This is sheer speculation, but I find, talking to younger football fans, that many of them havent watched a full match in ages... Many gorge on mini matches and 3 min highlight packages or even as small as tiktok 30 second "clips" I was having age old, eternal "old man yelling at clouds" debate with a young cousin about old vs new players.

Apparently, according to this 17 year old Arsenal fan, Haaverts and Saka are miles ahead of Henry in every conceivable metric??? 3 hours later and 2 full replays of matches the comment was..... "the highlights only show the good bits". hahahahahahahahahahah

I reckon there's a direct correlation between forums declining and the rise of Facebook.

bump past dodgy Thai betting arseholes

I click on "Report".   I feel like I'm helping.    :P     

Thai spam notwithstanding...

The forum is still working.

I'd put my hand up, but I'm not sure there is anyone here with the power to add mods. 

Maybe I should have posted in Thai more ... perhaps some of my posts would have survived :P


Jokes....... 

I think this forum would be fine with a bit more mod coverage. Modding is volunteer work and you can't expect Bowden to do it all. It just needs a regular who's happy to delete spam threads. 

Total respect for your effort Bowden.

Agree.

Might be worth pinning the new forum for people to see 

The only tools I have are all manual. Even with the spam posts I can only delete them one-by-one. 

I know of forums with this functionality. It's a very quick clean up. Everthing just disappears. But because it's such a nuclear option it's usually an admin permission, rather than regular mod (which usually takes time to escalate and action). My understanding is the admin went awol and no-one has replaced them.  

When we see blocked accounts their posts are gone too as far as I recall. I suspect that had to be done manually one by one maybe - surely it would not be hard to remove all trace of a bad user in a database sense...Delete all Where username or thread starter = <name>... sort of thing.

From a forum owners perspective linking that to the banned function would be a simple coding step.

Just putting ideas up if the owners are reading this.

Wonder if it is possoble to autodelete any post with thai characters

Hey Bowden - do you have the authority to delete those Thai betting users? Assuming you do, can you also automatically delete anything they post?

It would make sense for a forum to be able to simply get rid of a spam user and remove any reference they posted easier than it was for them to post it in the first place.

Just thinking...

Speaking of the forum, I've been around football forums for around 20 years now. The decline in discussions has been massive. I've seen a few big ones close down, such as SoccerPulse. I wonder if Twitter has made it worse. 

Bump past spam! Worst I've seen it. 

Muz any news on whether ol' mate can help knight some new mods to help Bowden clean the spam up?

You know it's bad when Google Chromes auto language translator picked this up as a website published in Thai

I think this one:
https://www.reddit.com/r/442Australia/

Just Google a league reddit 

Where is it?

Got the Reddit link?

There is a reddit room which we have as a back up. Book it and if the lights go out we go there to point people to a new site

Since the posts on the FTBL home page seem to have dried up is this a sign of the site on it's last legs? 

As a newbie to the forum I'd be devastated if it just disappeared and I didn't know where everyone up and left to. Should there be a succession plan?

Nah, Im only a relative newby posting here and cant change my prfile image for some reason.... If someone can help that would be great :)

I saw the pic and thought it was Mono spreading the NST love, but alas he must have a generic picture (I always thought the blue and white was a South Melbourne thing)

Was there any update on this? 

Noticed the thai spam is back 

Ture when 442 owned it twas only Football.

Sadly our media companies are so locked into their own sports Football coverage is very poor.

Another reason this site is so important 

Yeah agree. Half the front page I don't care about because they're non-Aus football articles.