There are a lot I haven't seen about in the last month. And a lot of the others just seem to make sporadic appearances.

When the new forum was launched it was immediately obvious that quizzing would have to go on hold for a few days, especially the Leagues. I don't suppose any of us envisaged that over four weeks later the forum would still be unusable for quizzes.

Not much we can do about it really. Momentum has now been completely lost. Mr Nibbs' chat room is a great interim alternative for multi-player quizzes but probably not much use to us for the leagues.

In the meantime, all we can do is hope that Betfair sort out all the remaining issues with all the different browsers and hope that players will reappear when we're ready to restart - if that day ever comes!

Several reasons, none of which are very important really in the great scheme of things.

We would need at least 3 different chat rooms set up so as not to interfere with any multi-player quizzes and because there are often matches from each Division going on at the same time.

So there would be at least 3 different addresses for everyone to navigate to watch individual matches, which a lot of spectators do. It’s very easy to switch from one match to another on the Forum, but it would require several different windows open to view the chat rooms. Not only that, but if a spectator arrives late, he can’t see what’s gone before.

There’s also the problem of archiving. I very often have a look at the previous evening’s matches the following morning, as I know a lot of others do. There are very often ongoing conversations on match threads, especially if El Dragon’s been playing.

There have also been numerous occasions when one of us has wanted/needed to find an old thread in the archives, for any number of reasons.

So if we used chat rooms, the only way to archive stuff would be for the ref or one of the players to remember to copy and paste the whole thing to a Forum thread when the match is over. A bit of a pain. And we do need league matches to be transparent; available for anyone to look at after the event.

Finally, the leagues are an interactive Betfair forum activity, and as such, that’s where they should take place. Holding them elsewhere defeats the object of them to a certain extent.

These are just my own views by the way. Others may see it differently.

Like I said, none of those are particularly important.

We're half-way throughthe current season. Obviously if players want to finish the season by using a chat room instead of the forum, then it can be done. We just won't have a permanent record of it, or many spectators.

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