Missing Forumites.

which one ?

Is do wah Diddy on twitter then?

Slippy Blue. (Palace fan)

Anyone remember teabaghead ? I thought he was really quite funny

no slippy blue

hardly any one left probably easier to see who is still here reather than who has gone

Fell over skiing but returned safe and sound dressed as a Brazilian

Teabaghead use to be on the racing forum?

A lot just probably given up with the forum, the dragon

yes ss and bf policy on new members hasnt helped  real shame because back in the day it was really good

#HOLD

still here

Brass is still here,
betfair sort the daily total goals out.i will help ,6+5+1+2+0=14

Hope yer new shoes are comfortable Brass.

Most celtic fans gone missing. Not sure why.

betfair a big company like you  should have should have a 30 ball abacus.it would speed up the staff counting the total daily goals

still counting my £1000 in pocket on Christmas Day

Anyone remember Nobby Clarke, Bbc1 and lucky lucas

Biscuit is another one.

Slippy was on Facebook over the weekend

What is his handle on facebook, he was a very good Forumite, he made some very good contributions. I think he was a palace fan but could be mistaken.

yes eagles fan, we had a few palace v liverpool bets going on over the years. great guy

Sparrow seems to be missing, hope he is ok, one of the good guys.

I'm back in the fold gentlemen,it's very humbling that people remember me!

Crisp ,the wittiest of all has disappeared ,and bigmo ,who did the jokes thread ? What happened to them ?

They were mainly on Chit Chat and that is gone.

tobe

Why have they stopped the Chit Chat room any idea?

Apparently because it was causing to much hassle for the moderators due to political threads that people were reporting each other on.

Ok thanks

In its pomp,chit was a very entertaining and enjoyable part of the forum. Its a great shame the nutcases got it frozen in the end.

the virus and related conspiracy theories brought out a lot of the worst, not to mention 5g

Sparrow was in his 70's, possible he's snuffed it.

think he just got fed up with the negativity towards moyes on fatty's west ham thread

Those conspiracy threads were great fun to read. With the right OP you just knew they would ignite. Never eaten so much popcorn in my life.

Called people having different opinions
On the club they love
Sparrow seemed not too happy if people didn’t agree with him
Just gone like that
I said hope he’s well ok stop posting on dogs too

Sparrow does have a tendency to bite (or should that be peck) occasionally, but he's always come across as an ok guy and I do hope he is ok. Probably taking a breather from it all.

May 14, 2021 -- 7:34PM, scandanavian_haven wrote:

Sparrow was in his 70's, possible he's snuffed it.

a charming thought....

Sparrow's a good guy. Hope he's ok.

Scanda on the other hand. Maybe not such a good guy.

The knockout quizzes on chit chat were absolutely brilliant back in the day.A few others who are on the missing list and that were part and parcel of the place were Big Charlie,pumphol,Dobson (and his owl),Jimmy 69, the very funny Clarky, guinness and the enigma that was gamble.

Do wah Diddy was the funniest and most iconic poster..really hope he is alive and well.

Oh...and frasier was hugely amusing.

CCM and Pete the Butcher 2 notable on the footy forum

think pete the buthcer is louis macari

re, sparrow, have a look on horse racing thread  " talking pics "

I used to like Union Jack....

I remember Dyno-punter and lori...

Glengarry and United Biscuits....

Delta was a good 'un. Haven't seen him for a while....

I don't think he is dragon

Very pleased to see Slippy back, and if anyone knows his whereabouts give my best regards to DO WAH DIDDY. Truly a man for ALL seasons.

most of these are chit chatters rather than football forum posters

May 15, 2021 -- 6:04PM, elisjohn wrote:

re, sparrow, have a look on horse racing thread

He hasn't posted there for a couple of months

I think clacher holiday was a Forumite, used to do late night footie, a big player iirc.

^I told you that on the Leicester City fans thread

scandanavian_haven, Giuseppe, anxious, clacherholiday, mega89, prepared87, ffaith, wisewords. Where are you lads?  Drop in here and say hello one of these days.

Giuseppe was banned sadly, the politics forum did for him

Anxious im sure ive seen him about elsewhere

Minos and wolf still missing be nice to see them return, both been gone since about January as well

Giuseppe was an ok guy. And that's why I mostly avoid talking politics here.   Yeah, Wolf too. Hope they all show up again sometime soon.

What can you tell us about this Spence guy who's linked with Spurs, Sont?

Biscuit 79 was another frequent poster back in the day.

Bergkamp93, Kal84, the bhoys (and his love of millie clode), viva el presidente!,

the one and only bob vegas

one of the funniest days in here was when someone opened an account calling dawsy a bender and he blew up
i remember the day we could all change usernames too, someone changed their name to betfair community manager 2 and started replying to threads, with a monkey as the profile pic lol.

What was your old name jpser

I couldnt possibly say
I used to post a lot of pictures

is that you chaser? you mug

No mate. I doubt anyone would remember me anyway apart from a select few.
Do you remember when Vegas got booted for good and he kept posting on captain scarlets blog to pass on messages? Loads of people were posting on there from here laughing at him and calling him a bellend lol

Angoose, he was a decent bloke.

Bigmo

theres 553 names on this list of old football forumites. going to be loads of posters not around anymore
https://community.betfair.com/football/go/thread/view/94070/29216631/people-on-this-forum-to-take-notice-of?post_id=521524021#521524021#flvWelcomeHeader

Think anxious was banned...jamesdean been awol for a while now

anxious lost it from time to time but I never saw anything that merited a lifetime ban. Good poster and funny with it.
The Chaser was one of the best ever on here. Started some great threads. One was looking for a driver and car so he could deliver catalogues.
TheMightyMac another big loss to the forum as was Giuseppe.

