The deterioration of Blue Moon

Dr Mick said:
I was born in Manchester, I live in Manchester, I will die in Manchester.

I live City, I dream City, I breath City.

I was born a City fan into a family of City fans. I am named after Michael Summerbee.

I have 6,000 loyalty points. I can't remember the last time I missed a domestic game home or away. I watch City abroad in both competitive European games and pre season friendlies.

I have watched City in the third division. I have watched City compete for silverware.

I am by no means a wealthy individual. City is my life and in the hierarchy of what's important to me City always comes out at the top. Only my health and my children are of greater importance and even then I have risked my health and let down my children for the club I love.

In no particular order I have little or no time for people on BM who:

Have chosen (for whatever reason to support City) and then have the nerve to slag them off.

Have chosen to live outside Manchester and then complain that they can't get to games.

Don't go to games then whinge when they can't get a ticket for the Swamp and other important fixtures.

Don't go to games and then claim to be an authority on a particular matter or incident just because they have heard some so called pundit say it or have seen it from 20 different camera angles.

Think they are better or more knowledgable than me just because they have clocked up more posts than I have, forgetting that whilst they are furiously banging away on their keyboard whilst watching the game on TV, I am freezing my nuts off at the game.

Have an opinion about something that they haven't witnessed first hand, especially when they believe to be more informed than someone who was actually there.

Moan when things don't go our way when haven't suffered first hand, the indignity of watching City play a completive league game at Macclesfield, seen us lose to Lincoln, stood and watched in silence as Paul Lake struggled for his life.

Criticise Roberto Manchester when they haven't witnessed first hand a completive game under Frank Clark, Alan Ball, Phil Neal (to name but three)

Criticise Garry Cook when they haven't experienced life under Peter Swales.

Slag off players during the game like Jo yet haven't heard of Lee Bradbury or Carl Griffiths.

Make light of Munich without realising the true impact it had on Manchester

I could go on.

Bluemoon is good at what it does but I’m afraid to say we will never live in harmony whilst there is such disparity between the various groups of fans.
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This maybe true but you are no Kiam06
 
I cant see how a Newbies forum would work. Agreed it would get rid of rags but would also Silence 'NEWBIES' opinion good or bad. People agreeing and disagreeing on points is the only reason a sites gonna work ? People need to calm down when somebody says something against the grain. Slagging fellow Blues off isnt doing anybody any good so that for me has to be clamped down on.
 
Dr Mick said:
I was born in Manchester, I live in Manchester, I will die in Manchester.

I live City, I dream City, I breath City.

I was born a City fan into a family of City fans. I am named after Michael Summerbee.

I have 6,000 loyalty points. I can't remember the last time I missed a domestic game home or away. I watch City abroad in both competitive European games and pre season friendlies.

I have watched City in the third division. I have watched City compete for silverware.

I am by no means a wealthy individual. City is my life and in the hierarchy of what's important to me City always comes out at the top. Only my health and my children are of greater importance and even then I have risked my health and let down my children for the club I love.

In no particular order I have little or no time for people on BM who:

Have chosen (for whatever reason to support City) and then have the nerve to slag them off.

Have chosen to live outside Manchester and then complain that they can't get to games.

Don't go to games then whinge when they can't get a ticket for the Swamp and other important fixtures.

Don't go to games and then claim to be an authority on a particular matter or incident just because they have heard some so called pundit say it or have seen it from 20 different camera angles.

Think they are better or more knowledgable than me just because they have clocked up more posts than I have, forgetting that whilst they are furiously banging away on their keyboard whilst watching the game on TV, I am freezing my nuts off at the game.

Have an opinion about something that they haven't witnessed first hand, especially when they believe to be more informed than someone who was actually there.

Moan when things don't go our way when haven't suffered first hand, the indignity of watching City play a completive league game at Macclesfield, seen us lose to Lincoln, stood and watched in silence as Paul Lake struggled for his life.

Criticise Roberto Manchester when they haven't witnessed first hand a completive game under Frank Clark, Alan Ball, Phil Neal (to name but three)

Criticise Garry Cook when they haven't experienced life under Peter Swales.

Slag off players during the game like Jo yet haven't heard of Lee Bradbury or Carl Griffiths.

Make light of Munich without realising the true impact it had on Manchester

I could go on.

Bluemoon is good at what it does but I’m afraid to say we will never live in harmony whilst there is such disparity between the various groups of fans.
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Aaaah.

Then you won't enjoy this forum.
 
I think it's rather a good idea. I am tired of reading ever-so-thoughtful musings that invariably de-humanize and pre-emptively bully the reader, should the reader be in disagreement.

I'd prefer to see abuse man-to-man, rather than the incessant streams of cowardly snide that condemn un-named blues by their hundreds and thousands.

Imagine what goes back and forth via pm.
 
Skashion said:
There should be subforums with access restrictions. The Champions League will only be accessible to the four percent who've proven themselves as elite posters - this is not necessarily restricted by post count or join date, DD for instance would surely qualify. The Premier League should be inhabited by the next sixteen percent and so on, until we're left with the tubthumpers, binary thinkers and Big Mouths Small Brains (BMSBs) in the Conference. Good/improving posters will be rewarded with promotion and vice versa with relegation.
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Who's going to be in charge of reading every post and rewarding brilliant members? It'll be madness!

Personally, I'm totally against new forums/sub-forums/etc. We're fine as we are, all the areas are nicely divided. A few more quality threads on the main forum is my only request (oh, and I agreed with the guy that suggested stickying the training reports).
 
Loads of ideas have been thrown around about this place yet not much has changed so don't expect anything.

I don't expect this but for the sanity of mods and members who just wanna post this needs implementing:

A seperate football forum.
an advanced mcfc forum (includes a sub forum for players, each player having a sticky) and a subforum for Staff.

the city forum is blocked for posters with less than XXX amount of posts, they can makeup these numbers by posting in the football forum/off-topic.. here this will sift through the true fans and the rags.
 
I'm not sure having a new user forum would be entirely beneficial? Like anything and everything, you need "fresh meat", new ideas and new people to keep things interesting. We all had to sign in and make our first post at some point.
If things don't keep evolving they go stale, boring and sh*t.

Granted, some new users are clowns or opposition fans on a wind up but the mass majority aren't. New posters are City fans too and have something to say – some of it you will agree with and some of it you can ignore – exactly the same as some of the “experienced” or “elite”.

Also, take into account the Notts County fans (and the Poznan/Aris/Hamburg etc fans) who have been well received and been a great source of info in the lead up to the Cup game next week. Their posts would have been quarantined with all of the other new users and not contributed to the current thread.
 
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