Are there any mods around? Anyone we can contact? Is it only Bowden left? If so can another mod be appointed to help tidy up the place.

It's a fucking brothel at the moment.

I think it’s just me left cause every day I’m deleting like 20+ spam threads. Trying to stay on top of them as best I can. 

i was in the ccm forum trying to track down nisbet rumours and saw joyful penguin is still active

wonder if we can bring him back here?

What so he can delete mundane threads and edit other people's stuff with vague 'it's a legal issue' bullshit?

Can you appoint someone else Bowds? (This is not an application on my behalf.)

I happily would but I don’t have those powers. Only KA can appoint mods but he’s left FTBL and no one else has appeared to introduce themselves as his replacement. 

I fear that this forum has become abandoned unfortunately. 

Yeah I get the feeling that eventually it'll be run over by spambots and that'll be the end of it.

Anyone here know how to contact the possible owner of the site?

Just shot a note to this mob.  enquiries@nextmedia.com.au

Who are linked from the insidesport.com.au site under 'contact us'.

See what happens I suppose.

I am Spartacus :)

If you bail Bowden is there any chance you can give someone your login details or does it work differently?

Can we get a plan b where everyone will venture to in case ?
I hate to miss a number or most regulars here 

Yeah that's what I'm thinking too. 

register a forum called 433? :D

If there's no overlord.....

post all your links to streams 

Not Reddit at least but that discussion has been had on here. 

a league reddit lacks osaussie knowledge, npl and nst supporters

there is a lot of gold there on a league info but it is a different crowd

Not planning to bail but sure thing. 

Yeah I get eye cancer (German idiom) when reading about AA on there. It's not like everyone needs to care or want to know but the amount of inaccurate information isn't enjoyable.

I hear you. This forum is unique for youth team coverage, osaussie coverage, historical nsl knowledge and nst coverage

Bang on. I feel like there's not many a league fans on here but the npl, AA and national team match threads are great.

Perhaps a plan B can be to make a different sub forum on reddit? I think forums are all disappearing and that's probably the future 

Yeah a sub forum on reddit isnt a bad idea. Would have to chose mods. Apart from bowden would need someone who never gets into fights, gets perosnal and posts regularly. Johnsazs and chrondo are the only ones in that category i know? Maybe others. Barca? Melcity guy?


Wonder why so few a league fans have stayed. Its a shame it is hard to get all football fans together in one place

Most forums move to facebook... but we'd have to use our REAL NAMES!!

I hope this place doesn't disappear I just found it. So many good posters with interesting content.

I used to post on BigSoccer years ago, left for many years, and last time I looked it was dead but still operating. If this place ever keels over that would be a ready to go alternative on a similar platform. 

Pretty sure the GGArmy used to have a forum but I can't find it anymore.

I liked FVS as a Victory supporter although it was pretty loose (part of the charm). But they closed the forum to focus on their podcast and shifted it all to a discord. You have to subscribe to the podcast to get access to the discord. They'd sufferred a really serious hack too I understand which killed the forum at one point before it came back. 

I feel like message boards are dieing off in favour of other digital platforms (reddit, discord, FB etc.) but I like the format better on sites like this. 

I wonder what it costs/takes to run a forum using a popular forum software like XenForo which has pretty good functionality. 

So it costs $60/month for a XenForo starter pack for anyone keen to start a new forum haha: 
https://xenforo.com/purchase/

A lot of forums have ads so that might be revenue to offset the cost? No idea how it works tbh. 

60 a month? Ouch! How much would ads get u? 

I have no idea but I think that's how you'd need to fund it. I imagine it would be based on views. It'd be hard to build-up. 

I've made contact with ftbl.com.au. I got an email at about 10 to 5 tonight. I'll send him a note in the morning to ask what could be done.

good luck

This place is a treasure trove of historical knowledge, I hope it's backed up somewhere. Would be a massive loss.

Yeah I prefer forums to Reddit. I don't like how topics are dead after a day or two on Reddit.

Also everyone has weird names on reddit so hard to get to know posters

Id love a backup of football anarchy. Very different type of treasure trove of historical data, but you could make a fun documentary out of that forum

Thx for following up muz