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Poppydog.
Joined Betfair: 07 Sep 01
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There are still a few on here joined sometime before.
Had a few other aliases in the year before, when it was easy to do, but stuck with this one ever since.

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By:
Dr Crippen
When: 07 Sep 21 11:24
Biggest mistake I made changing my forum name to this.

The thick mods look at my forum name and assume I'm a bad un, so they ban me.
By:
Poppydog.
When: 07 Sep 21 11:32
LOL - even Crippen was allowed to change his name, when he tried to flee back across the Atlantic.
By:
sparrow
When: 07 Sep 21 11:50
Yes its my 19th today and a proper forum birthday as this is my only account and never felt the need for opening numerous other accounts.
By:
sparrow
When: 07 Sep 21 11:51
Should have said this month Laugh
By:
Celtic warrior
When: 07 Sep 21 11:57
Congrats poppydog. U r certainly one of the early ones. Betfair was so different back then just after flutter. So many mistakes were made with fat fingers
By:
Celtic warrior
When: 07 Sep 21 11:58
2002. The year when the real brains joined the forum
By:
ditchbert
When: 07 Sep 21 12:07
I'll go along with that.
By:
Poppydog.
When: 07 Sep 21 12:40
I can't remember my previous Flutter/Betfair Forum usernames, but I distinctly remember taking part in the manic Betfair Forum chat
during Big Brother 1 (Nasty Nick/Craig etc.).

Not sure if there was a Big Brother Market or everyone just engaged like the nation was.

Google tells me this was July-Sept 2000, so it may have been either Flutter or Betfair.
By:
Poppydog.
When: 07 Sep 21 12:40
Also, excited talk about the brilliant Montjeu cruising home in the King George Stakes.

Also, my favourite Forum joke was very early, when someone enquired about a tackling a home problem with ants.
'Unplug their jukebox' was the genius reply.
By:
Prophet or Doom
When: 07 Sep 21 12:48
It was my 20th Betfair Birthday 2 days ago!! Big thanks to Betfair for the birthday cake and £1000 of free bets!! Cool
By:
SlippyBlue
When: 07 Sep 21 12:54
I remember the rolling forum Poppydog. All sports fighting for the same space. Say a Liverpool derby on, a big race meeting, rugby etc. all on at the same time, it was rather chaotic!
By:
mitolo
When: 07 Sep 21 13:08
iwas 4000th to join. dunno when that was. my 4th incarnation, and the worst. wish i was still allah. they couldnt wait to bin him.
By:
brassneck
When: 07 Sep 21 13:52
All i get on my birthday,is a betfair coffee mug,a betfair key ring,a betfair pen,a betfair tee shirt(too small) and a betfair note book,and they say i am a valued customer.but no free bet.and i have my name down in the promotions office.
All the other gambling companies give free bets.why is this?
By:
brassneck
When: 07 Sep 21 13:59
but i will say one thing,betfair are best of all at christmas  with the christmas parcel ,the wallet and the free bet £50 is cool.
By:
EastLower Gooner
When: 07 Sep 21 15:25
Congratulation!
By:
brassneck
When: 07 Sep 21 15:38
Devil
By:
RothmanMike
When: 07 Sep 21 15:43
I’ve been on Betfair every single day since January 2002.
Can anyone beat that.
By:
sparrow
When: 07 Sep 21 15:46
What were you called before March 2002?
By:
RothmanMike
When: 07 Sep 21 16:26
Wasn’t on the forum in the early days Sparrow.
By:
mitolo
When: 07 Sep 21 16:38
if youve been on every day for nearly 20 years you are a tragic creature
By:
sparrow
When: 07 Sep 21 16:39
I meant between January 2002 and your joining date of March 2002, Rothman. Grin
By:
RothmanMike
When: 07 Sep 21 16:53
Mitolo ,last wife left 37 years ago, so nowt else to do.
By:
Celtic warrior
When: 07 Sep 21 17:16
Who is the first forumite. Was it 2000?
By:
Movewiththetimes
When: 07 Sep 21 17:17
June 2000 I think
By:
Gaze733
When: 07 Sep 21 17:29
Rothman did you at least crack the market in the 20 years?
By:
RothmanMike
When: 07 Sep 21 18:15
Lost too much in the first 5 years or so,but last 10 years pulling it back.
Still a lot behind, but should reach parity in next 4 or 5 years.
This is a hard game, and you must learn the lessons as you go along.
By:
impossible123
When: 07 Sep 21 18:19
Precisely 6 years for me. How time flies? I cannot even remember my 1st post or what it was on.
By:
mitolo
When: 07 Sep 21 18:20
rest assured, whatever it was, it was garbage
By:
RothmanMike
When: 07 Sep 21 18:22
That’s a bit unkind.
By:
sparrow
When: 07 Sep 21 18:29
mitolo is a rather aggresive young man.
By:
know all
When: 07 Sep 21 20:56
it was flutter before betfair i was on first day oaks day epsom 2000 ? i seem to recall maybe 2500 on the race, flutter was the better exchange and had the edge but betfair had the money and bought them out quickly the guys from flutter all got share options so they will have done very well, eventually it all changed over to betfair i never did get my money transferred over from flutter
By:
know all
When: 07 Sep 21 21:00
i did have a date on the forum 2001 ? i did have another name but no forum before that it still active has a couple of quid in but i cant remember it lol
By:
adamanty
When: 07 Sep 21 21:40
21st last July and still having fun.
By:
sparrow
When: 08 Sep 21 08:01
One genuine poster with his original username. Well done adamanty.
By:
Celtic warrior
When: 08 Sep 21 10:01
My username has never changed
By:
punchestown
When: 08 Sep 21 15:09
Was on betfair a few years before joining the forum,never changed name either.
By:
RothmanMike
When: 08 Sep 21 15:19
What is the usual reason for changing a forum name?
Way beyond me.
By:
sparrow
When: 08 Sep 21 16:37
RothmanMike 08 Sep 21 14:19 
What is the usual reason for changing a forum name?
Way beyond me.





Mostly old arbers with extra accounts. Makes me laugh when someone with an old username with a thousand or so comments comes on telling you about how it was in the old days when they were on the forum before and remember janov, chompy and all sorts of ancient names to impress us how long he has been around. Grin
By:
stu
When: 08 Sep 21 18:09
chompy - now there's a blast from the past name.

Can't remember why, but I do remember him posting a lot in past for some reason?


Like some above, I was on Flutter before BF, now those were the ancient history days in peer to peer for sure, us pioneers! Grin
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