In the posts containing the "official information" you're harping on about, there is no such reference to Souffs that you're whinging about. It is a single reference in a game day thread made about 10 posts in mentioning the team has been updated in an earlier post. I believe that post was far enough on to be part of regular discussion.
I'd see your point if I'd included it in a graphic or in the posting of the team list, but tbh I think you're being an uptight pedant. I do take some level of pride and professionalism into the main post in each of these threads, that I would think is quite obvious, but I don't see why it should extend to general posts I make after the fact, which is where the Souffs reference was made.
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Tim, what I am basically trying to say here is that when you type anything in the match day thread, I and many other South Sydney fans take what you type seriously as you are seen as the bearer of the official information. Hence, I tend to read everything you say, whereas I would tend to skip or ignore stuff typed by others. It would be much appreciated if you could refrain from referring to my team as "Souffs" when making updates to the match day thread. As I mentioned earlier, South's, Souths, Bunnies, Rabbits whatever would be much appreciated.
It's a reference to the name of the club, much in the way we say Norths, Easts and Wests.
The West Belconnen Warriors are still called Wests, but it's hardly a contraction of West Belconnen now is it.
TBH, on further reflection I believe we are both wrong. Wests, Souths, West's, South's whatever is actually a contraction of "Southern Suburbs of" i.e. Southern Suburbs of Sydney, Western Suburbs of Belconnen. Hence South Sydney or West Belconnen is actually a contraction to begin with. Technically you are incorrect further though because you should still use an apostrophe, but no one else does so I digress. The names are probably more slang now than proper English anyway so meh.
Before you argue with this, consider the following,
You never hear South Australia or Western Australia spoken of as Souths or Wests and this is because the "South" or "West" is a shortening of a singular, i.e. Southern State of Australia.
I did however find this bit of your post quite interesting-
Whoops, stupid typos. (Or is that typo's, because, despite the fact that it looks and in fact is completely wrong, typos is a contraction of typographical errors and therefore, according to you, must have an apostrophe).
Considering this part of the post earlier on in the same thread, which kicked off the entire discussion-
South's is just a typo that you have made when trying to prove a point. Embarrassed by this, you attempt to show that you have used proper English when, in fact, you are trying to apply rules that are not applicable (it is quite permissible for Souths to be of plural form here as it is a place name and not a word describing the direction) and ignoring the basic tenets of those that you do site.
Quite frankly it just makes you look illiterate.
So basically its ok for you to attack someone over a perceived typo, but when the shoe is on the other foot, suddenly, typo's become ok?
Quite frankly, this makes you look like a hypocrite. In fact, it doesn't make you look like one, it proves conclusively that you are one.
Translation: You've got nothing.
Incorrect again, because, unlike you, I have a life and don't feel the need to stick my nose into arguments that don't involve me to begin with. Quite frankly, arguing about apostrophe's and grammatical errors on a football forum is quite tedious. Perhaps we should get back to arguing about Rugby League? As a pair of Mod's on this forum, it would be good form for us to set a good example for others and stop hijacking this thread. If you would like to discuss this further you can send me a PM.
