Flat Earth

Are you worried?

Anyone still got a Magoo'd tshirt? They're probably collectable now. "Yabba dabba doo, we're all here to get Magoo'd." So many dead TAMBers... Jeezo.

Has anyone on here been banging on about chemtrails? That one is an absolute tin hat belter...

There's nothing tangible to "own". All you need are the domain names, and if you get a new test board up and functional I'm pretty sure that if its a "run by the fans for the fans not-for-profit" set up the current mods/admin would happily pass over those domains.

The physical threats aren't a factor to be honest. But you'd never get a minutes peace trying to post on here and would get every single decision you ever made thrown back in your face with bells on. Every time anyone disagreed with you about ANYTHING you would be accused of double standards and hypocrisy. And the truth of it is there would always be a certain level of double standards and hypocrisy, because we are all human. But you can only do your best, with genuine good intention, and try to be as fair as you can, and second guess yourself on every single decision you ever made - and it still wouldn't be good enough.

No. What you need to keep the TAMB going is a small group of people who can do stuff, rather than talk about it on the internet. People with the time and skills and motivation to take an off-the-shelf message board, do all the techy stuff to get it working, agree how the new team are going to run the board - including all the admin and mod stuff, find a host/server, and then, if you can do all that you THEN you only have to worry about funding it.

What makes you think knowing who the mods are would make moderating any easier? Truth is it would make it ten times harder. There wasn't one single suspension or ban I gave out that wasn't argued about - usually by a total fudrick who totally deserved the ban/suspension. If people had known who to focus their grievances on the board would be unmoddable. You seriously haven't a scooby pal...

Just checking my texts from Alan, he wasn't the most pc and this joke is not suitable for TAMB... "A British engineer has started up a new business in Afghanistan - making land mines that look like prayer mats. Business is going great, he says prophets are going through the roof..."

Math is a creeping americanism. It was always mathS, as in mathematicS. But why isn't it arithmeticS??? This bugs me. They can't both be right, but I'm not changing now...

There were two original NATA "Tartan Armani" tshirts for the Milan game. One had New York, London, Paris, Milan, Inverurie The other was New York, London, Paris, Milan, Dirleton... Always got a new year text from him. I guess that means I'll remember him every year now.

Colonel is dead?? Jeezo... No words.

Too many to list... This place was an unhealthy addiction for me for well over a decade. Couldn't begin to list the number of fantastic people I met through this board, but grateful that so many of them are now friends in my "real life". Also can't overstate how big a part of my life all of this was, the banter on here, the arguments and discussions, the characters, the stories - and then meeting up with folk in the most unlikely of places - that could only be contrived by a random qualifying draw for a football qualification campaign. So many memories that will live with me forever.

GIMac?

Hmmm. Scotland have never qualified for anything since the TAMB came along...

Surreal. The mod that banned him is now running with (well trying to keep up with) "THE BIG GINGER RIDE" down Aberdeen beach at lunch times once a week these days... How the hell did that happen?

Given the game away here boys. You are both Khraeigh. Think you've over-egged it now...

So how do you know you're not him...?

When exactly did this happen? I suspect you have a rather tenuous grasp of the history of Scottish football coming out with utter nonsense like this...

Protecting self interests is no way to manage a league. The governing body of the SPFL needs to be independent of the clubs - they've proven they are unfit to be involved in the decision making. But the OF are the worst for it...

Why would any one club deliberately disadvantage themselves? It has to be all clubs or nothing for something like this. Voluntary is like booting yourself in the balls to make a vain point. Having said that I would guess that many clubs actually complied with this rule as a side effect of being utterly skint and trying to make limited resources stretch as far as possible.

You need to look up "veto".

Apologies if I've missed it, had a quick skim but didn't see any thread about this. So aye, anyway, Craigie Broon tried to implement some radical new rule back in the late 90s that played a big part in France winning the world cup in 98. Turns out that after failing to even qualify in 94 and 98 Gerrard Houllier came up with an idea that the French clubs should be limited in the size of their squads - no more than 20 players over the age of 21. As a result of this teams like Marseille had to play 17 year olds Henry and Trezeguet as injury cover. And this, Broon asserts, played a huge part in France winning the World Cup in 98 with a young squad. So Broony saw this, saw it was a good idea, tried to bring it in here - but it was veto'd by two clubs, who claimed it would affect their European chances. In reality it would have stopped them accumulating 40+ squads and cherry picking the top players of Motherwell, Killie, Hibs, St Johnstone, Dundee etc, most of which in that era played a handful of games, got splinters in their erses, and were shunted off to lower division English sides once the league was won. So, how did all that work out in the end? With the benefit of hindsight... Did the fortunes of the international side improve? Did the OF set Europe on fire? (Metaphorically rather than literally). And did our domestic game grow in health and vibrancy? (Rhetorical).

Yep. That's my experience too. But there are always exceptions that prove the rule...

Its been ages since I fixed someone's quote on here. I actually laughed out loud when I read Parklife's comment. The irony is probably beyond his comprehension... Have I missed much?

Totally agree