[NSC] Bozza, whats your story?

[hart's shirt]

Oh God I remember the day we got wind of the Zamora signing at the Portslade 5 a side.

Memories eh?

I remember that and the moment when we found out from a certain someone.

Probably the only time I've ever been ITK.

 

[Curious Orange]

I'm a relative newbie on NSC but it looks like Bozza is going to let this run for a few pages of posts... before he decides if he'll bother to reply
Oh...6 mins late

I was deeply disappointed to not see anyone call 'Fixtures!' on this.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I haven't posted on NSC for a couple of years but have just reset my password and I'm here, won't be posting much I guess. Those old names Sim are from the golden age of NSC, before it was taken over by a short list of weird perma-attention-seekers posting on every single freaking thread. It looks like that has died down a bit which is good. I met most of that gang at the Regents Park footy, I particularly remember my now v good friend MoH hitting an old lady on the head? Or am I imagining that?

I played one game with you bunch of posturing ninnies at Regents park. I think that was the second to last time I played an actual match (of sorts). The time after that I did my meniscus. FFS. I was playing with our final year students and showing off. Twat.

 

[Ken Livingstone Seagull]

The fabled poxy point.

Neatly bringing this back to the fact that a group of NSCers actually sponsored that very game (1-0, Zamora)

Was that the Cardiff match where we piled into the Portacabin for a lunch knees-up pre-game and voted Andy Crosby Mom? One of my all-too-rare forays over both ponds. Mark Walton had a cracker that day between the sticks as I (dimly) recall. Simster, you were there, Afters, Mr.Putdown...MoH and Shirt of Hart? Barntit Seagull also. Sir Dick Knight and BZ signed my centenary shirt no less. Happy days.

 

[jcdenton08]

Couldn’t ask for a more level headed owner. Like the Albion really, run brilliantly just like our club. Cheers @Bozza

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

There was a guestbook on the Seagull Server, which was where the original message from Richard Vaughan suggesting Fans Utd was made, but original NSP, which was a proper forum with thread structure etc., was put on the site separately at some put during the run up to Fans Utd.

It's literally my only claim to fame in life that I posted on the first page of the original NSC back one evening from an IT room at university in early 1997. No idea what I wrote, but I'm sure it was amazing.

Those thread structures were annoying to read and navigate, occasionally I still see a forum with that kind of setup, archaic!

 

[JetsetJimbo]

I moved away from Brighton in 1997 and away from the UK in 2011 - it was after the latter move that I really started using this board a lot more (I was more of a reader than a participant before that).

Because while I wasn't born in Brighton, it's where I grew up - I lived there from the ages of 6 to 18. So even though I've spent much more of my life away from Brighton than in it, Brighton feels like "home" in a way no other place does. I can't really describe it, but I feel it on my (very) occasional visits, even though none of my family still live there.

And NSC has been a vital part of maintaining my emotional connection to the Albion specifically and the city more generally. If NSC had never existed, I'd probably be feeling very rootless at this point of my life.

Just wanted to take this opportunity to say thanks to @Bozza, @ManxSeagull and everyone else involved in setting up and maintaining this site.

 

[El Presidente]

God bless NSC. It has always been there at my greatest and darkest moments.

 

[nwgull]

Those thread structures were annoying to read and navigate, occasionally I still see a forum with that kind of setup, archaic!

Absolutely. That sort of structure couldn't cope with the volume of replies you get to a single thread these days. In the early days however, I thought it worked quite well when you'd get a dozen or so replies at most to a thread. Bear in mind that we're talking 1997 when NSC had literally 10s of users! Back than the email group was still the main source of news and discussion, and continued to be so for a good couple of years.

 

[Zeberdi]

Thanks for the back story @Bozza and I echo @JetsetJimbo ‘s post re. living a long way from ‘home’ - NSC really does help maintain a connection to the Club that as some of us distant fans find challenging to maintain - I feel in my case, it will become even more important to have that online connection when the time comes earlier than it should, when getting to live matches becomes impossible due to ill health.

