How long you been here?
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2003 for me. I heard about it on Brendan Telfers show on RS.
Still remember my first post in a thread about good/funny/biting sporting put-downs.
MvJ climbed into me and it made it very clear I was an ignoramus and my suggestion (Bunce saying that's a lot of penalties when told England had beaten Scotland by 20 points or similar) was neither funny, good or biting.
I lurked for a while after that...
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My little brother who was a lurker here sent me a link around 2006, after reading some of the ridiculous theories some people were pulling out of their arses I had to sign up to put them in their place. Been my go-to since then, and thank fuck for that because MSM has been deteriorating at a rate of knots in that time.
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I came online straight after the game , i watched the game with kiwi friends and family at home , and they left straight away in disguist. All of a sudden I was alone .
I started a thread about us being chokers or something negative , it had a couple of replies and was on page 2 in a matter of minutes there was so many new threads starting .
It was chaos .
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I don't really remember the meltdown too much on the day, even though I likely participated over the week.
But, I was up at a friends in HB who didn't have internet, and while I had an internet enabled phone (I can't remember what it was called, it was the same era as a Palm Treo) it was so slow that I didn't even bother using it.
Anyway, later that day the Magpies thumped Waikato in the 1/4 final of the NPC (which was probably our first big win since the new comp had started) so I actually drove back up to Palmy in a good mood.
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Was lurking since 2002, but didn't sign up until after a drunken bender after watching an AB game in 2004. Hence the rather erm special username.
2007 was gut-wrenching. I actually said that I wanted to give up supporting the abs, because the RWC pain was getting too much to take. The fact that they were dudded by Barnes made it much worse. It was like some kind of farking curse. But of course my exile lasted until the very first game of the next season.
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@kiwiinmelb said in How long you been here?:
I came online straight after the game , i watched the game with kiwi friends and family at home , and they left straight away in disguist. All of a sudden I was alone .
I started a thread about us being chokers or something negative , it had a couple of replies and was on page 2 in a matter of minutes there was so many new threads starting .
It was chaos .
You think that's bad imagine you drove from Derby to Cardiff to watch the game. Then had to drive back with nothing but your thoughts for company.
Tough night that one
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Must have been around 1999/2000. I remember where I was living when I found the Fern. I started a thread on "Why I hate poofball" and spent weeks (and over a hundred pages) defending myself from vicious attacks by soccer fans (on a rugby forum). Well, actually, the attacks weren't that vicious - they were from poofball fans after all and I took a dive on most of them, which seemed to win approval.
I've been here long enough that TR was actually TR! Oh...right.
Actually apart from Bart, Kirwan and Duluth he must be one of the earliest posters? A few others, who are still around here, were before me too.And now I have "test ignored" the new forum.
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@Rembrandt said in How long you been here?:
I do remember the meltdown but also that article of Booboos about supporting the team no matter what and thanking them for all those awesome times between world cups. Very inspiring.
Hey i aim to please ...
Glad you remember. I don't. Mind you I don't remember last week...
(Come to think of it I vaguely do recall making my own protest about the vitriol and saying bugger it I'm wearing my AB gear to work on x day. Join me.)
PS. I think I joined 2004 when I moved to Adelaide. Discovered sports forums through Telfer's radio show. He used to interview the bloke from Pandasport - which turned into a feral wasteland - and somehow that either linked to here or TSF was mentioned.
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@Snowy said in How long you been here?:
Must have been around 1999/2000. I remember where I was living when I found the Fern. I started a thread on "Why I hate poofball" and spent weeks (and over a hundred pages) defending myself from vicious attacks by soccer fans (on a rugby forum). Well, actually, the attacks weren't that vicious - they were from poofball fans after all and I took a dive on most of them, which seemed to win approval.
I've been here long enough that TR was actually TR! Oh...right.
Actually apart from Bart, Kirwan and Duluth he must be one of the earliest posters? A few others, who are still around here, were before me too.And now I have "test ignored" the new forum.
I was going to mention "test ignore" That started just before I joined and was obviously some sort of in-joke that had me WTFing until I sussed out the vibe.
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@booboo said in How long you been here?:
@Rembrandt said in How long you been here?:
I do remember the meltdown but also that article of Booboos about supporting the team no matter what and thanking them for all those awesome times between world cups. Very inspiring.
Hey i aim to please ...
Glad you remember. I don't. Mind you I don't remember last week...
(Come to think of it I vaguely do recall making my own protest about the vitriol and saying bugger it I'm wearing my AB gear to work on x day. Join me.)
PS. I think I joined 2004 when I moved to Adelaide. bolded textDiscovered sports forums through Telfer's radio show. He used to interview the bloke from Pandasport - which turned into a feral wasteland - and somehow that either linked to here or TSF was mentioned.
Would have been 2003 because listening to that was what put me on to the Fern. Although it could have been the Adelaide effect
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@Snowy said in How long you been here?:
Actually apart from Bart, Kirwan and Duluth he must be one of the earliest posters?
I didn't really post in the rivals days. Maybe 1 or 2 posts a year when someone really pissed me off.. must have been Phooey?
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@Duluth said in How long you been here?:
@Snowy said in How long you been here?:
Actually apart from Bart, Kirwan and Duluth he must be one of the earliest posters?
I didn't really post in the rivals days. Maybe 1 or 2 posts a year when someone really pissed me off.. must have been Phooey?
Probably me. That'll be why I remember you. You don't like poofball do you?
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I actually can't remember when I got online here. Must have been 08 or 09 ... I lurked for a few years before posting. Once I started posting, that was it.
The thing I remember most was great insightful commentary on rugby, something you just don't get in main stream media. Fark, even getting proper rugby analysis in the rugby shows is hard - nothing like NRL Tactics, for instance, or some of the quality NFL analysis that goes on.
I just checked my profile -it says 8 years. SO 2008 it is then, and I missed the great meltdown of 2007.
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@jegga1 said in How long you been here?:
I'm new here so I've only been here for a day .
Huh, fresh eh. You don't happen to knwo when the team is named do you?
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@nzzp said in How long you been here?:
@jegga1 said in How long you been here?:
I'm new here so I've only been here for a day .
Huh, fresh eh. You don't happen to knwo when the team is named do you?
That guy got his profile deleted for trying to steal my life changing breakfast story.
Not sure about the team naming, are we setting up shifts again to take it in turns to post it if and when they do announce it?
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What I remmeber most about the 2007 q final was Redbeard starting a thread about having a really bad sense of foreboding about the game two days out . He was given the expected amount of grief about it, I don't think he took much pleasure out of being right though.
