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Mr Prodston:AMA

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  • #52
    Mr.Prodston
    Registered Users Posts: 16,305 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Prodston


    Green&Red wrote: »
    What other forums do you read/post in on boards?

    Television - My other initial love of boards was a thread I started on the quiz show Pointless, back in my student days. It's still going but I haven't been involved with a couple of years now.

    Depending on what tv shows I'm watching I'll follow, and I post a bit when Game of Thrones is on.

    Golf - The majors, and Paddy H are really all I really follow now

    Soccer - Not really anymore though, and never really took to the place. Scan through the Man Utd megathread for news, which an exercise in futility most of the time :pac:

    After Hours - Early on I participated, but it's years since I've read or posted

    Weather - When the big events roll around it's quite interesting, and sometimes useful when I'm commuting quite a bit

    I'm posting an awful lot less in general though, I've even noticed it myself in the past 6 months.

    The FSA is by far my bread and butter. Always was, and always will be!
    What’s ur top three Christmas songs?

    Well it has to be December before any Christmas songs are played. Preferably from the 8th onwards.

    1. White Christmas
    2. Christmas Time (Don't let the Bells End) - The Darkness - Okay this is probably my differential Prodston punt :pac:
    3. Driving Home For Christmas - From the 20thish onwards. Especially Christmas Eve, for obvious reasons.


  • #53
    Swiper the fox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,747 ✭✭✭Swiper the fox


    Mr.Prodston wrote: »
    Love and miss you too foxy :) Nice to see you around!

    The ARB was the most fun over a few months in here!

    Thanks old pal, I still pop in regularly enough for a little read but post rarely as you’ll have seen, 4 kids now and a job that makes daytime internetting impossible, this forum is so popular now that it makes dipping into a thread difficult, maybe it was always so but I was so buried in each of the threads I didn’t realise.
    Great times indeed, always great lads here,


  • #54
    Mr.Prodston
    Registered Users Posts: 16,305 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Prodston


    Swiper the fox wrote: »
    Thanks old pal, I still pop in regularly enough for a little read but post rarely as you’ll have seen, 4 kids now and a job that makes daytime internetting impossible, this forum is so popular now that it makes dipping into a thread difficult, maybe it was always so but I was so buried in each of the threads I didn’t realise.
    Great times indeed, always great lads here,

    Yeah, I mean, I haven't been posting all that much recently either, and I only have the job part to worry about :pac:

    Glad to hear all is going well though! The FSA has always been great for these sorts of things too, some of the best boardies are here!


  • #55
    Iused2likebusts
    Registered Users Posts: 17,022 ✭✭✭✭Iused2likebusts


    Swiper the fox wrote: »
    Thanks old pal, I still pop in regularly enough for a little read but post rarely as you’ll have seen, 4 kids now and a job that makes daytime internetting impossible, this forum is so popular now that it makes dipping into a thread difficult, maybe it was always so but I was so buried in each of the threads I didn’t realise.
    Great times indeed, always great lads here,

    Good man swiper. Four kids your a brave man.


  • #56
    km79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48,254 ✭✭✭✭km79


    Iused2likebusts wrote: »
    Good man swiper. Four kids your a brave man.



  • #57
    Green&Red
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,432 ✭✭✭✭Green&Red


    What’s the ARB?


  • #58
    km79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48,254 ✭✭✭✭km79


    Green&Red wrote: »
    What’s the ARB?

    Anti Ramsey Brigade


  • #59
    jimmii
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,810 ✭✭✭✭jimmii


    I remember the shame in finally bringing him in. That season was like a glitch in the matrix.


  • #60
    Panthro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,824 ✭✭✭✭Panthro


    Was there a gateway drug or did you just go full blown fantasy football?!


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  • #61
    Mr.Prodston
    Registered Users Posts: 16,305 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Prodston


    Panthro wrote: »
    Was there a gateway drug or did you just go full blown fantasy football?!

    I remember that the Sunday Times used to do one back around 2000, and I begged my parents to let me enter. I think it cost like 15 quid and the transfers were through the post, I think?

    If I remember, I think I had Robbie Keane and Sergey Rebrov up front, and Luke Chadwick in midfield because he was a cheap United player so he had to be a good option, right? :pac:

    Think I made one transfer and gave up....

    Then there was championship/football manager for a while and PES/Fifa. I guess all of those were the gateway into a full blown addiction!


