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Goodbye, and thanks for all the fish.

GinolaGinolaGinola said:
Im lost. Is it the true spurs fan bit, or is it about me?
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Its not the true spurs fan bit...BUT i really cant be sure if it is about you

considering your avatar pic and the sign off (actually i see the irony in 'sign off' and what i am about to show next....) by using GGG, it could very well be about you ....;)

i would re-consider signing off with GGG. i think that is patented ?
 
It brought up a site called girls go games for me.

Never have I been so disappointed on the Internet.
 
That's a pity Mick, I don't post much but I read a lot on here and I like your posts, you sometimes attack the ball but not the man and I like that.
Be great if you could reconsider, but if not, then good luck to you buddy.
 
africanspurs said:
Its not the true spurs fan bit...BUT i really cant be sure if it is about you

considering your avatar pic and the sign off (actually i see the irony in 'sign off' and what i am about to show next....) by using GGG, it could very well be about you ....;)

i would re-consider signing off with GGG. i think that is patented ?
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ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. the GGG bit was highlighted and I get it now!!! :lol:
 
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If you want to stand up for your views, stand up for them. Don't leave in a huff because of some perceived persecution you evidently feel you've received, or because you failed to get the majority of posters to agree with you.
It's a forum for discussing football, for GHod's sake. For discussing the art of making eleven men kick a round white thing into a net faster and more frequently than eleven other men. A passion that consumes us all, admittedly, but still a fairly simple thing when compared to discussing religion or world politics. Does it really require people making grandiose closing statements and departing in a moody, angry funk because they felt slighted?

So, farewell, mick. Sorry about your seeming hatred of people who've never been to the Lane, and of everyone not belonging to a very particular kind of football fanbase, the kind that both live near the ground and can afford to go when they please.
Maybe one day you'll return. If so, welcome back. If not, your place will be taken by someone else. That's the way football discussions work. Toodle-oo, dear boy.
 
mick cooper said:
I have just been released from my latest ban, where I was banned for pointing out to another poster what a knob I was when I was his age. So I was banned for self abuse - which, as far as I can tell would get an awful lot of posters on here banned as well.

Crawley pointed out to me, several bans ago that the board is made up of posters from a different generation to myself, with different values and attitudes and that I will have to adjust. I think its fair to say that if people can't be pleasant to one another, or present their views, without doing so in such a polarised and vitriolic a manner - as so many do on here, then I guess he is right. I am a victim of my own strain of the Marty McFly disease, I can't pass up an insult, or an abusive response - without responding in kind, the problem being that I'm actually quite articulate when I'm being insulting, which even when I direct it at myself, I get into trouble.

So I'm going to quit while I'm still allowed to say goodbye.

I don't want to participate on this board anymore, as I don't like the way that it is being moderated, and that is my problem. The latest crop of moderators don't talk about Spurs or football in a manner that I find acceptable, and to be frank, the brick that was unleashed on this site at our last manager was the most shameful and mindless outpouring of filth and rubbish that I have ever had the misfortune to witness. If nobody wants to put a stop to that manner of expressing your feelings, then I'm happy to be excluded from this club.

There are some fantastic posters on here, and I will miss reading and chatting with them, but there are some mindlessly dreadful ones as well - and it saddens me that the moderators on here, are prepared to tolerate the sewer of rubbish that some of these plastic fans pour into this site. I really am old fashioned, I like my Spurs fans to actually have been to the ground - rather than to gob off about the club, players and management, without ever having a clue of how to get to the ground, let alone have stood or sung their lungs out on the terraces or in the stands...............or drunk the warm tinkley lager served up in plastic bottles! It makes me sad that these crappy people and posters are more acceptable than posters who either really understand their football or the club, or actually have something worthwhile to say, just because they hide behind the playground rules that the board is now ringfenced by.

I can't stand the aggressive flimflam spouted by some of the posters on here, or the keyboard warriors or internet tough guys - but you get them everywhere, so thats not really the issue.

So - a heartfelt thanks to all you good guys, and to the people that I have met, who know the real me, and for all the great entertainment that the majority of you have provided me with over the years. I hope I have managed to provide some of you with some entertainment of my own, or a smile at least on the odd occasion, in return.

And to all of the "merchants" who will simply use this as an opportunity to make one final snipe - take one thought with you, if I tinkled you off in some way that makes you want to do that - then good, because you more than likely deserved it.

Lets hope the club goes on to be everyting that true, genuine and committed Spurs fans deserve it to be.

Sadly, the game of football has been hijacked, and it may never happen without the club selling the soul of all of the Tottenham greats to the devil.

