Foot.ie what's the future

[Mr A]

The Soviet Russian-esque bannings,"infractions"and two mods, who make the SS look like a great bunch of lads, in particular makes it a truly awful site. There is also a helluva lot of gimps on here also.

Thought for a minute you might slip into hyperbole there, but fortunately you kept things constructive and informative. Well played sir.

[Charlie Darwin]

The KGB and Gestapo were feared all across Europe for their ruthless suspension of message board posting privileges.

[punkrocket]

My favourites were the Stasi, always thought it had a nice malevolent ring to it.

[dfx-]

....rumours abound that in a fit of pique at the FAI decision Adam has sold the site - twice.

The Bray Wanderers forum will remain however as part of any deal..

[bennocelt]

Maybe I'm getting older but when good serious informed posters are getting kicked off and the college kids take over its getting boring and turning into a frat boy site! But I still check in every day!

[BonnieShels]

I've been completely out of the loop here since the issues that were going on with the site.
Who has been kicked off?

Also, we should encourage UCD fans to come on board. :-P

[ger121]

Also, we should encourage UCD fans to come on board. :-P

Now you well know, that both of them are already members on this forum:p

[corkharps]

Also, we should encourage UCD fans to come on board. :-P
Nah UCD tried this and it doesn't work!

[Poor Student]

It's a funny one. Very few clubs in Ireland, if any, have the critical mass to have fuctioning, active and worthwhile forum by themselves. Foot.ie on the other hand could be all these things if more groups of supporters used this as their main forum or hub of activity as used to happen in years gone by. Football is however by it it's very nature extremely tribal. We prefer to stick to our own cliques and engage in closed minded group think and unfortunately if we go places like foot.ie we can find rational views that challenge or invalidate some of the ideas that our own group holds dear. This can be evidenced by the strongly held belief on the Rovers Ultra and Cork forums that foot.ie is anti their clubs. It seems over the years more and more groups of fans have been convinced of this and hived off into small communities and activity on foot.ie has dropped. This is by no means the only factor but certainly a contributing one.

[redobit]

It's a funny one. Very few clubs in Ireland, if any, have the critical mass to have fuctioning, active and worthwhile forum by themselves. Foot.ie on the other hand could be all these things if more groups of supporters used this as their main forum or hub of activity as used to happen in years gone by. Football is however by it it's very nature extremely tribal. We prefer to stick to our own cliques and engage in closed minded group think and unfortunately if we go places like foot.ie we can find rational views that challenge or invalidate some of the ideas that our own group holds dear. This can be evidenced by the strongly held belief on the Rovers Ultra and Cork forums that foot.ie is anti their clubs. It seems over the years more and more groups of fans have been convinced of this and hived off into small communities and activity on foot.ie has dropped. This is by no means the only factor but certainly a contributing one.


Will never ever work for the simple reason that fans want to discuss their club with their own kind.
Sligo Rovers fans used foot.ie as their main forum before, but then you'd have a load of other fans coming into that section giving assumed opinions, being WUMs, etc. and just making it a free for all. It ended up just p!ssing you off.

[marinobohs]

It's a funny one. Very few clubs in Ireland, if any, have the critical mass to have fuctioning, active and worthwhile forum by themselves. Foot.ie on the other hand could be all these things if more groups of supporters used this as their main forum or hub of activity as used to happen in years gone by. Football is however by it it's very nature extremely tribal. We prefer to stick to our own cliques and engage in closed minded group think and unfortunately if we go places like foot.ie we can find rational views that challenge or invalidate some of the ideas that our own group holds dear. This can be evidenced by the strongly held belief on the Rovers Ultra and Cork forums that foot.ie is anti their clubs. It seems over the years more and more groups of fans have been convinced of this and hived off into small communities and activity on foot.ie has dropped. This is by no means the only factor but certainly a contributing one.

I think/suspect most on here also frequent a club site of choice, to moan, slag off rivals etc in the comfort of their own fans and use Foot.ie for more neutral or non club specific "debate".

Probobly a better option than having any club(s) fans use this as main site in my opinion.

[pauliek]

I blame dahamsta

[theworm2345]

Maybe I'm getting older but when good serious informed posters are getting kicked off and the college kids take over its getting boring and turning into a frat boy site! But I still check in every day!
Sounds like someone is missing the Sligo fans and their gay porn :p

Anyway it could be worse, it could become what YBIG has :shock:

[horton]

Hadn't been on YBIG in a while so went for a nosey. Got a chuckle from MariborKev for this post about the Derry/Shams match:



On the weekend of the 100th anniversay of the sinking of the Titanic they staged a tremendous reconstruction, as their hopes sank in under 90 minutes. Fair play to Rovers for joining the spirit of the weekend. And fair play to the 3,000 Rovers fans, who abandoned ship before it even started.


:p