Sb7jon was an admin wasn't he. Dunney too. Can't remember past them.Not going to name names, but this individual took some personal insults too seriously and let it impact the way he administered the board.
Those of us with thicker skins were alright though.
Sb7jon was an admin wasn't he. Dunney too. Can't remember past them.
They were on the wrong board if bothered about personal insults!Not going to name names, but this individual took some personal insults too seriously and let it impact the way he administered the board.
Those of us with thicker skins were alright though.
Yes, one day I Intend to introduce my alter ego to myself.Absolutely!
It was definitely dog eat dog on GMK.
Its weird because I've met a few GMKers over the years, and most of them are very reasonable, respectable people. i.e. nothing like you'd imagine!
as much as GMK was a great laugh it may have been a different animal if the club was in the state it is now, (not that it was in a great state 15 years ago!)
Hmm I dunno. At the time, the Robinson/McGinnity reigns seemed every bit as awful as now. Endless arguments with Rob87 and co... just they were interspersed with the chaos. Worked best when it was all on one board so you'd have a desperately serious political thread, a football thread, and some random shite from fred_scuttle!
(As an aside, I remember the genuine feeling of despair when I bought a new version of football manager and on the board page it said 'Geoffrey Robinson will never leave the club he loves')
And of course Nev did get sued by McGinnity, even though they backed out in the end...
Let's just hope in a decade's time we're not looking back to SISU's reign and seeing it as the good times, eh!!
I played centre midfield with Harrogate against the Hull rivals team. Can confirm his drink problem, never had to run so much in my life!!Every moment on GMK was a classic
Manbat being threatened daily was a great source of pleasure
rob87 was a sick genius
Harrogate had a drink problem
He was a good lad, Hinckley. Really decent for a rival. We adopted him (that's GMK I mean, not me and my missus).I was also on GMK and Last just getting my colours - Hackney baiting was a good sport - but he maybe had the last laugh for a bit !
I think that's an excellent summary Travs and most of the balanced opinion on here now is from ex-GMKers. I do miss it, whiled away hours at work on it. I think part of the problem is that the politics has been so prominent for so long now that a) many people have lost interest in the team, nevermind contributing daily to a forum about it and b) those that are left are so entrenched after X amount of SISU years that all the fun is sapped out of people. You just don't get threads like we used to over there and I think there's about 3 posters that make me laugh out loud. If it was up to me I'd merge at least the off topic forum back into the main CCFC one, it doesn't feel like enough people go there to see the threads and so things never reach those truly bonkers levels.Fantastic website. Sorry to say so on this forum, but it was far far superior, in the peak rivals days I lost weeks on end at work, laughing my head off.
Sadly became renowned (somewhat unjustly) as a haven of "sisu apologists" which I think killed it off in a bigger way than any admin issues etc. I think people over there were just more inclined to look at thinks with a balanced view, rather than just black or white.
I always thought that the people on GMK were a bit more balanced and had a life outside of ccfc, and by the personal nature of a lot of the threads, that was justified. I always get the impression on here that there are a lot of people who seem to have nothing other than arguing about sisu/wasps/attendances/baker... I spent a good proportion of a season standing in close contact with a lot of the gmk stalwarts at Sixfields (for my sins) and that backed up my feelings that behind the abuse and discussions about crisps, it was a friendly site populated by an unfortunately decreasing number of great city fans...
See I liked the multiple IDs, meant you were never quite sure if it was someone just arguing with themselves!I think the main problem for me on GMK was that posters had multiple identities on there and they could either gang up on you or just keep agreeing with themselves through multiple personalities.
It was great at one point but then got rather nasty and spiteful, very, very clique ridden and incredibly patronising for anyone who wasn't quite the intelligentsia. The admins got all kinds of shit.
I just walked away calmly into the night. Didn't have a melt, didn't announce my departure, just stopped posting.
Shame, it was great at one point.
Well, yeah, but there were always multiple personalities. Used to work fine. That wasn't the problem when it used to be used for some very funny threads, the problem though was when people suddenly started using the multiple personalities for ill use and spiteful, patronising means.See I liked the multiple IDs, meant you were never quite sure if it was someone just arguing with themselves!
Stopped it all getting too serious, reminded you it's just an online world with ridiculous pseudonyms.
Can't remember. It was revealed at some point, but I can't recall.
Alan was funny, as were many of the multiple personalities.
Genuinely don't get how people have the time to/cba posting under numerous logins!
Yeah, true. Think I did it once and that was only for about 5 posts. I was Fibre Optic Jesus. Some did it religiously though. Seemed like an awful lot of hassle to keep switching accounts.
Yeah, but I only found God for about five posts.surely if you had jesus in your multis user name then you also did it religiously?!
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