So who has been posting here for more than 10 years

[Bowey Boy]

Not me.

[ausfatcat]

god damn hate admit it but 90% of mt posts were 8 years ago been around before the crash in ???? that reset everything

[SinCitySainter]

I have been here since March 2004 but was on the other board before that.

[Zed]

I've been involved one way or another since about '99. Original name was HongKongSaint.

I think I remember that name. Kosi was it how I described it or have I got it wrong?

The initial site I was on was an official saints.com.au site. I think it could handle 20 or 50 threads and then they disappeared.

Yes I was on that initial site as well and was it that one that went into melt down and crashed when Blighty got sacked ?

Funny I can remember being on that site and punching the air when Blighty got appointed and running around the office talking to my Saints workmates excitedly. How quickly it all went to custard.

Dan Warna was a great poster and it's a shame he like many other interesting contributors got driven away. Does anyone else remember the great rant he threw out regarding keyboard jockeys hiding behind their screens in their urine stained trackies ? Still makes me chuckle to this day.

[noddy04]

Although i dont post much i to was on the original saintsational as we were good friends of Damien and his dad john. Spelly was here and Krabby and the coleslaw. Eastern was here . Spelly i think got a bit of flack as she was always correcting posters spelling etc hence her nickname. I also helped on a (talkback forum and Saintbrat , Eastern and Saintspremiers were regulars. We used to have player chats on a wednesday arvo and used to get up to 140 ppl on there when certain players came on. Grant Thomas was a regular contributor as well. I remember he invited my son and myself to go down to the change rooms before a Wizard cup (i think it was then). He met us and introduced us to a few of the players incl harves. Man did it open my eyes to the amount of work an AFL does before a game. A highlight of my life as a saints member. This site was a lot of fun back then with hardly any bickering but i spose we all get older and crankier. I have met quite a few on here in Melb and Adelaide through this site and feel blessed to have met them all ..

[snoopygirl]

Templer

who Ithink was one of the originals of the Moorabbin wing?

Sonof66 (Steve) and wizsteppa (Ben) actually started up the Moorabbin Wing - others came on later in the process. Steve & Ben were then involved in liaising with the STKFC after it had organically grown to such a great place, that the club got involved.
Again, my memory for names lets me down, but the bloke we got from Hawthorn to get our membership up and going, him & his sidekick (Ben Hall) got behind Steve & Ben's work. Saint66au then got very involved. They were great for saving seats for interstates when we got over.
I can recall in the early days of the Moorabbin Wing......... Steve & Ben would be first up there, place their scarves & bags etc across rows of seats to ensure only Sainters could sit up there together. Then he started getting flyers printed and used to stand outside Bay 35 directing Saint supporters to the area. It was all via the SS site that a lot got to hear about the MW too.
Organic movements are hard to stop once they take off.

Where are Sonof66 & wizsteppa these days? I always used to catch up with Steve for a coffee in Chapel Street when I visited Melbourne, then I lost his phone # and he moved house. and now when I go to matches at Etihad I don't sit up in that area. More's the pity.

Sonof66 & wizsteppa if you post under different names now please PM me, I'll be over in Melbourne for a couple of games this season and I'd love to catch up.

Yep Templer was involved with Sainters.com

Loris they are both still very involved with leading the chants on The Moorabbin Wing. We all have reserved seats there now so not quite so chaotic. I will tell them to get in touch with you.

I stumbled across a link to this forum via Google & thought it was a godsend. I have met many wonderful people & had some great trips interstate & o/seas to watch the boys as a result.

[sainterjo]

Here since the dawn of time, mainly lurking and not posting.

Ah the memories - a favourite being AOK's collaborative footy card project. I'd love to see them again

[busso mick]

On the previous forum as mick I recall venting my spleen after we lost to Hawthorn in 1999 when we were up by 63 points. Tim "Minibus" Watson was our coach and the press (I think it was Herald Sun) quoted from the forum after the game. My favourite posters at that time were Waiting For Joel, ctqs and rogerwa.

[saynta]

On the previous forum as mick I recall venting my spleen after we lost to Hawthorn in 1999 when we were up by 63 points. Tim "Minibus" Watson was our coach and the press (I think it was Herald Sun) quoted from the forum after the game. My favourite posters at that time were Waiting For Joel, ctqs and rogerwa.

Good times. Spelly, ctqs and krabby are all still around I believe.

[bergholt]

Ten years is a long time... Who has made the journey

Similar to you mate, signed up in 2004 (though a bit later than you) and have posted about 7000 times.

[bergsone]

Is 10 years a life sentence ?

[magnifisaint]

Not me

[Winmar]

Looks like I joined in 2004, but I post infrequently so chances are nobody recognises my username anyway.

[ripplug66]

Looks like I joined in 2004, but I post infrequently so chances are nobody recognises my username anyway.

I know that username very well.

[Winmar]

Hah yes I thought that after I posted.

[Sainternist]

I joined this forum in 2004. I think it was a couple of weeks before the pre-season GF against Geelong. What a great year that was.

