Did he leave under a "cloud" , or am I mistakenly getting confused with another I T man ?

Sorry mate, can't remember doing that.

Can't help comparing John Pearman with Rodney Walker. Supposedly honourable men who, for unknown reasons, shat on the club.

Its usually the same posters who hearts are clearly in the right place who are getting rounded on far too quickly on this forum, people should be made to feel welcome and quite often aren't as there views don't suite the norm

It's a definate shane

It's all getting decidedly snowflakey around here; surely, if you have a view, and sufficient bottle to share it on a public forum, you should also expect that someone might challenge that view - which gives you the opportunity to defend, argue or tell them to do one?

In what other walk of life do people expect to express themselves in any way they choose, and for that to go completely unchallenged?! Maybe it's a symptom of the echo chamber in which many people now live - associate with people who agree with you, get fed your news and media by oligarchs and algorithms based on what they know you like and eventually, you lose the ability to engage with people who have a different viewpoint.

In other news - Wollo - your views on Scott Grix are ridiculous; delete your account at once.

the problem is not when someone challenges your argument it is when someone questions your sanity with such comments as...if you believe that there must be something wrong with you etc..

It’s not just challenging an opinion though is it and that’s certainly not the responses that I was alluding to earlier in this thread. That’s fine and is what’s to be expected on a message board where debate is healthy.

There’s a perceived truth that’s propagated on the forum and maybe it’s correct, maybe it’s not but no one seems to be allowed to challenge it. If someone comes on here and goes against the grain on certain subjects they’re accused of being a Troll, a Cas fan, not being a true Trinity supporter, being negative all the time, having an agenda or having some personal axe to grind. once one goes in with a response there often follows a group pile on often with insults and or ridicule which cumulatively kills any form of response. repeat that accross a number of posts and it’s easy to see why some have stopped bothering with this forum.

The whole point of this forum a long time ago was that it was free from that kind of party line policing and pandering.

I remember this, you did seem to get a bit of grief at the time but the games were good

Spot on

Were we separated at birth

ahh, but vastman has never been sorry before, that's enough to freak anybody out, could tip snowie over the edge...

I know nothing has been mentioned for quite a bot on this topic, but some sports news that may or may not impact us.

Barnsley FC, which is one of the venues that has been mentioned within this subject quite a bit have just been taken over by a Chinese Billionaire.

Yes, it's Chien Lee. He was at a match recently and someone sat next to him said "Clap" and Mr Lee replied, "Oh I didn't think they were that bad".
I wonder if he wants to buy a major share in a neighbouring Superleague club.