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have we signed Viking Don yet on a 5 year contract?
Does anyone else think that if we were winning they'd be none of this \"infighting\"?
I think that's a bit of an overreaction, but I kind of agree with you. I mean if we weren't in a relegation battle I think things would be fine. It's testing times, not just for the team but also for us fans.
People like Viva rovers saying Ive paid my money but not going to bother supporting them?
I think donnybob is deluded, but he's far from being a bad poster. The bad posters who are turning a good forum into a pile of poo are the ones whose best and only arguments consist of \"you're a c***\" or \"f*** off you w*****\". Now THEY are the ones who need a good \"moderating\" not people like donnybob. Donnybob may be wrong in my eyes, but he isn't repulsive....and although I disagree with his arguments, at least he puts them across in an intelligent and polite manner. It's the aggressive swearing posters, we all know who they are, that are ruining the forum, not donnybob, or me or even madmick.
Its not just the swearing either, its the continuous point scoring which I find more insulting. Just this week someone quoted one of my posts, bold printed something I said and the only comment they made was: To go through what each other writes and ignore the content and pick on grammar, spelling and even the odd bit of pettiness is really downgrading what someone may have taken a while to write. To just pick on something such as a mis-spelling rather than replying with a well thought out and valid point is just childish...
having not even read these boards for a long time I feel out of my depth with this thread. That said I do have an opinion and whether you agree or not is immaterial.People will always have diametrically opposed on topics such as which manager was better or who the best striker is. This is played out on the terraces and in the pub every week so to expect it not to be on a forum is ridiculous. To keep banging on about SOD or Deano is also ridiculous. At the end of the day whether SOD's dismissal was handled correctly or not is now old news and not going to change so we need to get used to it. Then we get to the points about members debating and 'getting personal' this also happens in the pub so on a forum it is also going to happen. What is different though is in a pub you can see that the banter is friendly or that the person making the point is also being good natured about it yet online the balck and white print does not show this and we should all remember that.Do we use a forum to vent out anger or the terraces? Well personally I dont think the forum is the best place to make that point and I do believe we need to let the club know how we feel. If that is before a game then so be it however this would only lead to a divide amongst fans and the team dont need that.So we are left with the VSC to do this on our behalf. Do we trust the VSC? I personally cant say I do. When in a recent post they made it clear they learn information and keep it confidential I lost all resepect for them to voice our opinions in general. I believe the VSC should be totally independent from the club, the club should only give them the information that they would want the press knowing and that the VSC should be able to go to Ryan and the board and say \"the fans dont agree with this or that\" or \"how does the club intend to deal with this\" We only have to look at how the Owls supporters club nearly brought their team down for being in the boards pocket one minute and against them the next.Finally if posts are repeating through threads then it should show the VSC how angry the paying fans are with the present and past situations. It should not be slammed down or asked to stop. The VSC should be going to the club and expressing this with the hope that the club can answer the critics. By answer I mean a straight answer and not the convoluted responses JR gave them before.Now all that said WILLIE MCKAY OUT NOW!!!!!!!!
Welcome on board madbadrob. I think you've picked an excellent name and made some great points. I particularly liked the very last one you made!
I do think posters should always try to make a distinction , when criticising, between the content of the post and the person of the poster . None of us really know who is who ... we all assume fictitious identities but still take it personally when a criticismn is made of the fictitious PERSONA. Much better to say I do not agree with your stupid comment than to say YOU are stupid ... usually much more of course .!!!!! I have been very turned off and will not be posting much more but I DO appreciate the info, that VSC posts on here for us .