[terry smith rules]

Me

Living in NSW and watching on TV I really enjoy the game day threads, ultimate trivia and the team prediction threads (and of course any reminiscing)

I can't stand the bickering, especially when they (you know who you are ) quote whole pages of stuff back wards and forwards so that a 10 page thread actually only consists of 6 comments

fqf

[ripplug66]

Me

Living in NSW and watching on TV I really enjoy the game day threads, ultimate trivia and the team prediction threads (and of course any reminiscing)

I can't stand the bickering, especially when they (you know who you are ) quote whole pages of stuff back wards and forwards so that a 10 page thread actually only consists of 6 comments

fqf

Quoting a lot is a pain but every page has 25 comments whether you quote once or 40 times.

[GoSaintersGo]

GoSaintersGo first joined the band of happy posters early in 2004. The conversation at the time was a pleasure to be a part of as there was no negative crap, or very little, just positive and constructive posts to contribute to.
Saintsational crashed in late 2011 I think and had to be reconstructed - as a result GoSaintersGo disappeared off the planet and was relisted on 14.2.2012.
The quality of posting has got worse and worse since then with ego hungry posters who call themselves experts commenting on everything, hitting the quote button with regular monotony, and hogging the Board for more than 40,000 posts. They just can't help themselves.
Hence my loss of interest in Saintsational - pity really.

[saynta]

GoSaintersGo first joined the band of happy posters early in 2004. The conversation at the time was a pleasure to be a part of as there was no negative crap, or very little, just positive and constructive posts to contribute to.
Saintsational crashed in late 2011 I think and had to be reconstructed - as a result GoSaintersGo disappeared off the planet and was relisted on 14.2.2012.
The quality of posting has got worse and worse since then with ego hungry posters who call themselves experts commenting on everything, hitting the quote button with regular monotony, and hogging the Board for more than 40,000 posts. They just can't help themselves.
Hence my loss of interest in Saintsational - pity really.

I originally started posting under the nick "em t " which is how I felt following the 1997 grand final so it must have been 1998.

Somtimes afterwards, I changed the nick after posters like spider girl though I must have been female.

That thought had never occured to me.

f***, that was 18 years ago.

I could have learned 8 or 9 languages in the time I have spent on here.

[magnifisaint]

GoSaintersGo first joined the band of happy posters early in 2004. The conversation at the time was a pleasure to be a part of as there was no negative crap, or very little, just positive and constructive posts to contribute to.
Saintsational crashed in late 2011 I think and had to be reconstructed - as a result GoSaintersGo disappeared off the planet and was relisted on 14.2.2012.
The quality of posting has got worse and worse since then with ego hungry posters who call themselves experts commenting on everything, hitting the quote button with regular monotony, and hogging the Board for more than 40,000 posts. They just can't help themselves.
Hence my loss of interest in Saintsational - pity really.

I originally started posting under the nick "em t " which is how I felt following the 1997 grand final so it must have been 1998.

Somtimes afterwards, I changed the nick after posters like spider girl though I must have been female.

That thought had never occured to me.

f***, that was 18 years ago.

I could have learned 8 or 9 languages in the time I have spent on here.

Or if you put your mind to it you could have saved hard and become a multi millionaire

[evertonfc]

The bickering and off topic stuff started to annoy me. I had to wade through too much to get good info.

Certainly this was my main gripe - and still annoys me.

I just wish those posters could be shifted away to other forums - specifically the Animal Enclosure - so they could debate and back-stab in there. I don't know why they want to do it on the main forum.

Am interested to know Everton if you see it as a big problem still. There's been a concerted effort to stop the personal sniping and bickering and it has calmed down a fair bit. We shall see when the on-field action resumes, but I reckon we're heading in the right direction. Interested in your thoughts about this?

Yeah, fair call - it's good you're aware of it and trying to calm it.

I guess my tolerance for their petty antics has fallen below zero; you know as soon as they inject their personal battles into any given thread, the topic is as good as derailed. I almost instantly leave the site; many others would be the same.

A little bit of sarcasm is fine, but when it's a never-ending style of posting, in addition to the relentless finger-pointing, "you said this", it ruins it for everyone.

I see no harm in having them being able to post in the Animal Enclosure whilst having observational status on the main board. That way they can see what's happening and then use the AE to vent, dump, bicker, moan, discuss. But if they show sufficient commitment to respecting others in there, they can come back. If they don't, the status quo remains.

[evertonfc]

Looks like I joined in 2004, but I post infrequently so chances are nobody recognises my username anyway.

You've been a valued contributor!

[saynta]

GoSaintersGo first joined the band of happy posters early in 2004. The conversation at the time was a pleasure to be a part of as there was no negative crap, or very little, just positive and constructive posts to contribute to.
Saintsational crashed in late 2011 I think and had to be reconstructed - as a result GoSaintersGo disappeared off the planet and was relisted on 14.2.2012.
The quality of posting has got worse and worse since then with ego hungry posters who call themselves experts commenting on everything, hitting the quote button with regular monotony, and hogging the Board for more than 40,000 posts. They just can't help themselves.
Hence my loss of interest in Saintsational - pity really.

I originally started posting under the nick "em t " which is how I felt following the 1997 grand final so it must have been 1998.

Somtimes afterwards, I changed the nick after posters like spider girl though I must have been female.

That thought had never occured to me.

f***, that was 18 years ago.

I could have learned 8 or 9 languages in the time I have spent on here.

Or if you put your mind to it you could have saved hard and become a multi millionaire

I am already mate.

Well I feel like one anyway.

[Gabba]

Still lurking...