Been a while since last "where are they now (posters)" thread?

[washsaint]

Over the years there have been so many characters that were central to this, and the SaintsForever, forum.  In the absence of anything to complain about right now from a Saints perspective, if you were to name 4 posters that used to be prolific and are conspicuous by their absence who would they be?  Mine are:

1) Dubai_Phil - who could ever forget his countless tales of golfing prowess and name dropping.  Didn't he end up living in Poland?

2) Guided Missile - always managed to wind up so many on here (and SaintsForever) with his posts.  People just could not stop themselves responding!

3) Bad Boy Saint - complete plonker - whatever happened to him?

4) Help Me Rhonda - less said about this one the better!

It seems incredible that so many years have been passed since first posting on Andy Mintrams forum (Marching In?) through SaintForever (who could ever forget LeggGate?) to this iteration.  Reckon many of the posters who have remained on the forums must be, like me, mid 50s and older now!

[waylander]

Dubai Phil is now Polski Phil and is a regular poster on Sotonians

[Ivan Katalinic's 'tache]

The forum still lacks Bearsy's unique insight.

[revolution saint]

mcjwills sadly died a few years ago.  Not sure he counts as a prolific poster but he used to work with my Dad and I only found out a while after he died.  Nice bloke.

[suewhistle]

1 hour ago, Ivan Katalinic's 'tache said:

The forum still lacks Bearsy's unique insight.

Who could forget his critique of '50 Shades of Grey'?!

[Toadhall Saint]

Dalek Alpine saint are 2 I miss

[thesaint sfc]

thesaint sfc what happened to that bellend

[revolution saint]

What happened to DellDays and Batman? Different as chalk and cheese but I liked them both.

Um Pahars and Not The Kevin Moore were decent posters too.

[Saint Fan CaM]

Bearsy has to go top of my list…the one poster who truly had me laughing out loud at some of his posts.  Closely followed by some of the now gone posters that were around at the time of the monkey petting zoo or whatever it was called.

[sydney_saint]

Alpine's relentless and predictable misery ended up bringing a fair amount of joy.

[trousers]

Nineteen Canteen

[trousers]

Nathan Jones' family

[Badger]

50 minutes ago, Toadhall Saint said:

Dalek Alpine saint are 2 I miss

Glenn Hoddle obviously out of fashion. 

[Badger]

Let’s not forget Benthelegend. 

[trousers]

Mr Textbook himself, Glasgow Saint...

[trousers]

@Matthew Le God

Too soon...?

[trousers]

@K,Billy's supersound

[trousers]

@THEVMAN

[trousers]

@scooby

[trousers]

2 hours ago, washsaint said:

2) Guided Missile - always managed to wind up so many on here (and SaintsForever) with his posts.  People just could not stop themselves responding

I take it you don't visit the Brexit thread too often...?

[Cascadia Saint]

Alpine. Especially during the championship promotion year. Jesus.

[The Kraken]

1) Alpine, his ignorance and downright negativity were just something to behold and he had the thinnest skin ever so just ended up winding himself up all the time.

2) MLG, a monumental pain in the arse of a man but he brought a lot of good information to the forum. He has his own reasons for taking a break from here but by all accounts he gets his online fix of being an objectionable prick solely on Twitter these days where he has quickly forged himself a reputation akin to on here.

3) Dig Dig and Charlie. Diggers seem to be back but only in a very limited capacity. The regular double act they put on was humorous.

4) TWar. Rumours are abound that he’s posting as someone else which seems entirely likely, but his know-it-all bluffery was regularly entertaining. I particularly enjoyed him telling Turkish that he knew nothing about football then in the next sentence claimed Alphonso Davies to be one of the best right backs in the world.

 

Edited 6 November, 2023 by The Kraken

[Saint Billy]

1 hour ago, trousers said:

Nineteen Canteen

Omg, forgot about him, a slightly odd person.

[Maggie May]

Roger Beeks

Crouchie

Ponty

saintkiptanui

ascoli

Johnny Fart Pants

 

 

[Toadhall Saint]

1 hour ago, trousers said:

Mr Textbook himself, Glasgow Saint...

And of course Bournemouth saint

[The Kraken]

12 minutes ago, Saint Billy said:

Omg, forgot about him, a slightly odd person.

A slight understatement, he was a rampant loony.

[washsaint]

1 hour ago, trousers said:

I take it you don't visit the Brexit thread too often...?

Like never!

[Bad Wolf]

Badboysaints was a strange one I spoke to him at length in my youth where he confessed to being a neo-Nazi (which is silly since neo-Nazi's wouldn't actually confess to that). Last thing I remember was someone calling him fat boy, him shaking with anger, puffing out his cheeks like some kind of lizard warning off predictors and being carried out of St Mary's, disappearing into the background with everyone cheering, like Miss Trunchball at the end of Matilda.

Another memory was him claiming he'd spit on Alan Ball's grave and saying he was going to scream "SKATE BASTARD" during the silence we had for him, only to just bow his head and observe it like a normal person.

Hope he's sorted himself out though, I think he was/is roughly the same age as me which would put him in his early-mid 30's now so there's every chance he may have turned it around.

[LGTL]

BadBoySaint was/is doing a long stretch in prison. Absolute wrongun.

