Mmm, only in 2015. Which kind of makes sense now I think back. I grew up a member of a rugby playing family near Rugby. My dad worked Saturdays and we only ever watched Coventry play on the TV (sky blue cup cakes during the 1987 FA cup win).
I had watched Charlton play before my son was born, in the Jimmy Seed stand with my ex-mother in law (not then ex, possibly I wasn't then married even). She used to work for Warwick uni and was technically a sky blue fan.
i split up with my then wife when Roo, our son, was 4, which was in 2014 and we became Charlton season ticket holders for 2015 and have been ever since (we think we may have boycotted for 1 year of duchatelet).
Fortunately, my son, Roo, now has his own budding sports career. We are not sure he'll make a living out of sport but he's decent enough to be in the A team at school and for club/district at cricket and rugby. He'll always be a short arse which will probably prevent him moving up higher.
As he is always playing sport on a Saturday, we don't get to as many games as we would like but we are both Charlton and will always be Charlton and that's certainly not the football that's kept us involved.
It's the community. Charlton Life if you will.
Your son was born in the Jimmy Seed Stand? Respect. That's loyalty for you! More excitement than whatever played out on the pitch I'm sure 😉
Whenever I think of Coventry's away fans, I'm taken back to the wilderness years at Sellout park and a rather corpulent gentleman seen devouring a hamburger who didn't escape the notice of the home fans, unluckily for him 🤣
Feb 19, 2007, apparently. I thought I joined when it started. I was on the slowly decaying email list that had been pretty good through the “golden years”. Seem to recall that AFKA had mailed a few of us there when he was setting this up.
Well I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I’ve visited a few other clubs’ forums and there’s none better than this one. And that’s down to the admin team for creating the right environment. I would like to apologise to them for regularly making their job more difficult than it should be
I think my favourite thread ever is still “Snake”.
April 23 2014. 7 months into my time at uni and obviously had too much time on my hands. Was pretty obsessed for a while and I credit this site for helping my connection and interest to the club remain.
Have a bit of a healthier relationship with it now. I'm sure I miss a lot of great content but I don't get so drawn in by unhealthy debates/posters.
I was on the ‘Charltonbabes’ before that……..at least I think that was what it was called lol
Ah, yeh @KBs@KBslittlesis I was on Charltonbabes too. Got onto Babes after the original BBC606 site changed format, from it's original incarnation when anybody could post on any clubs page and engage in utter shithousery. Babes was fun and there were some really good posters on there. I think Exiled Addick and Rodney Charlton Trotter were on there. Do you remember Mackle, BobCharlton and oh gosh so many names I have forgotten. I was a different name on there, might have been SmokedAddick, or DogSzabolcs or something. Not enough footfall or membership I guess. This site though is a different level. Amazing and addictive. Can't remember when I joined, but then I can't remember much at all these days. I am sure I was about 50 when I joined Babes, now I'm bloody 70.
Joined in Sept 2012. Didn't say much to start off with, just read posts. Love the post match thread and everyone's differing views on the game we have all just seen,
Then discovered a crew of people saying nasty things about Brexiters and the rest is history.
I think I joined in order to wind @March51 up and didn’t post much until his first stroke in 2010 (the day of Nicky Bailey’s penalty).
It was the thread on here that gave us the advice we needed to help get dad’s brain working again. Without coming in here I doubt I’d have been so belligerent about making him do crosswords and answer quiz questions. He was always very thankful to you lot for that.
September 29th, 2008. I was fourteen. So that's over half my life I've been a member of this website! Guess I just squandered the first fourteen years...
Got a horrendous comments to like/lol ratio after many, many years doing the live text updates on the forum, typing up commentary back in the days when the match thread was actually vital for those who didn't have radio access outside of... well, London, really!
July 30th 2009. 43,790 posts and nearly 24k visits, with 22.6k likes and 2.6k lol's! I started doing the 'match threads' at the start of 2010/11 season, and did them home and away for 5 yrs. I used to listen to Emma when she was attempting, very poorly, to commentate. I think she was on BBC Radio London? As she described the action I'd type it on here, hence so many posts! It became easier when listening to Peter Finch and then Terry/Glenn, as they weren't interested in colour of boots, hair etc. AHHHH they were the days! Sadly health caught up with me and I stopped when taken into hospital with heart failure.
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Whenever I think of Coventry's away fans, I'm taken back to the wilderness years at Sellout park and a rather corpulent gentleman seen devouring a hamburger who didn't escape the notice of the home fans, unluckily for him 🤣
I think my favourite thread ever is still “Snake”.
Nov 2007
I still have not forgiven him!
Have a bit of a healthier relationship with it now. I'm sure I miss a lot of great content but I don't get so drawn in by unhealthy debates/posters.
Got onto Babes after the original BBC606 site changed format, from it's original incarnation when anybody could post on any clubs page and engage in utter shithousery.
Babes was fun and there were some really good posters on there. I think Exiled Addick and Rodney Charlton Trotter were on there. Do you remember Mackle, BobCharlton and oh gosh so many names I have forgotten.
I was a different name on there, might have been SmokedAddick, or DogSzabolcs or something.
Not enough footfall or membership I guess.
This site though is a different level. Amazing and addictive.
Can't remember when I joined, but then I can't remember much at all these days.
I am sure I was about 50 when I joined Babes, now I'm bloody 70.
Then discovered a crew of people saying nasty things about Brexiters and the rest is history.
@AFKABartram told me about it at Emirates before our 4-0 loss to Arse.
Some 12,000 posts ago!
@Admin - what happened the my old account? When did I join with that user name?
Got a horrendous comments to like/lol ratio after many, many years doing the live text updates on the forum, typing up commentary back in the days when the match thread was actually vital for those who didn't have radio access outside of... well, London, really!
I’d been on the old 606 and then Not 606 as an active poster but lurked on here for a few years before taking the plunge. Glad I did!
I started doing the 'match threads' at the start of 2010/11 season, and did them home and away for 5 yrs. I used to listen to Emma when she was attempting, very poorly, to commentate. I think she was on BBC Radio London? As she described the action I'd type it on here, hence so many posts! It became easier when listening to Peter Finch and then Terry/Glenn, as they weren't interested in colour of boots, hair etc. AHHHH they were the days! Sadly health caught up with me and I stopped when taken into hospital with heart failure.