TPFP closed :(

[Eddie Dingle]

I don't always take kindly to strangers.

But I'll try.

 

[Killer Power]

Welcome all. Hope this isn't seen as tasteless timing but as we have some new eyes on here i just want to put it out there that we are still looking for solid Dream Team players to represent this board vs the rest of the Big Footy world. Let myself or Noobz0r know if interested.

 

[I Dont Care]

I don't always take kindly to strangers.

But I'll try.

Strangers are only friends who haven't met yet

 

[Killer Power]

Strangers are only friends who haven't met yet

Or people who are coming to "destroy our way of life" #stoptheboats

 

[Fifty]

Shattered at TPFP closing. My daily ritual. Like some others, I started at TPFP soon after 2004, got entrenched and only recently joined here as an alternative source of info, chat, etc.. Happy there's a very good alternative, and looking forward to participating here and seeing fellow TPFP refugees join up.

Coobs, hope you make it across.

Now I have to finally get an avatar!

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Strangers are only friends who haven't pissed me off yet

There you go ol' timer.

 

[Lou Zyffer]

Hi everyone.

Long time since I posted here. A few TPFP'ers will know the nic and avatar.

I joined up here quite a few years ago but only posted a few times. I first found TPFP in '98 roughly, lurked a year or so an eventually signed up. Back in those days I used to get rellies in Adelaide to express post me the Mail and Advertiser so getting the news on TPFP was a huge bonus. Vi started TPFP as a news feed in '97 then it became a Website in '98.

Never did manage to get myself banned although got a post deleted when I dared to mention that I'd read something here, then got a polite warning when I mentioned REH once and I guess he'd managed to upset Vi with whatever he'd posted but that's about all.

I was up at 1:30 AM this morning dragging my unused for some time PC into 2014 when whilst waiting for a program to install decided to check TPFP and saw the message. There were four users online then, reepower, Sandgroper35, werner and myself when I was last on the home page late Friday night. I took a screenshot for posterity.

Like a lot of you guys I was devastated. Felt like a close friend had died; like I'd been punched in the guts.

So it looks like I'm back to post on BF. This thread will be handy for trying to work out who's who, plus being a sometime lurker here still I'm pretty familiar with the nics of a few posters so hopefully it'l be a bit of a "home away from home" until I settle in. It was that long since I last posted here, not only had I forgotten my password, I'd changed email address so a bit of mucking around to get on. Thanks mods.

Like Seanybruz (hi) one of the things I'll miss most about TPFP is it was somewhere you could say what you liked about other clubs without ramifications.

Anyway, g'day to friends new and old.

 

[Lou Zyffer]

Shattered at TPFP closing. My daily ritual. Like some others, I started at TPFP soon after 2004, got entrenched and only recently joined here as an alternative source of info, chat, etc.. Happy there's a very good alternative, and looking forward to participating here and seeing fellow TPFP refugees join up.

Coobs, hope you make it across.

Now I have to finally get an avatar!

Coob is a member here fiddy. He'll be here.

 

[I Dont Care]

There you go ol' timer.

So if strangers are friends who haven't pissed you off yet...what type of friends have pissed you off?

 

[Eddie Dingle]

So if strangers are friends who haven't pissed you off yet...what type of friends have pissed you off?

All of them?

What a strange question.

 

[I Dont Care]

G'day Lou

 

[Lou Zyffer]

G'day Lou

G'day mate. I knew I knew that name from somewhere. Took me a while to remember your old TPFP nic then put 2 and 2 together. Gonna take me a while to get used to who's who with a few different nic's.

 

[CreightonS]

Hi everyone - I am yet another TPFPer to make the move to Big Footy after this morning's devastating news about TPFP closing down - I can completely understand why it was done and I too want to add to the chorus of people thanking Vi, Daryl and Mark for all they have done over the years - hope to catch up with you at a few games over this coming season.

For those who don't know me, I am the one who created that thread on TPFP titled "A Pictorial History of the Port Adelaide Cheer Squad" which had lots of my old pics and newspaper clippings from the early 1970s era when the Port Cheer squad (of which I was the leader at the time for several years) was very big (see my avatar pic of our cheer squad at an early 1970s Grand Final at Adelaide Oval) - our club asked me for approval to put some of my pics in their book Since 1870 which of course I felt honoured to agree to. It's a shame my thread has now been lost due to TPFP closing because I have been contacted by younger Port supporters over recent years who have stumbled across it (my thread) only to be amazed at how big and colourful we were back then.

