Soccer Forum Awards 2008?

Xavi6

I hereby propose the idea of the Boards.ie Soccer Forum Awards 2008.

Basically a few light hearted awards in various categories that best sum up the forum.

A while ago such a thing may not have possible due to the amount of blatant muppets there were posting but all that has died down and there's a really good community feel to the place.

Now it won't work if people are going to get offended if they are put up for a particular award so I'll attach a poll to this thread to gauge some opinions.

Examples of awards titles could be -

'Liverpool Fan Boy Of The Year' :P

The 'Matt Holland Award' for poster who never misses a thread.

'The John Delaney Perpetual Trophy' for best LOI fan boy

'The Steve Staunton Award' for the poster that makes you go 'wtf?'.

'The Arsene Wenger Award' for the poster with the most well thought out and concise posts.

'The Jimmy Bullard Award' for the poster that makes you lol.

and possibly 'The Brian Barwick Award' for overlord/mod of the year.

Thoughts?

Melion

Yep, sounds like a good idea

Eirebear

Good idea.

Could we also have the "Warren Barton Award" for the poster you'd most like to hit over the head with a blunt instrument?

KevIRL

good idea

Melion

Eirebear wrote: »

Good idea.

Could we also have the "Warren Barton Award" for the poster you'd most like to hit over the head with a blunt instrument?

Could we call it the "Garth Crooks Award" instead?

Seaneh

I better atleast be nominated for something.

About the Michelle Platini Award for poster who hates british football the most or something?

Xavi6

Lol very good.

It would be good if people who are against it could say why. I see one person has voted no so far and there will be more.

DeadSkin

Can I propose the 'Bill O'Herlihy Plaque' [or the Bill O, for short] for the Biggest Shit Stirrer

missingtime

DeadSkin wrote: »

Can I propose the 'Bill O'Herlihy Plaque' [or the Bill O, for short] for the Biggest Shit Stirrer

Damit got in ahead of me!!

It should be: "The Alex Ferguson Award for Biggest Sh!t Stirrer"

Although the "Bill O" would be a great nick name!

ziggy

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Frisbee

Great Idea, count me in

Xavi6

ziggy wrote: »

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Well he can just be the first inductee into the Hall of Fame! One of those Lifetime Achievement Award things.

Dave!

The John Terry award for most disastrous error in a post :pac:

The Liverpool FC award for most optimistic poster! This will be your year Mr Alan, don't worry

The Paul McShane award for most consistently retarded poster on the forum. This would be another for esteban

DeadSkin

Winners/Losers, must display the award in their sig for the year.

Frisbee

The Kenny Cunningham Award for the poster who constantly sits on the fence and has no actual opinion him/herself.

+ 1

This forum always needs the craic!

Charlie

Great idea Xavi!!!

Naturally enough, I expect a few awards my way, so I can make a loutish Shane Lynch style acceptance speech.

Surely there should be a post of the year that is exclusive to Soccer. Perhaps it culd be called the 'Zidane'.

~Rebel~

im a yes anyway

Melion

Boggles is going to clean up

V9

Great idea, love the "Jimmy Bullard" one, very fitting

Chong

I cannot wait to see the nommo's for this, especially the Pool Fanboy one.

Good idea Xavi.

Xavi6

Well if the idea gets the go ahead I'd be thinking of a timeline like this -

November ? to 15 - Award categories decided upon

November 16 to 30 - Nominees put forward

December 1 to 21 - Voting

December 24 - Results/Awards announced

joe316

Where's the Atari Jaguar option???

But great idea, wish i posted more so i could be in the running for one of them

Next year joe next year. "insert wonder years moment"

Jazzy

What about the "Paul Merson Award for best drunk postings" ?

yeah good idea. i can see boggles and mr alan becoming the russel crowe and tom hanks of this tho

Xavi6

Xavi6 wrote: »

Well if the idea gets the go ahead I'd be thinking of a timeline like this -

November ? to 15 - Award categories decided upon

November 16 to 30 - Nominees put forward

December 1 to 21 - Voting

December 24 - Results/Awards announced

Would winning them be considered a christmas present from us all then?!

Charlie

Jazzy wrote: »

What about the "Paul Merson Award for best drunk postings" ?

Brilliant!

Chong

Is it just the best or can we have the worst too?

Xavi6

Bill wrote: »

Is it just the best or can we have the worst too?

