It's been a long time @ The Dugout (TM)

[John Arne]

Just been looking through my old emails for something, and noticed this one from some no-mark called "Mark".

18 years on various versions of this board, and managed to contribute sweet FA :drool:

Surely someone has hit the 20 year mark? Jimmy Floyd, Dark Soldier, Lewis

https://gyazo.com/e8752e9a682b9f28134e7c5d047f592f.jpeg

[Queenslander]

I was still in school when I joined maybe 2000 or 2001.

Brighton used to bully me.

[John Arne]

I was still in school when I joined maybe 2000 or 2001.

Brighton used to bully me.

:D

And now the bullee has become bullier.

[Mike]

I joined in May 2001, bored in 6th form.

[Giggles]

I can’t remember when I joined but it was early 2000’s.

[Giggles]

Actually probably closer to 2004 or that when I got my first shitty desk job.

[niko_cee]

Think I was November 2003, that's the first email I can find from Mark, although that was for a lost login.

[Trancemeister]

Joined in 99 or 2000 as Chelsea fan_no1.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I joined during the 2002 World Cup, wasn't really a TTH regular until about 2004, the bigger boys bullied me a bit.

[Ian]

I think I joined in the mid-2000s initially, posted a little bit and then drifted away, occasionally coming back briefly as a lurker and I reckon it would have been around the 2010 World Cup I started posting more regularly.

[Kikó]

January 2003 so still a little way to go before the twenty year celebration. Amazing how long most of us have been here.

[Andy]

I think i was 15 or 16 so coming up to 20 years ago.

I remember the website address used to be included in the Championship manager notes and I came here from there. Not sure when I first ventured in to TTH.

[Giggles]

I'm surprise how well this new one lasted with the small user base. I suppose the bit of familiarity over almost 20 years helps.

[Magic]

2005 for me.

[Disco]

I'm surprise how well this new one lasted with the small user base. I suppose the bit of familiarity over almost 20 years helps.

We've reached a level of familiarity so that we can call someone a cunt in one thread and have a normal conversation in another.

I joined just before the old old board became the new old board, if that makes sense.

[Giggles]

Yeah I never remember the old old board. Thedugout.tv was my first. Stayed in the game sections at the started as you got destroyed if you ventured to the TTH section.

[SvN]

I joined the old, old board in 2001 when I was super into CM01/02. I didn't really venture into TTH, and mostly stuck to the CM forums. I re-joined in 2005 on the new, old board. Hard to believe it's been 15 years since then.

Over 5 years since this board was started, too.

[Offshore Toon]

Fairly certain I was in the Class of 2005. So many fond memories of being banned by IJ.

[CJay]

I joined in 2008 I think. Ventured into TTH gradually. I think my first post was a list of footballers categorised but my formatting messed up and I ended up with a load of smilies peppered throughout my list. :facepalm:

I do remember viewing the old old board for CM tips and stories.

[Mellberg]

20 years this year. June I think. Maybe July.

[-james-]

FMGamer in 2004 I think. Mind blown that some of you still have emails from around then tbh.

[randomlegend]

I think my first TTH post was about a huge potato.

[Lofty]

Early 2000s I think. I remember specifically getting a smartphone early doors so I could post on here while I was supposed to be working :D

[Lewis]

I joined right before the 2006 crash that sunk a load of accounts, then came back and donned it from the off.

[Smjffy]

Closed. :dc:

[Pepe]

I don't remember.

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Feb. 17 2007 apparently.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

2005 iirc.

[ItalAussie]

I think it'll have been 2003 for me. Hit my peak in about 2005/2006, then it's been downhill ever since.

[Ian]

I didn't know people kept such old emails.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I don't think I've ever deleted an old email (had the same email address since my dad made it for me in the 90s), but the oldest emails I have are from 2009.

Still found a few emails from dead people when I looked back that far, always a jolter.

[Ian]

Yeah this is still my first email address too but at some point I got annoyed with all the shit and just deleted everything. I reckon there have probably been a grand total of three occasions when I wished I hadn't and none of the reasons were important.

[niko_cee]

Same webmail account for me and it seems to go all the way back to the early 2000s, which I always think is quite interesting when something really old comes up on a random search.

[Offshore Toon]

I remember when I made my main Gmail account that it was invite only, so I assume that goes back to like 2003? Thankfully I was never too much of a bellend so my email address has remained acceptable for professional shit.

