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Australia's all time greatest football forum???

Australia's all time greatest football forum

  • The World Game Forum

    Votes: 5 31.3%

  • Soccer Forum

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Knights of the Round Ball

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Gippo Sports

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Football Anarchy

    Votes: 3 18.8%

  • Four Four Two

    Votes: 6 37.5%

  • Other

    Votes: 1 6.3%

  • Veshe's A League forum

    Votes: 1 6.3%
  • Total voters
    16
@tsf Someone needs to write a long post from here that then extends to 442/IS and to the present day
 
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tsf said:
Brands engaging in Dialogue: Setanta Sports.

Setanta is a sport channel than runs on FOXTEL. It costs extra and is mostly subscribed to by football fans due to its extended coverage. Setanta came onto TWGF before the European Football championship to promote their packages- basically spam, but targeted to people who were actually discussing it and were interested in their product as opposed to be sold to by snidy pricks. Setanta answered questions directly and many users signed up. I know I did and must say that they were helpful on the phone and even sent back up emails to see if everything was working smooth. [Give me free Setanta next year for the plug karnts] Afterwards they have continued to have a voice on TWGF and answer queries about what they will be screening. The irony being the people that run the site won’t even answer users questions yet another brand is more than happy to engage.

http://www21.sbs.com.au/wgforum/viewtopic.php?t=161155&highlight=setanta


When industry professionals post

Sometimes professionals in the football scene, journalists or bloggers come onto TWGF. When they do they basically get hammered. Mathew Breeze [an ex-Australian Referee who officiated at the World Cup] did a live chat. He did get some serious questions but these were outdone by ‘Dear Matthew, Why are you so shit?’

Another is Jesse Fink, who has a popular blog
http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/blogs/halftimeorange/

on SBS’s site and used to have one on FOX SPORTS. He started posting his blogs in TWGF but this pretty much stopped when he was online and there was a whole heap of threads with titles like
‘ATTN: Jesse Fink and when you clicked on the link you were met with ‘Why are you such a fucking wanker?’ Extremely childish but funny to watch. It’s like a mix of a car crash, girls fighting and listening to outer suburban lebs talk.


Lurkers

Lurkers are people that lurk on the site [or any website], like dirty perverts in a bush. They never post but just read. TWGF has many lurkers. The most famous was a user called KMART2004 who lurked continuously for two years but never posted [you can see who is logged in]. After a substantial campaign of calling him a ‘faarking lurking karnt’ for a year- KMART 2004 posted with probably the best post ever. It was just a picture of a baton and he wrote ‘over to you’ to another lurker. Since this incident most users wished KMART2004 remained anonymous, as he has contributed pretty much fuck all since then.

Examples of the quirky users

Jase The Ace- A young Aussie/Greek and generally just a good guy that lives and breathes the forum. Made an awesome tribute vid to celebrate making 15,000 posts

Maestro: Trawls the internet looking for things that make Croatians look like fools and then posts it. Started a universal TWGF language by always following up his posts with ‘Oh Cros’ followed by an ‘embarrassed’ emoticon. Pretty much every forumite has adapted and used this phrase to take the piss out of everyone.

Polynikes- Used to only post articles about Greek history and if anyone posted a random topic he’d instantly say Greeks invented it. For some reason makes posts about UFO’s every day now. I’m not kidding.

Tonigol- A young kid who pretends he is an accountant and had been banned probably 100 times.

Didi- An enigma. Was sort of normal then went a bit odd. Would only post TOTTTTTTTTEEEEEEEEEEEEEE referring to Totti’s penalty to knock Australia out of the World Cup. His personal pics were famously posted all over the site.

Fronty- A freak who has a grudge against SBS. The story is that he was a sacked janitor. Now all he ever posts about is how bad their programs are or how they are slipping in the ratings. All his posts seem to start with ‘A slap in the face for lil'ol2%SBS’ and only ever refers to SBS as ' lilol2%SBS’.

Multis

A multi is an account someone makes in another name. This is a massive part of TWGF as not only is it funny, but it’s essential as people are always getting banned for breaking guidelines. Some classics include:
Robot Mugabe: A robot version of Robert Mugabe.
QuBo: A Chinese man that accuses Australians of racism any chance he gets. Also talks about dogs a lot.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: The Iranian President.

Language:

The TWGF has spawned its own form of language and grammar. But I cannot tell it, you’ll have to join the forum and learn it. Mostly because this post is way to long. All I can say is it’s ‘Technically and tactically a farken World Clarsh language spoken by true Crayshans and Strayans alike and invented by Greeks. Spoken from here to Tardistan’.

Invasions

Forumites occasionally invade other forums. This is means they all go in as a group, registering at another forum and posting topics to fuck with people. It happened in the Uruguayan forums during the World Cup qualifier and more recently against an AFL forum: Pic supplied. TWGF once unwisely tried to invade the masters of invasions - 4Chan. TWGF went into meltdown and nearly never recovered. Luckily 4Chan dismissed TWGF as a silly inquisitive child and didn’t crush it like they could’ve.

That concludes my long posts about the World of Forums or should I say the awesome cesspit that is TWGF. It’s also given time for me to reflect on how sad my life has become knowing this sort of shit. But in a strange way it’s kind of funny and strange in a funny kind of way.

Hopefully a few forumites will post a few comments here telling me to ‘get farked ya filthy gypsy’.
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Wow. I'm actually stunned. Well Australian soccer has always been an extremely interesting bunch of people. The people I've met over the decades in real life through football could put these blokes to shame however. :P
 
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vo2Max said:
Just glad he's found his safe space where he can relax and work on his fears and phobias.
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The only thing I am scared of is men who set up mutlis and fake online personalities, like pretending to work at/offer free coffee at a coffee shop in QLD, in order speak to and get the attention of other men who are complete stangers online. That is weird/crazy/psychotic
 
vo2Max said:
Just glad he's found his safe space where he can relax and work on his fears and phobias.
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He seems a little bitter about the two bobber. Perhaps he was cyber bullied on TWGF....

Along with his BIG DADDY ol' mate Percy....
 
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The Flying Bat said:
He seems a little bitter about the two bobber. Perhaps he was cyber bullied on TWGF....

Along with his BIG DADDY ol' mate Percy....
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You just stick to making profiles and fake scenarios to chat with strangers/men online.
 
One of the more looser incidents that's not on that TWGF post is involving the user who called himself Internet Hooligan (who was anything but, although he thought he was, funnily enough changed his tone after all this), having a real life incident with another user called MDM (who appeared slightly unhinged to say the least)

After finding out IH's identity, MDM not only rocked up to his workplace/club to write some rather nasty graffiti, and at the same time (as best my memory recalls) a fire was set at the club. Can imagine what people were thinking. Absolute lunacy
 
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