An interesting Message Board statistic

[Tuerto]

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I heard at least a couple of thousand of them played pass the parcel with Gluey at his last birthday party.

I bet he won. He's a winner.

[Michael Morris]

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The oldest news report I wrote was from May 1997. This was the start of cardiffcity.com

Wednesday 28th May 1997

Jason Perry is still undecided whether to accept the clubs offer of a one year contract. No new players have been bought yet but its still early days. One player who looks certain to leave is Tony Philliskirk, he has been having talks with Darlington and Scunthorpe.

Sunday 25th May 1997

Tony Philliskirk looks set to leave Cardiff after recieving offers from some Northern based clubs. Philliskirk still commutes from the North to Cardiff so he sees it as going home.

Northampton beat Swansea 1 - 0 yesterday with a retaken 90th minute free kick at Wembley. Cobblers are therefore promoted to Division 2. Swansea stay in Division 3 with Cardiff.

Friday 23rd May 1997

Cardiff skipper Jason Perry is unhappy with the one year contract offered to him by the club. Perry is Cardiff's longest serving player and is just finishing the end of his testemonial season. He is only 27 years old and feels he deserves better than just a one year deal. He is talking the matter over with his family and the fans are waiting with baited breath for his descision. The fans are backing Perry and they also believe his services should be secured with a better offer. There is no doubt that with his loyalty, he would be a very good acquisition for any other Nationwide League club.

Wednesday 21st May 1997

Kenny Hibbitt has today given nine of his squad free transfers. Steve Williams, Pat Mountain, Nathan Wigg, Andy Scott, Jimmy Gardner, Ian Rodgerson, Lee Vick, Alan Clark and Hayden Fleming have all been told they are no longer needed at Ninian Park. Five players, Craig Middleton, Jason Perry, Jimmy Rollo, Lee Phillips and Kevin Lloyd, have all been offered new contacts. Kenny Hibbitt has stated that he is looking for four or five better quality players to strenghthen the squad for a promotion push next season.

Cardiff will join Swansea, Wrexham, Merthyr and four League of Wales teams in a new competition next season. Using the European Champions League format of a league followed by a knockout stage, the competition will in my opinion bring some good football to Ninian Park and obviously they will all be derby matches. The deal has been put together by the FAW and the BBC and I believe its worth over £3m. We should therefore have more TV coverage next season and be in a competition that we can look forward to winning.

Carl Dale has had surgery on his ankle. Its something he played through until the end of last season.

Friday 16th May 1997

Simon Haworth has been called into the full Wales squad for the game against Scotland in Kilmarnock later this month. Lee Jarman is on stand-by.

Jeff Eckhardt has been told he will not be fined by the club after last Wednesday's sending off.

Jeff Eckhardt was last night voted player of the year after his first season at Ninian Park. Simon Haworth collected the award for best young player and most improved City player. The awards ceremony at Winstones nightclub in Cardiff also honoured Jason Perry with a special award for sevices to the club after 10 seasons.

Samesh Kumar has promised four or five new faces in the squad at Cardiff for next season. He believes we can gain automatic promotion. Kenny Hibbitt will announce his "retained list" next week.

[Tuerto]

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You're now a 'critical thinker'.

Well played.

I thank you. I might get an account on X so that i can really expand my Thought processing. The gifted on here all seem to like X,

[Heathblue]

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In this format I have records showing the oldest users signed up in January 2007. The board then was set up in Oct/Nov 2006 with a months worth of testing before it was open to new users to register.

The very first form of noticeboard/forum started around 1997. There are still those that aren't happy we moved from the format used back then.

Here's a view of the board from Jan 2007. The DSG button still works

https://web.archive.org/web/20070520...o.uk/fudforum/

Aye, you sacked me

[Tuerto]

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Aye, you sacked me

Organ Morgan was a moderator back then as well. No wonder it was a free for all. Friday nights were legendary.

[Wales-Bales]

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Some of the name who registered on Jan 16th 2007 are

Splott Parker
The Other Bob Wilson
Sludge Factory
African Bluebird
jbgnuts
pontblue
alipops
maggs
The Lone Gunman
Don Corleone

who have all been active this month on here. And so many more.

I'll see if I can find a screenshot of the 'old' board

I must have been on there with one of my 60 usernames. I've been a member on here since 1997 or 1998, probably the former.

[Heathblue]

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Organ Morgan was a moderator back then as well. No wonder it was a free for all. Friday nights were legendary.

6 pints down the arches on Friday night and waking up Saturday morning thinking oh no

[ToTaL ITK]

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Yeah!!! Whatever! i just need another post.

[William Treseder]

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I used to love reading Dai Hard quoting from Kung Fu 😂

[Wales-Bales]

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I used to love reading Dai Hard quoting from Kung Fu 

Who was the fella posting from his laptop in the bath?

[Don Corleone]

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Some of the name who registered on Jan 16th 2007 are

Splott Parker
The Other Bob Wilson
Sludge Factory
African Bluebird
jbgnuts
pontblue
alipops
maggs
The Lone Gunman
Don Corleone

who have all been active this month on here. And so many more.

I'll see if I can find a screenshot of the 'old' board

Crikey Mike, more than 18 years ago! I see Birko Milesian was also a moderator back then

Before the message board we had a yahoo group didn’t we?

[Armitage Shanks]

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Victor!

[Michael Morris]

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Crikey Mike, more than 18 years ago! I see Birko Milesian was also a moderator back then

Before the message board we had a yahoo group didn’t we?

The yahoo groups was the email list (until a few years ago). That list is still going but on Google.

It was onelist and another name as well which had several hundred members emailing all day long.

The MB was called a bulletin board maybe, but it started almost 10 years before the 2007 board linked above.

back around 1999 / 2000 it was crazy. wild at times.

[dandywarhol]

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Gone with the Premier league fans

[Des Parrot]

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Some of the name who registered on Jan 16th 2007 are

Splott Parker
The Other Bob Wilson
Sludge Factory
African Bluebird
jbgnuts
pontblue
alipops
maggs
The Lone Gunman
Don Corleone

who have all been active this month on here. And so many more.

I'll see if I can find a screenshot of the 'old' board

I won a T shirt back in 1998 for a guess the crowd (weekly) competition you used to run, so I’m claiming 27 seasons of continuous membership (with the same user name!)