[quote author=Mark from Brisbane link=topic=183851.msg271904#msg271904 date=1278384140]
That's indeed a good point WAMF, and I would imagine Kieran Houlahan (merchandise manager) would be s**tting himself, as I beleive a very large part of his sales came from the website.
Whilst not wanting to open up old wounds, this was something that the \"powers to be\" really didn't think about.
It would have just been so much cheaper to
a) appoint a tech person to manage the site, including the forum
b) appoint 3 or 4 \"moderators\" that had the power to delete posts and caution forum members.
My son in law is a Panthers fan and they still have a forum, moderated by about 4 fans and if anything is said it just vanishes, and no one knows which of the mods deleted it...he said it works like a charm.
Sadly I think they'll pay at coalface over the next 12 months as a result of this.