  • #62
    The wonderfish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 641 ✭✭✭The wonderfish


    Mr.Prodston wrote: »
    I remember that the Sunday Times used to do one back around 2000, and I begged my parents to let me enter. I think it cost like 15 quid and the transfers were through the post, I think?

    If I remember, I think I had Robbie Keane and Sergey Rebrov up front, and Luke Chadwick in midfield because he was a cheap United player so he had to be a good option, right? :pac:

    Think I made one transfer and gave up....

    Then there was championship/football manager for a while and PES/Fifa. I guess all of those were the gateway into a full blown addiction!
    IIRC some of the early Fantasy Football Games were run by the newspapers and every player had a 3 or 4 digit code and you select your players, dial a premium number and enter the codes on the keypad to enter your team....what a painful process!!....

    To make your transfers you had to dial a premium number aswell....needless to say with the cost of the calls there wasnt to many transfers made :)


  • #63
    Seaba
    Registered Users Posts: 448 ✭✭Seaba


    The wonderfish wrote: »
    IIRC some of the early Fantasy Football Games were run by the newspapers and every player had a 3 or 4 digit code and you select your players, dial a premium number and enter the codes on the keypad to enter your team....what a painful process!!....

    To make your transfers you had to dial a premium number aswell....needless to say with the cost of the calls there wasnt to many transfers made :)


    I used to do this!
    We had no phone at home so I used to save up my coins, cycle up to town, and punch in the numbers for an age in the phone booth (used to get some dirty looks off the people queuing outside).

    The People paper used to have a competition. Overall prize at the end etc but £1,000 for the highest score each week. They gave ratings for each player, then you got additional points for a goal, clean sheet etc.

    I will never forget the first game week of the new season my team did brilliantly. I had Tony Dorigo for Leeds (the original Alonso/Robertson) and a bunch more I forget. I could not wait for the paper on Sunday as I knew I got a serious score. Went to Mass with parents Sunday morning, straight to the shop after for the paper, added the scores up for my players, got a massive score, so went to look for the winner for that week. Couldn't find it anywhere in the paper. Didn't know what was going on. Then I saw in small print that the prizemoney only started in September for some reason. I was sickened.

    What made it worse - for the rest of the season, I only saw 2 weekly scores that were better than mine!

    Edit: I just checked to see Tony Dorigos stats. He only scored 5 goals in 168 games for Leeds. Very surprised by that.


  • #64
    Green&Red
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,432 ✭✭✭✭Green&Red


    I remember doing one on Echo Island (I think) maybe 94, 95 or 96, I was definitely in secondary school. Can’t remember how you entered or anything about the scoring but I do remember they would give the top five every week and then have like a quick scroll so you’d have to record that and then use the pause button to slowly scroll through the full list. I finished around 10th, delighted with myself


  • #65
    Lemlin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,251 ✭✭✭✭Lemlin


    The wonderfish wrote: »
    IIRC some of the early Fantasy Football Games were run by the newspapers and every player had a 3 or 4 digit code and you select your players, dial a premium number and enter the codes on the keypad to enter your team....what a painful process!!....

    To make your transfers you had to dial a premium number aswell....needless to say with the cost of the calls there wasnt to many transfers made :)

    The Irish Independent used to run one like this. I remember running up a £5 bill on my granny’s phone because it was touch tone for the call to enter my team! Each player had their own unique code you had to enter.


  • #66
    Rikand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,421 ✭✭✭✭Rikand


    i did the Daily Mirror one myself for a few years and like everyone else. I more or less only did the initial entry because who's gonna spend the money to be making transfers, lol


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  • #67
    Mr.Prodston
    Registered Users Posts: 16,305 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Prodston


    I guess this rollercoaster of an AMA has nearly come to an end. If anyone has any more questions then now would be a good time to ask?

    I'll pick someone else from the list later on and set up that thread.

    It's been fun folks, and hopefully you've all got a little more Mr.P in your hearts now :)


  • #68
    Mr.Prodston
    Registered Users Posts: 16,305 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Prodston


    Okay, I guess that tumbleweed means that all good things do indeed come to and end. Please welcome your next victim......jimmii

    Thread can be found here: https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057938332


  • #69
    jimmii
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,810 ✭✭✭✭jimmii


    :eek:

    Will jump in tomorrow morning!


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