Missing Members - 2024

[31Tommys_barber]

I miss PaulP and I hope he's OK, and then there's a swag of posters like Mav, Raydan, LanceRomance, Tommy'sBarber, bmaurizio, Amers, capcom, c4e, chalkybill, flyboy, Jack Burton, and many others who no longer post or only occasionally post.

I suspect that social media is attracting more people away from discussion groups across the board, and footy groups in general and this place in particular are feeling the squeeze.

Social media is faster with latest news, be it fair dinkum or fake, bit there's really not much scope for the discussions that make this place interesting, informative and, at times, infuriating.

The bright side is that we seem to hardly attract any bots now  :

It’s nice to be missed but nothing nefarious about lack of posts from me, can’t speak for the others but haven’t moved on to other sites or different media (too old to understand how to do that). I still read the posts from the older guys as they have the wisdom and have been through the same eras as me from 1958 to now. I now spend about two thirds of my time in WA helping out with grandkids and over here if you don’t follow the locals you are in a vacuum for other footy news. I’m sure WA surfer would agree that you guys are our lifeline to what’s happening and I thankyou for that.
I just haven’t posted much as we are going alright which is fantastic but grumpy old buggers like me need to whinge sometimes! ?☹️