As above. Its a little distracting and pointless. Im sure im not the only one who tried to click on one as it went past.

We get it..... its a football forum!

(havent really had anything else to whinge about today):roll:

I haven't noticed any bouncing footballs... :-s

...oh wait, I just noticed them straight after I made my previous post :lol:

...are advertising football on a football forum... duhh!?!?

Why is it that people only ever seem to comment on whatever is in the advertising slot at the top of the page??
The carlsberg add, the rugby add, this...
It is incredibly annoying having that constant movement on the screen though.

No, not really. What was annoying was the ad at the top right hand corner that folded down everytime your cursor moved over it.

](*,)

I don't even notice the ads since they are right at the top of the screen. I must just subconsciously just scroll the page down a bit to hide them or something..

probably you just scroll down instinctively to skip over all the crap so you don't see it so much.

After finding that bouncing football so annoying, I wrote this to 'advertising@fourfourtwo.net.au'
If you also find it annoying I advise you do the same:

"Hi,
I don’t mind advertisements – you need to make your money – advertisements are the most obvious way of doing this.

However, I regularly visit au.fourfourtwo.com and with every article I open I am faced with an advertisement – with nothing in it apart from an animated football which enters from the left, bounces around the ‘screen’ of the advertisement, then replays/loops – over and over again. It isn’t actually advertising anything. It’s just a ball bouncing with a backdrop of a ball. I consider this to be in the same category as the mosquito that kept me awake last night by flying around my ears.

This is possibly the most annoying thing I have ever had to deal with when I am trying to read an article. Can you please make it stop or change it?"

the most annoyoing ads are the skin cancer and ice cream ones when you first get on. skin cancer and ice cream?

Did it at any point occur to you to swat said mosquito?...atleast that you can fix.

[size=9]VICTORY!!!!!!!!!!!![/size]

If you watch it for long enough it does move, it kind of goes fuzzy and changes to the boot.

You are talking about the puma boot, aren't you?

Erebus is right, it's easier if you just dont' look at the ad.

What are you on about. I was screaming victory cause the balls have gone.......](*,)

Yeah, and FFT have gone and replced it with ads that also move. These include the new puma boot and their magazine. Which means you have won a battle but not the war. Moving ads are still on.

I believe its a nike boot.

No... it's Puma.

No... They are nike vapor IV, worn by cristiano ronaldo, the adds say something about the "armoury" or something.

There you go:
http://www.nike.com.au/thearmoury/

NIKE!

There are puma sponsored links around the website so you are excused.

Well I've got no idea what you are all on about now, coz all I've got is a nice blank space where the adds used to be :D

Could you turn your add-ons off or something?

Sometimes anti-spyware software like Norton block banner ads.

i am trying to see some nike football boots or a soccer ball. i cant see on. but i can see the the ad for he magazine. which is in the top right corner. so i am wondering why you have to advertise it when you can clearly see it in the top right corner!!
i am now getting to over corncerned in this

Thats called herpes chelsearbetta so z

You're a bunch of f***ing whingers.

im not whinging, i cant even see the balls, if a little bit of movement on the screen pisses you off youve got anger managment problems.

The balls are long gone. Thanks to my tireless campaign (1 post), the "Man" decided to take them down and avoid my wrath.

my antispyware is turned off when I connect to the internet coz otherwise I cant' sign in to MSN.

Wrath eh?? what were you planning on doing? Sneezing at him?

Fart in their general direction...... in a French accent

I thought i was the only one that could do that. 8-[ Lets do a duet.

And with that (and the fact that the "issue/problem" no longer occurs)....

Locked.