Sludge's Board - where has it gone?

[stan butler]

unsurprisingly no one had contributed to it for months

i was just tidying up

Maybe have a Non football section so this section stays just football rather than filled up with non football related topics and Sludge's music and other crap posts

[xsnaggle]

Maybe have a Non football section so this section stays just football rather than filled up with non football related topics and Sludge's music and other crap posts

Isn't that what Mike just binned because no one was using it? (Except Sludge inadvertently) Not sure if the post is a fishing trip ot what

[J R Hartley]

Maybe have a Non football section so this section stays just football rather than filled up with non football related topics and Sludge's music and other crap posts

There’s only so many threads and post where people can say the same thing about the football though. Variety is the spice of life.

I’d rather listen to Sludges god awful taste in music on a loop than read a football post / thread by certain posters.

[Elwood Blues]

Maybe have a Non football section so this section stays just football rather than filled up with non football related topics and Sludge's music and other crap posts

People seem to forget that back in earlier days (I first heard of this board from a work colleague back in 2002 or 3. Nice and great city fan Tim Nicholas his name was who posted I think as Dr Giggles. Haven't seen him in years) what made this board was how eclectic it was.

Mixed in with football was politics, music, film, anything really. If anyone had a problem with their computer car or house they could post on here and there was a good chance that they would either get an answer or the phone number or email of someone who could help.

It was unique amongst football boards as far as I am aware for this sort of thing as other boards seem to keep their football and other stuff on separate forums.

This is what engendered a great sense of community and people could discuss and argue about things to their hearts content.

It is still there to an extent but sadly a bit (actually at times a lot) of nastiness crept in over the years and the board has had to survive two major breakaways.

We have also had the politics forum added and most will know that this is one of my favourite grumbles as I think it is completely unnecessary (except perhaps as a temporary measure at election time) When political posts have been left on here there has been some excellent discussion at times (yes and some utter garbage as well).Robust discussion is fair enough but some of the personal insults get boring and would be better suited to some on here just ignoring each other or sending private messages instead of annoying the rest of us and ruining worthwhile threads.

The Coronavirus Update thread for example has some excellent stuff in there even though it is overtly ( and understandably) political but you have to wade through some unnecessary guff at times. Whenever good political debate gets moved to the politics board it invariably dies a death because many who make good contributions tend not to bother with that forum and it often ends up with the usual suspects grumbling at each other.

If people don't want to read political posts don't bother. It really is that simple!

I still think this the best board. I have registered to all three main boards but I rarely write to the board that has no name and I don't think I have written a single post to the Colonelcardiffi board.

But with respect to Mike although I still like this board it is not what it was was in earlier days.

I don't think it is his fault (except for the blasted unnecessary politics forum) it is the fact that posters come and go for all sorts of reasons, and sadly decent ones get fed up because of some of the garbage and insults posted and leave never to come back. And as I say twice some of the ones who contributed to the problems ( and to be fair also made some decent contributions as well) have got the huff and formed new boards . Each time some good posters have gone with them.


There was a wonderful expression used by one of the state election officials last night about Donald Trump. He said that Trump should "put his big boy pants on". Describes some of our ex posters quite well I think!!

Anyway rant over.

Edit Just seen how long this post is. I have just got a laptop after years of laboriously tapping in posts on my smartphone, so I am afraid I let my fingers run away with me. I will be writing TOBW length posts next!!