2010 Boards-Stars (Forum Awards)

Daysha

Cruiserweight kicked all this off last year (thread here) so thought I'd continue the tradition I'll use the same categories with a couple of new ones thrown in, but I don't mind if anyone wants to suggest one as well. Polls are open from right now until Christmas Eve, with the winners announced the following day.

I should say as well this is only a bit of fun, so don't get worked up if someone thinks you're a biased little fecker! There's no actual awards for winning one of them either, I promise me becoming a mod straight after winning best poster last year was only a coincidence :P

So without further ado, the categories are:

Best Poster:

Best Newcomer:

Most Biased Poster:

Most likely to be banned in 2011:

Poster that left us too early:

Thread of the Year:

Post of the Year:

Services to GAA:

Media Moment of the Year:

Funniest Moment of the Year:

Daysha

I'll get us started, will come back to some of them.

Best Poster: So many to choose from, but I'm gonna go with flahavaj. Honourable mentions to Clareman, ShamoBuc and homerjay2005

Best Newcomer:

Most Biased Poster: zinx

Most likely to be banned in 2011: Orizio. 2nd time lucky eh?

Poster that left us too early: Premierstone hasn't posted since April which is a great shame, so he gets my vote.

Thread of the Year: No doubt about it, Waterford GAA Team News/Discussion. Great insightful posters who'll always keep you up-to-date on all the deise goings-on. Haven't missed UpTheDeise a single bit because of it.

Post of the Year: Am sure there's been tons of great posts lost in match-threads and the like, but killbillvo2's input after we won Munster is one that stands out for me.

Services to GAA: Deise Tom, with honourable mentions to rebel girl 15 and Blackbelt.

Media Moment of the Year: Michael O'Muircheartaigh's send-off on the Late Late Show in September. A fitting-tribute to an all-time GAA legend.

Funniest Moment of the Year:

deisedude

Best Poster: Clareman

Best Newcomer: hardybuck

Most Biased Poster: dcr22b

Most likely to be banned in 2011: The teenage hormones of soccymonster or deisegirl will get the better of them and they will lash out at someone who badmouths Joe Canning

Poster that left us too early: Premierstone

Thread of the Year: Waterford GAA Team News/Discussion. I don't venture out of it too often. Its like a cosy pair of slippers

Post of the Year: deise girl's post on Tony Brownes performance in the Munster final replay comes to mind. Summed up my thoughts perfectly
"Lads Tony Browne. Tony fucking Browne."

Services to GAA: Deise Tom

Media Moment of the Year: TG4's laochra gaol rivalry series was very good i thought. In particular i love the Cork Waterford episode

Funniest Moment of the Year: Orizio drunkenly posting about how Cork would win the double very early in the year. In fairness he got one out of the two right

Clareman

Best Poster:

Best Newcomer: hardybuck

Most Biased Poster: Too many to mention, but this is the great thing about the GAA, EVERYONE is biased, if you loose the ref's a ****, if you win he had a great game. You are allowed say whatever you want about your own players, but once someone from outside says anything about them, you turn on them

Most likely to be banned in 2011: No-one, we'll finish with a full compliment of players

Poster that left us too early: Premierstone

Thread of the Year: I'm not voting for a Waterford thread Seriously though, the threads at the top (So Your Too.... and Promote a Club) are the best threads imvho, 1 of the weaknesses in the GAA is getting adults involved in the game. I also really enjoy the picture thread

Post of the Year: Everyone of them

Services to GAA: Deise Tom

Media Moment of the Year: Micheal's retirement

Funniest Moment of the Year: Drunken moments FTW

dcr22B

deisedude wrote: »

Most Biased Poster: dcr22b

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I take that as a supreme compliment given the vehement anti-Dub bias that is prevalent on this forum.

It's intriguing that somebody who I don't recall ever having an argument on a thread has voted for me thus.

I'm screwed when Orizio, Lemlin and all the other Dub haters start voting

dcr22B

Best Poster: All the Dubs posters naturally

Best Newcomer: Can't say I've taken any notice

Most Biased Poster: Given our beautiful relationship, Orizio for the fact that his red rimmed glasses are as one dimensional as my blue ones

Most likely to be banned in 2011: No-one, we'll finish with a full compliment of players

Poster that left us too early: Premierstone

Thread of the Year: The Dublin - Tyrone thread (made for great reading at the shock of all the ABD's as we finally put years of hurt behind us).

Post of the Year: Cannot believe Dublin will win this. Thought the Down-Kerry game was a more likely shock this morning!

Looks like Liam McCarthy is coming back to Cork anyway A GymJim gem, what are you doing on a GAA forum if you can't tell the difference between Liam and Sam?

Services to GAA: -

Media Moment of the Year: Micheal's retirement

Funniest Moment of the Year: -

deisedude

dcr22B wrote: »

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I take that as a supreme compliment given the vehement anti-Dub bias that is prevalent on this forum.

It's intriguing that somebody who I don't recall ever having an argument on a thread has voted for me thus.

I'm screwed when Orizio, Lemlin and all the other Dub haters start voting

To be honest i couldnt think of anyone so i gave it to you for the recent Dublin Tyrone thread. Nothing wrong for standing up for your own county

dcr22B

deisedude wrote: »

To be honest i couldnt think of anyone so i gave it to you for the recent Dublin Tyrone thread. Nothing wrong for standing up for your own county

Damn straight, if we don't defend ourselves no-one will

blackbelt

Best Poster: Me naturally.:) Ok seriously DCR22B

Best Newcomer: Clareman,I went postal for a few weeks and suddenly Clareman appears.

