| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum 10:34 - Dec 2 with 20668 views | SitfcB |
What a to€€er, how condescending, “the forum”, it’s more than a forum ffs. It’s a NEWS SITE, with a forum as part of the site. “Fanzine” Phil isn’t a fanzine, he’s a journalist, writes for this site and local newspapers.
“We have a relationship with the forum, and the person that runs the forum”
“We’re disappointed it’s got to this stage”
“There’s been one or two things that have happened on the forum, that obviously the manager hasn’t been happy with”
“It’s worth while noting we’re the only club in the EFL and PL that does allow a fanzine to attend matches and press conferences as a member of the media team”
“The person we are speaking about is a fan of the club and works very hard, we want to have that relationship, but it’s got to work both ways”
“There are some issues we need to iron out”
“We are sure this issue will evolve in the next and up and coming weeks” |  |
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| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 13:42 - Dec 2 with 1733 views | Stu_Magoo |
| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 11:12 - Dec 2 by PhilTWTD |
Thanks. It's also worth pointing out that I have a press card and have worked as a freelancer for other media since 1996, currently for the Colchester Evening Gazette. But for the pandemic I would also still be working for the BBC. I'm also an NUJ member.
I dispute the 'fanzine' or 'fansite' tags as what I don't write myself is written by other professional journalists, who we pay, most of whom have written for national newspapers, same with photographers. In hindsight, we probably should have changed the name of the site when it became the mainly news site to something more newsy. |
No way should you have to change anything for those people. Something like TWTD is a constant and it is them that shall be chased from our club! |  |
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| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 13:46 - Dec 2 with 1706 views | jayessess |
Keeping the manager in post is a position I disagree with, but at least it's a vaguely defensible position. But why indulge his weird, paranoid conspiracy theory raving? Particularly if ultimately your plan is to have him in post long term. Is it really so hard for someone at the club to sit him down and tell him he needs to apologise, let Phil back in and conduct himself better? You'd think they'd know better after previously dismissing a manager they'd probably have preferred to keep, in part because his bad PR skills kept intensifying opposition to him. |  |
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| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 13:52 - Dec 2 with 1662 views | hoppy |
| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 12:23 - Dec 2 by DanTheMan |
Just realised a funny bit I missed out on the first time I read the quotes.
"We have a relationship with the forum"
Do they? Since when? I've never, ever seen them engage with the forum, at least directly. |
I reckon they're only News Commenters...
(only joking - I myself dabble too!) |  |
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| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 14:42 - Dec 2 with 1574 views | PhilTWTD |
| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 11:59 - Dec 2 by Ryorry |
There were 2 or 3 sympathetic (to you & ITFC generally) comments from Nudge supporters below the Guardian article as well 👠|
That's nice to hear. I'll have a read of the comments. |  | | |
| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 14:47 - Dec 2 with 1549 views | PhilTWTD |
| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 12:29 - Dec 2 by Ryorry |
I'll include most of those points (apart from your last sentence re site name) in my email to LON! |
Cheers, and thanks to everyone else in this thread. | | | |
| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 14:49 - Dec 2 with 1537 views | NewcyBlue |
TWTD is synonymous for ITFC by NewcyBlue 30 Nov 2020 11:00For me, ITFC and TWTD are so intertwined that I couldn’t have one without the other now.
I come to TWTD for all my ITFC news and updates.
TWTDers that I have met have become like family to me. Hell I only met Blubfish for a few minutes and he’s like that weird cousin that nobody talks to at family get togethers, but you would call him if you were stuck and he could help.
I have met Phil a handful of times. He’s every bit the Forum owning nerd that I hoped he would be. But he’s our forum owning nerd.
TWTD is more than a forum for some people. Some people come here for help with their mental health, some come to share their life stories. Others just come to talk football.
If the club read the forum, as many suggest they do, then they will do well to take note that ITFC in the community should also include the online community. We have Phil, the wielder of the banhammer to thank for what we have.
We have Gav to thank for all the wonderful tech updates too....
Not much more needs to be said really. |  |
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| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 14:50 - Dec 2 with 1528 views | hoppy |
| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 14:42 - Dec 2 by PhilTWTD |
That's nice to hear. I'll have a read of the comments. |
Have you heard anything further from the club itself since this all came out public?
