Verbal

Brilliant. I was Roman before I was Verbal and spent many long happy hours sparring with 19C. I was one of the recipients of his infamous confessional PM.

Yet more outsourcing to the third world. Disgraceful.

There've been a few things worth listening to since the Beatles split up. Swedish House Mafia (my son's favourite...what are they? Band?) aren't one of them, surely.

He may be king but he is still a crappy guitarist.

It seems that with hypo's ludicrously childish PM campaign and the alleged 'reinvestigation' of past posts in order to get up to the required number of infractions, this is becoming a bit of a DeppoGate.

So you're saying that deppo is banned at least partly because you campaigned for it? That's an astonishing thing to say - that you've manipulated the mods and done goodness knows what behind the scenes to get a popular poster chucked out.

It's not him, it's his 'persona'. So you're safe. You can't insult his persona because it's not real. So he says.

True, but gross misconduct is a civil issue, not a criminal one. There's no one, like a public prosecutor, standing over the club saying 'you must sack him - you have no choice'. The club would only invoke the clause if they wanted to.

Yep. I'm willing to bet the club don't sack him if he's found guilty.

And to discuss serious threads ridiculously. Insisting on being po-faced the whole time sounds silly. Sometimes the most astute and economical points are made with humour and sarcasm.

They do have a choice. Gross misconduct is usually the only get-out clause for clubs wanting to sack players who going off the rails. But there'd be an arguable case from his lawyer that he wasn't on club duties when this happened. I'm always a little nervous about joining the clamour the cast out the bad boys. We did it with Ranger, Dyer and BWP (who I could care considerably less about) and I'm not sure, as a club, we've always been the winners with that.

Neither of the posters gloating on here about Deppo's banning would be missed but I wouldn't want them banned. The impulse to ban indicates deeper character flaws in my opinion.

No, I'm sure that's true, but you could argue that someone selling the club might do that (heaven forbid). Much less easy to achieve the same effect with higher transfer fees and increasingly expensive player contracts.

Not necessarily. Player signings are a better indication, as welcome as the training upgrade is.

I'm not sure we know that for sure yet. It could be the case - but the summer signings will give us the best indication of the Liebherr family's intentions about their level of involvement and investment in the club.

You know that's not what I meant. Why is dune here at all, given his banned previous selves? And 'the sheer number?' We're still waiting to see what the '19' occasions were. If the reasons for infracting him were anywhere near as feeble as the one you highlighted then the 'sheer number' may be closer to zero than you would (clearly) like.

So you have a better explanation for dune's presence on here then?

Let's be clear about this. If Deppo had had a warm and snuggly relationship with the admin he wouldn't have been banned. From the outside looking in, there's a strong suspicion that this was personal. Unless you were your usual hyperactive self, Deppo wasn't being reported by other members. So why else was he singled out?

It wasn't pointless. It didn't derail the thread. You weren't offended. Nobody died. Really, what is the point of you?

And that offended you how exactly?

I like GS. But without wanting to sound too much like a fan, if I see Deppo's name pop up on the menu page I click on it. I'm sure many others do too, even if they might not want to admit it. Now that this forum is ad-supported I suspect that traffic numbers are important. In that regard, losing Deppo and other like him seems not the most sensible move. Sometimes, though, you have to have the plain common sense to understand that although rules need to exist and to be adhered to, there are some whose inventiveness and humour are quite simply worth looking the other way for.

PinkScarf's was one of the threads we're led to assume Deppo 'derailed'. Frankly, the mind boggles.

It doesn't answer a damned thing if we don't know what the '19 opportunities' were. I have to say in all honesty I haven't read a single thing posted by Deppo that I could see as worth an infraction - even on a thread where another poster (who was crowing on here about the banning) wished him dead.

So if Deppo comes back on here under another name, you'll accept him in the same way you accepted dune, right?

I'm not sure but it's been suggested it was for his last post on the 'save our saint' thread. If that's true, it is (in the unfunny sense) laughable.