Roger Beeks was an undercover copper over on B-anter

So many names have gone missing in action over the years. Maverick, Minty, Ponty, Starfish, Al de Man, Javi, StuRomseySaint and his gammy eye, dune. Maybe they just went and all got a life. 

Edited 6 November, 2023 by LGTL

[bpsaint]

Whatever happened to Baj?

[The Cat]

Was it Morph who always signed off every post with IMHO?

[Bad Wolf]

15 minutes ago, LGTL said:

BadBoySaint was/is doing a long stretch in prison. Absolute wrongun.

Roger Beeks was an undercover copper over on B-anter

So many names have gone missing in action over the years. Maverick, Minty, Ponty, Starfish, Al de Man, Javi, StuRomseySaint and his gammy eye, dune. Maybe they just went and all got a life. 

What for? Very very sad but not remotely surprising.

[Midfield_General]

Morph was a genuinely interesting one. Highly active around the takeover times, it felt like he was one of the key figures involved, or if not was being deployed by one to drip feed information on their behalf. Always dropping teasing little morsels, more than the average punter would know but never enough to give himself away. Posted sparingly enough that it didn’t feel like he was just a wind-up merchant or bullshitter (although he could have been for all I know), it always felt very targeted. Always very refined and careful with his posts too, until that time he got wasted and went on a rant about Andrew Cowan, of all people. 

Disappeared once we got bought, I think?

All IMHO of course. 

[Gloucester Saint]

16 minutes ago, The Cat said:

Was it Morph who always signed off every post with IMHO?

It was/is, posted on here fairly recently too.

[Tamesaint]

50 minutes ago, Bad Wolf said:

Badboysaints was a strange one I spoke to him at length in my youth where he confessed to being a neo-Nazi (which is silly since neo-Nazi's wouldn't actually confess to that). Last thing I remember was someone calling him fat boy, him shaking with anger, puffing out his cheeks like some kind of lizard warning off predictors and being carried out of St Mary's, disappearing into the background with everyone cheering, like Miss Trunchball at the end of Matilda.

Another memory was him claiming he'd spit on Alan Ball's grave and saying he was going to scream "SKATE BASTARD" during the silence we had for him, only to just bow his head and observe it like a normal person.

Hope he's sorted himself out though, I think he was/is roughly the same age as me which would put him in his early-mid 30's now so there's every chance he may have turned it around.

Edited

Edited 6 November, 2023 by Tamesaint

[Tamesaint]

That Everton supporter Heisenberg. 

[Challenger]

Who was the gimp who reckoned he was from Kenya or something ?

Used to sign off with the saying " love and light"

Utter troll of the first order.

[The Kraken]

45 minutes ago, Bad Wolf said:

What for? Very very sad but not remotely surprising.

Something horrendous like randomly battering someone over the head with a bat or an iron bar or something. Absolute cunt from the sounds of it.

[Sheaf Saint]

Pap used to be quite amusing up until he threw himself down the conspiracy rabbit hole and couldn't pull himself out.

Is Pancake still around? Not seen him post in years.

Former mod Saintlee sadly passed away a few years ago at what would have been a relatively young age. And of course more recently another forum stalwart Minsk departed, but leaving a lasting legacy of the points comparison thread (currently fallowed due to our relegation, of course). 

Edited 6 November, 2023 by Sheaf Saint

[Block 5]

3 hours ago, trousers said:

Nineteen Canteen

 

1 hour ago, Saint Billy said:

Omg, forgot about him, a slightly odd person.

 

1 hour ago, The Kraken said:

A slight understatement, he was a rampant loony.

I got to know him a bit, away from the forum, and he was a really nice guy. 

And definitely one of the more interesting posters from the golden age of SWF. 

[23rdSaint]

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[Ex Lion Tamer]

2 hours ago, LGTL said:

So many names have gone missing in action over the years. Maverick, Minty, Ponty, Starfish, Al de Man, Javi, StuRomseySaint and his gammy eye, dune. Maybe they just went and all got a life. 

When a man is tired of Saintsweb, he is tired of life

[Yorkshire Saint]

Been posting well over 20 years over the different forums I guess,  so I'd just like to give myself an honourable mention. I guess quality of posts over quantity makes me less memorable 😆😇 or perhaps I will be remembered one day....

Edited 6 November, 2023 by Yorkshire Saint

[Fan The Flames]

Who was the chap with yellow text, was he the same guy that used to spy on tne training ground from up a tree.

[Sarisbury Saint]

Frank Cousins, I think you to be a regular.

[Badger]

5 minutes ago, Fan The Flames said:

Who was the chap with yellow text, was he the same guy that used to spy on tne training ground from up a tree.

I think the orange text was B.Rabbit. 

[Yorkshire Saint]

View from the top was a goodun too...

[Yorkshire Saint]

...as well as Guan 2.0

[egg]

Who was the fella who typed all his posts in a weird colour, yellow I think. 

As said above, Bearsy was brilliant. Some of his stuff had me properly laughing. His partner in crime Tokyo Saint was decent too. 

[egg]

Just now, egg said:

Who was the fella who typed all his posts in a weird colour, yellow I think. 

As said above, Bearsy was brilliant. Some of his stuff had me properly laughing. His partner in crime Tokyo Saint was decent too. 

Edit. Answered above.