A shame that it's come to this.
I actually thought that the exchanges on their board leading up to Sunday were remarkably restrained, I didn't see anything offensive being posted by anyone, if anything everyone was being polite to each other.
I also don't think that Rob would have had anything to do with this, there's no harm in him and he has always come across as a decent bloke who enjoys his exchanges with us, I'd perhaps look at the Budgies who have made something of a big deal about announcing on their forum about placing you two on 'ignore', or even the call from others for all the Budgies to place us all on ignore.
On Saturday night I posted a TWTD link on the Budgie match day thread and got what I considered to be an OTT reaction from one of them, at that point I decided to leave it as I could see where it was going, I haven't posted on their board since.
As I said, a shame that it has come to this, unfortunately though I could see this coming.