Concurring wholly.

People will always want the manager out, at any club, read some liverpool fans last week on the beeb asking for rafas head cos they've lost 2 games, about 80 clubs in england would swap with liverpool right now.

Some people are just never happy.

True.

But The Bunker doesn't have to be a vehicle for them to vent their spleen under some misguided theory that it is their right.

Well i'm afraid it is.

It isn't mate, and as long as I have owt to do with it it won't be.

That is one of the best posts I have ever read but I must decline your invitation to argue, for to argue would be negativity against your positivity, would it not?
I'll just say onwards and upwards and a pox on negativity.
Chrissie Turner's blue and white army.
Down with Man Utd and Liverpool.

Hey i'm not saying for one second thats what i'm doing or thats what i think should happen or anything.

I'm just saying thats what does happen.

That's what has been happening.

I'm hoping that it is being curtailed by whatever means necessary.

Nice use of Sword of Damocles there!

Serious question Mr Fireball, do you think that the early part of this season bears any resemblance to the latter part of last season or the fag end of Wilson's reign?

By the way, "Ripper's lot"? Do I take it that you're judging me on what guys who stand near me at the match do? You crack me up.

Staying up, staying up, staying up
Staying up, staying up, staying u-up!

I'm totally confused now. I have asked for a list of topics that I am allowed to have a freely given opinion on....to no avail. How can I be expected to "toe the line" if I don't know what sort of opinion I can have or whether I am allowed to express or debate it.

The heading is " Unnofficial Hartlepool United Fans Forum"

To have a debate there needs to be a difference of opinion, or that's what I always thought. I'm not so sure now.

I believe that "rarfery" is expressly forbidden.

Calling for the manager's head before the end of August is deemed rarfery.

Hope that helps.

Are one word insults classed as rarfary?

Not when they're responding to rarfery, no.

Forgive me if I'm giving the impression that I am being a nuisance here, because I can assure you that Im not. I am used to crossing t's and dotting I's and I find that my decision making improves vastly when I'm in possession of as much information as is possible when I'm making decisions.
With that in mind, can somebody please explain to me what is meant by "rarfery"??????
Thank you in anticipation.

It's one step up from being a Doyle.

Not as bad as a ding though, sort of in the middle.

whats a meff then?

It's what a short tongued puppy does on the carpet.

Ah, I see.

Which is more then we do.

I don't post often because, as an exile, I don't get to many matches- posting about a match you haven't seen would be a bit stupid (not that that stops a few people on here). Anyway, my point is this. I have argued with Mr Ripper and Mr I on a number of points, often non-football stuff where they probably found my views well out of order. I wasn't banned or even threatened with a ban. I've also noticed that Mr Fireball disagrees with them much more regularly than me on football and non-football threads and he doesn't get banned either.

I reckon they are happy to see disagreement but unhappy to see a board that is basically a bit better than most football boards dragged down. By better I don't mean better punctuated, written or expressed than most, I mean better points being made than the knee-jerk, sack everybody bollocks that passes for fan comment on the endless commercial sites, radio stations and TV phone/text ins that we are plagued with. When fanzines started they were great as ordinary fans had no voice. Now the idea of "giving the fans a voice" is so widespread that any armchair dwelling tosser can get national exposure for repeating what they just read in The Sun.

I'll probably get unfairly bannned for being an unpatriotic, Loid sympathising, Marx loving sexual deviant at some point but, for now, that seems like a price worth paying to avoid the Bunker being drowned in a gigantic wave of unmoderated shite.

Have to agree about the permanent ban bit, temporary bans should suffice for most bad stuff. Impressed at your self banning though Mr Fireball, it shows a fine sense of natural justice that you persisted until the job was done. Maybe all the moderators should self ban every now and then in the interests of democracy.