COYS

BR

Mick
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with pleasure

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a lovely final post there, full of snipes.....sums it up really =D>
 
mick cooper said:
I have just been released from my latest ban, where I was banned for pointing out to another poster what a knob I was when I was his age. So I was banned for self abuse - which, as far as I can tell would get an awful lot of posters on here banned as well.

Crawley pointed out to me, several bans ago that the board is made up of posters from a different generation to myself, with different values and attitudes and that I will have to adjust. I think its fair to say that if people can't be pleasant to one another, or present their views, without doing so in such a polarised and vitriolic a manner - as so many do on here, then I guess he is right. I am a victim of my own strain of the Marty McFly disease, I can't pass up an insult, or an abusive response - without responding in kind, the problem being that I'm actually quite articulate when I'm being insulting, which even when I direct it at myself, I get into trouble.

So I'm going to quit while I'm still allowed to say goodbye.

I don't want to participate on this board anymore, as I don't like the way that it is being moderated, and that is my problem. The latest crop of moderators don't talk about Spurs or football in a manner that I find acceptable, and to be frank, the brick that was unleashed on this site at our last manager was the most shameful and mindless outpouring of filth and rubbish that I have ever had the misfortune to witness. If nobody wants to put a stop to that manner of expressing your feelings, then I'm happy to be excluded from this club.

There are some fantastic posters on here, and I will miss reading and chatting with them, but there are some mindlessly dreadful ones as well - and it saddens me that the moderators on here, are prepared to tolerate the sewer of rubbish that some of these plastic fans pour into this site. I really am old fashioned, I like my Spurs fans to actually have been to the ground - rather than to gob off about the club, players and management, without ever having a clue of how to get to the ground, let alone have stood or sung their lungs out on the terraces or in the stands...............or drunk the warm tinkley lager served up in plastic bottles! It makes me sad that these crappy people and posters are more acceptable than posters who either really understand their football or the club, or actually have something worthwhile to say, just because they hide behind the playground rules that the board is now ringfenced by.

I can't stand the aggressive flimflam spouted by some of the posters on here, or the keyboard warriors or internet tough guys - but you get them everywhere, so thats not really the issue.

So - a heartfelt thanks to all you good guys, and to the people that I have met, who know the real me, and for all the great entertainment that the majority of you have provided me with over the years. I hope I have managed to provide some of you with some entertainment of my own, or a smile at least on the odd occasion, in return.

And to all of the "merchants" who will simply use this as an opportunity to make one final snipe - take one thought with you, if I tinkled you off in some way that makes you want to do that - then good, because you more than likely deserved it.

Lets hope the club goes on to be everyting that true, genuine and committed Spurs fans deserve it to be.

Sadly, the game of football has been hijacked, and it may never happen without the club selling the soul of all of the Tottenham greats to the devil.

COYS

BR

Mick
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Being a lurker for a number of years but also remembering standing in the park lane, and standing in the shelf as a young person I understand exactly where you are coming from.
Yes I now live 300 miles from whl but I have seen and experienced more than most of these young ones ever will, they will never ever have the opportunity we had to watch the great and the good we have.
It's a shame I will not be able to lurk reading your insightful comments
Good luck and COYS
 
mick cooper said:
I have just been released from my latest ban, where I was banned for pointing out to another poster what a knob I was when I was his age. So I was banned for self abuse - which, as far as I can tell would get an awful lot of posters on here banned as well*

Crawley pointed out to me, several bans ago that the board is made up of posters from a different generation to myself, with different values and attitudes and that I will have to adjust. I think its fair to say that if people can't be pleasant to one another, or present their views, without doing so in such a polarised and vitriolic a manner - as so many do on here, then I guess he is right. I am a victim of my own strain of the Marty McFly disease, I can't pass up an insult, or an abusive response - without responding in kind, the problem being that I'm actually quite articulate when I'm being insulting, which even when I direct it at myself, I get into trouble
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You gave plenty yourself, fella. You just did it in a more snidey way at times and then got the hump when this was regarded as abuse. Like how you deride the fans in this post who aren't regulars at WHL. They can't just disagree with you, there has to be something wrong with them to disagree. Odd as you were a different poster on alt.sports.spurs but presumably loads on here rubbed you up the wrong way! Some probably understandable, others just disagreed strongly and the toys went flying from the pram.

* That said, if you were banned for that, that is absurd!
 
The Moonlit Knight said:
Can't say I am surprised Mick. I've had my run ins with you over the years, but you're spot on in what you write here. In fact, you've inspired me to not bother with this site anymore either (oh how certain posters will probably be delighted at this double win for them :lol: ) because you've summed up how I feel. Posting on here is not fun anymore unfortunately, or maybe I've just got too old for this brick.