I know you said LON had been trying to help, but didn't know if that was still the case.
Hopefully all resolved soon for you. Much credit for the way you've conducted yourself. | |
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| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 14:59 - Dec 2 with 1490 views | Kropotkin123 |
| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 11:12 - Dec 2 by PhilTWTD |
Thanks. It's also worth pointing out that I have a press card and have worked as a freelancer for other media since 1996, currently for the Colchester Evening Gazette. But for the pandemic I would also still be working for the BBC. I'm also an NUJ member.
I dispute the 'fanzine' or 'fansite' tags as what I don't write myself is written by other professional journalists, who we pay, most of whom have written for national newspapers, same with photographers. In hindsight, we probably should have changed the name of the site when it became the mainly news site to something more newsy. |
I read a couple of pieces of yours in national newspapers back in the Premiership with GB.
The whole it will be resolved in the coming weeks and it needs to work for both parties doesn't look friendly. Don't let them bully you into taken on restrictions. [Post edited 2 Dec 2020 15:09]
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| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 15:06 - Dec 2 with 1464 views | Kieran_Knows |
| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 14:47 - Dec 2 by PhilTWTD |
Cheers, and thanks to everyone else in this thread. |
I know it wouldn’t help you in the slightest, and it would be very selfish of me, but I’d love to leak the team news every week from now on. Stuff ‘em. |  |
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| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 15:07 - Dec 2 with 1454 views | Kieran_Knows |
| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 12:10 - Dec 2 by Herbivore |
I think, rather depressingly, I might well be completely done with ITFC. I'm certainly right on the brink. The club is rotten to the core and is not the same club I've supported my whole life. The manager appears to be a rather nasty piece of work, Evans just doesn't care, and O'Neill is happy to defend it all. Nobody at the club has the fans at heart. I don't know that anyone has much care for the players either. It's all about preserving the hierarchy. If ever a football club epitomised these modern days of Trump and Johnson, it's ITFC. Feck 'em. |
Absolutely this. I hate everything about this club at the moment. Bellends, the lot of them. | |
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| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 15:08 - Dec 2 with 1454 views | PhilTWTD |
| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 14:59 - Dec 2 by Kropotkin123 |
I read a couple of pieces of yours in national newspapers back in the Premiership with GB.
The whole it will be resolved in the coming weeks and it needs to work for both parties doesn't look friendly. Don't let them bully you into taken on restrictions. [Post edited 2 Dec 2020 15:09]
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Thanks, yes wrote one or two back then. Wrote quite regularly for Irish nationals under Roy and Mick.
No, I won't. The name thing is something I've thought for some time, just mentioned it in passing, not something I'm thinking about now. | | | |
| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 15:09 - Dec 2 with 1440 views | hype313 |
| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 15:08 - Dec 2 by PhilTWTD |
Thanks, yes wrote one or two back then. Wrote quite regularly for Irish nationals under Roy and Mick.
No, I won't. The name thing is something I've thought for some time, just mentioned it in passing, not something I'm thinking about now. |
Bet it feels like being back in Mr Thatchers bad books. |  |
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| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 15:13 - Dec 2 with 1439 views | PhilTWTD |
| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 15:06 - Dec 2 by Kieran_Knows |
I know it wouldn’t help you in the slightest, and it would be very selfish of me, but I’d love to leak the team news every week from now on. Stuff ‘em. |
Someone did this on Twitter a few years back, I think, if I remember rightly, because they live by the training ground and could see what the team was going to be when they were out there on a Friday. I told them in a DM that it probably wasn't a good idea, partly as I was worried Mick might go round their house if he found out. | | | |
| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 15:14 - Dec 2 with 1419 views | blueasfook |
| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 14:42 - Dec 2 by PhilTWTD |
That's nice to hear. I'll have a read of the comments. |
Just ignore the ones I put. I'd had a couple of drinks. |  |
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| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 15:15 - Dec 2 with 1418 views | hoppy |
| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 15:08 - Dec 2 by PhilTWTD |
Thanks, yes wrote one or two back then. Wrote quite regularly for Irish nationals under Roy and Mick.
