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Matchday sponsorship opportunities still exist for our forthcoming matches against Dundee Utd (30th January) and Inverness CT (16th February).

Our premier package, with the high profile and level of service you would expect as the primary corporate sponsor on the day.

You and your guests will be welcomed and shown to your private dining area, the Joe Wark Lounge, for a drinks reception with a fantastic five-course meal to follow.

At kick-off time, use the private staircase to emerge at your prime centre-stand seats, where you will enjoy the match with the advantage of complimentary team lines and match programmes for all.

Half-time is time to refuel, with teas, coffees, pies and pastries in the Joe Wark Lounge, whilst acknowledgement of your sponsorship will be announced via the scoreboard, public-address system and a prominent advertisement in the match programme.

After the match, retire to your private lounge for the last time where you can debate the man-of-the-match for real over complimentary drinks. Once you’ve chosen him, he will be invited to the lounge to receive his award, a photograph of which will appear in a future matchday programme.

Your guests will leave with a lasting memento of their day in the form of a corporate gift courtesy of the club.

Package highlights:

• Available for a party of 20
• Private dining in the Joe Wark Lounge
• Complimentary Bar pre and post match
• Prime seating in the centre of the Phil O’Donnell Stand
• Complimentary programmes and team-sheets
• Half-time refreshments
• Man-of-the-match presentation
• Corporate gifts for each of your guests
• Your company logo on the front of the matchday programme
• A prominent advert inside the matchday programme
• Scoreboard and public-address system announcements
• Priority parking

Prices for the package start at £2,500+VAT. For more information or to book please contact Commercial Manager Diane Harvey on 01698 338062 or email diane.harvey@motherwellfc.co.uk. Matchball sponsorship package is also available for both of these matches plus our match v Hibernian on March 16th from just £650+vat for up to four guests.

Motherwell’s match away to Hearts, originally scheduled for Saturday 26th January, will now go ahead on Saturday 2nd March.

The fixture had to be rearranged due to Hearts’ participation in the Scottish Communities Cup Semi Final.

With both teams eliminated from the William Hill Scottish Cup, the match has been rescheduled for the first weekend in March, otherwise earmarked for 6th Round ties.

Kick-off is 3pm and ticket information will be available nearer the match.

The ‘Well Society have appointed three new board members to help them reach their target of fan ownership of the club.

Derek Watson, who works for Motherwell FC’s Community Trust, becomes the youngest member of the board at the age of 23, while Dee Cameron is the first woman on the board.

Colin Macinnes, a consultant in Clydesdale Bank’s private and bussiness banking sector, was also co-opted by the four board members who were voted into their positions in October.

The ‘Well Society, who have a 15% sshareholding in the club and will assume a controlling stake when they raise £1.5million, will now press ahead with the election of two representatives on to the Motherwell FC board.

Derek is a community engagement officer based at Fir Park and plays bass guitar in Motherwell indie band The Banter Thiefs, who will support The View on tour in February and headline their own Scottish tour in March.

He said: “My job is to build up better relationships between the Community Trust and the local community and tell people what we do.

“We are doing a lot of things from dementia cafes for older people to coaching kids from two or three years old.

“I think it’s very important that the ‘Well Society engages with the local community, especially going forward to reach the target of raising £1.5million.”

Derek has also played a central role in improving the atmosphere and colour at Mothewell games as part of a group of fans who congregate in the East Stand and follow the team across Scotland.

“Motherwell are quite a forward-thinking club and have embraced what we are doing in the East Stand,” he said. “There will be a lot of clubs who think we are not wanting these kids to make a racket and bring flags and a drum. But we have got a great relationship with the club.

“It’s very important that the younger generation are involved in the Well Society, that they have an input and are being listened to.”

Dee worked in the sponsor’s lounge at Fir Park for more than a decade until work commitments forced her to stop, and is relishing the task of getting involved with the club again.

She said: “It’s nice to have a female voice in the ‘Well Society because there’s a lot of female members.

“Kids are the future of Motherwell Football Club and we need to get kids involved in the club. If kids go then their mum and dads will want to go too.”

Dee, who lives across the road from Fir Park and is practice manager at the Glasgow-based Buckingham Clinic, added: “We are a relatively small club but we have fans with great hearts and even greater spirits.

“The targets are there and the fans can put the club on a sound financial footing for future generations.

“If we can make it a reality then we will be living and breathing and writing a new historical passage for Motherwell Football Club. I think that’s huge.”

Colin, who is originally from Hamilton but now lives in Renfrew, added:  “I first saw Motherwell back in the mid-1960s when my grandfather took me my first match.

“If we want to see that football is there for future generations then we need to make this work.

“The days of the individual benefactor are gone. It’s going to fall on individual supporters to keep their clubs going.

“I’m looking forward to the challenge. I don’t think it’s anything we can underestimate but if we want to see a successful club in the future we need to take steps.”

The three new members join chairman Graham Barnstaple, secretary Tom Feely, Brian McCafferty and Sandy Kilpatrick on the board.

Young defender Nicky Devlin has today extended his loan deal at Dumbarton for a further 28 days.

Devlin, 19, joined the Steelmen last summer but his season at Fir Park never really got going after a knee injury early in the campaign ruled him out for several months.

The former Scotland U19 International spent the last few months of last season on-loan at Stenhousemuir where he collected the Irn-Bru Young Player of the Month award for April in his first full month at the club.

