Horibbly Wrong Posted 27 September 2013 Posted 27 September 2013 For some reason I always check on the join date of FT members when they comment... I started to read FT in about 2004 (converted from Talking Balls LCFC Forum, which I think was called something else then) Ive gone through about 3 different accounts - hence my relatively recent 'member since' date. I was previously Weel but lost the password and something else 'Focks' I think .. anyway.. I just wanted to know who set the FT forum up and who were the first few members.. its nearly 10 years old!
Finnegan Posted 27 September 2013 Posted 27 September 2013 Mark runs and owns it. davieG, Scow, Lisoh, Katy, stez, Carl, etc were all here forever. Significantly, most of the longest standing posters have long grown out of Foxes Talk. Cobbo's still around occasionally, think he was here for the start, and davieG will never leave! I joined as Sosban Fach in 06.
Libertine Posted 27 September 2013 Posted 27 September 2013 Mark is the creator. Started June/July 2004 I think. Just after our last Prem season. I remember we called this league the Fizzy League due to it being newly sponsored by Coca Cola.
Mike Oxlong Posted 27 September 2013 Posted 27 September 2013 Who would have predicted there'd be quite so much after-birth.
Horibbly Wrong Posted 27 September 2013 Author Posted 27 September 2013 I see you're '04 Libertine... were you originally on the TalkingBalls forum?
Finnegan Posted 27 September 2013 Posted 27 September 2013 I see you're '04 Libertine... were you originally on the TalkingBalls forum? As if he'd admit to that.
Webbo Posted 27 September 2013 Posted 27 September 2013 Was there some acrimonious split with Talkingballs. It's sometimes mentioned but never explained.
Rincewind Posted 27 September 2013 Posted 27 September 2013 I used to use the LCFC forums but the bickering got to me. I didn't even fight for a cause back then. Non-Leicester fans were coming on using all sorts of abusive and racial language and the admins said they could do nothing about it. Started using this site mainly because I was on nights and nowhere else was open with people on. Don't really remember what it was like. Just a few regulars talking nonsense and not much politics religion conspiracies or anything controversial. It's got July 2004 for me. I'm sure I had to reregister later on
davieG Posted 27 September 2013 Posted 27 September 2013 Mark & Scow(y) set it up, I believe it was following some dispute/frustration with the Official LCFC Forum that later closed. Mark runs and owns it. davieG, Scow, Lisoh, Katy, stez, Carl, etc were all here forever. Significantly, most of the longest standing posters have long grown out of Foxes Talk. Cobbo's still around occasionally, think he was here for the start, and davieG will never leave! I joined as Sosban Fach in 06. I'm making sure I'll have a broadband connection in my coffin.
Finnegan Posted 27 September 2013 Posted 27 September 2013 Mark & Scow(y) set it up, I believe it was following some dispute/frustration with the Official LCFC Forum that later closed. I'm making sure I'll have a broadband connection in my coffin.
Rincewind Posted 27 September 2013 Posted 27 September 2013 Who was on the official LCFC forum? I was ancasderana. Think I was also Hop T Mist. May have changed to PC Mist but not sure about that. I used to be called Hop if I met any down the pub before a game. May have joined before I started doing security or had Saturdays off.
jonthefox Posted 27 September 2013 Posted 27 September 2013 Who was on the official LCFC forum? I was ancasderana I was as jonthefox. I'm a whizz with names aren't i?. Do you remember rolf harris the cov fan on there?.
Rincewind Posted 27 September 2013 Posted 27 September 2013 I may do. There were one or two that caused friction
The Year Of The Fox Posted 27 September 2013 Posted 27 September 2013 Cue the, 'bring back the good old days' where from what I've seen there was more shite being chatted by fewer people.
Rincewind Posted 27 September 2013 Posted 27 September 2013 It was just the same amount of shite, it just seemed more. Sensible posters have since joined outnumbering the shite ones.
Ric Flair Posted 27 September 2013 Posted 27 September 2013 I've been here since the start, I was on Talking Balls before then. Can't believe it's been nearly 10 years
Rincewind Posted 27 September 2013 Posted 27 September 2013 I tried Talking Balls. Couldn't get on with it. Close knit group it seemed.
Zingari Posted 27 September 2013 Posted 27 September 2013 Who was on the official LCFC forum? I was ancasderana. Think I was also Hop T Mist. May have changed to PC Mist but not sure about that. I used to be called Hop if I met any down the pub before a game. May have joined before I started doing security or had Saturdays off. frogs legs ? I'm more interested in the conception of FT. Was it a candle lit romantic affair , an evening of fine wine , dancing , kissing under a moonlit starry sky followed by tender wooing and poetic courtship .Or just a rough shag after a piss up
The God Emperor Posted 27 September 2013 Posted 27 September 2013 frogs legs ? I'm more interested in the conception of FT. Was it a candle lit romantic affair , an evening of fine wine , dancing , kissing under a moonlit starry sky followed by tender wooing and poetic courtship .Or just a rough shag after a piss up more likely someone re-using the bath water after the previous bather had a good tug in it
Guest Bilo Posted 27 September 2013 Posted 27 September 2013 It's been five years for me, I joined just after relegation to League One. Christ, that makes me feel old.
Rincewind Posted 27 September 2013 Posted 27 September 2013 Yes Zing. I was doing Spanish at nightschool around that time.
Mark Posted 27 September 2013 Posted 27 September 2013 Mark & Scow(y) set it up, I believe it was following some dispute/frustration with the Official LCFC Forum that later closed. I'm making sure I'll have a broadband connection in my coffin. The official LCFC forum was an awful format back then and the only alternative we had was Talking Balls which I thought could be so much better than what it was. I actually put the idea of FoxesTalk to the admin of TB, due to my lack of knowledge of running a website but he wasn't keen on changing his site. We went ahead and set FT up anyway but just a week after set up I accidently deleted the whole site and had to start over again I always remember though, the original date we started was 4 July, the final of Euro 2004.
Rincewind Posted 27 September 2013 Posted 27 September 2013 So how many were already on when I joined on the 27th? never realised it had just started.
MC Prussian Posted 27 September 2013 Posted 27 September 2013 I started posting on the official LCFC Forum back in 2002, I think. When it got switched off after some nasty and uncalled critique aimed at Micky Adams, I found FT and a safe haven with it. Thinking of it, the original LCFC Forum was quite a neanderthal compared to Foxestalk (even in its early days).
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