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16 minutes ago, Busta Nut said:
I'd also like to say, if you are in favour of the Barmack deal, you are a fucking idiot.
There's been a few folk said or suggested it and were asked to speak a bit softer but f**k that. Only a moron is still in favour of it.
Past caring who's feelings get hurt.I'm right with you there. I've seen a couple of folk say that an offer like this might never come around again (I fucking hope so), but can't provide any reason for supporting it other than jibes against the Well society, which many of them aren't a member of.
I genuinely don't know what some folk think they're getting.
On hurt feelings, f**k that. There was one person that literally said they're voting for the proposal because the WS hurt their feelings. What a world.
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4 hours ago, Lukovic said:
If this goes through, I'm blaming everyone named Colin in our support.
They seem to be the most vocally supportive
Harsh, I'm trying my best.
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Wilson publicly supporting the offer without addressing the glaring holes in it, clearly helping his old pal.
My position has always been that some new thinking and external investment is desperately needed just so that we can compete at the current level. However, I have been 100% against the Barmack deal from day one, primarily because it's asking for way too much control for the money offered.
Everything that has come out since then has only shown this proposal up for the joke that it is, with multiple red flags that doesn't take a forensic accountant to notice.
The selling point of this deal is supposed to be the business experience of the Barmacks, and their claim that they can get famous folk to invest. But what we've seen so far is that they are complete amateurs at this, pulling numbers of of twitter, proposing figures that don't add up, and showing zero understanding of our club, it's community, and football. If they can't do that right, how on earth are they going to persuade anyone else to part with their money to invest in us?
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Steelmen: The Men of Steel
"A story of steel, and men who are made of steel. And women. And steel"
Episode 1 - "Football Club of Steel"
Manager Stuart Kettlewell sits on a steel chair in the middle of an empty fir park and previews the season in a WWE style monologe, noticing the camera 30 minutes in. Dickie, McMahon and Feeley learn that they signed over their houses to the new owner as part of the takeover deal. New chairman, Erik Barmak announces that new investment will be announced "any day now".
Episode 2 - "Men of steel, see the steel, be the steel"
The motherwell squad are taken on a surprise visit to a steelworks (in England) to remind them who they are playing for. The players abandon the pre season Haggis and Salmon dinner to get some real scottish food from the Chinese. Bob Park fights against giving kids sparklers during post-game fireworks.
Episode 3 - "Where's the Bair?"
Davor Dravkovski sits patiently next to Theo Bairs old locker, which is made of steel. No one has the heart to tell him he was sold Bayern weeks ago to fund hush money payments for burn victims. New signing Jose Cuervo clashes with the analysts as no amount of analytics will grow him a second leg. He becomes the first player with a steel leg to make a professional football appearance. Club CEO Brian Caldwell is fired after calling Erik Barmacks wife a useless c**t on sportscene. In her first act as new CEO, Mrs Barmack trades Lennon Miller to the Pittsburgh Pirates for a player to be named later.
Episode 4 - "The Ross Countys of the World"
Players and management share a heart to heart on the clubs record winless run, and unanimously vote to switch back to shorts from kilts. Davor's search for Theo leads to him finding former board members McMahon, Dickie and Feely having a board meeting in the south stand toilets. Half time gladiator fights with Dan Casey have proven to be a hit.
Episode 5 - "A win is a win"
Stephen O'Donnell's "intae these fuckin c***s" war cry goes viral and he grows a mustache. The steelmen win their first in 17 with a close fought cup victory over Stirling Uni, but it is bittersweet due to Cuervo beaking his non-steel leg. The club chairman is ecstatic with the victory over a big college team. He also promises to unveil new investors "any day now". Lennon Miller returns after being claimed off waivers.
Episode 6 - Fwee Bwian!
It's transfer deadline day, and Erik Barmak crowd sources signing ideas on twitter. Jordan Roberts and Oli Shaw are as confused as anyone, but a wage is a wage. 11th hour signing Yermaw surprises everyone. Lennon Miller is sold to Aston Oxborough. Jim McMahons attempt to go viral on "the Tick Snap" to oust Erik Barmak leads to the south stand parking lot becoming a dogging hotspot. Paul McGinn can't get his "get right round these fannies" catchphrase to catch on in America, and shaves his moustache.
