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Banter is fine, and some fans will want to do a bit of baiting and fishing, it's part of what message boards are about. That's OK, as long as abuse does not become personal. Racist, libellous or extreme messages will be closed and/or deleted, without question, and users banned.
If you feel you have been unnecessarily abused by another poster then feel free to contact the administrator or report the post using the report button within the post itself.
English is the language of the message board. Please do not use 'text language' in your posts, it may be ok for your mobile phone with your mates or messaging on facebook, but makes you look like an idiot here.
Rules to observe within the postings are as follows:
1. Any opinion you have, however outrageous has to be followed by the word FACT (in caps)
2. If any of your ex players sign for another Conference north team you are required by law to tell everyone how shit he is/was. This applied irrespective of how good he was or how many games he played for you.
3. Any trouble that happens at games in this league are automatically blamed on Telford, regardless of where Telford were playing.
4. When asked how many fans you will be taking to an away game always double your estimate
5. When asked how many fans you actually took to an away game always double your estimate
6. When asked how many away fans were at one of your home games always halve your estimate
7. Pissed up posting is not recommended, not because anyone will be offended but because it is embarrasing to read people's apologies after saying something they were too afraid to say whilst sober.
8. An away ground can never be rated above 8
9. No one is bothered what any other poster thinks about them, therefore there is no need to post that you are not bothered about what any other poster thinks about you
10. Bullying is not big or clever, unless directed at Scott Talbot or any Kettering fan
11. The form guide (last 4 or 6 games) must be analysed on a regular basis, If you are top of the form guide you are obliged to post about it
12. You are legally required to post that you will piss this tinpot league if you win 3 games on the trot
13. Never give any other team any credit
14. All contentious referee decisions given against your club are wrong
15. All contentious referee decisions given in favour of your club are correct..... FACT
16. Until you have had an argument with Dazza or Reg, you are not a proper member of this forum
17. Any club that attracts less than 1,000 (double the home fans formula) is automatically tinpot.
20. Your team always has key players missing when they lose. Emphasise this until a thread 17 pages long comes from it.
21. Any post that has even a HINT of racism will be jumped upon and never forgotten
22. You must correct all punctual, grammatical and general other errors, no matter how miniscule they may appear at first glance.
22a. Any poster taking it upon their selves to correct grammatical or punctuation errors MUST automatically include a glaring error in their own corrective post.
25. If your side has a drum, you have shit support and cannot make noise without one.
27. when you win a friendly against a League club always big up the result by stating the opposition fielded a first team squad. When you lose to a shit local lower league team in a friendly always mark down the result by stating your team was made up of kids and trialists.
28. You must refer to Barrow as the biggest or, if you have visited Workington, second biggest shithole in the league - despite only driving down a stretch of road on the outskirts of Barrow and straight to the ground.
31. Anywhere north of the Humber must be mockingly referred to as 'being in Scotland'.
34. Everybody likes Hucknall. Nobody likes Harrogate
35. If you lose, it's because you played badly not because the oppo played well
36. If you lose against a team in the top 5 you must opine, through gritted teeth, that "it says a lot about the poor quality of this league if that lot are in the play-off spots."
37. No team ever looks as good as their position would suggest.
38. If you get crowds of more than 500, have previously played in a higher league and expect things like stewards, ball boys, running water etc at away games then you are 'arrogant'.
39. If you score in injury time, you must confine your celebrations to just a round of applause, anything else and you will be accused of "thinking you have won the FA Cup".
41. If you lose against a team near the bottom, you have to comment on what a tight league it is and how anyone can beat anyone on their day and that you are suprised to see them struggling. If it's early season, 'they definitely won't stay that low', and if it's near the end of the season 'they will suprise a few next season'
50. Even the best sides aren't that much better then you and with one or two more players you would probably do em 6-0!
51. If you travel a long way to see your team play away you are entitled to brag as if you are the first and only person to have travelled so far.
53 If your chairman is bankrolling your club, claim to know for a fact, that our situation is completly different to clubs who have over spent in the past
82. Always claim that your wage bill is a) a shoestring or b) in the bottom 6 in the league. Follow this up by stating that you are glad you are living within your means, despite all the evidence lodged at Companies House.
93. When you have made a cnut of yourself by posting shite you must claim you were only after a bite all along.
104. Always state how great an atmosphere your supporters created at an away game and mock the home crowd for being silent.
107. Always bare in mind that Telford do not play football, ever. Theye kick people, hoof the ball and fight their way up the league
108. Always complain about opposition players whinging and going down to easy/kicking anything that moves but totally ignore it when your own players do likewise.
111. Bonsoir Baton is the most sexually active member of the forum and it is his duty for him to tell everyone about it.
125. If you intend to stop posting you must make a big speech about it (before re-joining under a different username or waiting 8 weeks before your next post hoping it has been forgotten)
127. If you get beaten by a top of the league side, you must express how you wasn't very impressed with the opposition, and that you should have no-one to fear in the league this season because of that.
152. When you really can't contain yourself from biting make sure you include a laughing emoticon to try and make it look like you've cooley laughed off the jibe and it doesn't at all bother you.
156. You must have posted over 1,500 times before you have any sort of opinion on other posters.
160. Posters who don't know the rules should not make up new ones.
251. Match reports should not be longer than 3 lines, 4 at the most. Oh yeah, and none of that copying and pasting from your local paper site, either write what you saw or don't bother at all.
soccer am subclause:
reference to any lovejoyisms or attempts to convert to trends associated with soccer am, especially any set of fans reported to do the 'easy, easy' chant will result in riducule for any fans associated with that club who's member fans are responsible for such actions.