Greatest Foot.ie moments and members? [Archive]

Nesta99

01/05/2020, 12:41 AM

We're all missing football. The covid thread is really the only one active. So how about looking back and posting on favourite, worst, best, classic Foot.ie posts and members. I was looking back through some old PMs and there is some great old posts on stuff that happened in LoI that made me laugh, conversely there are some messages that are sad being from people that are no longer with us. Something different from Covid-19 please! I've been registered under 2 names and the first I cant remember but it was from the old Eircom League message board when it ceased (Greenblood is an old member from there that I remember). mypost's direct bus routes and spaceships get occasionally mentioned.

I dont intend this to be a thread of humiliating posters - I am guilty of the odd cringe rant myself looking back!

Site traffic is probably down so why not....I dont recall it being done previously?

John83

01/05/2020, 12:43 PM

You might enjoy trawling through the old Posts of the Month: https://foot.ie/forums/110-POTM-POTY

Traffic is probably too light to bother reopening it, but there were some gems there.

Mr A

01/05/2020, 1:10 PM

What? What? What?

https://foot.ie/threads/1-Greetings?p=1467616&viewfull=1#post1467616

pineapple stu

01/05/2020, 1:33 PM

Nesta99

01/05/2020, 1:51 PM

What? What? What?

https://foot.ie/threads/1-Greetings?p=1467616&viewfull=1#post1467616

Perfect!! Exactly the sort of distraction....but wtf!?? I do not know why I cannot recall such an ummmm.... intriguing thread?

Nesta99

01/05/2020, 2:24 PM

That was great - but I can't remember what thread it was split from originally? It kind of loses some context without that.

SuperGretna trolling the entire site (https://foot.ie/threads/37979-Its-not-long-now-lads) but then mysteriously vanishing just as Derry beat Gretna 5-1 was fun too.

Ah yes, few things about that spell, the wall of noise from a packed away stand in Fir Park was something else even on TV. The mindboggling bitter lack of post match dignity by Gretna. Of course no football fan wants to see a club fold but it was hard to feel too much sympathy - all topped off with a dose of poetic justice for SuperGretna and Co, almost as amusing Matthew Tipton's hatrick as Neale Fenn's replacement ;p though those 5 goals were not scored with the panache of Derry's tbf. Bar the keeper's early blunder it was a perfect performance1

NeverFeltBetter

01/05/2020, 8:54 PM

Haven't been on here as long as everyone else, but I'll never forget Tricky Colour advocating for Padraig Amond's call up to the EPL/Ireland squad: https://foot.ie/threads/140627-Padraig-Amond?p=1871069&viewfull=1#post1871069

Includes the immortal description of a football being "a bag of wind" and the brilliant "the goals are the same size" argument.

Shearer

02/05/2020, 12:44 AM

That was great - but I can't remember what thread it was split from originally? It kind of loses some context without that.
Castle Rovers and Hyde Rangers - Junior teams in the Limerick District League so it was from that thread presumably.

peadar1987

02/05/2020, 1:52 AM

RIP Termonbarry Alberts. They had the best half-time monkey knife fights.

I miss the Mon Dog excitement that brewed on every team's board in the run-up to a trip to Gortakeegan.

pineapple stu

02/05/2020, 6:43 AM

Castle Rovers and Hyde Rangers - Junior teams in the Limerick District League so it was from that thread presumably.
Actually, the thread is linked - it was posted in thread #1 on foot.ie, back in 2001. Which was ten years earlier at the time

Longfordian

02/05/2020, 1:12 PM

One of the posters on the 2001 thread is an RTE news correspondent these days. Saw them on TV last night.

Martinho II

02/05/2020, 1:50 PM

One of the posters on the 2001 thread is an RTE news correspondent these days. Saw them on TV last night.

What club did this person follow at the time? Is this the Longford correspondent that used to go to town matches?

sidewayspasser

02/05/2020, 1:59 PM

One of the posters on the 2001 thread is an RTE news correspondent these days. Saw them on TV last night.
Interesting. As there's only three posters in the 2001 thread and it's probably not dahamsta, that only leaves two. My guess would be that the correspondent has used her real first name on this forum.

Longfordian

02/05/2020, 2:23 PM

What club did this person follow at the time? Is this the Longford correspondent that used to go to town matches?

They were or are a Town fan alright, but they are the correspondent for another area of the country not the Midlands.

Martinho II

03/05/2020, 7:33 PM

They were or are a Town fan alright, but they are the correspondent for another area of the country not the Midlands.

Think who you are on about now Reckon its the NE Correspondent. Didnt know that person was on it altogether!

nigel-harps1954

04/05/2020, 7:54 PM

Post of the month is sadly missed.

Termonbarry.

Myposts spaceship.

Cool dogs adventures.

