well if someone had not deliberately took it off topic with a dig that contributes nothing would we be here at all?

Still, lets hope the mods are as good as their word, then maybe he won't be around for a while. If they don't of course their threats seem somewhat hollow, or, even worse, blatant favouritism is shown.

So if this is the case please can you explain what exactly your rants are contributing ??

Oh yes that will be nothing - complain to them directly instead of taking up 3 pages of a thread with your problems with Adey

Pleaaasssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee !!!!

I have looked at other team’s message boards, and I’m pretty sure ours is the only one where we seem to spend more time bickering with other about opinions and the need to substantiate them, than our common interest---THE BRADFORD BULLS

If a post is wrong in my opinion then fair enough, that’s my opinion. If a post is factually wrong then I feel it’s correct to be told so.

If a poster gets on your wick by posting what you consider drivel, just ignore it, is it so hard?

I’m not taking sides here but, personal insults, I agree can be hurtful but that depends how they were said and how they were received. It’s sometimes difficult to covey the spirit a comment is posted on a message board.

I’ve noticed a lot of posters who used to be regulars on here no longer post. I’m sure they’re fed up of every thread being taken over by petty arguments. It’s getting to the point now where you can tell when a thread is going into meltdown

Andy

Just read all the strange tirades above. And for Heaven's sake!

Guys, after some deliberation, and in view of the pretty serious allegation made against me, I'm posting this - the only response I shall trouble you with, after which PLEASE can the thread continue on topic?

I use the term "fruitcake" (amongst other, less complimentary, terms) to refer to - and give my succinct opinion on - people who say (or do) things that seem to me to be quite absurd or ridiculous and at variance with what I would expect a sensible person to say. I read quite a number of comments before my post - including, but not confined to, some IMO quite absurd statements from the individual who has made the allegation - which caused me in exasperation to express a succinct opinion on what I had read. I avoided saying what I really thought about some of the statements, since (on past experience) that would have been quite counter-productive - and the fallout of no interest to most sensible readers of the thread.

For the avoidance of doubt, if someone should choose to call me a "fruitcake", I would regard it as their opinion of me and on what I said. I get called similar things and plenty worse quite regularly (see Gurus Beard for a reasonably definitive list... )

I make no apology for implying -or indeed directly stating - that somebody has posted statements which strike me as absurd or stupid. Indeed, you will see me doing precisely that on a regular basis with the more absurd trolls who visit this forum (and for which, see my avatar). And, for sure, I find many of this particular poster's contributions to be absurd or stupid or not at all sensible, in some combination; but that is just my opinion. He clearly feels the same about mine, given how he regularly attacks me or what I have to say directly, without provocation or invitation, often by leaping in to support posts by others that are critical of something I said and otherwise nothing to do with him. For my own part, I have not engaged with that individual directly on these forums for many months, nor do I intend wasting mine, the mods' or everyone else's time ever doing so.

But if that individual has contrived to convince himself that I was making any adverse reference whatsoever to his depression, or indeed have ever done so, then he is both completely mistaken and, I suggest, exhibiting worrying symptoms of obsession and paranoia?

That is and will be my only comment on the subject. Thank you for your patience, and back to the sensible discussion PLEASE on what is a pretty important subject.