I was thinking of creating a new nickname in here but decided to keep the same one I used in TPFP because so many people know it and I see already numerous people that I know from TPFP have joined Big Footy - hello people.

Anyway, looking forward to participating in here.

PS:- can we add emoticons in here to our posts?

Edit:- A bit more info re me - I was on the Outer Army committee in 2012 and again in 2013 as the membership co-ordinator.

 

[chiwigi]

I started on TPFP when I first got to Oz, was made very welcome. I only came here originally to read Crows stuff after we had beaten them.

I stayed because the general AFL stuff interested me and it seemed like the same posters were here as there with some identical threads.

Sad to see it go and welcome to the migrants .

No one will be able to guess my handle on TPFP but a clue is I am Welsh and support the Power.

 

[CreightonS]

I started on TPFP when I first got to Oz, was made very welcome. I only came here originally to read Crows stuff after we had beaten them.

I stayed because the general AFL stuff interested me and it seemed like the sane posters were here as there with some identical threads.

Sad to see it go and welcome to the migrants .

No one will be able to guess my handle on TPFP but a clue is I am Welsh and support the Power.

Hi Welshpower - am I right? ;-)

 

[treegz]

Another regular here from TPFP, I was thunda over there but it's taken here so treegz it is.Good to see a few faces here from TPFP. Really sad to see it go though, was a great source for all things Port. All the best Vi and thank you for many years.

 

[chiwigi]

Hi Welshpower - am I right? ;-)

Hahaha, that cheer squad thread was my favourite ever. Welcome to BF Creighton.

 

[CreightonS]

Hahaha, that cheer squad thread was my favourite ever. Welcome to BF Creighton.

No probs Welsh - I couldn't believe how my thread took off - it was like everyone was waiting for the next exciting instalment (post with pics) - hey I think my Maggies home games drinking and sometimes lunching buddies 1954 and matrix will end up joining BF

 

[I Dont Care]

Hi everyone - I am yet another TPFPer to make the move to Big Footy after this morning's devastating news about TPFP closing down - I can completely understand why it was done and I too want to add to the chorus of people thanking Vi, Daryl and Mark for all they have done over the years - hope to catch up with you at a few games over this coming season.

For those who don't know me, I am the one who created that thread on TPFP titled "A Pictorial History of the Port Adelaide Cheer Squad" which had lots of my old pics and newspaper clippings from the early 1970s era when the Port Cheer squad (of which I was the leader at the time for several years) was very big (see my avatar pic of our cheer squad at an early 1970s Grand Final at Adelaide Oval) - our club asked me for approval to put some of my pics in their book Since 1870 which of course I felt honoured to agree to. It's a shame my thread has now been lost due to TPFP closing because I have been contacted by younger Port supporters over recent years who have stumbled across it (my thread) only to be amazed at how big and colourful we were back then.

I was thinking of creating a new nickname in here but decided to keep the same one I used in TPFP because so many people know it and I see already numerous people that I know from TPFP have joined Big Footy - hello people.

Anyway, looking forward to participating in here.

PS:- can we add emoticons in here to our posts?

Edit:- A bit more info re me - I was on the Outer Army committee in 2012 and again in 2013 as the membership co-ordinator.

G'day, Creighton I feared you wouldn't come...good to see you here

 

[Seanybruz]

Coobs, hope you make it across.

He's definitely coming he's already got an account. Edit: as Lou said.

Welcome to the site Fifty, Lou Zyffer, Werner, Creighton & everybody else who had to make the jump over the border, the regular gangs almost all here.

Hopefully someone can get in touch with Philreich, I need more people to discuss Cricket with in the new thread I made lol.

 

[Power Raid]

You had some woman as an avatar, if I remember correctly?

I had forgotten about that. Yep, she was pretty hot.

 

[I Dont Care]

No probs Welsh - I couldn't believe how my thread took off - it was like everyone was waiting for the next exciting instalment (post with pics) - hey I think my Maggies home games drinking and sometimes lunching buddies 1954 and matrix will end up joining BF

'54 is just having technical difficulties. MT coming over too?

 

[I Dont Care]

I had forgotten about that. Yep, she was pretty hot.

Must be why I remember

 

[Saansa]

It is indeed a sad day to lose TPFP, but it's a great day for bigfooty.

 

[Power Raid]

You had some woman as an avatar, if I remember correctly?

Just to bring back memories