Thanks to everyone who joined us at our Fan Ownership Festival on Saturday night - we will have highlights on our Our Club, Our Podcast in the coming days.

Tonight we mark 10 years since the Well Society assumed a majority stake at @MotherwellFC at our Fan Ownership Festival

Still time to get tickets and hear insights from Motherwell, St Mirren, Falkirk, Bohemians and Exeter City in our panel discussion

See profile for ticket link

Thanks to the team at @BBCRadioScot, @offtheballbbc for having me on the show to talk all things fan-ownership & @TheWellSociety as we approach 10 years of being the majority shareholder of @MotherwellFC

A pleasure to be alongside @CillianSheridan & @twinatlantic

In honour of our guest Derek Watson from the Well Society... we'd like you to tell us the ways in which YOU support your club?⚽️

Celebrating 15 years of the @MFCTrust with colleagues from @TheWellSociety last night.

Dawn and her team’s work is excellent.

The Trust’s impact is visible across our community, transforming lives far beyond the football pitch.

Exeter City Supporters Trust chair Pete Ferlie will join us at our Fan Ownership Festival panel discussion on Saturday.

Tickets still available - see pinned tweet

The Well Society, the majority shareholders of Motherwell Football Club, are hosting a Fan Ownership Festival this Saturday to celebrate 10 years of Motherwell being fan owned.

The event isn't just for Motherwell fans though - it's a celebration of fan ownership for football ross the world.

This is a celebration and an acknowledgement that an alternative form of football ownership is possible.

The event is taking place in Glasgow this coming Saturday. Tickets are £10. Stop by if you're around!

💬"We're not some rich guy's plaything. If it can work at Motherwell, St Mirren & Falkirk, can you imagine what it could do at Rangers or Celtic?"

Ahead of a celebration of fan ownership on Saturday, reflections on the last 10 years, and who may be next.

heraldscotland.com/sport/26662298…

Ten years of fan ownership in Scotland - could Celtic and Rangers follow suit? || Graeme McGarry

"It will never work. The club doesn’t have a large enough supporter base. We’ll never be able to compete.

"Those who were at the vanguard as the concept of fan ownership was football have heard all of this, and many other doubts around the viability of the model, before. Ad nauseam. And yet, a decade on from Motherwell becoming the first majority fan-owned top-flight club in Scotland, the Fir Park outfit are thriving with the Well Society as their main shareholder, embedded more deeply than ever in their community, and coming off the back of one of their most successful Premiership campaigns in living memory.

"That success story is not unique to Motherwell, though. There are now four clubs in the Scottish Premiership showing that fan ownership is no limit to ambition, or to how competitive a side can be put out on the field of play.

"Were it not for the intervention of their supporters and the Foundation of Hearts back in 2013, as club legend and then manager Gary Locke has starkly outlined, there might not be a Hearts today at all. Now, the Tynecastle club are the largest fan-owned club in the country, while on the field, they came within minutes of winning the title last season.

"St Mirren, meanwhile, were the first fan-owned club in Britain to win a trophy when they picked up the League Cup last season, while Falkirk more than consolidated their back-to-back promotions to reach the top-flight by finishing in the top six last term.

"All of that is, in the view of Derek Watson, current Well Society chair, cause for celebration. And on Saturday evening in Glasgow, that is just what he and many others from all of those clubs will be doing." 👇

Falkirk Supporters Society became the club's largest shareholder in the summer of 2023

The Bairns rose from League 1 to the Premiership top 6 inside three years

Hear from @FalkirkfcSS and @FalkirkFC director Stuart Adam at our Fan Ownership Festival

Ticket link on pinned tweet

“It’ll never work.”

“They don’t have enough fans.”

As Motherwell prepare to mark 10 years of fan ownership, @Graeme_McGarry speaks to Well Society chair @derekwatson89 about the journey so far, and bringing fans from across the UK together at a special event this weekend.

🔗 theterrace.scot/news/26662298.…

With the British gov set to approve the Jackdaw gas field, it’s worth pointing out that “ending neoliberalism” isn’t concordant with handing development of our natural resources to one of the world’s largest energy multinationals and a public company owned by a foreign state.

Entire country is on its arse, Minority groups are under attack by a new wave of Nazism, your Bills are going up 25%, but all you get, is wall to wall "Antisemitism" & how criticism of Israel is somehow worse than The genocide they're guilty of.
Aren't you all fucking tired?!

Looking forward to talking at this on Saturday.

More important than ever as so many fan owned clubs fall into private and corporate hands across the world.

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🎙️Panel with Gordon Duncan, Kyrk Macmillan, Keith Lasley + Falkirk, Bohemians, Exeter reps
🍺1 free beer
🚸U18s welcome with adult <11pm
🎶Live music Stephen Higgins + Ross Martin
🕺🏻Open late
🍔Food on sale

Coming soon: Al Jazeera uncovers disturbing links between British right wing activists, the far right and loyalist paramilitaries.

#Glasgow #Belfast #London

Well Society chairman @derekwatson89 was on the Motherwell Daft podcast with @PeterElder74 discussing 10 years of fan ownership at Fir Park and Saturday's Fan Ownership Festival (see pinned tweet for details)

Watch here youtube.com/watch?v=Eu38mT…

Our Fan Ownership Festival takes place next weekend - come and join us as we celebrate 10 years of Motherwell FC being safely in the hands of the community and the top flight of Scottish Football.

See pinned tweet for details

Our Fan Ownership Festival features @saintmirrenfc CEO Keith Lasley.

Join Keith and other guests for a panel discussion chaired by @gordonduncan7 at Drygate, Glasgow on October 24.

All welcome including @smisatrust members and other fan ownership enthusiasts

See pinned tweet

Motherwell Daft is back, previewing the vital match at Kilmarnock and discussing ten years of fan ownership with @derekwatson89 from @TheWellSociety

Available now on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

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