I remember back to the A.S.S. days and there have always been idiots on forums. Wooks, Amadeus and Dan instantly spring to mind as three of the biggest tacos I've ever had the misfortune to have to try and debate (and try is the correct word because it was actually impossible to debate with them due to their lack of intelligence, common sense or both) with but it's funny how I remember the bad ones from A.S.S. because they stand out because they were idiots where the majority of posters were decent. Now on GG, for me it's the other way. The good posters stand out because there are so very few of them.

When I first joined GG, mainly because A.S.S. was dying due to SPAM levels and the death of the Usenet in general, I had a lot of run ins with posters (DanishLineker springs to mind about Hoddle!) but it was always heated debates about the football. The tactics, the merits of players etc. and yes I'll be arrogant on this one and history usually proved me right because the arguments that used to get the most heated were usually when I'd dismiss the latest young darling after a few games stating that he wouldn't become a Spurs legend or feature in a Spurs team as a regular in 5 seasons time etc (Davies, Etherington, Ziegler, Gardner, Routledge were the biggest five of my dismissals!) but I've also been wrong too and don't mind admitting it (Huddlestone I never thought would cut it as a Premiership player, let alone the future England colossus that many predicted and whilst I don't believe he'll ever be top quality he certainly has proven himself to be of high Premiership calibre).

So many posters on here now simply can't admit they're wrong. They act like politicians with their answers, simply spinning and distorting basic facts or obvious points simply to save face or back up some warped illogical agenda they have. The whole Redknapp saga has left me feeling very hollow towards Glory Glory. A similar thing happened when Jol was on his way out too and I ended up leaving for a couple of years.

I won't make that mistake again because quite frankly there are so few posters on here anymore who post interesting posts and like you I do agree that certain moderates are part of a "clique" and if you're part of that gang you can say what you want, goad, abuse etc. and never get called up on it. But if you try and defend yourself or dare to have an opinion that goes against that clique? Then everyone gangs up on that poster and then they all congratulate each other or laugh at each others jokes or "cutting" remarks (which are usually about as cutting as a very blunt spoon) in an effort to make the outcast poster even more small. And the problem is that me and you don't form part of that clique, and rather than just leave the site like most of them that they drive away me and you would actually stand and fight our corner. But I simply can't be arsed to fight that corner anymore, especially when there is less and less of us left to fight it......
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Used to post frequently on the old board but not so much on this one and these are my sentiments exactly.

To be honest Micks right about all the bicjkering on here... I don't visit much now at all, partly because I don't have the time but also because all the bickering on here is unreal and to be honest quite chldish... and that's coming from a bloody 18 year old!

And everything that went on will people abusing Redknapp was laughable conisdering everything he'd done. Think some have short minds and where all the nast snobbery has come from I have no idea. Tbh I think we've gone from having the best support in the country to being influxed with some of the worst fans I could think off, even worse than Arsenals and not to far of Chelseas!
 
Craig_J said:
Used to post frequently on the old board but not so much on this one and these are my sentiments exactly.

To be honest Micks right about all the bicjkering on here... I don't visit much now at all, partly because I don't have the time but also because all the bickering on here is unreal and to be honest quite chldish... and that's coming from a bloody 18 year old!

And everything that went on will people abusing Redknapp was laughable conisdering everything he'd done. Think some have short minds and where all the nast snobbery has come from I have no idea. Tbh I think we've gone from having the best support in the country to being influxed with some of the worst fans I could think off, even worse than Arsenals and not to far of Chelseas!
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Tbf, it's quite easy to ignore bickering (or is that sometimes honest debate?) by not posting replies or entering those threads where it's happening, or indeed take a thread back 'on topic.'

And actually Mick was often bickering himself
 
glorygloryeze said:
Tbf, it's quite easy to ignore bickering (or is that sometimes honest debate?) by not posting replies or entering those threads where it's happening, or indeed take a thread back 'on topic.'

And actually Mick was often bickering himself
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I wouldn't know whether Mick or was, I haven't posted regularly in ages... And yes soemtimes it is honest debate and that's fine but recently it' only ever been bickering I've ever seen when I've had a look. But not postign replies or entering threads is what I've been doing. That's why I'm hardly ever on the forum, because it's everywhere! And trying to get a thread back on topic doesn't always work, you still get a few who'll gladly join in and run it on for a good few pages.

The easiest way to afford it is to respect people's opinions and argue your case but some seem unable to grasp that yet...
 
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