RTG

  • Please bear with us on the new site integration and fixing any known bugs over the coming days. If you can not log in please try resetting your password and check your spam box. If you have tried these steps and are still struggling email [email protected] with your username/registered email address
  • Log in now to remove adverts - no adverts at all to registered members!
Status
Not open for further replies.
You must log in or register to see images
Wow, what a coincidence.

I've just sent a fiver to my son for poppies, he usually sells them iin Mansfield.
Managed to get hold of this down Seaham harbour. Over the moon with it. Put a fiver in the shaker and one of the vets shoved it in me hands and said this is our new one and wouldn’t say no
 
He was relentless mate, and part of the reason I realised it was pointless trying to avoid a perma-ban.

If I'd stopped posting what I honestly believed, to avoid a ban, I'd have been compromising my principles. That's something I'll never do otherwise I wouldn't be me any more.

I posted, on there, that I'd been informed by an old time journalist that junior reporters opened accounts to post and attempt to control the narrative as an exercise. When you see some of the 'characters', like Kildare, who come and then vanish you can see where that's possible.

Sad, but if you stick to the obviously decent lads you can still have a laugh on here.
I have no real knowledge but the little I hear comes from knowing a couple of journos from a former life.

It’s fair to say many of the football lads are no fans of RTG and would happily tear **** up given half the chance <laugh>
 
  • Like
Reactions: Smug in Boots
This is a direct response to Kittens and the drivel he's posted.

As one of the clique on RTG who try to maintain an atmosphere of gloom and negativity.

@Hawyatt Earp posted great news and swore on his childrens lives that the info was genuine and true.

As he's a long standing poster, with no history of lying to fellow supporters, and having actual friends on the board you'd think he'd get some leeway. But no, his info is being picked over and denigrated by the vultures who are sly enough to disguise it from being an actual attack.

Kittens puts forward a list of idiotic possibilities and ends by informing everyone that they might be correct.

When he's pulled on it he backtracks and says that they're just pointless examples of what's within the outer limits of credibility. So why even bother to post them ffs.

And, as usual, he's playing the victim because that nasty man on 606 is harming the wonderful reputation he obviously believes he has.

Has he never noticed people don't crave his return on here with his relentless negativity. And has he never noticed how people only ever tag Grumpy Old Man when they want anything clarifying ... never him despite him obviously believing he and GOM are equally regarded.

Give it a rest man, your negative viewpoint has been noted.
 
This is a direct response to Kittens and the drivel he's posted.

As one of the clique on RTG who try to maintain an atmosphere of gloom and negativity.

@Hawyatt Earp posted great news and swore on his childrens lives that the info was genuine and true.

As he's a long standing poster, with no history of lying to fellow supporters, and having actual friends on the board you'd think he'd get some leeway. But no, his info is being picked over and denigrated by the vultures who are sly enough to disguise it from being an actual attack.

Kittens puts forward a list of idiotic possibilities and ends by informing everyone that they might be correct.

When he's pulled on it he backtracks and says that they're just pointless examples of what's within the outer limits of credibility. So why even bother to post them ffs.

And, as usual, he's playing the victim because that nasty man on 606 is harming the wonderful reputation he obviously believes he has.

Has he never noticed people don't crave his return on here with his relentless negativity. And has he never noticed how people only ever tag Grumpy Old Man when they want anything clarifying ... never him despite him obviously believing he and GOM are equally regarded.

Give it a rest man, your negative viewpoint has been noted.
He's a fcuking spanner mate, absolutely no doubt about it.
 
You must log in or register to see images

Managed to get hold of this down Seaham harbour. Over the moon with it. Put a fiver in the shaker and one of the vets shoved it in me hands and said this is our new one and wouldn’t say no

That war memorial at Seaham is the finest of its kind. Brings a lump to the throat.

You must log in or register to see images
You must log in or register to see images
 
That war memorial at Seaham is the finest of its kind. Brings a lump to the throat.