Most Biased Poster: RayCaulwell,his bias towards Kildare and winning Leinster is hilarious.:)

Most likely to be banned in 2011: Orizio, posting off the cuff akin to the Kilkenny hurlers.

Poster that left us too early: Pridefighter - where the hell is he?

Thread of the Year: Dublin-Tyrone

Post of the Year: Too hard to say.

Services to GAA: I won this last year,so I will vote for Smashey.

Media Moment of the Year: Meath-Louth Leinster Final.It defined the championship as the talking point.

Funniest Moment of the Year: Didn't happen on Boards for me but listening to the Kildare-Louth game on KFM in the car and the commentators shouting "steps" in disbelief.

soccymonster

eeerrr... Hi again!

Best poster: deise_girl
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Most likely to be banned in 2011: Orizio!

Best Thread: Limerick GAA thread!!! :P

Gerard.C

Flahavaj wins the award

Diabhal Beag

Best Poster: Flahavaj

Best Newcomer: Ger C

Most Biased Poster: Most Louth supporters in the Megathread for the Leinster Final

Most likely to be banned in 2011: Paul Galvin :pac:

Poster that left us too early: ???

Thread of the Year: Leinster Final just for the OTT reactions

Post of the Year: Really liked the Dan Shanahan Retirement OP

Services to GAA: Daysha

Media Moment of the Year: Diarmuid O'Sullivan crying when Cork won the All-Ireland

Funniest Moment of the Year: Aisake scoring against Tipp as a massive **** off to his overly harsh critics

unknown13

Best Poster: An Citeog

Best Newcomer: I was a newcomer, so I can't really vote on that issue

Most Biased Poster: The Meath and Louth posters.

Most likely to be banned in 2011: ?

Poster that left us too early: Pridefighter

Thread of the Year: The pictures thread

Post of the Year: The Mod warnings in the Meath / Louth after match thread.

Services to GAA: Daysha because he put up with Soccy and Deise for so long while everyone was on a winter hibernation period.

Media Moment of the Year: Meath / Louth followed by Barriers on the Hill

Funniest Moment of the Year: Kilkenny get beaten in the All Ireland final.

premierstone

deisedude wrote: »

Poster that left us too early: Premierstone

Clareman wrote: »

Poster that left us too early: Premierstone

dcr22B wrote: »

Poster that left us too early: Premierstone

Humbled im sure guys, yes I made a decision not to post on here anymore due to a certain few posters, but be aware I do still check in regularly so dont let the standard slip!!

Clareman

Poor Scooty couldn't find this, it was the first post on the second page after all

Daysha

Jeez how did I forget this? I'll tot up the scores tomorrow, shouldn't take too long anyway!

Grindylow

Best poster - deisemonster!

Daysha

The (belated) results:

Poster of the Year: Flahavaj
Best Newcomer: hardybuck
Most biased supporter: zinx, dcr22b, Orizio and RayCaulwell.
Most likely to be banned in 2011: Orizio
Poster that left us too early: Premierstone
Thread of the year: Waterford Team News / Dublin vs Tyrone
Post of the year: No one post stood out.
Services to GAA: Deise Tom
Media Moment of the year: Micheal's send-off
Funniest Moment of the year: Orizio's drunken prediction antics (:P)

Congrats one and all!

hardybuck

Ladies and Gents,

Thanks for the nominations and award. I was one who came over from Upthedeise and I've looked back.

The Waterford megathread is full of great posters and gets input from around the country. Added to that there is a consistent level of insight and quality across the forum which you won't get anywhere else.

I've no doubt that we'll have plenty of cause for debate and discussion in 2011.

Regards,

hardybuck

keane2097

This should be done at the end of the Championship in future when the forum has more traffic IMO.

Daysha

keane2097 wrote: »

This should be done at the end of the Championship in future when the forum has more traffic IMO.

You're probably right yeah. It only struck me to do one when I saw the soccer forum had there's around now as well, but obviously they won't have any hassle getting the votes in.

Remind me again in 9 months :P

keane2097

Busiest time of the year in the EPL so it's a good time for them to do it see.

flahavaj

Thanks lads for the votes. I'm a bit to be getting poster of the year, theres far better posters that post more often in here than me.

suitcasepink

Daysha wrote: »

The (belated) results:

Poster of the Year: Flahavaj
Best Newcomer: hardybuck
Most biased supporter: zinx, dcr22b, Orizio and RayCaulwell.
Most likely to be banned in 2011: Orizio
Poster that left us too early: Premierstone
Thread of the year: Waterford Team News / Dublin vs Tyrone
Post of the year: No one post stood out.
Services to GAA: Deise Tom
Media Moment of the year: Micheal's send-off
Funniest Moment of the year: Orizio's drunken prediction antics (:P)

Congrats one and all!

Glad to see one county's posters standing out! :P

soccymonster

Noel2k9 wrote: »

Best poster - deisemonster!

Noel, you're a creep :pac:
But sound for the vote.

deise_girl wrote: »

Glad to see one county's posters standing out! :P

No Limerick posters won anything this year.
It was clearly rigged