What's sad John is that this was a good post, fair play to you and it's been ruined by a few unwarranted posts.
Why , what i say Its ok we have proved we aint like the ban brigade over on the dark side and really the more they post the more brain dead they look , sad i know ................................;O)
tbh they cant have it both ways>>>>>Welshman I with you there, they have wrecked theyre own site and now they are bringing its boring small town ways onto the big city forum.................do we need the likes of phil talking crap all day for the sake of it.................I`d say ban the twat and be done with him and his banjo playing offspring. so ban all the crap jacks from down west and leave the tidy jacks 2 talk footy simples
very good eye opener to drug addiction, why you used Swansea fans is expected however I am sure the same thing happens in Cardiff and all other towns and cities. sad to see a tragedy for your own amusement. SHAME
Aber having a moan at Swans fans talking crap on his board, can you believe it Talk about pot kettle black, aber talked so much crap on the swans board, he should be banned for even considering moaning about swans fans doing it here
Taff Have to say you stood your ground well on boring stumpys did dums thread. One saying springs to mind though, you just cant educate pork
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Great minds think alike DJR. I just read through that as well. Pity they don't stick to their own rules. We have avoided posting such a schedule as, to an extent, we are self moderating. However, in light of the plague of Jacks (mostly singing the same tune) perhaps we should now put up our rules and ask our mods to enforce them. I also wonder whether the recent spate of activity from down west has been "arranged" by the usual suspects behnd the scenes so to speak. While one or two of ours (mainly Taff and Aber recently) return the compliment on their board there is nowhere near the same level of activity as we see from them on ours. If there was then they would again go to their mods and seek to have the offenders (in their eyes) banned as they have done previously. It appears we can't start any sort of thread without them arriving mob handed to create arguments that hadn't existed on the thread until they turned up, look at the thread about last night's game for instance. Their persistent nuisance posts are driving away many perviously regular posters who just want to talk about football related aspects of Cardiff City and have no interest in what goes on down the road.
Eldon There are none posted. When it was suggested I think we said we didn't need them as we look after ourselves, were generally a more moderate bunch and any problems amongst our guys would be sorted out internally with a minimum of fuss. I think we had different mods at the time but the current ones may be able to confirm this. If not then Swamp may be able to shed some light as I think he was involved at that time.
I got to agree with you on that BfB too many good posters seem to be lost, where is H, Benni, Hannah.... the list goes on.
As I thought BFB, I know that certain things are unacceptable in general and so it should be. Nice to know we don't have to have Nursery rules in place
