I'm going to vent some more here. This is all general stuff, not aimed at anyone in particular:
One of the things I hate is threads like this. Pointless attention seeking to a miniscule problem. It's not even a problem. We haven't had one for a while though and I believe that is because this place is the best it's been for probably at least two years. Since were knocked out of the CL we've had a few bricky moments and the mood in here has been overly reflective of that.
Now, if I only wanted to know the latest news I would go on a news outlet like Sky Sports, Daily Mail, Guardian or even the Official Site. Whatever you find acceptable. Or as I do, use twitter. I find Newsnow has turned to crap and is infested with blogs. On twitter you can follow the sources you're interested in reading and nobody is forcing anyone to put up with the attention seeking tossers. You build your own timeline. Stick with newspapers, journalists, official player accounts and such. If this was a bigger forum we would maybe have people posting articles for every little titbit, but we're not and as such we don't.
Having one thread for a player makes it a lot easier IMO. If I want to read or post about Gareth Bale I go to the dedicated thread. Simples. You wouldn't have to wade through anything less if someone started a new thread as the first 2 or 3 pages would be filled with people asking if anyone knows anything or speculating. At the same time you'd get a lot of the same posts in the main player thread. It's also mentioned in the OMT, the previous OMT and the Europa League thread. Adding another thread is simply adding more spam. It's not hard to find information at the end of a bigger thread. You can pick up where you last left off or simply go to the end. Posts have timestamps, so it's easy to tell if it's new info or not.
It's also beneficial in that we don't get as much repetitiveness of discussions. The same topics keep getting restarted because someone missed it last time or simply forgot about it and every time a new thread is started a lot of useless posts are made that already exist several times over in other threads.
For example: It's almost weekly someone bumps the Huddlestone thread, wishing he was a much better player than he actually is. He wasn't the answer a week ago or two months ago and he isn't now either. If it had been a new thread every time we'd have 10 times the amount of posts saying they either agree or that he's no longer the player he was two years ago compared to what we're getting now. As I mentioned above, it would be the same with Bale's injury. To repeat myself: If you want to know what the latest news on something is, go to a news site. If you want to chat about it, come here.
What also happens a lot is that people need to post something about their usual spacegoats. We all know that many think Ade is brick and that a lot of you think we shouldn't have signed him and he should be moved on and blah, blah, blah. We don't need a new thread after every game where people repeat these views, regardless of what actually happened in the game. We already got it and thankfully it's mostly kept in one thread.
It's been refreshing these past few weeks that not every thread has been derailed into some moan and whinge fest, but all the negative crap still gets circulated. It's incredible how fast some things become established truths that will never change when it's something negative. Anything positive is just a blip or anomaly. 'Don't worry, player X will back to his usual brick self next week.' If most of our players were really as brick as is made out and AVB completely clueless, how come we are 3rd in the table and in the quarter final of the Europa League? You do NOT do that by simply having one or two players papering over the cracks. What cracks? We're doing it because the players are actually quite talented and we're well organized, but for many it's only the imperfections that are noticed. We haven't been this good in decades. We're a consistent top 5 side and simply remaining so is a remarkable achievement in itself, especially considering the resources our main competitors have at their disposal. Yes, there is the potential to do even better, but you can't just wave a magic wand (or in this case: splash £30-40 million on a couple of superstars).
I may have veered slightly off the path at the end here, but I believe there is sometimes a connection between other issues and frustrations that manifests itself on here in some way. Sometimes you have people just looking for something to get annoyed by. Whether it's a player, the manager, other teams or simply how this forum works. And this forum works well as it is. SN&V is easy to use and it's not at all hard to keep up with things. Very, very few threads generate more than a page or two in a day (excluding match chat). If there's something big happening there's no problem if a thread is started about it, but when it's just minor stuff, updates, it fits better in an existing one. You'd have to go a long time without reading before it's too much to catch up on for any particular topic. Maybe some miss the old time message boards where every new post was a new thread. Now those were hard to keep up with or find anything useful on.
