I may have been late to join this forum but prior to that had followed it for a number of years. Of course the main reason to join is being a Baggies fan and to discuss the Albion but a glance through the forum pages shows plenty of non football threads and, personally, I find the majority entertaining and interesting.

As others have pointed out, there are disagreements on some topics -particularly politics- but it's good to see another point of view sometimes and everyone has something to offer . Although I'm not afraid of confrontation , I admit to not particularly liking some of the spats on here though and see no need for them. I'd prefer a more respectful "agree to disagree" and move on attitude but understand that some topics are more emotive than others. That said, over all, I've found the vast majority of posters on here to be friendly, helpful and supportive of each other.

As a comparative "newbie" maybe some feel I have no right to express my opinion on the matter but I personally don't see a problem with posting non Albion topics. At the end of the day, people don't have to read them and if no one was interested in them why would many of them get so many responses and conversations going? We all have Albion as a common interest-but that doesn't mean we don't also have other interests in common. Maybe it would be better to have a separate section for O/T threads like other forums do but I deliberately labelled the Hamas thread as O/T so those that didn't want to read it didn't have to.