Popular Post Designer1 Posted June 29 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted June 29 (edited) If I wasn't for the other (non football) areas of the forum I would have stopped posting years ago. As @Rugeley Villa says, VT transcends football and is still the site I spend most time on even after nearly 20 years of being a member. I hope its around for a long long time. Edited June 29 by Designer1 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post villa4europe Posted June 29 Popular Post Share Posted June 29 On topic can be good at times, theres 2 main problems, firstly there are people that would happily argue about the colour of grass and secondly which imo is the biggest problem there are some big conversation worthy things that stagnate, the luiz transfer for example, there's probably been a few hundred posts on him in the last week despite nothing actually happening football doesn't actually move fast enough for on topic to stay interesting Off topic does The most surprising thing about VT is seemingly it's traffic, I popped on red cafe earlier to see if they reacted to Radcliffe's nonsense, they weren't talking about it, we were, in recent weeks I've been on Chelsea, spurs and arsenal forums to try and read about villa related things, the volume of say Gallagher posts on here compared to Duran and kellyman posts on Chelsea's forum is crazy, not sure if limpid has some actual numbers for it but VT feels far busier than some "bigger" clubs Obviously familiarity too but VT is better organised than 90% of other clubs forums, there's some proper bandit countries out there (SHA for example) My only wish would be that gaming was as popular as music here 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandy Lifeboats Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 34 minutes ago, villa4europe said: .......... there are people that would happily argue about the colour of grass 1. No there aren't 2. Brown 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 8 minutes ago, Mandy Lifeboats said: 1. No there aren't 2. Brown To be fair that's still better than Brown I should know, I've worked with grass all around the world Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 2 minutes ago, villa4europe said: To be fair that's still better than Brown I should know, I've worked with grass all around the world Its not brown. I'm ITK but can't tell you how, I'll just make cryptic posts every now and again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 Ok, ok, I'll **** resubscribe, has limpid put you lot up to this? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandy Lifeboats Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 2 hours ago, villa4europe said: I should know, I've worked with grass all around the world I have never worked as a professional grass layer. Although I was a talented schoolboy grass layer. Therefore, I am right. You are wrong. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 8 hours ago, CarryOnVilla said: There’s a handful of members that mostly exist in “Off Topic” How do you guys end up at a football forum and talk more about other stuff than football? This is a football forum?! I thought it was about holiday homes. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted June 29 VT Supporter Share Posted June 29 3 minutes ago, Xela said: This is a football forum?! I thought it was about holiday homes. And sheds. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandy Lifeboats Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 Couldn't we move the SHA thread into "Off Topic"? It's a much more suitable location than "Other Football". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KentVillan Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 The funny thing is you have people who float around the whole site and then people who are absolute stalwarts of a particular section or even a particular thread. It’s like a little town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegis Posted June 29 VT Supporter Share Posted June 29 11 hours ago, CarryOnVilla said: There’s a handful of members that mostly exist in “Off Topic” How do you guys end up at a football forum and talk more about other stuff than football? I started posting on services provided by @limpid in about 1995, the conversations then was exactly the same as today but it involved the transfers of Sasa Curcic and Simon Grayson instead of Luiz and Kellyman. Same circles every season and it got boring. Off Topic is my Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/Pornhub(when the top totty threads where allowed) 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post GarethRDR Posted June 29 Popular Post Share Posted June 29 If it wasn't for off-topic, I wouldn't have been able to convince my wife I was a film-savant by insisting we watch everything @Designer1 talks about in the film thread and passing it off as my own idea. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted June 29 Moderator Share Posted June 29 3 hours ago, Mandy Lifeboats said: Couldn't we move the SHA thread into "Off Topic"? It's a much more suitable location than "Other Football". You should be burned at the stake for that very suggestion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one_ian_taylor Posted June 29 VT Supporter Share Posted June 29 7 hours ago, villa4europe said: On topic can be good at times, theres 2 main problems, firstly there are people that would happily argue about the colour of grass and secondly which imo is the biggest problem there are some big conversation worthy things that stagnate, the luiz transfer for example, there's probably been a few hundred posts on him in the last week despite nothing actually happening football doesn't actually move fast enough for on topic to stay interesting Off topic does The most surprising thing about VT is seemingly it's traffic, I popped on red cafe earlier to see if they reacted to Radcliffe's nonsense, they weren't talking about it, we were, in recent weeks I've been on Chelsea, spurs and arsenal forums to try and read about villa related things, the volume of say Gallagher posts on here compared to Duran and kellyman posts on Chelsea's forum is crazy, not sure if limpid has some actual numbers for it but VT feels far busier than some "bigger" clubs Obviously familiarity too but VT is better organised than 90% of other clubs forums, there's some proper bandit countries out there (SHA for example) My only wish would be that gaming was as popular as music here On the very rare occasion I have visited another team's forum, I've been surprised at how devoid of life they have seemed in comparison. There is a huge amount here. But then maybe those teams hadn't been linked to Rashica. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted June 30 VT Supporter Share Posted June 30 13 hours ago, mjmooney said: And sheds. I destroyed a shed yesterday. I hope @sidcowdoesnt hate me 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danwichmann Posted June 30 Share Posted June 30 On 29/06/2024 at 17:18, CarryOnVilla said: There’s a handful of members that mostly exist in “Off Topic” How do you guys end up at a football forum and talk more about other stuff than football? I don't post much but when I do it's off topic. When I first came here I was a football and I was using on topic but I've completely lost interest in football the last few years, I never even look in on topic now. But the off topic is interesting and informative enough to keep me on the site. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarryOnVilla Posted June 30 Share Posted June 30 it really shows the quality of the whole site when the off topic is as (or more) attractive to users than the on topic 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted June 30 VT Supporter Share Posted June 30 14 minutes ago, Danwichmann said: I don't post much but when I do it's off topic. When I first came here I was a football I've always thought you're a well rounded individual so that would explain it 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted June 30 VT Supporter Share Posted June 30 18 hours ago, Xela said: This is a football forum?! I thought it was about holiday homes. I thought it was a spellcheck and punctuation check sight: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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