The old WSAG messageboard from the early 2000s

[BoysInBlue]

Saw the Bluekipper thread, just wondering if anyone remembers (or used) the WSAG board, back when it was on Rivals.net.

This is going back to the early 2000s. Some very funny nights spent on there, just before and just after Moyes arrived. Very interesting time.

We used to get Kopites on there all the time and the 'banter' (sorry, hate using that word, but it's the best way to describe it!) back and forth was pretty funny.

Rooney had just debuted and there was one Kopite who used to post all the time, reg_user was his name, and he was the biggest wind up merchant in history. He was adamant that James Milner (who debuted for Leeds as a kid at the same time) would become a bigger star than Rooney.

There was another Kopite called David Nieve (I think?), who we all used to take the piss out of and called David Naive, and he wrote a regular column called 'From my seat in the Centenary Stand' on the LFC rivals site.

I always remember the Wussagers, MOB (Mark O'Brien, who still blogs on Everton and is very funny), Milo (no idea what happened to him), Spart (posts on the Peoples Forum now), Madge (who was a Queen-loving Evertonian in her 40s, who was married to a Kopite who still posts on RAWK, his name escapes me) and Wharto, who was a top lad, gave me a lift to Fulham back in 2005. Haven't seen him in years, although his claim to fame is that he appeared on Mastermind on tv a few years ago and did well. Loads of them worked nightshifts and would post at all hours and some of the debates were hilarious. It was my first real experience of an online community, as I didn't have the internet in the house until 2001.

I think the board lasted until around 2008, when Rivals.net closed down really suddenly. It was so weird, as it was nightly ritual posting on there (like this place is now) and suddenly it was gone. A few of us tried setting up a new board but it was hard because of the nature of being online and the gang basically split up. Shame.

 

[koolblue77]

I loved WSAG!! Do you remember blues_bug_gerrard? He used to do really gash poems. Obviously a spotty virgin with mummy issues.

 

[Dell Boy]

First ever intro to interweb forums. Scary place. I remember a Fulham supporter called Stabilo posting all the time about strange goings on in his office and others doing similar. I remember Spart and Reg User and Krispy talking about all sorts of depravity (think @Bungle without the sophistication)

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

Pretty certain I have about a dozen of the first issues of wsag up in the loft with progs.

 

[spence03]

I was on wsag. It was great the whole rivals network.

Liverpool's one the shankly gates was a scaled down Rawk. Anyone remember David Neve? He took some dogs abuse on wsag.

There was Eddie Honda, Bump and Reg User. All of them will definitely post on rawk.

 

[domingo77]

I deeply miss WSAG.

Do you remember Thomas Pepper (so I hear) and Tony Blue Blood Evans? I had just started my first proper job and was doing a PhD at the time - never really posted but must have read every thread and had loads and loads of laugh out loud moments. My fav was a poster who was talking about spending £200 on a new pair of headphones (before the trend for oversized ones) and he was torn on which song to play first - he concluded with Toto Africa. It was just so funny. Happy days when the football was [Poor language removed].

 

[CahillsCornerFlag]

Never heard of it. My first taste was probably BBC 606, there was a few good lads on there.

 

[Dell Boy]

I looked in on it around 2005/2006. Age of innocence. Remember when someone really did post a pic of their bits out in the office.

 

[Walken]

Never heard of it. My first taste was probably BBC 606, there was a few good lads on there.

I posted on there, mainly for the boxing, the blues used to destroy the clueless kopites there, one red poster call stan 5 or something used to get it daily with them bombay movie things, then the beeb culled it to cut costs the blerts

 

[4737carlin]

I was on there, i would often pop over to other clubs pages but most of them were like ghost towns. That chat room thing they had was ok as well

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

Loved the site - some very funny posters on there and some hilarious threads developed. I recall the Eddie Honda saga (He was a kopite version of Ghost who used to post on GOT). That culminated in him offering someone out for a fight. He was a no-show and the lads came up with this bombay vid classic.