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Just saw that Billy Thompson died today, always seemed like a great guy and always did well for us when he played. Absolute shame.

Very sad to hear of the passing of Billy Thomson. I have to admit that I never thought he was a particularly good goalie but he obviously had a pretty successful professional career so what do I know? I can confirm, as others have already stated, that he was a genuinely nice guy. I met him a couple of times when he was at United and I was a student in Dundee, through a mutual St Mirren supporting friend, and he was an absolute gent. Then, a few years later, as a good run under wee Tommy was coming to an abrupt end at St Johnstone, he was warming up to probably get away from the dugout and he recognised ma in the crowd and came over to say hello. We were absolutely toothless that day so I suggested he could be thrown on up front as a target man. He smiled and said he’d be happy to give it a go. Nice guy and taken too soon. Thoughts and prayers to his family and friends. RIP.

Rob, I’m guessing you are a kid and it’s just that you don’t know any better. Alan is a one off, we’ll never have a better chief exec,

Losing to St Johnstone in midweek was a morale hammer blow. I’m looking at the state of the club and I can’t believe the state we are in. For the last decade or so I’ve proudly claimed we were the best run wee club in the UK. We punched above our weight in league and cup competitions, we developed great young talent and we fought against our financial limitations to build and rebuild sides season after season to compete. We always seemed to be a place players would thrive, when they left they were a much better version of the player that arrived and we’d benefit from their development. Off the pitch our social media and fan/community interactions were head and shoulders above any other side. We had club blood running though every aspect of the club and in Alan Burrows we had what every football fan in the world wants, their club ran by one of us. Not just one of us but a Well fan who also happened to be a fantastic Chief Exec. Now the club is unrecognisable to me. On the pitch no one is thriving, players are all getting worse it’s most obvious when we bring in a new addition. Matt Penney for example, he came in and was levels above, won consecutive POTMs but before he left his form had slumped. Same with McGinn, he came in and was a breath of fresh air but he’s a shadow of the player he was 4-5 months ago. Even Kelly, whom I firmly believe is the best Scottish Goalkeeper, has gone from making world class saves several times a game to the wet paper bag that conceded the second against St Johnstone and the near post shocker against St Mirren. Who’s working hard? Who’s fighting for us or for the manager? Off the pitch Alan’s stepping down. I’m honestly heartbroken he’s going. No one has done more for our club than Alan in my lifetime. We don’t know why he’s going. I hope it’s because he’s got a massive job offer somewhere but it could be because he doesn’t want to do it anymore, that would kill me. The only way is down from here, we’ll never find another Alan Burrows. As for our social media/comms we’ve gone from fully engaged with our fan base to KGB levels of secrecy and silence. Even basic information is withheld now. We don’t hear about how long injured players are out for. I went weeks checking team sheets looking for Moult to come back from injury only to find out from Twitter that he was back with Burton. There’s nothing in the pre and post match media, it could literally be the same videos every week. Contrast this period with the month or so before Robbo resigned. Robbo was a broken man, he was killing himself to turn it round and was demented that it wasn’t happening. What do we see from Hammy? He’s ‘disappointed’ and he’s got an itchy forehead. This is the time we need to hear things like he’s given them a bollocking, that he’s going to make changes to the starting 11 or tactics. That they are having them in on their day off for extra training, fucking anything at this point. everything feels like it’s falling apart and I can’t see how we get out of this. Col

We’re moving house and I won’t have room for some of my ’Well memorabilia, so I’d rather it went to a good home. There are two signed and framed tops and two balls (the smaller one has only one autograph on it). The boots are a pair of Clarky’s, signed by him. Free to anyone who wants any or all of them.

That’s good to know for the future, but on this occasion they are going to JSR. Thanks for letting me know.

The WS accept merchandise donations and auction them on eBay to raise funds.

Only 64 as well. RIP