Episode 7 - "Ay aye AI, bye bye"
The first game of AI's management reign sees the 'Well victorious, but the club has to cut its reign short after quoting main kampf and promoting eugenics in the after match presser. Barmack re-hires Stuart Kettlewell after AI tells him Ted Lasso and Roy Kent arent real people and questions the heritage of other candidates. During the managerial announcement Barmack announces that new investment will be here "any day now".
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The club exits the scottish cup after their match against Celtic at Wembley was played at Fir Park. O'Donnell's pay per c**t deal with paddypower causes jealousy amongst the squad. Davor finally reconnects with Theo while on international duty, and hands in a transfer request to play for Canada. Shaw and Yermaw both receive scotland call ups after forming a formidable partnership.
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Dickie, Feeley and McMahon are caught chain smoking in the main stand in an attempt to burn down the stadium. Stuperavic and Casey make light work of them at a special full time version of half time gladiators. We spend a day with Moses Ebiye babysitting for Harry Paton while he plays against Hearts.
Episode 10 - "Can they do that?"
Erik Barmack comes to terms with the club's relegation, after recieving a 20 point penalty for doping and illegal use of prosthetics. Lawyers argue that there is no rules against injecting liquid steel as, if anything, it made the players worse. Barmack, in his end of season TED talk is convinced that the first round draft pick will win fans back, and he announces that his famous investors will be announced any day now.45 -
Mcginn and Koutroumbis injured?
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There are many motherwell fans that will absolutely die on the hill that player salaries that are posted on the internet are real, because they are posted on the internet. Not surprised to see EB is one of them. American sports teams salaries are generally public knowledge
I also saw someone post the other day that they'll be voting on the EB proposal because someone on the WS hurt their feelings. We're the best.
On the sports docs, the Australian cricket one is awesome, especially the first season where they're all gimps with feelings.
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Just now, camer0n_mcd said:
Saw earlier today that I've become a 'rising contributor' on the absolute shit stain that is the Motherwell Facebook groups. One of the worst days of my life.
I accept that I could do with being more receptive to other points of view when it comes to motherwell things, but f**k those c***s. I joined one of those groups a while back, and realized that supporters of the same team can live on different planets <grandpa Simpson gif>.
Also, I watched a terrace podcast breakdown of our begging video and want to punch a window.
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9 minutes ago, David1979 said:
This is true. I've seen a few Rangers fans saying they are "winding folk up" because we voted to send them down years ago.
shame we cant leverage that free rent into CRM funding.
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12 minutes ago, KirkySuperSub said:
See aw this utter pish, the constant references to Ryan Reynolds at Wrexham, if Google is to be believed - (I know!) - Ryan Reynolds has a net worth of about $350m...
The bold Erik has already stated on this board, he can't afford the, less than, £2m up front...
It's not even comparable...!
He might be closer to a billionaire, he recently sold Mint Mobile (he had a 25% or so stake in it) to T-Mobile for over a billion.
Anyone making Wrexham comparisons with our deal is going ro be very very disappointed.
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Getting some clear "I'm very happy with my cyber truck and do not in any way regret this purchase" vibes from some.
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I live and work in the USA, and I have to explain to folk that Im from trainspotting scotland, not Braveheart/Outlander scotland.
My colleagues exclusively talk about the English premier league when it comes to soccer, and know about motherwell through me, and thought the investment video was hilarious and cringe. They couldn't care less about the USL team in the city, Memphis 901 (with Stephen glass as manager) who are actually half decent. The people who do care, cosplay as ultras and copy songs off the telly. They're allowed Pyro though, and there's memphis BBQ nachos.
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I made a couple of comments on Facebook, as I feel that we're pretty much on the same page here. I tend to come across as a c**t when fighting my corner though, so we could do with some of the diplomatic types on there.
Someone did trigger me with something along the lines of the Society's being vague but that Barkacks one at least had numbers. Nothing about the numbers being bullshit and made up though.
I still really want to know what the pros think this will achieve. Like, are we going to start buying players off st Mirren.
Agreed on a docuseries being shite as well, it will die when the American audience realizes Motherwell isn't the scotchland they were hoping for.
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9 minutes ago, steelmen said:
I do think that McMahon is desperate here. He wanted, and might have paid for, the video, got to make that look a success.
He wants to stand down, and on the face of it has done nothing to facilitate it. EB has come in with the least worst proposal with a few words of I will work with the society and he's approved it. This allows him to walk away safe in the knowledge he has left the club in a proper businessman's hands.
