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It was removed for the same reason as this one.

Yeah, Gordy would have been 64 today. Had a moments pause this morning, to think of him and thank him. Great man.

As much as it's bull shit - surely that's foreseeable if you say the same things as Andy?

In your defense, he is a cunt.

Bring It On - Gomez Bring on May!

Basically every time you open a page (same thread, new thread, other...) you take a little bit of data from the server which holds OWTB and move it to your pc/phone/device. This in isolation is fine, but we have a very active and quite large user base which we're really proud of building up (for the fan base/club size). So if there's one thread on a topic you pull that data back to you once. If you have to go to three threads for the data you're pulling it back three times, and thus tripling the cost. Again, in isolation that's a tiny amount, probably (not really measurable in this way) 0.001p or something tiny. But when that's a lot of people it all adds up. This is a pretty simplified example, but hopefully it helps. Appreciate the ideas, but unfortunately they don't offer much in the way of savings because, as above, it's more about the active threads and traffic than the things sitting on the site in the background. We have talked about reducing the open forums and may yet do that anyway, but it is unlikely to offer a significant saving. Haha! I probably should move all this to the main begging thread. I will try and get time later.

What a wonderful world that would be! What helps is people just following on from the conversations. There was plenty in the post-Bury chat about it already. Once people go to two places for one thing they double their bandwith consumption and that has a cost. We've thick skin and a bit of ribbing about closing a thread is well and good; but we're once again looking at a pot with about 2 months of funds in it... so if there's continued good form we'll be fine. If we tank again, then we're fucked - because nothing causes a usage spike more than a bad run of form. Here's hoping it all works out for the best. If not, we'll set up a reddit thread and call it a day!

Yep, and we've fuck all left in the kitty to pay for them!

Talk of him being caretaker at Everton once they see Koeman for what he is...

Awful news, I loved NMTB with him and Phil Jupitus.

You watch your mouth! Crowded House are the tits!!

Didn't he manage (under Giggs) at United whilst they BOTH owned Salford?

Don't bump threads.

PAYE or self employed? Big difference, and I'm astounded if you can go 4 months without pay on a salary basis.

Do you have any citation for clubs 100 years ago losing money? I find that hard to believe, given the comparative outlays (wages were comparatively small) versus incomes (attendance was comparatively large (albeit at a lower pp rate)), but would be very interested to be proved wrong.

https://i.imgur.com/RqrQE0A.gif That's the link... You could just type it in

Hey O4U... I can't get to the blog (blocked by work laptop) but that headline is terrifying. I hope you're OK mate. Stay strong.

...and here is is punching a Zlatan cross in to his own net (2:30 in)

From the article... Wait. What? "You owe me £100..." "OK, can I borrow £100?" "Sure" "Thanks, here's that £100 I owe you...!" "Thanks mate!"

This, I would guess: http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/new-plans-for-lancaster-club-684481 https://www.oldham.gov.uk/info/200714/wider_borough_sites/1085/lancaster_club

Hi All, An overdue update, apologies this wasn't here before Saturday's opening game. Unfortunately, the chat application which was used by OWTB to provide the match day chat facility is no longer supported by IPB, our provider. We've looked and there are no viable alternates available at this time, to enable us to provide the chat-driven interface of the past. There's other options out there and we'd happily do what we could to support anyone willing to invest the time and effort needed to run that for everyone, where appropriate. However, at this point there're no plans to bring back any sort of integrated chat feature. I know this will be a loss to many of the exiles on the board, which 3 of the 5 Admins are ourselves, and we are sorry for this loss. Cheers, Ack

You've guessed it...

I take your point, as a whole. But, in the context of its usage here its hard to imagine he's using it in anything but an insulting way. The irrevocable implication from that is that being called gay is insulting. That's homophobic, however we may choose to contextualise it.