what time……,.

I’m getting really fed up with this now.

Can I remind you all that this message board exists to enable like-minded fans to discuss matters related to Wigan Athletic primarily, and football in general secondary. Nowhere in the remit are witch-hunts, insults, playground name-calling and the rest that we have seen on here for a while now.

Occasionally we are directed by a poster for humorous effect to another club’s board to marvel at their arrogance, blindness or whatever concerning their own team. In all my forays there I have never seen the crass vitriol and/or boring stupidity that appears on here. Whether it is in fact stupidity, or a belief that such things are “humorous” I don’t know. What I do know is that to someone looking in we must appear pathetic.

I have sometimes alluded to Liverpool’s Red and White Kop board, where the moderators ban anyone who opposes a very strict party line. I have no thought that we should go down the same line. All views about the team performance are permissible – even when they are bonkers :)

However – views that relate to individual users of the board have no place here. This is a board, as I said, for opinions about our team and about football. Topics can be deleted, after all, and users can be banned.