No, I won't. The name thing is something I've thought for some time, just mentioned it in passing, not something I'm thinking about now. |
I've also always been very impressed with the work you did regarding Environmental Hydrogeology. You've always been very modest about that as well, hardly mentioning it...
https://www.envireauwater.co.uk/phil-ham | |
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| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 15:17 - Dec 2 with 1403 views | PhilTWTD |
| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 14:50 - Dec 2 by hoppy |
Have you heard anything further from the club itself since this all came out public?
I know you said LON had been trying to help, but didn't know if that was still the case.
Hopefully all resolved soon for you. Much credit for the way you've conducted yourself. |
I bumped into PL and ST on the way out on Saturday and told them the ban had been made public but the discussion, where points were made without it becoming heated or anything like that, didn't really make any progress.
Lee phoned me a little while later, largely as he'd already received a signficant number of emails about the issue, and we had a chat about where things were. I've heard nothing at all since. | | | |
| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 15:18 - Dec 2 with 1393 views | PhilTWTD |
| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 15:15 - Dec 2 by hoppy |
I've also always been very impressed with the work you did regarding Environmental Hydrogeology. You've always been very modest about that as well, hardly mentioning it...
https://www.envireauwater.co.uk/phil-ham |
I've always liked to keep my environmental hydrogeology work to myself. | | | |
| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 15:22 - Dec 2 with 1378 views | Dyland |
| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 15:08 - Dec 2 by PhilTWTD |
Thanks, yes wrote one or two back then. Wrote quite regularly for Irish nationals under Roy and Mick.
No, I won't. The name thing is something I've thought for some time, just mentioned it in passing, not something I'm thinking about now. |
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| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 15:22 - Dec 2 with 1383 views | Ryorry |
| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 14:42 - Dec 2 by PhilTWTD |
That's nice to hear. I'll have a read of the comments. |
Just seen Boncho has added a comment!
Boncho Genchev 21h ago
"As someone who played over 60 games for Ipswich Town in the Premier League, it's a sad state of affairs at what is a fantastic old club." |  |
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| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 15:24 - Dec 2 with 1364 views | hoppy |
| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 15:17 - Dec 2 by PhilTWTD |
I bumped into PL and ST on the way out on Saturday and told them the ban had been made public but the discussion, where points were made without it becoming heated or anything like that, didn't really make any progress.
Lee phoned me a little while later, largely as he'd already received a signficant number of emails about the issue, and we had a chat about where things were. I've heard nothing at all since. |
I was genuinely more angry about the banning than I was about the loss on Saturday. I imagine I'm far from being alone in that.
Hopefully they're having internal discussions following the number of emails they will have received, and you'll hear soon... or should I say, imminently? | |
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| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 15:25 - Dec 2 with 1358 views | Ryorry |
| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 15:18 - Dec 2 by PhilTWTD |
I've always liked to keep my environmental hydrogeology work to myself. |
Were you one of the legends who p'd in every corner when Carrot Rd were having work done then?  | |
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| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 15:25 - Dec 2 with 1358 views | SitfcB |
| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 15:13 - Dec 2 by PhilTWTD |
Someone did this on Twitter a few years back, I think, if I remember rightly, because they live by the training ground and could see what the team was going to be when they were out there on a Friday. I told them in a DM that it probably wasn't a good idea, partly as I was worried Mick might go round their house if he found out. |
That’s what I was aiming for! | |
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| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 15:25 - Dec 2 with 1358 views | PhilTWTD |
| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 15:22 - Dec 2 by Ryorry |
Just seen Boncho has added a comment!
Boncho Genchev 21h ago
"As someone who played over 60 games for Ipswich Town in the Premier League, it's a sad state of affairs at what is a fantastic old club." |
Legend! | | | |
| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 15:26 - Dec 2 with 1349 views | hoppy |
| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 15:25 - Dec 2 by SitfcB |
That’s what I was aiming for! |
What, getting Mick to go round your house? | |
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| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 15:27 - Dec 2 with 1342 views | SpruceMoose |
| Lee O’Neill quotes for bangate and this forum on 15:24 - Dec 2 by hoppy |
I was genuinely more angry about the banning than I was about the loss on Saturday. I imagine I'm far from being alone in that.
Hopefully they're having internal discussions following the number of emails they will have received, and you'll hear soon... or should I say, imminently? |
Definitely. I'm used to the club playing and acting in a crap manner. I'm not used to them declaring all out war on the fans and their journalist of choice. |  |
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