Around 10 years ago there were a couple of pools boards ITN probably being the most remembered. Whatever happened to all those posters, have the all gone canoeing or just changed their name?

Can't remember when I started posting on ITN, probably '99 as Sugarinmytea, changed to Aptid around 2000 possibly.

I used to post on the Official Site Message Board, can't remember what my username was though.

I'm still around. I was on the original mailing list from about 1995 onwards - before ITN was born I think

The same people are probably still floating around somewhere, just all changed usernames over the years.

I found some thumbnails of very early websites on a old hard drive a while back....

Think the first is from season 1995/96

Remember them well. You did well there Kev.

Blimey I'd forgotten all about that one, doubt I even have the username and password for the hosting site now. Sat idle for almost seven years!

transfer speculation linking us with (alleged) keeper Tony Williams!!!
How time flies............................

one i posted earlier

Sounds like Dibble's annual appraisal.

there is probably a few telling porkies do you think they are going to admit to being superwatty

I'm superwatty.

I'M Superwatty and so is my Wife.

Fana Triallist Tim Sperrevik looked desperate to impress boss Chris Turner and used his pace and power in attempting to cause problems in and around the Tykes box. Sperrevik certainly looks the part

I was aroiund on the boards from about 1996, on the old division three(?) messageboard quite a lot, posting as Rik. That was a tremendous messageboard, once changing its name to the division three cheeseboard. Full of obscure and surreal humour. DJ and ECG were regulars too. Oh the days when I didnt have to actually do much work when I was there.

I was on the Mailing List, and also the board when the ITN one was hosted on InsideTheWeb, and the last time I changed my moniker was because I used to post under my real name and then someone posted claiming to be me.... Other than ECG, am I the one with the longest-standing name then?!

Although I do have to admit to a couple of aliases that have been used at times. Specifically, The General and Purple Floyd....

The Rik who played for the itn soccerball team?

Who nearly killed me by driving on West View Road on the right hand side thinking it was a dual carriageay?

The Bunker still has such posters

PS I am Superwatty's best mate. At least I think that's what he said.

I don't want to be 'Superwatty'

Heh heh yes. I did nearly kill you. And if there was a car coming along in the opposite directions it would have been curtains. I would have jumped out at the last second, had it all planned. I'd forgotten about that til now, cant remember exactly who was in my car at the time, just being rather embarrassed. You could be one of about six so come on, let me know?
I thoroughly enjoyed playing and training for ITN; it was fun

More recently, what's happened to Karl Marx?

Mad John knows something, I think.................but he'd have to kill me if he told me..........and then he'd have to kill you all......................and Mr I would have to put his combats back on to save us all and keep the Bunker traffic up!!!!

I suspect you know already. Otherwise...how do you know MadJohn knows, eh?

Anyway, I suspect I know too

When we're all at Pools there's a hidden sinister message played during the pre-match music, and the answer lies there, so I'm told. Hang on, I've said too much......who's that at the door............................?

No, get off................

A
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Sorry about that, it was just the wife bringing fish and chips.

So what has happened to Mr Marx then?

I drove the wrong way down a street and finished him off!

I was on the mailing list as well. Nick i am called. I think I was then as well. I must have only been about 15 then. you'd look in your inbox and there'd be loads of pools-related e-mails. it was good.

I remember they had a page in the programme where Paul Mullen would choose stuff from the mailing list and put it in there. I was over the moon when I got in. I remember pondering on whether or not Micky Barron had played his last game for us (of his initial loan spell!)

Marky mark and his 1970's coaching manual, quality!

It's a sad sight to see the comparison of ITN pre-Newellgate and the today.

Newellgate, hmmmm, mistakes were made on all sides. I take my share of the blame.

As for Rivals, they only have 365 to blame. When they came in they stripped Rivals of any/all it's development staff, the good ship Rivals drifted in the seas on the internet for two years with no investment, no development, no staff - apart from a guy called Trevor.

Now, well now it's just a place for more 365 adverts, I know revenue from adverts is supposed to be virtually non existent, but the rivals template directs people to other 365 sites, and the powers that be know there are several sites who still have their main internet community on a rivals message board.

However the new design may be the final nail in the coffin, somehow they've managed to take a step backwards. Its a world away from the year leading up to the launch. I brought the Liverpool publisher on to the network with me, we went down to a Rivals conference in Birmingham, all expenses paid, in those days they were paying money out to publishers before the sites even went live. Freebies left right and centre, money for commercial activities, weekly phone calls with your divisional publisher, that's why Rivals took a huge market share very quickly.

Vital have the same idea, but I'm afraid they are doing all the right things but in a saturated market. The people in charge are genuine and they are working their bollocks off, but the competition from official sites and press sites is just too much these days.

eeh, whatever happened to the wireless and the paper,eh?

Heh heh yes. I did nearly kill you. And if there was a car coming along in the opposite directions it would have been curtains. I would have jumped out at the last second, had it all planned. I'd forgotten about that til now, cant remember exactly who was in my car at the time, just being rather embarrassed. You could be one of about six so come on, let me know?
I thoroughly enjoyed playing and training for ITN; it was fun[/quote]

It is i, mr phil, i think it was me and andy normo, or possibly skoolie in your car i'm not so sure, my life flashed before my eyes thats for sure.

You still playing football?

Could do with a tall curly mopped centre back for our team.

I'm 37 man. I can hardly bend down to take my worn slippers off before making myself a hot water bottle. I'm thinking of getting a stair lift but the wife keeps refusing, says she's not strong enough.
I play the occasional five a side contest in newcastle with work, loads of young people chopping each other down, me standing there shouting, doing the occasional header or kick up the pitch. Same as usual. As long as I complete one overhead scissor kick in a match I'm happy, regardless of the score.
Good to hear you're still alive; probably because you havent been in a car with me very much since.

It is i, mr phil, i think it was me and andy normo, or possibly skoolie in your car i'm not so sure, my life flashed before my eyes thats for sure.

You still playing football?

Could do with a tall curly mopped centre back for our team.[/quote]


whats his real name?

Yes it's the same one TP.

ah ok

why skoolie though i dont get it

also do i know you ?

you'd have to ask skoolie why he decided to call himself skoolie. And no you don't know me, but skoolie does!

ok i will

it rhymed
I think that was the main thing.
And he was still at school when he chose a username for In The Net.
And he just wanted to score lots of goals and be a glory boy instead of sticking to his job manfully like me
Older brothers eh?

there is no exuse for that nikname >>>.<<<

Me and the other half, Poolie Chrissie, knew him as Skoolie Poolie when he worked in Iceland.

oh yeh i remember that

And he's a ref now who gave a very dodgy penalty against us this season, not happy Skools!