You must log in or register to see images
You must log in or register to see images
I walk past it most days and it never gets old for me. Was saying to the missus yesterday as we walked past it again how bloody fortunate we were to have that first and to not let go ! I bet whoever had that wouldn’t have gave him up :emoticon-0100-smile
 
I walk past it most days and it never gets old for me. Was saying to the missus yesterday as we walked past it again how bloody fortunate we were to have that first and to not let go ! I bet whoever had that wouldn’t have gave him up :emoticon-0100-smile

Its certainly something to be proud of. Its perfect. You can imagine him sitting in a trench, occasional bomb dropping around him, having to wait an hour or two for the whistle to advance, possibly to his death. Powerful but sombre. Perfectly proportioned, it looks so realistic you could almost see him standing up and walking off.
 
Last edited:
I walk past it most days and it never gets old for me. Was saying to the missus yesterday as we walked past it again how bloody fortunate we were to have that first and to not let go ! I bet whoever had that wouldn’t have gave him up :emoticon-0100-smile
I haven't visited yet, I need to get down as soon as lock down is lifted, the photos of it are very moving.
 
  • Like
Reactions: TonyG
I like the one I posted showing the 3 kids looking up at him. As if the statue is talking to them, telling them a war story.
The kids give an idea of just how big the 'Tommy' statue is, I knew it was there but had never seen it in the flesh, now I get the scale of the thing it's an apt tribute to the heroes who crossed no mans land and never came home.
 
This is a direct response to Kittens and the drivel he's posted.

As one of the clique on RTG who try to maintain an atmosphere of gloom and negativity.

@Hawyatt Earp posted great news and swore on his childrens lives that the info was genuine and true.

As he's a long standing poster, with no history of lying to fellow supporters, and having actual friends on the board you'd think he'd get some leeway. But no, his info is being picked over and denigrated by the vultures who are sly enough to disguise it from being an actual attack.

Kittens puts forward a list of idiotic possibilities and ends by informing everyone that they might be correct.

When he's pulled on it he backtracks and says that they're just pointless examples of what's within the outer limits of credibility. So why even bother to post them ffs.

And, as usual, he's playing the victim because that nasty man on 606 is harming the wonderful reputation he obviously believes he has.

Has he never noticed people don't crave his return on here with his relentless negativity. And has he never noticed how people only ever tag Grumpy Old Man when they want anything clarifying ... never him despite him obviously believing he and GOM are equally regarded.

Give it a rest man, your negative viewpoint has been noted.

It only took a few minutes for Kittens to read and respond to my post. Never mind that he totally misquoted me, as always, and totally missed the point about his relentless negativity, as always.

He obviously believes people on RTG care whether he ever posts again ...

... or not <laugh>

"****ing hell, just read that smug post about me
You must log in or register to see images
is he ill? For the record, I only visit there for the takeover craic, so I was unaware there was a (completely unironic) 5 paragraph post about why I shouldn't be allowed to question things our owners tell us in a separate thred.

Thankfully it seems that Hawyatt gets that this isn't a criticism of him, despite smug desperately trying to tell him he should be offended.

And that's my last word on that oddball."
 
People talk about a Banksy of two policemen kissing being worth a million ...

... IMO this statue is priceless.

North eastern artist who’s subjects are timeless ! Can’t wait for the unveiling of the Vaux drayhorses. Miss the smell of the hops on Saturday mornings in the town and the loud clip clop of those gigantic (to a young me) horses.
 
It only took a few minutes for Kittens to read and respond to my post. Never mind that he totally misquoted me, as always, and totally missed the point about his relentless negativity, as always.

He obviously believes people on RTG care whether he ever posts again ...

... or not <laugh>

"****ing hell, just read that smug post about me
You must log in or register to see images
is he ill? For the record, I only visit there for the takeover craic, so I was unaware there was a (completely unironic) 5 paragraph post about why I shouldn't be allowed to question things our owners tell us in a separate thred.

Thankfully it seems that Hawyatt gets that this isn't a criticism of him, despite smug desperately trying to tell him he should be offended.

And that's my last word on that oddball."

Oddball <laugh>
 
Status
Not open for further replies.