The protagonists of this forum should just swap numbers and set up a whatsapp group, because this site is dead.

Honestly, how every thread can descend into some kind of manic denouncement of the club’s owner, or abuse of match-going supporters makes the club as a whole look like a basketcase. It really isn’t. It’s a functioning club with a decent support and recently appalling outcomes on the pitch.

None of what *anyone* says on here matters to anyone involved in the club. You’re all wasting your time and, in doing so, making the club out to be something that it isn’t. Imagine how it looks when someone comes onto the forum for a football club with “here’s where you should get a pint on your visit to our ground” and is met with “don’t tell us what to do”. It’s *excruciating* to think that a few lads- who by their own admission refuse to have anything to do with the football club- might affect how other people view our club.

I remember one of the protagonists of this forum mentioning “embarrassing” social media connected to the club. Read this thread. It’s a cry for help. It’s an irrelevant set of voices, screaming into the void.

Swap numbers and wind it in. Don’t let any more people mistake what’s written here as representative of the football club. You’re causing damage.

Epsom

https://www.southlondonisblackandwhite.com/home/Ep2

I don’t really pipe up on here, but when the thread topic is links to a site that I help to run and there’s a reference on it to “embarrassing” social media on the club, I daresay I am bound to step in.

Nothing *online* has contributed to the debasement of the club’s stature more than the ludicrous dreck posted on this forum over a number of years now.

Elsewhere online there are people who, whilst seeing first hand the decline of the club’s status- from the stands and not their armchairs- still manage to be positive about the club and try to encourage others along.

If you don’t like any of the output you’re seeing Mikem, create your own. If you feel embarrassed by content about the club, create your own.

It should be known that South London is Black and White is a site “for supporters, by supporters” and we actively encourage supporters to submit pieces of writing for the site. Mikem, I cordially invite you to write a piece and, subject to whether or not I decide to post it on the site or not, we can publish it for you. I will say, though, that if it aligns with some of the borderline libellous nonsense we often see on this forum, I probably will exercise my editorial control (I’m being purposefully grand as a joke) and leave it on these pages.

Carshalton

https://www.southlondonisblackandwhite.com/home/Cars

u23/reserves vs Alton

https://www.southlondonisblackandwhite.com/home/23alton

u23 vs Tooting Bec

https://www.southlondonisblackandwhite.com/home/Bec

u18 ‘keeper writes about his debut for the u23 team

https://www.southlondonisblackandwhite.com/home/Debut

AFC Croydon Athletic

https://www.southlondonisblackandwhite.com/home/AFC

Balham

https://www.southlondonisblackandwhite.com/home/Vc1

RPV

https://www.southlondonisblackandwhite.com/home/Rpv2

CASUALS

https://www.southlondonisblackandwhite.com/home/cc

Mikem wrote:

Gary, I can't believe you want to  join this secret society who have been the complete downfall of the Football Team with their cohesion with the owner since formed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

It’s not a secret society mate, there’s literally an application form on the internet

Appreciate the replies.

I have realised what it is that I don’t understand about the chat on here. It’s that some folk apparently stopped supporting their team when they stopped being “successful”. That’s absolutely people’s own prerogatives, I just can’t pretend to understand why there’d be any desire to ignore the team’s contextual successes in the present, instead choosing to compare the apparent failures with past achievements. And all of this online. At least if you came to the games you could celebrate goals whilst still getting the chance to moan about the club’s (supposed) broader demise over a beer.

Like I said before, recent seasons have been busted up because of covid. During that time, the club have been active in trying to get promoted. Absolutely nothing about what the club has done in that time disproves that. Any complaints about the club being a stepping stone for youth prospects have simply chosen to ignore the moves being made for established players. Hamlin, Jelley, Rose, Ross, Williams, Dixon. Nathan Daly. It’s not as if we field 11 teenagers every week. Sometimes results don’t go as we’d like, but that’s football. And also two entire seasons have been voided. When lockdown 1 started we had just gubbed 2nd place Hanwell at their place. Our last game before lockdown 2 was a cup game where we outplayed an Isthmian prem team and were unlucky to lose after a missed penalty. We didn’t get a chance to build on these results. When we did, we beat Hanwell with 10 men and went on to win the London senior cup.

This thread started with an offer of free tickets, which somehow led to “the club should give out more tickets”, which somehow led to “youth development has usurped first team aims”, all of which is obviously ridiculous. I think it boils down to people choosing the easy option- reminiscing about decades-old glories from the comfort of their homes instead of getting out and supporting the team which they think