[Lewis]

I really wish the Old Board was still around for reference/lol purposes. I could lose the first six months of full name posting and plebby smiley use :checkit:, but them peak university years were genuinely class.

[Mellberg]

I think it'll have been 2003 for me. Hit my peak in about 2005/2006, then it's been downhill ever since.

I think yours said Jan 2003. No idea how the fuck I remember that (if it's right), but there we go. That was around the time Grass Roots fucked off and it was overtaken by the new (better) wave.

[Lewis]

The MSN nights as well fuck me I'm welling up here. RIP Kristjan.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I've never been a better poster, I don't think, than I was in the 2007-08 Exeter meltdown (a period I have totally wiped from my general memory and with good reason). TTH probably bottomed me out and got me going again, in hindsight.

My highlight of that dreadful winter was delakingois being FURIOUS when I won Best Poster.

[Lewis]

At least everything else he ever voted in went his way.

[Dark Soldier]

Joined in early 2000, first posted January 2001 talking about an ex being sick on me on NYE. Think LDNT replied calling me a dick or something.

Good times. Over half my life being a member of this place.

[phonics]

I remember being 14 and getting absolutely buried, my posts then would get more reaction but they would all be some variant of telling me to delete myself from the internet/life. I thought everyone was harsh (in hindsight the bullying did sharpen the overall quality of posting across the forum)

However, when someone did this version of the thread on the old board I finally went back and looked at them a decade or so later and they all read like Diljeet was my ghostwriter just with worse spelling.

[Kikó]

Delete yourself from the internet knobhead.

[Disco]

I think my first TTH post resulted in Bam immediately telling me to fuck off. He was probably right.

[Spammer]

Came over with the FmGamer lot in 2004 (I think). Went back over there though when the Marks decided it wasn't working, but that place kinda died a death in around 2009. Shame really, as it'd been going for quite a few years and was quite similar to this place as it had a solid core of posters. Don't really know what happened. I stopped posting in around 2008 when my girlfriend at the time read all my posts from the previous 5 years and took me town on all the shit I'd written about at different times. Didn't really want to go on there again after that - not until we broke up anyway. It wasn't a healthy relationship.

Once Fmgamer closed I wandered the wastelands for a few years before poking my head out on here again from 2012 onwards when I had a job that enabled me to sit on my arse browsing the internet all day. Great stuff.

Then I got banned in 2018 when some people couldn't handle my radical ideas, before Igor brought me back from the dead a few months ago. Not really posted much since then as I've got a job where I actually have to work nowadays, but you never know - with this lockdown shite I might be on a bit more.

[Adamski]

Pretty sure I’ve been around since at least 2005 judging by the house I remember living in and posting on here. Only poster I can really remember from that far back is someone called Winston...? Not sure I’ve read anyone ever mention him since so probably made that up.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

2005 rings a bell, would tie in with FM2005 right enough which is what brought me here.

[CJay]

Pretty sure I’ve been around since at least 2005 judging by the house I remember living in and posting on here. Only poster I can really remember from that far back is someone called Winston...? Not sure I’ve read anyone ever mention him since so probably made that up.

I think Winston was German and posted in the FM boards in the late 00s.

[SincereTheRebel]

I was on FM or CM gamer forums first. One of my early friends once I arrived in England got me involved with the forums. I think I came over to the dugout forum and several usernames later. Im still here. In guessing it was about 2004-2005. At the point, I was playing CM 01/02 for a few years until CM4 and Freddy Adu arrived.

[mo]

I joined around the same time as DS, perhaps just after. I thought RATM was the biggest wanker going, then. And I was right.

Also this makes me think of a website, it was CM based, I want to say the background was all orange-y as it was made by a Wolves fan. Think he did data updates and had tips on the game. Think that was CM99-00/00-01. Does anyone know the website I'm talking about? Think it was made on geocities.

[Baz]

May 2001 for me.

Also lol (https://web.archive.org/web/20070723195724/http://www.thedugout.tv/cgi-bin/forums/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=53&t=014453&counterhit=yes).

https://i.imgur.com/2YdHgfs.png

[SincereTheRebel]

I joined around the same time as DS, perhaps just after. I thought RATM was the biggest wanker going, then. And I was right.