The only real urgency here is McMahon's insistence on getting this done before he leaves, and his need for a "legacy" could tear the club apart.
Like said above, this is deemed as the "least worst" proposal, and it is terrifying that some are fine with it in that regard, when there is no genuine pressure for the club to accept any terms for investment.
Imagine three folk rocked up to your door and said they wanted to buy your house, with the best offer being half the market value, but you had to redecorate and build a conservatory. Then Imagine trying to persuade your landlord to accept the offer.
Also no surprise that this offer is fine with the contrarian racists in our support.
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1 minute ago, capt_oats said:
....... is whether or not The Executive Board have actually sought any advice about these aspects that seem key to Barmak’s plan (IIRC he mentioned he had presented a deck to them early on) ......
The exec board: Ooh, a deck, WITH TRANSITION ANIMATIONS, AND IT HAS OUR BADGE ON IT! Bring in this business whizz post haste!
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Will the club put out a statement to say that EB has some good ideas (he hasn't) but we had already planned to do some of them anyway?
An app and an expensive CRM, f**k me. Each of these things in isolation will cost a fortune to implement and maintain, with no chance of us making our money back on them in any reasonable timescale.
Most cloud based CRMs like salesforce are in the hundreds of thousands annually, and any professional service contracts to maintain or optimize them would be just as astronomical.
It has been mentioned a few times that the club already has a CRM, what's the deal with that? Are we hoping to get a volunteer or an intern to run it?
Outside of this whole investment fiasco, we need to take a hard look at how our club is staffed.
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The Well Society vote is all that matters, no? It has 71% of the shares, and this vote is to decide what the well society votes for as an entity. So if the WS vote ends up 51-49 to bin the bid, then it's effectively 71% of all shareholders binning the bid.
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Get McMahon, Dickie and Feeley to f**k. Absolute juvenile behavior from our board.
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Oli Shaw was shite, but he barely played. There have been worse players that have played a lot more minutes. The whole Shaw thing is just a bit.
Now I need to think about who the worst player that played the most minutes was....
Probably a good distraction from arguing with moon howlers on Facebook.
Edit - some candidates:
John Hendry - 36 appearances, 3 goals, cost 200k
Kevin Christie - 38 games, bombscare
Craig Samson - 36 games, palm the ball to the middle of the box.
Greg Denham - 50 appearances (maybe skewed by a disaster against Ayr.)
Nathan McGinley - 45 appearances
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There is no rational and sane reason for voting for this Barmack proposal. I can only assume that those in favor of it haven't read it, or just hate the Well Society.
The Society really need to do more to dispell this false sense of urgency, and make sure the facts get out before this vote. Are there any public forums planned from the Society side?
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3 minutes ago, Swello said:
I'd have phoned Club Call to see what was up before forming my opinion.
I think I might still owe my folks a few quid for those calls.
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Folk jizzing over "american" and "netflix" really breaks my brain.
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I will never understand the unconditional love some people will display on social media to someone who 100% doesn't know they exist, and definitely isn't going to shag them. Total bootlicker behavior.
I still think we need to just punt these old farts from the board and move on.
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I'm not comfortable with the June 10th cut off for WS members that can vote, it should have been those who were signed up before this shite started.
I'm looking forward to the WS plan coming out. From what I saw in the focus group a few months back, and my small involvement in one of the work streams before I had to bail, they know what they're doing and have plenty of people with the experience to deliver on it.
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5 minutes ago, Jim McLean's Ghost said:
Brilliant execution from Moses.
Keeper well and truly caught out.
From what I saw we did ok today. Hard to keep the ball against Twente and some ropy defensive moments. O'Donnell had a few and Casey had a howler. Oxborough made some good saves, no chance with the first gaol (which was a handball)
Miller looked really great when he had the ball. And his free kick was decent. Maybe a better keeper saves it.
Twente had a decently strong side out. IDK who they have away on international duty but they had about half their first team on the park and guys who were getting on regular game time last season. A very positive sign.
Oh and IDK what dimensions the park were but I think it was Tom Sparrow managed to put a throw in all the way to the back post. caught me interest.
Balmer has the rocket of a long throw.
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Motherwell FC - A Thread For All Seasons
in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
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The Executive Board wish to recognize the article posted on STV News about inconsistencies and in response would like to state that "I know you are but what am I?"