Great!
We can have one here too.
Let’s call it The Mortuary? Or the Crypt?
Or The Twilight Zone?
Will make for an easier job for the Admins.
No need to ponder whether to delete or, the more ponderous task of deciding which thread to move to.
All this reminds me of a time I was on holiday in Cornwall and we couldn’t find a decent Cornish pastie anywhere and the missus said ‘do you think that pasty faced people have been attacked with a mispronounced pastie?’ and just then it started raining and didn’t stop for three weeks. We didn’t have global warming then because it was the 1950s before I was born. None of those gender benders either those days. Speaking of which, the Saudis would just chop off their hands or something. Mind you, it’s not as if the UK is any better what with slavery and all that. Sorry, what were we talking about again?
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Surely that would be the MLS where football careers go to die?
I am guilty myself by posting shit seagull pictures for no reason at times. 
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Is this:
a) Your brown-nosing effort to become a mod?
b) You have recently become a mod and giving yourself a pat on the back?
I second this. I think the Fab and Henderson threads should be kept clean from any discussion about SA in general, which should all be directed to Ifti’s Saudi Sportswashing Pro League thread. Anything in those two player threads really should be about those players’ actual sales. Though I realise the limited man (or woman) hours available for mods to police this.
I am definitely not guilty of bringing tax residency and Domicile into those threads. 
Lol maybe this thread can be the new off-topic thread, it’s already off to a cracking start
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What news is being buried in a thread like a Henderson transfer thread? I keep hearing people say things like “I see 42 new pists in the X transfer thread and then its not anything but people making comments”.
So?
Henderson and Fabinho are fucking off, we k ow that, what else is there to say? Is the thread supposed to stay dormant until official word comes through? Having threads go off topic actually allows for some conversation and discussion.
Also conversations about SA are absolutely relevant in a thread on Henderson or Fabinho. Also our ownership thread or any transfer thread with that government involved.
Seems to me we’d be losing much of what makes this site interesting if the conversations were strictly limited to exactly what the title of the thread is. The title/first post of any topic is a launching point for a conversation not a limit to it.
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Because that’s what most people want to do on a discussion forum.
I don’t mean this in a nasty way but my honest opinion is, given the rules you laid out in your opening post, that I wouldn’t have signed up to your forum and I’d probably leave this one if it got that way here.
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Please don’t leave.
The only person on here who knows anywhere near as much as you about under-18s is @SBYM - and he doesn’t focus on their football.
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I agree with @Sweeting. The risk of trying to segregate discussions by ‘keeping them in good order’, is that many threads will end up being dormant.
Also, we are a small forum. It’s not as if we had thousands of posts to manage, or to wade through.
Just like others, I don’t find that a discussion about SA politics is out of order in a thread involving a move from a player to SA, just like it would be ok to discuss politics in Florida if one of our players had an offer from Miami or whatever.
But the little off-topic jokes, the memes, the gifs who have nothing to do with the debate at hand are often a nuisance and can easily get out of hand. And that’s where I find the idea of a ‘Graveyard’-thread appealing, as it would make the mod job that little bit easier, and I’m always in favour of making things easier… 
So, how should we call it? The Graveyard, The Crypt, The Bin? What else?
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I’m off for a coffee back when my sugar levels are back to normal, in my case very high!
I disagree with you there, mate. Sure, people stray off topic (usually led by me) but they generally know when to rein themselves in; the forum self-moderates reasonably well, I would say.
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I’m not leaving, just making the point that if we are strictly moderating every conversation then I’d just lose interest.
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If you’re looking for a good pastie I’d recommend the Crumplehorn Horn Inn in Polpero. Enormous and very tasty.
Ah! Sorry for derailing the thread.
Goodison Park… full of rubbish that doesn’t fit anywhere else.
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Seems like tautology
My suggestion was just that. I don’t want to stifle conversation or see forum activity dwindle, I would just like to see it managed a little differently*, so that I don’t have to read 100 posts about religion when I simply want to know if there’s any movement on Fabinho’s transfer.
*not a swipe at how it is being managed a present
But you can just go to the official site and see if he’s been sold
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