I want to echo @Durlston ’s comments too - It was very unexpected when a post I one day last Spring made from a hospital bed received such an incredible, warm and supportive ongoing response, which was followed up during months of hospital admissions - my mental health was taking a bit of a battering at times with so much ongoing critical physical illnesses one after the other and NSC really helped - watching football in hospital and being able to share on the match threads kept me connected to the Club at a time when I most needed it. I also want to give a shout of support for the diversity of topics NSC caters for - I know this isn’t to everyone’s taste (thanks for the new thread ignore feature!) but for many of us who don’t get much opportunity to socialise with Seagull fans IRL because of geographical distance - it’s like meeting up with a bunch of mates to discuss all or nothing under the sun - when the news looks like the world‘s going to Hell in a handbasket at times, NSC also provides the opportunity to escape from that for a while or indeed dive right into threads discussing those issues as a way of coping and assimilating what’s happening which is what I tend to do, but none of that would be possible at all were it not for a well run and well moderated forum- so thank you.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Absolutely. That sort of structure couldn't cope with the volume of replies you get to a single thread these days. In the early days however, I thought it worked quite well when you'd get a dozen or so replies at most to a thread. Bear in mind that we're talking 1997 when NSC had literally 10s of users! Back than the email group was still the main source of news and discussion, and continued to be so for a good couple of years.

True!

I remember the Seagulls Server but can't remember if I ever joined the mailing list. It was amazing in those days of the early internet to suddenly have access to up to date info and from ground level, straight from the fans, especially with all that was going on at the time with the club.

And I'll always be grateful for the chap who streamed our commentaries, I used those for a year or two before it was stopped. It was a godsend for me in Liverpool. If I remember correctly, he tragically died in a freak accident.

 

[Bry Nylon]

I haven't posted on NSC for a couple of years but have just reset my password and I'm here, won't be posting much I guess. Those old names Sim are from the golden age of NSC, before it was taken over by a short list of weird perma-attention-seekers posting on every single freaking thread. It looks like that has died down a bit which is good. I met most of that gang at the Regents Park footy, I particularly remember my now v good friend MoH hitting an old lady on the head? Or am I imagining that?

Ha! Those Thursday evening games of Regents Park football, organised via NSC, were truly happy, happy times. Didn't we used to go to a pub in a side street afterwards too, on occasions?

@Man of Harveys was what I would call an enthusiastic but not especially clinical finisher. Frankly, anybody in a 30 yard radius and not paying close attention was at risk of going home with 'Mitre' imprinted on their forehead if MoH found himself in half a yard of space and a sniff of glory in his nostrils. As well as the elderly lady, on another occasion he also came close to decapitating a nanny out for an evening stroll with an infant in a buggy. Being in goal at the time, I had to sprint to retrieve the ball. I can't recall exactly what it was she said to me, but then it probably wouldn't get past the swear filters on here anyway. Thanks for that, MoH, ffs

 

[essbee1]

I jest about NSC, but without it I would be lost on so many occasions. From holiday advice to legal
advice, to all things football. It is a site that I look at first thing in the morning and last thing
at night. It has also provided me with a wealth of mirth. Thanks Bozza.

 

[basque seagull]

I wrote this piece about NSC once which is not really a history but if you want an idea about what it does and why and how in 800 words....then try https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...internet-club-forums-twitter-youtube-facebook

Thanks, that was a good read!

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Little known fact: @Dick Knights Mumm and cuddly pottymouth jailbird bhaexpress were best mates. They even drove to Halifax away together.

well ....... and then we were in the pub pre-match and the game got called off. So back in the car for the long, long journey home.

your mum.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

well ....... and then we were in the pub pre-match and the game got called off. So back in the car for the long, long journey home.

your mum.

That match was called off really last minute. I parked my car, walked along towards the stadium with my buddies and a couple of locals called out that it had been cancelled. It was pretty disappointing. The state of the pitch was appalling, the egg chasers wrecked it the evening before.

 

[Muzzman]

In the old NSC, I went by the name of Fat Boy's Limb, my avatar was this dude ... but he was green. Them were the days!

 

[papajaff]

@Dick Knights Mumm drove me and @papajaff to York away. Or was it Lincoln? Anyway, me and @papajaff spent all afternoon in the pub, so I can't remember much about the game. It may have been the one where Silky David Cameron scored his only goal in English football (roughly). Against us. The winning goal. FFS.

You do realise our paths have probably crossed, perhaps many times. Spooky

It was Hull away @Harry Wilson's tackle .
We stopped in Lincoln for a few beers.
Great days

 

[Bozza]

In the old NSC, I went by the name of Fat Boy's Limb, my avatar was this dude ... but he was green. Them were the days!

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[AK74]

I discovered NSC in the Withdean era (with a different account/username which I've not accessed for years).

I was a season ticket holder in the singing section. And in my stupidity/naivety, I initially thought there might be a South Stand Chat, too.