Wroey?

[graingrover]

Does anyone know what happened to Wroey who initiated the very first Rovers fans’s forum ?
Who remembers the stalwart posters on that forum none of whom seem to have stood the pace ?

[Chris Black come back]

Don’t know about more recently but didn’t he flounce out over ownership or control of YAURS? Long time ago now so could be wrong.

[Dagenham Rover]

Don’t know about more recently but didn’t he flounce out over ownership or control of YAURS? Long time ago now so could be wrong.

Yeh it was something like that didn't he sue someone over it. Yaurs got a right pain with Wroey doling out yellow and red cards for spelling mistakes and the such. Herman pops up on here occasionally

[Chris Black come back]

Legal letters rings a bell.

[Filo]

Don’t know about more recently but didn’t he flounce out over ownership or control of YAURS? Long time ago now so could be wrong.

Yeh it was something like that didn't he sue someone over it. Yaurs got a right pain with Wroey doling out yellow and red cards for spelling mistakes and the such. Herman pops up on here occasionally

He attempted to

[graingrover]

I always enjoyed posts from Sturdy ..among others .

[Dutch Uncle]

Does anyone know what happened to Wroey who initiated the very first Rovers fans’s forum ?
Who remembers the stalwart posters on that forum none of whom seem to have stood the pace ?

I think Andrew Spiers set up the first site and YAURS was a later addition/rival. BobG would know all about it - he was the one who put me on to it.

[Iberian Red]

What happened on Yaurs should be left on Yaurs!

[wilts rover]

I believe I was the first poster to get a yellow card on YAURS. Probably the only thing of note I ever contributed to it.

I have always thought he continued posting on this site.

[The Loan Arranger]

Some of the match reports from Sturdy & Co when we were in the Conference were hilarious!

[BobG]

Andrew Spiers did indeed set up the first Rovers chat site.

This site, in its original format, was around at the same time as YAURS. Nigel was a good moderator at first. YAURS was a decent site. But something changed. He did take someone to court. It was pretty well thrown out although the defendant did make some sort of apology. The judge remarked that the whole thing had been a complete waste of public time, money and resource.  It looked to me, from the ourside, that Nigel had become well nigh paranoid. Maybe I'm wrong. But whatever changed YAURS ended up becoming insupportable. Then Nigel disappeared. I've seen neither sight nor sound of him from that day to this. Sad tbh. He had been a dynamic, intelligent chap.

He ended up threatening me.

A sad end.

BobG

[graingrover]

Thanks Bob..a sad end indeed !

[Chris Black come back]

Quite a lot of people drift in and drift out over the years. That Hippo guy, the bloke who ate the testicle, Richard Haley the Tory post office bloke.

[number19]

I remember getting a yellow card on Yaurs & then pretty much giving up on the site.
Be surprised if a few names mentioned don't read this forum and even maybe have other aliases now. Wonder what became of Rigo?

[roversdude]

Did Sturdy emigrate?

[drfchound]

I wasn’t part of the original site and know nothing about what has been discussed on this thread.
Having read through it this morning though I am wondering whether the person being discussed is Nidge Roe, who was a bit on the overweight side and was bald headed.
Also a very good football player.
If that is him, he died a few years ago, I believe from a heart attack.

[Monkcaster_Rover]

I remember getting a yellow card on Yaurs & then pretty much giving up on the site.
Be surprised if a few names mentioned don't read this forum and even maybe have other aliases now. Wonder what became of Rigo?

Rigos still floating about. Sure he caused moderators on here a fair bit of bother recently by making them delete all of his posts. Still active on Twitter. Mainly focuses on non-league and ex young lads who were once here.

[IDM]

I used Yaurs briefly - I wrote a post comparing our games on a Saturday and Tuesday and was censured for failing to capitalise one of the initials on the days.  Pathetic really..

[Alan Southstand]

I think Rigo fancied himself as a sports journo and he used to do a good report on the u18 games.

Not had anything like that since he did it. Although Selby seems to give us the odd snippet now and again.

[IDM]

Haven’t seen owt from Fuzzyduck in ages either..

[pib]

Quite a lot of people drift in and drift out over the years. That Hippo guy, the bloke who ate the testicle, Richard Haley the Tory post office bloke.

Think Richard Haley still goes. Have almost certainly seen him at home games within the past year or two.

[nightporter]

I used to post on YAURS back in the day, also Confguide.  Mostly on Bifmag with Sturdy, Carlos the Jackal, Herman etc.  Some great laughs.

[vaya]

I used to post on YAURS back in the day, also Confguide.  Mostly on Bifmag with Sturdy, Carlos the Jackal, Herman etc.  Some great laughs.

Bifmag was fantastic.

[keyser_soze]

Andrew Spiers set up the original Rovers site & forum during the Richardson days. A lot of the protests were arranged on there, as well as the R'Sonists football team (that still exists today i believe!). Myself and Nathan Batchelor setup our own site DR-WEB or something during the first year in the Conference. All before Rovers had an official site so between us we were the only online presence for a while. When Andrew scaled down his involvement I negotiated moving the forum to run under Confguide which was a much more stable setup run by Hoagy (a Yeovil fan) as traffic increased, as part of our website. At some point it was then returned to VSC to manage and became the forum it is today.

YAURS (yet another unofficial rovers site) appeared a bit after ours and used to pinch our stories, so much that we started chucking fake ones in to catch him out. It was all a bit 'divide and conquer', he got a bit shirty with us a couple of times too (which was definitely foreshadowing of how it played out) but I never got taken to court

[Dagenham Rover]

I used to post on YAURS back in the day, also Confguide.  Mostly on Bifmag with Sturdy, Carlos the Jackal, Herman etc.  Some great laughs.

   Confguide that was one I was trying to think of  and as for Bifmag    I'll always remember  "Snatch of the Day"

[Nudga]

Did the parody Kris Akabusi story come from the bifmag days?

[Bentley Bullet]

Great laughs in those pre-snowflake days.

[graingrover]

You are all part of our DNA !

[Chris Black come back]

Best site around that time was the Huddersfield Town site. Absolutely superb. God knows how many hours they put in each week. Genuinely would have paid to have that content.

[moses]

Who else has been googling bifmag to see if it is still up?

To save you the trouble look at the internet archive, this one form Feb 2005

https://web.archive.org/web/20050202035621/http://bifmag.co.uk/