I've been on here for over 10 years, I first joined when I worked with Eric The Red (the late great Eric Shaw) and we spent many many hours when we should have been working reading these boards and brain storming the prediction league, sadly for me Eric spent as much time laughing at how poor I was at it. Eric would have been pretty disgusted at the type of people who have now ripped the heart and soul out of this forum in a seemingly intentional attempt to de rail any attempt at decent debate. Eric was a journalist of distinction and not a failed one with an axe to grind.

We have always had people who come on here to do nothing but annoy, antagonise and upset but the current crop are Masters at it, so good in fact that this will be my last post (except for keeping Eric's prediction league limping along for this season). I can't stand any longer to see people who obviously have an agenda destroy this forum, I partially blame the moderators as they have had ample opportunity over the last few months to rescue this but have done nothing, anything that is now done will be a case of closing the stable door just to late.

The guilty parties know who they are and they will have to come on here knowing they have cost this forum another regular contributor and in many ways cheapened the legacy of what many people over the years have strived to create.

I also expect (though won't see) that the self same guilty parties will now post about Cliques, infringements of the AUP and conspiracy theories, all which is utter fantasy. I refer to 'Our Kyd' The Butcher but to the best of my knowledge we have never met, his Dad is one of the most missed on here (again driven away by the standard of trolling) and other people who are supposedly part of the Clique I wouldn't know if I passed them in the
Street.

I guess I just want to thank the people on here who over the years have made coming on here worth while, those who allowed me years ago to get the Prediction league renamed in honour of a truly great man but above all I'd like to thank the people who have ruined this for us all, you have done exemplary work you should feel proud.

Anyway to FS: I was referring to the route (and I did check out the links on that which appalled my geographical knowledge).
Not wanting to debate on here anyway, it was a bit of a cheeky comment. The thread is to do with MR and his "leaving".

Flat Stanley & Mario are the new click, welcome to a lonely forum, maybe you can play ping pong together.

Have to agree with others, you have loved giving out personal insults on here over the years with out proper provocation.

Get over yourself.

The length of MR's foe list does say a lot about him. Even I'm on it.

Let's forget MR for a second and think of all the other regular posters that have deserted the board over the past few years, the lack of mod intervention and the general malaise on here. That's come about because of the incessant trolling & poop stirring and has been caused by a number of posters who take great pleasure in winding others up. I'm not saying it started with the current crop but they've certainly taken it to the next level.

It's a very sad state of affairs that the internet is littered with people that take great pleasure in causing others misery. If they did it in the street they'd get a punch in the face but sitting behind a keyboard gives them the opportunity to be a faceless tormentor ad hominem.