Footy Mad is almost dead

[Oldtimeram]

The Derby site is almost deserted now and Gaz posts to himself on here. Its days are numbered I fear.

[gaz1959]

Oh my Ramster :-O so every board you visit is going down the pan eh ..... hmmmm lol

[Acido]

Oldie is right though Gaz, and I do fear for the future of Footymad.
Why is this board looking dead all of a sudden, things were still good on here last season and where is your mod mate Laz ?
There are a few fans who are saying they have had enough on Derby mad as well and I suppose we have to ask ourselves why is this happening ?
Bear in mind there arent many decent alternatives away from Footymad, and lets face it ***** 'Mad' would be an absolute joke as a replacement.

[gaz1959]

***** has as much charisma as a slug on your salad haha
You used to post here but stopped Acido, so in part you may be able to answer your own question.

Ramster has a habit of flouncing off in dramatic fashion over the years.

If you were to ask people they will blame me Acido. But I stand by my actions 100%.

Rammy brought his Direbuy lot over and I sin binned one for his disrespectful so called banter with me. The call me a knut for that over on DM.

Rammy has a long standing tedious feud with Arundel which often spilled over to here. No probs but for the good of equality I tried to afford the Flourist man some respect and agreed some sort of truce with him. But Rammy chose to ignore it and posted a post aimed at Arundel the flourist fan. I chose to delete it. Rammy posted several posts of complaint about said deletion and I subsequently deleted those posts too. Rammy flounced off. The DM lot took umbridge and I became a Knut for that too.
DM (some of them) fans who came here had a history of infighting and not liking MODS decisions. They liked to talk politics but didn't like differences of opinions and call those who disagree reight wingers etc. I felt some of them spouted sh1te as if they are the only ones with a voice. The best DM lad AfghanRam got binned by his own MOD.
Because of me disagreeing with them and because of Ramsters sm-exit the chose to return to the fold of DM. Not a loss in my opinion.
Alto left because he thought I had changed when I criticized his fun thread for some near the knuckle images, it was a bit tongue in cheek tho as i had noticed Clarets Mad had showed mixed reviews of his fun thread. So Alto phooked off to help run the busy CM site, Turfites. I have asked him his intentions here as in will he still be modding etc but he leaves it to my discretion as to keeping his MOD status, so he is currently still a MOD here.

Stan got fed up with a couple of SM folk and had a notion about me so phooked off to TM and found solice

Ghost has settled down on TurfiteMad and no longer needs to haunt the various boards.
Laz in old days tradition never posted a lot but posted more often when the muckers were posting here.

I sided with Lionsroar when protecting his beloved Wall and Frenchie had issue with lionsroar and left MM but he doesn't post here as he said he would because of my support for Lionsroar I suspect.
Claw has stopped posting so much as well as it is probably uncool to associate with me or SM or perhaps he's writing his new book.

Alfie only posts where there is a bit of fun to be had and there isn't any fun here at present

I am not really posting here as much as Ramster said I am mostly chatting to myself.

I am not a bitter person but I do not like it when people flounce the truth and accuse me of this and that but ignore my email and texts

In the past we had a good mix of lads we called BoBs but one by one they have drifted away but I can assure they are not forgotten and I am sure they remember the BoBs too.

Facebook and Twitter have taken a lot of footie forum traffic too.

[Acido]

Wow thats quite a reply Gaz, do you want me to reply to it honestly (although you might not like what I post, so no I wont)

As other fans might say about me, I dont want to look for any disagreeable or nasty comments on FM and I dont even like seeing posters who I like argue with each other. But if Im pushed (and some fans have done this to me in the past), then yes I will stand my ground and its tough if they dont like it. That sadly is the role of a mod isnt it !!

[gaz1959]

Acido - if you have something to say but you are not because you don't want to offend me .... then that speaks volumes of you mate. I have no real beef with anyone but to know the truth you have to have follwed the whole story.

Opinions and nit picking is tedious and I really do not give a phook

I have said I stand by my decision and if you know the history of this board you will know it hasn't been an easy board to MOD. I don't expect to make friends but there is a fickleness amongst some of us FM posters

[Oldtimeram]

Oh my Ramster :-O so every board you visit is going down the pan eh ..... hmmmm lol

And your point is?

[Oldtimeram]

I invited the Derby lads on here because I had told them you were a decent guy and would be free to chat without excessive moderation being imposed. It all got a bit embarrassing to be honest. I am sad to read some of the comments you have made about me and also the Derby lads. They came here in good faith and it is disappointing to read that you think they are no great loss to the Board.

[Oldtimeram]

In conclusion. I am not "flouncing" off the board as you so kindly put it (also a favourite word of one other poster too) lol . However, I think for the sake of the Board and to not cause any further upset to you Gaz I will refrain from posting on here again. I came back because i thought we had put our differences behind us but sadly I think that is not the case in reality.

I wish you all the best for the future and I really do hope you can get this board up and running again soon.

DM is on its last legs so I may not be posting much on FM in the future. I will probably post on DCFC fans from now on with the occasional post on DM and CM until the guillotine finally drops on FM for good.

[roger_ramjet]

Just to add ten pence worth, as a political asylum seeker I will be forever grateful to Swindon Mad for taking us in, but after a honeymoon period it became evident that the locals were a tad inhospitable and expressing views that I did not agree with. Your right to, my right to find it objectionable. Their right to say it, my right not to listen.

So I stopped posting, not just here, but overall. It was nowt to do with OTR being flouncy but rather the inhospitable right wing views expressed herein. Then came the new version so I came back tp play a bit, and even tried to check out this board, but it had disappeared. As for now I have stopped posting on FM (but look every now and then) as the new version has driven away so many people there is nobody left much to interact with. One feels like the proverbial one legged man at an arse kicking contest.

Everything dies in time - DM looks like it needs a few more shovels of topsoil to complete its burial so, like OTR, I plan to focus on DCFCFans as have a lot of the old Derby refugees that came here briefly.