Bring back the glory days.

osarusan

04/05/2020, 8:16 PM

Hairy Bowsie on the merits of a Shels player on his way to St. Pats. (https://foot.ie/threads/128006-Pre-Season-Rumours-Thread?p=1304489&viewfull=1#post1304489)

That clown Tuff Paddy on how this was an Irish site for Irish people. Impossible to fathom that the guy was an established news reporter.

The most I've ever laughed on this site was when, in the middle of a bad-tempered discussion, one poster (can't remember who) ended a particularly vitriolic post with the phrase 'so bite me sac.'

pineapple stu

04/05/2020, 9:09 PM

That "bite me sac" one does ring a bell alright

Some great stories on the Faroe Islands 2005 away game thread too

Nesta99

05/05/2020, 12:22 AM

Post of the month is sadly missed.

Termonbarry.

Myposts spaceship.

Cool dogs adventures.

Bring back the glory days.

Why was POTM done away with? A good chunk of the best moments are probably when yer average Dundalk fan was seeing enough craziness in the 1st Division....

John83

05/05/2020, 12:56 AM

Why was POTM done away with? A good chunk of the best moments are probably when yer average Dundalk fan was seeing enough craziness in the 1st Division....
It just kind of petered out, I expect due to dwindling site traffic.

ToberonaTornado

05/05/2020, 7:01 AM

Post of the month is sadly missed.

Termonbarry.

Myposts spaceship.

Cool dogs adventures.

Bring back the glory days.

MyPost is still here..........

There's a lot of recent(and furious) evidence.:D

The Termonbarry Alberts/Utd etc posts were gas caric:cool:

I seem like a blow-in (starting date May 2016) but i was here under a different name from 2004(lost my Eircom e-mail address & password)

Nesta99

05/05/2020, 10:17 AM

MyPost is still here..........

There's a lot of recent(and furious) evidence.:D

The Termonbarry Alberts/Utd etc posts were gas caric:cool:

I seem like a blow-in (starting date May 2016) but i was here under a different name from 2004(lost my Eircom e-mail address & password)

Well that puts a few things in some context....

Are you speculating, just joining dots?

Martinho II

05/05/2020, 2:15 PM

Speaking of the devil foot.ie 20th anniversary must be comin up soon!

John83

05/05/2020, 3:54 PM

Speaking of the devil foot.ie 20th anniversary must be comin up soon!
https://foot.ie/attachment.php?attachmentid=2842&stc=1

Mr A

06/05/2020, 9:38 AM

So simple but very funny.

https://foot.ie/threads/139695-What-songs-do-your-team-use?p=1391476&viewfull=1#post1391476

sorbothegreek

07/05/2020, 9:49 AM

pineapple stu

07/05/2020, 11:32 AM

Those kind of posts are news to me!

Very much reminiscent of some of the madder stuff in the old One F fanzine though.

Martinho II

07/05/2020, 1:14 PM

Those kind of posts are news to me!

Very much reminiscent of some of the madder stuff in the old One F fanzine though.

Yeah he was one of the main reasons why our old fanzine sold so well! No wonder he did a bit of comedy in his spare time its priceless!

ToberonaTornado

10/05/2020, 9:41 AM

Well that puts a few things in some context....

Are you speculating, just joining dots?

No.

.... I can see some traits of MyPOST style of posting in a Sham R. poster that is currently posting on the forum atm.
We'll leave it at that ......

pineapple stu

10/05/2020, 10:08 AM

I don't think you're right tbh. Mypost had an innate knack of being completely intractably wrong. I don't see that here.

Mypost was posting last year anyway, so that account is still active.

Mr A

11/05/2020, 10:16 AM

Salmon Colored was the Longford forums sublime but mostly ridiculous.

https://foot.ie/threads/102407-Bunting?highlight=salmon

https://foot.ie/threads/123921-Cheer-up!?p=1228477&highlight=#post1228477

https://foot.ie/threads/114554-Bus-appreciation-Society?p=1128651&highlight=#post1128651

These posts are literally the most interesting and engaging thing I can ever recall with respect to Longford. Fair play to him.

Martinho II

11/05/2020, 2:07 PM

These posts are literally the most interesting and engaging thing I can ever recall with respect to Longford. Fair play to him.

Yeah hes off the loi scene altogether as hes now living outside Cork. He was part of the Section O group on messager but left as a lot of the younger lads didnt understand his sense of humour! He did articles for our fanzine One F in Longford which was legendary to say the least!

Mr A

12/05/2020, 10:26 AM

nigel-harps1954

12/05/2020, 5:21 PM

Ah jaysis...bring back POTM..

passinginterest

13/05/2020, 11:04 AM

Post of the Year.. I wonder what the photo was.
https://foot.ie/threads/124529-Random-LOI-Photo-Thread/page2?p=1234314#post1234314

More from that year: https://foot.ie/threads/147176-Post-of-the-Year-2009?p=1450266&viewfull=1#post1450266

Painful memories of the year my own vote cost me at least a share in post of the year :(

Was that the famous photo in Abrekababra beside Dalymount?