Having not managed to break into the Motherwell first-team, he re-join his former colleagues at The Bet Butler Stadium back in August.

Having played 14 times, that deal concluded in recent days but the Sons have extended it by a further 28 days until the end of January.

Motherwell have today extended the loan deal of Birmingham City’s young defender Fraser Kerr until the end of the 2012/13 season.

Scotland U21 International Kerr, who was outstanding at Celtic Park on Wednesday, has played fifteen times in the first half of the campaign, including a Europa League debut against La Liga high-flyers Levante in the Estadio Ciudad de Valencia.

He will now battle with the likes of Shaun Hutchinson, Simon Ramsden, Adam Cummins, Steven Saunders, Tom Hateley and Stevie Hammell for a place in the Steelmen rearguard for the SPL run-in.

‘Well boss Stuart McCall said: “I am pleased to get Fraser here for another few months; he will provide good competition for the lads at the back – particularly with Steven Saunders returning to the fold too.

“He’s young and still learning the game and we’ve asked him to fill in all over the place and he has done well for himself.

“He was excellent against Georgios Samaras at Celtic Park during the week; his recovery pace is vital in games like that.

“If we want to finish in the top six and push for European places, then everyone will have a role to play and Fraser will be a big part in that.”

As Jamie Murphy embarks on a new chapter in his career, we look back in pictures at some of the key points of his time at Fir Park.

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Jamie Murphy has today finalised his move to English League One side Sheffield United for an undisclosed six-figure fee.

The move ends Murphy’s eleven-year association with Motherwell FC who he joined back in 2001 at Under 12s level. At every pro-youth level Jamie finished top scorer and was rewarded by signing a professional deal at the start of the 2005/06 season whilst playing for the Under 17’s.

The 23-year old made his senior debut at Celtic Park, introduced as a second half sub in April 2007 and, coincidentally, finished his Motherwell career on the same ground last night – both matches ending 1-0.

Playing predominantly on the left hand side of midfield, Jamie has gone on to score 50 professional goals in 147 starts for the first-team (215 games in total).

He leaves the club with more European appearances (18) than any other player and our all-time top European goalscorer with seven including the first ever Europa League hat-trick.

During his time at Fir Park, Jamie has also represented every level of the national side with the exception of the full squad – on current form that can’t be too far away either.

Murphy has signed a three-and-a-half year deal with Danny Wilson’s Sheffield United who are battling for the League One title and a place in the Championship.

It is with great pride and satisfaction that we have watched Jamie’s career flourish and everyone at Motherwell Football Club would like to sincerely thank him for his outstanding contribution over the last decade and wish him every success at his new club.

Extended highlights from Celtic Park as a brave Motherwell side crash to a narrow 1-0 defeat at the hands of Celtic.

-WATCH EXTENDED HIGHLIGHTS ONLY ON MFC TV-

Striker Jamie Murphy thanked the Motherwell supporters after what looks likely to be his last outing in Claret and Amber.

The 23-year old was outstanding for the Steelmen at Celtic Park this afternoon and now looks set to join former ‘Well strikers Chris Porter and Nick Blackman at League One side Sheffield United.

An emotional Murphy, who has been at the club for over eleven years and played over 200 matches, was fighting back tears as he spoke to MFC TV for the last time.

[pullquote]I just want to say thank you to each and every Motherwell supporter for everything over the past six years. I have been here so long, it is heartbreaking to leave.[/pullquote]

“It was hard at the end of the match to see all the fans clapping and all the players standing behind me,” he said.

“I just want to say thank you to each and every one of them and all the Motherwell supporters for everything over the past six years.

“I have been here so long, it is heartbreaking to leave. That said the last thing I wanted to do was leave and Motherwell to get no reward or payment for everything they have put in and invested in me.

“I have loads of good memories, made great friends; it has been brilliant.

“I’m sure I’ll be back one day too. Motherwell is in my heart and I hope before I bring my career to a close I can play for the club again.”

-WATCH JAMIE’S FINAL MOTHERWELL INTERVIEW ONLY ON MFC TV-

Although Motherwell left the east end of Glasgow pointless, manager Stuart McCall was full of praise for his side’s performance.

Celtic started the match in spectacular style and peppered the ‘Well goal for the opening ten minutes.

However, the Steelmen grew into things and for the majority of the match, looked more than comfortable.

Tom Hateley had a great chance to his put ‘Well in front from the penalty spot but was denied by a great Fraser Forster block. Three minutes later, Gary Hooper netted the game’s only goal and the Fir Parkers had nothing to show for their efforts.

Although disappointed to lose, McCall was proud of his men and Jamie Murphy in particular, who was turning out for final time in Claret and Amber before a move to England this week.

[pullquote]We grew into the game and I thought the longer the game went on, the better we were and ended up playing some good stuff.[/pullquote]

“Celtic started really well,” the former Scotland International told MFC TV.

“They came out the blocks quickly and we were a bit edgy and could have been two down in the first five minutes.

“Then we grew into the game and I thought the longer the game went on, the better we were and ended up playing some good stuff. We made some chances and if Las had brought his shooting boots he could have had a hat-trick, although he was outstanding.

“I could go throughout the team and praise them all but I’m pleased for Jamie (Murphy). He’s gone out on a really good performance and was terrific all afternoon.

“Overall I have a feeling of pride that we’ve come and gave them a real game but also disappointed as nobody could have begrudged us a point with the effort the lads put in.”

-WATCH THE FULL INTERVIEW ONLY ON MFC TV-