Jeffles said:
I got the impression of bullying because no other club would be asked to merge into its competition forum to prop up the latter.
Thank goodness that sanity prevailed.
LOL. How do you know no other club forum has been asked to merge Jeffles? I know you only have your own impressions to rely on when forming an opinion and that's OK. But I can't see how you'd know what the site owners' plans are, and what things are being considered.
Other forums have been merged in the past, including the Balmain forum (into Wests Tigers). But that was done at the request of the Balmain moderator.
I don't see this as a 'sanity prevails' situation. That would suggest there was something on the agenda with Newtown. Merging the Newtown forum was never on the agenda. It was just an understandable reaction formulated by a couple of people in this thread.
The Newtown forum has its own members and its own character and will never be merged as long as I'm here... which is for the duration.
Not sure how many different ways I can say it.
Roopy is as free as anyone to post on the forums and express his ideas and opinion. He doesnt have to ask me for permission. However, I will say that if he suggested merging the forums to me, I would have said 'no way' without hesitation.
Now the future reference...
We are not going backwards with PL coverage, we are expanding it with Roopy and Girvie taking on NSWRL management.
We give Bumper's press releases a run on the main site and have a Premier League ladder linked in the side bar.
In addition, we now have all the Newtown news being pumped into the Sharks subdomain (in Leagueunlimited's League Network). A news feed which can only spread the word further afield.
I'd like to see a representative from Newtown on our NSWRL management team.
And if someone wants to put up their hand to maintain it, I'd like to see a Newtown subdomain on Leagueunlimited.
The LU site is not here to be needlessly opposed. On the contrary, the resources of Leagueunlimited are here for you guys to utilise.
You only have to ask and you'll find that we'll be most receptive.
Cheers.