The World Cup spoiler thread

JohnnyG · 1 Jun 2006 at 11:31

I've got a feeling the World Cup spoiler thread will be quite a big one, so who's got any ideas of what to put in it, links, fixtures etc.

There's a sweepstake spreadsheet for those interested curtesy of Gooner14 & kaiowas

kaiowas · 1 Jun 2006 at 12:02

Obviously not very good hacking 'cos it doesn't actually work

I've got a fixed version here but I can't upload it from work.

Kerplunk · 1 Jun 2006 at 12:05

That sweepstake doesnt work

Edit: Beaten, d'oh.

Vandle · 1 Jun 2006 at 12:09

Would it not be better having a thread for each game?

JohnnyG · 1 Jun 2006 at 12:10

Bah, I'm a hacker not a programmer

If you've got one that works email to me & I'll put it up

JohnnyG · 1 Jun 2006 at 12:10

Vandle said:
Would it not be better having a thread for each game?

There's all the non-England games too don't forget

kaiowas · 1 Jun 2006 at 12:14

JohnnyG said:
Bah, I'm a hacker not a programmer
If you've got one that works email to me & I'll put it up

YGM

Vandle · 1 Jun 2006 at 12:19

JohnnyG said:
There's all the non-England games too don't forget

Exactly what I mean.
The England game the other night has reached 11 pages spanning 3 days and that was only a friendly!

It would mean other interesting games would remain clutter free without anyone just posting a sad smilie , a load of *******'s , someone who watches football once every 4 years asking if Joe and Ashley Cole are brothers or something equally tedious.

JohnnyG · 1 Jun 2006 at 12:27

kaiowas said:
YGM

Thanks & sorted

Vandle said:
Exactly what I mean.
The England game the other night has reached 11 pages spanning 3 days and that was only a friendly!
It would mean other interesting games would remain clutter free without anyone just posting a sad smilie , a load of *******'s , someone who watches football once every 4 years asking if Joe and Ashley Cole are brothers or something equally tedious.

That might be a better way of doing it, could just have spoilers for each England game, then a separate one for all the other games. Some goon is going to cross post though that way & could upset someone avoiding results :dunno:

red11 · 1 Jun 2006 at 12:27

But are they brothers? Could it be football's greatest ever secret?

Nismo · 1 Jun 2006 at 12:28

Tony Soprano said:
But are they brothers? Could it be football's greatest ever secret?

Andy is their Dad, and Carlton is their cousin.

kaiowas · 1 Jun 2006 at 12:31

How about one thread per group for the group stages? Or if the powers that be are interested maybe a world cup subforum with a thread per match.

Vandle · 1 Jun 2006 at 12:35

kaiowas said:
How about one thread per group for the group stages? Or if the powers that be are interested maybe a world cup subforum with a thread per match.

Id vote for that.

JohnnyG · 1 Jun 2006 at 12:45

Both those sound good to me too

although I'd be surprised if we could get the sub forum thing approved...

1 for each group
1 for the 2nd round
1 for each round afterwards

Unless we don't make to the 2nd round then sod it anways

Rotty · 1 Jun 2006 at 13:19

on the case now in the DR

cheers for bringing it up

IceBus · 1 Jun 2006 at 13:42

A sub forum would be awesome, as I'm sure a lot of members will be watching every game pretty much. Also then you could have other World Cup threads to talk about other incidents - should we introduce another linesman, goal line sensors, injuries, mascot discussion etc

da_mic_1530 · 1 Jun 2006 at 15:10

i vote for a subforum, i think if we have once huge thread of about 50 pages i may post in it once as it will be so hard to keep up with the discussion

Nedved11 · 1 Jun 2006 at 16:26

I thought what we did in Euro04 worked out pretty well? I think group stages thread for England to keep all the louts

then a separate one for other groups might work.

After that and if England get through a dedicated one for each knockout stage...

lemonkettaz · 1 Jun 2006 at 21:27

WORLD CUP 2006 BABY!

Big Kev · 1 Jun 2006 at 21:55

We were thinking along Johnny's lines and won't go with a sub forum, so the first threads will be created before the competition kicks off.

Anyone with any better ideas, feel free to post away.