Also this makes me think of a website, it was CM based, I want to say the background was all orange-y as it was made by a Wolves fan. Think he did data updates and had tips on the game. Think that was CM99-00/00-01. Does anyone know the website I'm talking about? Think it was made on geocities.

I can remember CM Gamer, CM Scout, Sitousi or something did the FM facepacks

[Lewis]

May 2001 for me.

Also lol (https://web.archive.org/web/20070723195724/http://www.thedugout.tv/cgi-bin/forums/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=53&t=014453&counterhit=yes).

https://i.imgur.com/2YdHgfs.png

https://i.imgur.com/S7BjbU5.png

'I'm not trying to do the jobs of the moderators. Otherwise, I'd be hacking into things, closing the thread and carding Baz.'

[Spoonsky]

Started posting in 2009, when I was 12. I probably started posting more in TTH a year after that or so.

Always felt a bit annoyed to be so out of step with everyone age wise - those 'peak university years' went over my barely pubescent head, while during my own peak university years all the action (apart from football) was in the Jobs, Relationship, House, and food threads. I think the recent vacuum exchange has been the culmination of that.

[Lewis]

Twelve years old what a legend.

[Luca]

Fuck sake the MSN days. :drool: / :(

Good thing I’ve got The Group now.

[Giggles]

I can remember CM Gamer, CM Scout, Sitousi or something did the FM facepacks

sortitoutsi.net. It's still going but I think kits and logos and all are banned now aren't they?

[Giggles]

Henry was some can of piss.

[niko_cee]

Still love the aesthetic of the old board.

It always flummoxes me that I probably only posted on it for a year or so (properly) before the merger, and yet those halcyon days seem to stretch to infinity in my mind.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Yeah, I think we've now been on this one longer than we were on the old old board.

[Mazuuurk]

2004 or 2005 here. Was a proper FM geek for a while writing up guides and stories and what not. I remember at the time there was a bit of a Divide between the FM sections and the murky depths of TTH. Not to mention benelux which was just fucking weird.

Anyway, must have been around 2006-07 where I properly started getting involved in TTH and never turned back.

This forum has meant so much to me over the years :happycry:. Almost feel guilty for not posting more these days sometimes, you know like a friend you feel you should be getting in touch with more or something.

[Kikó]

Yeah, I think we've now been on this one longer than we were on the old old board.

I've just made the association that this isn't the merger board. Jesus, mind blown.

[SincereTheRebel]

sortitoutsi.net. It's still going but I think kits and logos and all are banned now, aren't they?

I haven't played FM going on six years now so im not sure.

Are there any other CM/FM forums that spawned just like TTH did?

[Giggles]

I haven't played FM going on six years now so im not sure.

Are there any other CM/FM forums that spawned just like TTH did?

I think some of those download sites have forum sections but they'd be more game based. Some lad that used to post here started one too, someone mentioned it the other day here, but I think it's basically dead.

[Serj]

I think it was 2005. I'd been on another Championship Manager forum before that (off the bench, off the park? Something like that), and when that either closed down or became mostly inactive I looked for other options. Stopped looking at the actual CM/FM-related subforums soon after and been lurking on TTH ever since.

[Lewis]

2004 or 2005 here. Was a proper FM geek for a while writing up guides and stories and what not. I remember at the time there was a bit of a Divide between the FM sections and the murky depths of TTH. Not to mention benelux which was just fucking weird.

Anyway, must have been around 2006-07 where I properly started getting involved in TTH and never turned back.

This forum has meant so much to me over the years :happycry:. Almost feel guilty for not posting more these days sometimes, you know like a friend you feel you should be getting in touch with more or something.

In the timeline where you become moderator instead of lastmentalintown we have a thriving mainsite and we're MASSIVE. Paul Ince can't leave his house.

[CJay]

I thought thelastnightintown did become a mod in the end? Then he left for a while and came back as ‘Nota Bene’.

[Lewis]

He did. The choice was between him and Maz, which Maz lost because IntergalacticNonce wanted another 'serious' moderator instead of one of the boys who would undermine Tudor.

[Dark Soldier]

Some lad that used to post here started one too, someone mentioned it the other day here, but I think it's basically dead.

That was Nick iirc.

https://footballmanagernow.proboards.com/

[Mazuuurk]

In the timeline where you become moderator instead of lastmentalintown we have a thriving mainsite and we're MASSIVE. Paul Ince can't leave his house.

Probably, yeah.


