Popular Post djchapsticks Posted December 26, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 26, 2022 (edited) Think it's worthwhile to point out with a wee bit of advance that January 2023 will mark two full decades since P&B rose from the embers of the doomed Scottish Football Online forum. It's early days were a mishmash of mostly St. Mirren, Clyde, ICT, Ross County and Falkirk supporters of the time, it's amazing to think that it's been here so long and for some of us, myself included, we've been frequenting this site for longer than we have lived not frequenting it (I was 19 when I signed up FFS). I was on from more or less day dot lurking as a guest but left it until the August to bother signing up. I think joined specifically to say GIRFUY to a Clyde fan after we'd beaten them. Many of the originals have long since fallen by the wayside either by way of heads gone, Ruggy's auld banhammer or the famed resignation letters of years gone by. There genuinely can't be that many folk from the first 12 months still kicking about. @Savage Henry @Rugster @Madame RH33 @Coventry Saint @ICTChrisand obviously @Div are about the only folk from the first year or so who come to mind that I still see regularly posting. And to be honest, it's still the first site I click onto when online even after all this time. I've come and gone from different forums in the last 20 years but nowhere is quite like this or lasted the pace for me. Scottish football is a niche as f**k market and always will be and I suppose, regardless of beliefs, outlooks on life etc, it's the one thing that everyone who signs up here has in common so it's good to have that outlet online and a busy community to discuss it to boot. Aside from that though, there has been some absolutely unreal moments in two decades on this site. Quite literally too many to even think of remembering and sadly not everything documented due to purges of the forum losing a lot of genuinely fucking hilarious content down the years. I've also had the opportunity of meeting many folk who frequented the forum down the years at various events such as the 5s, the subcrawl and the short lived but brilliant fun P&B Fitba team...the vast majority pleasant, decent folk, with just enough of a sprinkling of utter moonhowling arsehole to keep it interesting! So aye, enough of the birthday caird pish apart from well done Div on keeping this full thing running (mostly, apart from when St. Mirren get beat and the severs magically go down) and hopefully here's to the next 20 years. Have any other P&Bers ever started a Scottish football forum from the ashes of a dead online football community? Edited February 8, 2023 by djchapsticks 48 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeWhoWalksBehindTheRows Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 Didn't know it was heavy on ICT and County fans at the start, what's the story behind that? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Naitch Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 Like you, it's the first site I click on whenever I'm online. Scary that I've been part of this site since 2006 with everything that's happened in my life since then. Here's to the next 20 years, might* even post something remotely interesting between now and then. *only might. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch Stanton Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 3 minutes ago, djchapsticks said: There genuinely can't be that many folk from the first 12 months still kicking about. @Savage Henry @ICT_Chris @Rugster @Madame RH33 @Coventry Saint and obviously @Div are about the only folk from the first year or so who come to mind that I still see regularly posting. I've been here since day 1...I'm not on my original username of course 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djchapsticks Posted December 26, 2022 Author Share Posted December 26, 2022 Just now, Arch Stanton said: I've been here since day 1...I'm not on my original username of course You don't count then - you clearly did something wrong. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bert Raccoon Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 When's the party? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch Stanton Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 6 minutes ago, djchapsticks said: You don't count then - you clearly did something wrong. Forgot my login details with my first, self-imposed sabbatical with my second, fresh start with my third. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boghead ranter Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 15 minutes ago, Arch Stanton said: Forgot my login details with my first 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 I have been on here since about 2003 under different usernames. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 You’ve tagged my impostor account! I don’t think there were that many Caley fans in the early days. The three main teams on the site were St Mirren, Falkirk and Clyde. For a good few years there were no fans from quite a few clubs, including most of the Premiership teams. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djchapsticks Posted December 26, 2022 Author Share Posted December 26, 2022 1 minute ago, ICTChris said: You’ve tagged my impostor account! I don’t think there were that many Caley fans in the early days. The three main teams on the site were St Mirren, Falkirk and Clyde. For a good few years there were no fans from quite a few clubs, including most of the Premiership teams. I recall RIG, Sandy Cromarty and a few others as well. There were quite a few I always felt. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GiGi Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 Forum boomers browsing P&B in 2023 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludo*1 Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 I always worry about this site declining in numbers or Div getting fed up and closing it. Always my go to website and only real form of 'social media' I use. 14 years for me. Some going. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pozbaird Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 It’s a good forum where in general, there’s no nasty business, and while it gets heated, never really tips over the edge. For example, cannot imagine any P&B regulars saying anything other than ‘best wishes for a full recovery to Craig Gordon’, while on some other social media platforms, there’s always complete and utter bawbags on the loose. It’s certainly my go-to forum, and lights up magnificently when the ugly sisters get pumped in Europe or whatever, and a diddy collective can let rip with gifs and general point-and-laugh hilarity. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RH33 Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 I didn't join until 2004 but browsed before that. Used to be lots of Falkirk fans. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 17 minutes ago, Ludo*1 said: I always worry about this site declining in numbers or Div getting fed up and closing it. Always my go to website and only real form of 'social media' I use. 14 years for me. Some going. Literally about 95% of my internet activity is on here. I don't have Facebook and seldom use Twitter, so this is my main social media. If it was ever to close, my internet usage would plummet dramatically. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbornbairn Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 (edited) 28 minutes ago, Madame RH33 said: I didn't join until 2004 but browsed before that. Used to be lots of Falkirk fans. That's because there's so many of us. It's not something we talk about much though. ETA - I've been here 12 f'kn years! Edited December 26, 2022 by Newbornbairn 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Other Foot Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 It’s a beautiful thing, really, because - let’s face it - individual club forums are for cretins and peasants. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 9 minutes ago, The Other Foot said: It’s a beautiful thing, really, because - let’s face it - individual club forums are for cretins and peasants. Yes. The Ayr United forum is full of c***s who inhale their own farts. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch Stanton Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 55 minutes ago, Madame RH33 said: I didn't join until 2004 but browsed before that. Used to be lots of Falkirk fans. Why have you changed your username? Is there a bordello in Erskine? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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