BBC Hall of Shame

[Rachael]

Um - you seem convinced... so I'l leave you to it: if you think I've got the patience to spend hours on the International board with all the screaming children... and have the faintest clue about all the U-23 stars-in-the-making who are coming through in WI domestic cricket... and have had access to TV coverage of (and time to watch) stacks of recent Test cricket (I wish)... then I guess you'll just have to go on being suspicious.

[Mark Kidger]

Originally Posted by freddie flintoff 142

lol think the good old beeb are scrapin the barrel

Scraping? They are picking out the woodworm!

[freddie flintoff 142]

think it can only get worse as well, so many people are leaving it's unabliable, its gone down hill rapidly in the past couple of week

[Oliver]

Originally Posted by Rachael

if you think I've got the patience to spend hours on the International board and have the faintest clue about all the U-23 stars-in-the-making who are coming through in WI domestic cricket... and have had access to TV coverage of (and time to watch) stacks of recent Test cricket (I wish)... then I guess you'll just have to go on being suspicious.

Come on Rachael, everyone on the boards knows you don't have to actually watch (or play) the game to have an opinion.
Just read a lot of articles.

But if you wanted to have two believable views in a discussion then the best way, would be to have a literate, eloquent, factual and well argued self, and a brief, to the point with occasional shock factor self.

I'm just having a bit of fun here, but I was initally struck by the similarity of your initials.
The man "dt" and the woman "RDT."

[Richie Benauds Love Child]

Originally Posted by high_on_linseed

Bit mean this one, but now we have a civilized forum for cricket debate, and the BBC site is now officially a complete farce, was there anyone on the BBC site who really wound you up? I put my own head on the block here...

To be honsest, despite my jibes, Talon never really bothered me that much, cos he was so transparentally a wind-up merchant and very occassionally funny. But K R Dunsaram did.

The classic that springs to my mind was a guy going by the name of MARTIN T. Not only did this guy have about as much grasp on coherent English as a whelk who had taken elocution lessons from Janet Street-Porter, but he had a single-minded (almost psychotic) obsession with fast-short pitched bowling to the exclusion of all other topics. "Sweet chin music" was his constant mantra. No chance of him finding his way to this site, as he couldnt navigate his way out of the Bakerloo line, so I can bad-mouth him to my hearts content!

MARTIN T ! God that guy was a pr1ck of the highest order. Seb B had go at him one day, comparing him to one of those fast bowling club players who wear too much sun block and take it all too seriously. He also stated nobody liked him and that we all laugh at him and he should go elsewhere.

I've butchered it in translation but it truly was the finest put down I've ever seen on a message board !

[Rachael]

LOL - I don't mind how much contributers understand the game... or how they gain their understanding (playing, watching, listening to TMS, reading stuff - their choice).

The one thing that does irritate me is this: the tendency these days to think that one opinion is as good as any other... and to presume one can speak as authoritatively on cricket with no-knowledge / understanding as someone like your good self who clearly plays (club level), watches (county level as well as Test level) and has been generally taking an interest for a considerable length of time.

[Oliver]

Originally Posted by Richie Benauds Love Child

MARTIN T ! Seb B - the finest put down I've ever seen on a message board !

I'm going to go and find Seb, he is too much missed.

I will be very subtle. We don't want too many charlatans. I am enough.

[Scott-Wozniak]

Originally Posted by high_on_linseed

To be honsest, despite my jibes, Talon never really bothered me that much, cos he was so transparentally a wind-up merchant and very occassionally funny. But K R Dunsaram did.

HOL

Have to agree with you on Sundaram, of all the people there I found annoying (and there were plenty), he topped the list, not just because he was annoying, but because he was doing it on purpose. A lot of the dimwits there just are just 'clueless' about what they're drivelling on about, and you can ignore them, but Sundaram knows exactly what he's doing, and he's doing it precisely to wind people up and get a reaction from them. He's smart enough to post posts that are sufficiently far off topic thats annoying, but retains just enough Cricket relevance to get away with not having them removed for being off topic - thats a conscious thing - he's doing it on purpose.

Other than him, there's a whole raft of clueless dimwits who know very little about the game of Cricket and use that MB as a forum to air their own grievances about a whole range of irrelevant topics.

It was the general lack of reasoned discussion about Cricket issues that concerned me the most, and the posters that did have something useful to say just got drowned out by the kiddy dimwits.

Scott

[Whips_off_the_bails]

I found Sundaram KR hugely amusing - but not half as amusing as he thought he was. Actually, it was the fact that he clearly thought he was amusing that I found amusing. I quite enjoyed pointing out his factual inaccuracies and generally being as snide back to him as he was about England. He obviously preened himself on his writing style, so I took great delight in pointing out his frequent misuses of words. I take the view that fools were put on earth for the entertainment of the rest of us, so I quite enjoyed his posts.

I took don talon's posts mainly as harmless banter, although he occasionally stepped over the line.

[Oliver]

Originally Posted by Whips_off_the_bails

I took don talon's posts mainly as harmless banter, although he occasionally stepped over the line.

There's a thing. You do occasionally have to be careful with "harmless banter."

Some people don't always see that it's as harmless as it's meant to be.

I know, I often fall between the stools.