Admin Announcement Fred, long time BigFooty Admin, passed away on Saturday night. Funeral Sunday 30th at 1pm.

[NUFC Tiger]

Far out, just saw this!

Terrible news, very sad. Really was like part of the furniture on this site with his presence over the years. Will be sorely missed. Condolences to his family and friends.

 

[mellowyellow]

Vale Fred

My lasting memory was that he carried a big stick and an even bigger boot
And maybe a memorial board to celebrate and honor the many amazing individuals that make up this community

 

[Jhye Clark 13]

I tried to test Fred with the length of my signature a number of times but he got the last laugh and it means he's still alive in spirit with me every time I wish to change my signature ... If I try and go over the 4 line maximum I get a subtle reminder of his powers ... he's blocked my signature from ever going past those four lines.

 

[Caesar]

This really sucks.

Taught me a lot. The site won't be the same without him.

 

[Snake_Baker]

Damn!

I felt the sting of his boot on more than one occasion, but he would always let me creep back in after a spell which shows that the man had a good heart.

Deepest sympathies to Ian's family and friends, particularly the folks around here.

 

[RandB]

Just stumbled across this sad news.

R.I.P. Fred.

 

[Freight Train]

Vale Fred.

 

[Itsmyshow]

Vale Fred

 

[ROOTA#6]

RIP Fred

May you forever march with your saints

 

[Tiger71]

RIP Mate

 

[DarkPhoenix]

Shocked.

RIP Fred.

 

[Chief]

Good to see the Saints turned it on for Fred today

 

[Lach72]

Damn. He was a lovely guy and a great help to
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[iDon]

Thoughts are with his family today.

He was a great mentor for myself on the boards.

Vale Fred.

 

[Ron]

Only just saw this.
We had quite a few run ins over the years, especially in my early years on the site.
I used to go out of my way to antagonise him and he would smack me down again. Was fun.

RIP

 

[peppy la pew]

As a cancer victim in remission I sympathise, I sincerely hope he got a classy send off today.

RIP Fred

 

[craffles]

As a cancer victim in remission I sympathise, I sincerely hope he got a classy send off today.

RIP Fred

Never knew this about you m8, explains a fair bit about your fighting spirit. Echo your thoughts in the last sentence of your post too.

 

[jim boy]

I sincerely hope he got a classy send off today.

He did - I attended as a representative of BigFooty - as well as just wanting to attend because he was a good bloke and good friend.

His sister, gave a lovely speech, reminiscing from his childhood and their adventures on the beach at Rye with his canoe - 'scruffy' and his sometimes to peculiar way of doing things through to his final years including those spent on BigFooty. His grand daughter then gave a sweet speech.

Some more words were said and then followed the lowering of the coffin that was adorned by a saints scarf, whilst his relatives scattered saints pins on the coffin, all this to the tune of 'when the saints go marching in'

It was ceremony that was a beautiful, joyous celebration of Ian's life without being weighed down with over-sentimentality - in that it was a really fitting ceremony for Fred.

I had a chat Ian's daughter and sister and some other relatives after the ceremony and passed on both my condolences and that of the wider BigFooty community. But I needn't have - they have been reading this thread and I touched by the response that Fred's passing has received.

RIP Fred

 

[peppy la pew]

He did - I attended as a representative of BigFooty - as well as just wanting to attend because he was a good bloke and good friend.

His sister, gave a lovely speech, reminiscing from his childhood and their adventures on the beach at Rye with his canoe - 'scruffy' and his sometimes to peculiar way of doing things through to his final years including those spent on BigFooty. His grand daughter then gave a sweet speech.

Some more words were said and then followed the lowering of the coffin that was adorned by a saints scarf, whilst his relatives scattered saints pins on the coffin, all this to the tune of 'when the saints go marching in'

It was ceremony that was a beautiful, joyous celebration of Ian's life without being weighed down with over-sentimentality - in that it was a really fitting ceremony for Fred.

I had a chat Ian's daughter and sister and some other relatives after the ceremony and passed on both my condolences and that of the wider BigFooty community. But I needn't have - they have been reading this thread and I touched by the response that Fred's passing has received.

RIP Fred

Fantastic to hear Jim Boy, good job mate

 

[peppy la pew]

Never knew this about you m8, explains a fair bit about your fighting spirit. Echo your thoughts in the last sentence of your post too.

Cheers Craffles, I have no intention of hijacking this thread or be disrespectful in Fred's memory, but having the arse cancer like Fred I understand the pain and hardship involved, I was lucky that's all.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Thank you very much for being one of this website's henchmen Fred and I am forever indebted to you for helping seeing over a website where being expressive, interesting, factual, different and fanatical over a myriad of topics are the foundations by which support this medium that we all type in and read.

This website has grown and grown and, because of yourself and others, myself and the rest of the BigFooty family have a patch of the World Wide Web to leave a comment here and there and furiously support our teams and other sports as well as furiously defend the opinions we all possess.

You may've had to intervene when things were frosty, testy, overboard, tense and very much off-topic but you did it because you were passionate about how this forum had to be operated and how the rules were meant to be strictly abode by.

Please keep JUBJUB in line boss.

Thank you.

 

[Chief]

He did - I attended as a representative of BigFooty - as well as just wanting to attend because he was a good bloke and good friend.

His sister, gave a lovely speech, reminiscing from his childhood and their adventures on the beach at Rye with his canoe - 'scruffy' and his sometimes to peculiar way of doing things through to his final years including those spent on BigFooty. His grand daughter then gave a sweet speech.

Some more words were said and then followed the lowering of the coffin that was adorned by a saints scarf, whilst his relatives scattered saints pins on the coffin, all this to the tune of 'when the saints go marching in'

It was ceremony that was a beautiful, joyous celebration of Ian's life without being weighed down with over-sentimentality - in that it was a really fitting ceremony for Fred.

I had a chat Ian's daughter and sister and some other relatives after the ceremony and passed on both my condolences and that of the wider BigFooty community. But I needn't have - they have been reading this thread and I touched by the response that Fred's passing has received.

RIP Fred

Thank you very much for attending on behalf of the community.


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[Chief]

Sadly today I have de-modded Fred's account.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

36,601.

Fred's final post tally.

 

[Blue and Silver]

Vale

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