Within reason I suppose.

Stuff like 'Sorest Loser' or 'Biggest Wanker' would be a no, no I'd imagine.

Chong

Ah no maybe one category, Worst Soccer Poster of the year thats all.

Xavi6

Bill wrote: »

Ah no maybe one category, Worst Soccer Poster of the year thats all.

Could get very, very bitchy though. What constitutes the worst poster? It'll just end up going to someone who doesn't like Liverpool/United/the LOI, not because of the quality of their posts, but because they go against the status quo.

Basically ntlbell would be a shoe in.

Chong

Xavi6 wrote: »

Could get very, very bitchy though. What constitutes the worst poster? It'll just end up going to someone who doesn't like Liverpool/United/the LOI, not because of the quality of their posts, but because they go against the status quo.

Basically ntlbell would be a shoe in.

Ha Ha yeah too true Xavi, it may turn out to be a right Cluster F@#k.

Chardee MacDennis

oh we definitely need a robbie savage or paul dickov award for biggest sh1t stirrer, i'm sure us liverpool fans would have more than a few nominees...

edit: and a joe kinnear award for biggest vent/grudge post, i'm looking at karma's post in the chelsea - liverpool thread :P

Mr.Nice Guy

Good idea. I know of a good one to nominate for funniest post.

Gelio

How about the Chelsea award for the richest input?

Lol:)

ROCKMAN

Great Idea

But OP must be a sure thing for the Matt Holland Award (which is something considering the time differance )

Wreck

Can we have an award for the poster who moans the most? We could call it the Nicholas Anelka or the Roy Keane.

Jazzy

yup, just bookmarked my nomination for funniest post. took a bit to find tho

Gelio

Jazzy wrote: »

yup, just bookmarked my nomination for funniest post. took a bit to find tho

Which one is it?

OhNoYouDidn't

How about a Terry Wogan award for the poster who has forgotten they are Irish - the heads who moan about threads being opened about domestic and local football?

Frisbee

Wreck wrote: »

Can we have an award for the poster who moans the most? We could call it the Nicholas Anelka or the Roy Keane.

I think Jermaine Jenas or Ashley Cole would be better candidates for that....

Chardee MacDennis

Frisbee wrote: »

I think Jermaine Jenas or Ashley Cole would be better candidates for that....

lol! take off your arsenal-tinted glasses...

Wreck

Frisbee wrote: »

I think ... Ashley Cole would be better candidates for that....

Nah that'd be way to harsh on anyone postng in this forum, if i was ever nominated for an award called the Ashley Cole I may just have to kill myself.

Frisbee

BastardPrince wrote: »

lol! take off your arsenal-tinted glasses...

No Jermaine Jenas is one of the moaniest players in the League. Something could happen 60 yards away and he'll sprint over to get involved.
Kolo used to do this aswell and it really annoyed me but he's stopped now for the most part, Thank God.

Chardee MacDennis

Frisbee wrote: »

No Jermaine Jenas is one of the moaniest players in the League. Something could happen 60 yards away and he'll sprint over to get involved.
Kolo used to do this aswell and it really annoyed me but he's stopped now for the most part, Thank God.

like Rio Ferdinand, John Terry and Sahy Given of late? i cant say i have ever noticed Jenas though! And you cant beat Wenger for a good misdirected whinge!!!

Frisbee

Yeah JT is like that alright. Never noticed it as much with Rio or Given though...

monkey9

BastardPrince wrote: »

like Rio Ferdinand, John Terry and Sahy Given of late? i cant say i have ever noticed Jenas though! And you cant beat Wenger for a good misdirected whinge!!!

Ah give Shay a break. He plays for Newcastle, can you blame him??

Dave!

Matt Le Tiss Award for least effort put in to a post [of pure genius].

Eirebear

ziggy wrote: »

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Of course not...i really want to hit warren barton over the head with a blunt instrument...honest

Vokes

Dave! wrote: »

Matt Le Tiss Award for least effort put in to a post [of pure genius].

Hah, genius. Sure you have the award in the bag already :pac:

Wreck

The Glen Hoddle award for the most 'WTF, did he really just say that?' post of the year.

pickarooney

Wreck wrote: »

The Glen Hoddle award for the most 'WTF, did he really just say that?' post of the year.

We're looking a a live video link-up with prison for Esteban to pick up his hat-trick of gongs at this rate.