Remember Mark asked me to design the new website for him (I was shit at design at the time and had no clue what I was doing). Man did he take it seriously :D

And when IJ and him got to assigning mods I think they fancied themselves some sort of godfathers appointing their capos. Nutcases.

[Pen]

He did. The choice was between him and Maz, which Maz lost because IntergalacticNonce wanted another 'serious' moderator instead of one of the boys who would undermine Tudor.

I had forgotten for a while that I actually met Tudor in Bucharest maybe in 2008. What a night that was.

I joined in 2006 and first ventured to TTH a year later when DS was about to meet a transsexual.

This place really has always been very good (for my purposes anyway) and even though I post rarely these days I still pop in to read stuff almost daily.

[Shindig]

In my time as a mod I did nowt. Mainly because no drama ever kicked off the The Manager's Diary.

[Mellberg]

Had a brief stint as a mod in 2005 (lol). Had a row with Brighton, then opened a thread on him which went something like:

Beautiful
Real
Incredible
Great
Happy
Tremendous
Outstanding
Noble
Inspirational
Superb
Amazing
Courageous
Unbelievable
Notorious
Tantalising

Got fucked off and banned for 3 months :eyemouth:

[Jimmy Floyd]

The glory days of Office subterfuge and secret forums, circa turn of the last decade or maybe just before, were incredible.

[Baz]

Was Harvey Danger, Wedge?

[AyDee]

"AD" account was registered in early 2011 but I can't remember when I signed up as "AnnoyingDevil". Presumably c. 2007 as I think I was 12/13 at the time.

Shame the old board went down the toilet. Memories.

[Disco]

I always thought the obsession with eyemouth was a bit odd, I mean who cares enough to warn/ban people over a smiley?

[-james-]

:eyemouth:

[Ian]

Did that actually happen? People getting warnings / bans for it?

[Kikó]

It did.

Funny how post boosting was 1) considered important (?) 2) considered important enough to warn people if they did it.

[Lewis]

It's still one of our 'House Rules', so hand in your badge if you aren't willing to enforce it.

[Kikó]

:eyemouth:

[Luca]

I read the title of this thread in tune to "See You Again" by Khaled (it's been a loooooong time / at the dug-out tee em...).

Make of that what you will.

[Giggles]

Was it the late days of the dugout or the start of this where we had ‘faggotgate’ where some Wolves fan left the board and Ital going on a banning rampage over the use of Iti?

[Kikó]

zink and it was the previous board.

[Giggles]

Zink, that’s it. Didn’t he have his own smiley?

[Luca]

:gay:

That's a bit of a shit smiley.

[Kikó]

:zink:

[Giggles]

:gay:

That's a bit of a shit smiley.

Yeah it’s not a great one in this day and age.

[Lewis]

Yeah one of them should be black.

[Giggles]

Yeah one of them should be black.

Every smiley should have a House of Games lineup.

[Disco]

That one was :bamster: for a while was it not?

[Luca]

Was :eyemouth: changed to :wedge: for a while? I think :dance: might have been : pardsrave : as well, but Lewis might remember better.

[Disco]

:pards:

[Giggles]

Is :boydy: still the wrist slitting one?

[Giggles]

Indeed it is.

[Lewis]

On Teh Refuge the dancing man was (pardsrave) and the yeti thing was (pards).

[Disco]

I like that we have both :nod: & :nodd:

[Giggles]

I like that we have both :nod: & :nodd:

I never knew that nod worked. The double d is a holdover from the Dugout isn’t it?

[Boydy]

Is :boydy: still the wrist slitting one?

Ffs.

[niko_cee]

:eyemouth:


:eyemouth:

:eyemouth:

[Smjffy]

Joined, left, joined, left, joined, left, joined, left, joined, left, joined, left, joined, left, joined, bye.

[Baz]

I never knew that nod worked. The double d is a holdover from the Dugout isn’t it?Yeah. I’m not sure why I did both.

I slipped a few new ones in like :flirt: and :chortle: when we moved to here.

(I sent all the smilies to phonics)

[Giggles]

Yeah. I’m not sure why I did both.

I slipped a few new ones in like :flirt: and :chortle: when we moved to here.

(I sent all the smilies to phonics)

:flirt: :flirt: :flirt: I like that one.

Haven't heard the word 'chortle' since I used to buy the Dandy and Beano back in the day.