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A final call on The Well Society's 12 Days of Christmas with £8,232 already raised. A smashing effort. All silent auction lots, buy it now items and raffle ticket purchases close at 9pm on Thursday evening. Those auction lots can be viewed here, buy it now options here and you can purchase raffle tickets here. Thank you to all those who are bidding, donating and buying. Greatly appreciated!

would be rather ironic if we did seeing as Liverpool paid for the current Main Stand with the sale of Ian St John to them in the 1960s

On Johnny K, going from what Frail is saying here - just sounds like he hasn't managed to get enough match practice in since the injury in pre-season to be considered. Signed a 2-year contract in the summer so hope we see him playing at some stage. Marvin Kaleta was obviously loaned in because of JK injury and has done quite well. I imagine the original plan was to run with 2 right-back options in SO'D and JK. The club must have seen some potential in him, otherwise could have easily picked up another RB from this side of planet earth! Here's an interview with him from the other week - https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/motherwell-star-johnny-koutroumbis-opens-34221744

FiL was decorated for participation in the 'We were soldiers mission' he flew evac hueys. Kills - 0

I didn't see his post as him "boasting" about it. That would be a rather peculiar thing to boast about. It's simply adding context to the reasoning behind the offence taken, and it's a valid point. The truth is, if anyone believes they should be able to post antagonistic nonsense on a football forum, they run the chance of being put on moderation. It's as simple as that. The main point is, no one has been placed on moderation for their views on the team, their opinions of Kettlewell, or anything as run of the mill as that. Those on moderation know exactly why they've been placed there.

No idea what Steelboy said to start off this line of discussion but I don't think his post is any weirder than the one boasting about their FiL fighting in Vietnam? It's only been widely considered a catastrophic waste of time for about 60 years.

For those curious, this is precisely the sort of post moderation is designed to address. On this occasion, I’ve let it remain visible so everyone can see it for themselves. It serves no purpose whatsoever, other than to provoke someone unnecessarily. This highlights why moderation is necessary in some cases.

That's roughly 5 million civilians killed by bombing. Sounds like a great guy.

His other achievement not mentioned is taking 3 points home from Ibrox. I understand the concerns and why people are not keen on SK but I’d say we have actually seen some decent football from us earlier on in the season that seems to have been forgotten about but definitely agree that some recent performances have been rank. I’d also agree that he is a frustratingly slow learner or perhaps a bit narrow minded on how we should play. However, all in all I don’t think he’s worse than many experienced managers who are set in their ways. At lease there’s some hope, with SK being a fairly new manager, that he will learn and adapt. I’d rather move forward with the stability of keeping SK rather than changing managers every two years and not just because of the financial benefits. I think we have a better chance of maintaining a settled team/squad and achieving “success” by having the same long term manager. Of course we have to sell players who attract interest and can financially benefit the club from being sold but if we can maintain same basic core with minor adjustments year on year, that’s better than managers coming in every two years in with different styles of play and clearing out the playing staff to replace them with players they like. I also think that SK has shown some skill in developing individuals as well as keeping team morale up, attributes that may help us attract some good players. I’m probably on the minority but i thought we played some good football when we got beat 4-1 at Dundee. We lost the plot, mentally, for 10 minutes and it was a terrible score line but for a lot of that game there was some nice football. Granted, St Mirren first half was woeful but better second half. With players coming back to fitness I think we will see more good than bad performances.