at the burd you fancy. Pick your battles and pick the ones worth winning. Brown is gone, Knox is gone, McGhee went. Makes absolutely fuck all difference pissing and moaning about it in the rags until we look like a shower of bitter bastards. Achieves nothing in the mean time and distracts everyone from more important jobs. Handled properly by Motherwell. Hopefully with an agreement not to come stealing our players. That'd be a good 'un. Is this not better than having this dragging on for weeks and weeks, when we are at a critical point in our season? This way we can keep focused on our on-the-field issues. Agreed, well done MFC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeyin Posted December 16, 2010 Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 Exactly. We have no money and wasting it on questionable legal issues is pretty stupid. Ethically, Brown and Knox were at fault, but I'm not sure we would be successful in pursuing any claims - and even if we were, it could end up costing us more in legal fees than we would win. Sometimes, in business, you need to pick your battles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
postiejim Posted December 16, 2010 Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 Agree with the club on this ,now lets move on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finlay Posted December 16, 2010 Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 All efforts into looking for a new management team. Forward and not backwards. With everything else going on at the moment I can live with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spiderpig Posted December 16, 2010 Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 Is this not better than having this dragging on for weeks and weeks, when we are at a critical point in our season? This way we can keep focused on our on-the-field issues. Totally agree taking this to the SPL is unecesarry bullshit, it would be weeks of arguments with no prospect of anything happening at the end, the two of them never had a contract end of. Brown and Knox are gone the club are over it, moving on and concentrating on finding a new manager and getting a bit of stabillity to the team, so the rest of us should get over it as well as its getting boring now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shallow Dave Posted December 16, 2010 Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 I agree with the last few posts; correct decision. If you're the manager of a football club and you've a player who no longer wants to play for the club, then you punt him; simples. So, it's surely similar when your manager no longer wants to manage the team; contract or no contract? Agree there could be some deal done that we never know about. Similar to Weeyin's comment, business is business. Let's move on and not to be seen as whinging cnuts. It's not as if we play in green and white, is it? SD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milo Posted December 16, 2010 Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 Unless there have been some sort of out of court type settlements or stipulations to further developments (ie not coming back and stealing our players) here I must say I'm very very disappointed bordering on complete disillusionment by this. Along with not appealing the red card on Tuesday it appears it is open season on Motherwell and the club are willing to stand idely by and let all and sundry shaft us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spiderpig Posted December 16, 2010 Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 Unless there have been some sort of out of court type settlements or stipulations to further developments (ie not coming back and stealing our players) here I must say I'm very very disappointed bordering on complete disillusionment by this. Along with not appealing the red card on Tuesday it appears it is open season on Motherwell and the club are willing to stand idely by and let all and sundry shaft us. I have no doubt that john Boyle listened to sensible legal advice before agreeing to drop the complaint, and obviously this advice was that the club did not have a good enough case, so we are not being shafted we are retaining some dignity for the club. The best response we can give to Aberdeen is to pump them on Saturday that will have a much greater effect on them and that 2 faced auld w**K brown, than any legal action. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeyin Posted December 16, 2010 Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 Unless there have been some sort of out of court type settlements or stipulations to further developments (ie not coming back and stealing our players) here I must say I'm very very disappointed bordering on complete disillusionment by this.Why? Have you received different legal advice from the Board? Do you have a clear idea of exactly what SPL rules (or Scottish laws) have been broken? Do you know how much it will cost to purse the matter? Do you know what the estimated compensation (if any) would be if the case was won? Revenge is no basis for running a business. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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