• The Arsenal

  • Come and have one more in the Tolly 🍻 —the Intro Thread

Dom Hello folks. I've been looking for a different Arsenal forum to post in. At 41, I feel I'm too old for the other ones since everyone puts bro at the end of each post.

Yeah I hate that too. Welcome to our much more adult and sophisticated forum, bruh.

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      i just clicked on my name and saw i joined this place in november 2014, almost a fucking decade ago. and we were on arsenal mania for like a decade before that. my god, ive spent like 40% of my entire life talking about this football club with all of you

        How long has it been since Tucker McRoy was born?

        mdgoonah41 I just checked mine - I joined here 2011 and joined A_M in December 2003! I just posted back on A-M to check my profile. Replied to a comment from one HomeSteak which was made 17 minutes ago. Anyone else also lurk or post over there? I hadn't been back for ages before that. It looks a bit daunting. I like it here better.

            Asterix I hadn't been back for ages before that.

            Just logged in. It's very information dense, every reply seems to top post the previous post, often adding very little. Lots of interminable player threads with dad joke moderated titles. Looks fairly degraded relative to its pomp, though it might just be a lack of familiarity.

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                Burnwinter the dad joke titles are a remnant from when the Tolly lot ran AM I think as for some reason player threads with just the player name in the title were forbidden.

                I post quite often there, not necessarily about Arsenal or football though mostly just banter as I met a couple of the regulars there when in London and they're good people. Don't post much Arsenal because my interest in following the club and football in general is jaded and not what it used to be.

                  jones nothing really, he was just a bit of a creep and a stalker.

                    Ugh, i haven't been back to AM in years. Once it was taken over by advertisers and when Jonathan sold it, that was the end for me, and i was one of the admins there. I switched over here when it was created and slowly faded out of AM. I was there before it became A-M and it just turned into something i didn't like after a while.

                    Yep it definitely got too big to handle. I remember trying to moderate The Lobby and it was a nightmare. We locked people out of the main section and they had to "prove" themselves in The Lobby and then be nominated to for admittance. Some people rebelled and refused to leave The Lobby. It got a bit heated!

                    I like it here much more.

                      Asterix I forgot about that lobby stuff. We'd all nominate posters to be moved up, was a load of shite really.

                        Proper lord of the flies stuff

                        It was attempt to keep the stupidity out of the main forum, but it just turned into a free for all nightmare. Ugh. I think AnthonyG and I were 2 of the last of the 'old guard' left there after a while, and we both kind of drifted away from it.