Forums were so much better before the killer report button was added, thhe good old days of the internet before the kill joys and idiots looking to be offended took over

Sofa. Cracking full back he transformed us when brought in and utilised properly by Cooper, Im sure Conte will coach him on as well although he be slowly phased in in at Spurs? It would have been nice to get him but once Spurs came in we had no chance, its not even the money in regards to this one he wants to go back to London.

Scandi another loss albeit he just stopped posting.

Jun 12, 2022 -- 10:21AM, JPSER wrote:

one of the funniest days in here was when someone opened an account calling dawsy a bender and he blew upi remember the day we could all change usernames too, someone changed their name to betfair community manager 2 and started replying to threads, with a monkey as the profile pic lol.

It was a laugh and most treated it as “banter” even the ones blowing up who after calming down probably saw the funny side.

As I said above the report button killed forums, once they were introduced anyone could use that function and it stopped all the fun sadly

Aka

A lot just got bored, the forums are like grave yards now

The ones still reasonably populated your met with ridiculous rules like “sexism not tolerated” “racism will not be tolerated” etc, so anyone can interprat it as such and then “report”.. plus most forums are heavily moderated which is utterly ridiculous. The youtube chat for example the amout of mods is totally ridiculous. Giving power for people to ban others is asking for trouble.

we are in the era of the forever offended ****

Ivor

signing in

Not much imagination required if you want to guess on why me and (I would assume) others have been absent.

Though if there was a bingo card of excuses I'd probably have a full house.

Welcome back Clacherholiday2 one of the forum legends.

clacherholiday2, when did you get out?

Welcome back to the asylum

We need more to come back

Next to no insight on this forum and even less wit.

Tribal no-brains have had scores banned for next to mothing. C'est la internet baby.

Jun 15, 2022 -- 11:27PM, swiftynifty wrote:

clacherholiday2, when did you get out?

2018 i think it was, sadly if i was making fortunes gambling id have carried on and i would guess its the reason most of the names in this thread are goners.

some fun times were had and some incredible wins in the good times.  my last run on betfair i recall was doing some automated dog racing bets that started out crazy profitable but ended as you would imagine, i returned to gambling during the first lockdown in 2020 when the dog racing was the last man standing for a few weeks.

i hope alls well on here?

Jun 15, 2022 -- 10:27PM, G Hall wrote:

Welcome back Clacherholiday2 one of the forum legends.

thanks, we did have some good times.

this forum and the romanticised golden era was a product of wider internet conditions forcing all the right people into the right place at the right time.  youll find old **** like me in their late 30s all over the internet that recall a golden era online (there was an earlier one of course) between 2002-2012 where the internet became popular enough that communities in even the most niche areas could grow large enough to perpetually sustain themselves no matter how obscure a topic they were built around was and they thus filled a social roll for users that wouldnt be challenged until the big centralised hubs like reddit, twitter, facebook, youtube etc grew later to take over.

there was once a time that music forums had thousands of active members, hiking forums, fishing forums, fashion forums, pet grooming forums and everything else, now those communities are all just parts of larger websites and theyre a hell of a lot **** for it.

NIce one clacher. Been and gone and come back mesen. Tis what it does.

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i cant believe i still have both of those saved on text files on my desktop, they havent been opened in years

Don't see the former much any more. Be very welcome on most the forums. Thank fook you still got head in hands man

I'm sitting looking at some of the uploaded images I have here and I'm glad I did, as it seems I totally forgot about the Tony Adams era at Granada

Jun 16, 2022 -- 10:05PM, HallGreenSpy wrote:

Don't see the former much any more. Be very welcome on most the forums. Thank fook you still got head in hands man

have you been betting on the dogs and football still? hows it been working out?

glad to see youre alive at least, theres no doubt going to be names in this thread that are dead.

Yeah. Got a share in a dog again at last (doing pretty well), going to the races again and doing ok betting wise. Got out of the in running game as PC killed me. Use this for the forum now as PC still stands even if I wanna bet bsp or owt else and I haven't used it in ages. Still, can still get on elsewhere and like I said doing ok. Uresen?

Nice one.  Its a shame the PC thing is still around somehow, you would think by now theyd have come up with a better system (if one is needed at all even?).

Besides the return to greyhound betting in 2020, I havent done anything outside of the ultimate casual gambler passtime of betting on the biggest sporting events and none of it has been with any expectation of making money.

I have tried to get into a bunch of other things over the years and the closest I came to finding something even remotely close to sitting through hours of MLS or Peruvian Cup matches every night that somewhat stuck was financial trading, which in the end has become very boring, formulaic but profitable.

Theres obviously a lot I miss about being a regular on here but sadly betfair always hated us, the steps they took to hide the forum in 2012 and the long long period of not allowing new accounts had its intended outcome.

I recently started using smarkets and I find them OK, also their customer service much better than betfair. They are not perfect by any means but any problems are quickly rectified.

good to see you're still around clacher! maybe we should start an MLS thread and get things going again

Seattle are still the big dogs, but there's no Captain Clint now. Raul Ruidiaz runs the show!

I made enough out of you mugs so I emigrated to Dubai

still working for the Royal Mail, Block?

Behave Wise.