Second Captains

Jim Root wrote: »

Personally, I thought he sounded a bit “up himself” & pretentious, but each his own I suppose.

As you say, each to his own- I couldn't have come away with more of a different opinion of him!

Arghus wrote: »

It's a bit mad. Thankfully this thread has stayed - largely - sane, but the OTB thread is a microcosom of how boards seems to be drifting as of late.

There's a lot of really angry posters filling up forums and the subjects and standard of debate can make for pretty grim reading at times. I tend to come away from boards these days feeling a bit depressed and I increasingly wonder if it's worth it. There is so much outraged drivel clogging the place up.

All off topic, of course.

I agree with you. There are only a limited number of thread I actually visit on boards now. I would never have paid much attention to politics or current affairs thread, but would click on any that piqued my interest occasionally. Nowadays I don't bother as I know I'll just end up feeling annoyed. I honestly wouldn't be enough of a regular to comment on whether boards has always been like that, but to me it seems that in the past year or so there was an infiltration of these type of people, and it has actually brought out the worst in posters who may otherwise have withheld their twisted opinions.

Anyway, we're going way off topic, although I sense the podcast yesterday may have been a good listen to try understand some of the behavior ( I haven't listened yet)

I'm a member since 2008 though I was a regular visitor prior to that as well. I haven't really contributed a huge amount outside of the specialist forums or specific threads like here. Unfortunately I'd agree with Arghus, the place has become overrun with alt-right, shinner bots and a plethora of other trolling posters. You can generally avoid that by sticking to the specialist forums and threads like this but there has been the occasional poster on this thread who has tried (unsuccessfully i might add which is a credit to the rest of posters) to stoke up some of that alt-right nonsense. Generally coincided with one of Kens politics podcasts.

After Hours and Current affairs have become complete cesspits and I avoid them usually though I do like to read up on the latest shinner outrage or if theres something topical I'll have a read. I find that once a thread is open for over 10+ pages it descends into the same few posters arguing over and over. I noticed recently that the same 10 or less posters are currently having pretty much the same arguement in the "FF/FG/GP government thread" and the "has SF vanished thread". I don't think there is a solution to it really and its shame as AH used to be compulsive reading for me when I was in college.

I find r/ireland is good but theres a significant number of similar posters over there too but the downvotes often takes care of them.

I used to play in the PES league Cienciano, that was a good friendly community so glad to see you are keeping it going even if its outside of boards. I suspect that is what will eventually happen with most of the smaller communities.

Ken was struggling to keep up with your man at times yesterday.

Not that I wasn't either of course.

I burst out laughing at Ken's description and likeness to a Simpsons character of an angry Klopp yesterday

ongarite wrote: »

Ken really has his vigour back now that he has ample ammunition from Frank Lampard's Times newspaper puff piece.

I can't believe you've said the 'F' word.

Say Your Number wrote: »

I do agree with Ken anytime you see someone parrot those stupid American buzzwords, you know you're not in the presence of an intellectual heavyweight.

Normally I wouldn't agree with anything Ken Early has to about..... But I agree on this one.

'Mikel Arteta turns up at the post-match press conference wearing a tie made out of a fox's tail'

is ken off the fags again i wonder..

A dark day for Frank. It’s crazy that things like this can happen.

ongarite wrote: »

If Jose loses today, then Ken will be in his element tomorrow.

Frank smashed !
Jose masterclass !!
Luiz humiliated !!!
I wouldn’t be surprised if Ken is absent tomorrow.

Prediction: Richie Sadler doing the football show tomorrow.

Ol' Donie wrote: »

There was no Jose masterclass today.

He crossed his fingers amd hoped Arsenal did an Arsenal, which of course they did.

Jose was like a relentless bloodhound today. It was foolish for so many to write him off.

siblers wrote: »

Apart from the tribute to Jack, today's episode was very boring

I don't think they needed to spend that much time on City

Agree. Especially not with the bluffer Delaney being one of the guys they chose to discuss it with.

MercuryBoy wrote: »

+1

I also found it odd that in addition to UEFA not knowing their own rules, it seems no journalist has read them either..surely some journalist could have spotted the "5 year time bar" rule before all of this went to appeal ?

Isn't it really, really weird that nobody anywhere noticed this?

Nobody in Uefa, none of their lawyers, no journos anywhere?

FFP rules aren't even that old, surely whoever wrote it was paying even a tiny bit of attention to it's most high profile use ever?

Ol' Donie wrote: »

https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2020/jul/14/david-squires-on-the-life-and-times-of-jack-charlton

I don't recall ever being moved to tears by a cartoon before

gave me goosebumps that.