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Red CB Toronto
09-07-2014, 11:48 PM
I was thinking about our history and all and it got me thinking who is Simon? The British man who brought TFC supporters together for the first time with a message board.

DOMIN8R
09-08-2014, 05:18 AM
Do you mean Steven Powell, Director of Policy, Football Supporter’s Federation of England and Wales (fsf.org.uk)?

Wagner
09-08-2014, 05:50 AM
What are you talking about?

Damian and C_B started the board back in the day (2006).

http://31.media.tumblr.com/0e28c0b10db923a5aeb1b8afa52d70da/tumblr_mkopk4hlRz1rdzuduo4_400.jpg

Oblio2
09-08-2014, 07:58 AM
Im a Simon. Not THE Simon...but Simon.
remember the old Board...that went porno.
lol

Jack
09-08-2014, 11:13 AM
What are you talking about?

Damian and C_B started the board back in the day (2006).

http://31.media.tumblr.com/0e28c0b10db923a5aeb1b8afa52d70da/tumblr_mkopk4hlRz1rdzuduo4_400.jpg
I believe there was another, before that. The pornspam board. My memory is hazy...

trane
09-08-2014, 12:32 PM
^ Yes that is the one he is talking about. I was not one there. I joined just after, but I remember the stories about the porn spam.

Which I suspect has something to do with Damian. Is C_B still around? Have not seen him in ages.

akoto
09-08-2014, 12:37 PM
It was toronto-fc.com I believe

Damien
09-08-2014, 12:40 PM
did someone say porn? :D

Toronto-FC.com was the original message board. Simon was the creater/moderator but disappeared sometime in Nov/Dec 2006 and there was no moderation so it was eventually flooded by porn.
I started a board on ExcoBoards.com on Dec 26 2006 and everyone jumped ship.
Then in 2008, the RPB collectively started the board you're using now.

To answer your question, Simon was a guy from the UK who started the Toronto-FC.com board.
No clue of who he was or his whereabouts.

Wagner
09-08-2014, 01:06 PM
I've been around since 2006.
went out searching for a home bar with Parky and Snatchcar.
I came in just after the first banner painting and that photo parky took by climbing on top of the food building.

I remember the board migrations.
if you needed cheap Viagra/Cialis, the original board was the place to go.

we should do more to document our history.
it's actually kind of funny/interesting.
the various hacks (furry-gate, etc)

the first meeting at Joe's...i think C_B and Damien were expecting like a dozen, and way more showed up.

there was that massive meeting upstairs at the Rhino when we confirmed C_B as prez.

the first 2 dudes i met at my first meeting were James17930 and Norb.

Red CB Toronto
09-08-2014, 01:49 PM
Yeh,stumbled onto RPB early in the 2007 season, when I was looking for tickets and ended up buy a bunch of pairs in the south end from a member on the exchange. Started going to the tail gates run by Hal, Pat and company and Joe's.

Heard about the original board but the time I visited it was long abandoned and ravaged by spam.

trane
09-08-2014, 02:39 PM
did someone say porn? :D
.

I new that would bring you out.

Cashcleaner
09-09-2014, 12:07 AM
The old board? That brings back memories. I remember our first ever meeting at The Overdraught on Front Street. Good times. I think the old regular user group was about twenty of so people. Simon was the man who really deserves a lot of praise for giving us our first place to hang around online and talk about the team.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v221/Cashcleaner/RPB1_zps07cb84f9.jpg?t=1410152370

Anyone remember this photo? This is probably one of the first group photos of us hanging outside a half-built BMO Field.

I don't know where Simon is or what he's doing now, but I like to think of him as our version of Jonathan Smith from the show Highway to Heaven. He was sent on a mission to help kick-start a TFC Supporter Group. And with that task complete, he disappears into the night...

Red CB Toronto
09-09-2014, 12:09 AM
The old board. That brings back memories. I remember our first ever meeting at The Overdraught on Front Street. Good times. I think the old regular user group was about twenty of so people. Simon was the man who really deserves a lot of praise for giving us our first place to hang around online and talk about the team.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v221/Cashcleaner/RPB1_zps07cb84f9.jpg?t=1410152370

Anyone remember this photo? This is probably one of the first group photos of us hanging outside a half-built BMO Field.

Would these be considered the founding members, I recognize a few but not all. Actually if we listed the founding members of the RPB who would they be?

Red CB Toronto
09-09-2014, 12:16 AM
I've been around since 2006.
went out searching for a home bar with Parky and Snatchcar.
I came in just after the first banner painting and that photo parky took by climbing on top of the food building.

I remember the board migrations.
if you needed cheap Viagra/Cialis, the original board was the place to go.

we should do more to document our history.
it's actually kind of funny/interesting.
the various hacks (furry-gate, etc)

the first meeting at Joe's...i think C_B and Damien were expecting like a dozen, and way more showed up.

there was that massive meeting upstairs at the Rhino when we confirmed C_B as prez.

the first 2 dudes i met at my first meeting were James17930 and Norb.

Was the viewing party for the inaugural game at Chivas at the Elephant and Castle on King and Simcoe?

Damien
09-09-2014, 11:32 AM
Would these be considered the founding members, I recognize a few but not all. Actually if we listed the founding members of the RPB who would they be?

There was another photo taken at shoeless joes a few hours later where yours truly and a few others were included in the photo.

gate7
09-09-2014, 04:25 PM
the photo im in got deleted. ....something about censorship

FluSH
09-09-2014, 08:48 PM
Haha the original board! I was there! I remember the porn invasion!

Nice pic Cash... Below is a picture from the Joe's later that evening

http://instagram.com/p/svy5AFMEV1/

Damien
09-11-2014, 09:54 PM
http://i.imgur.com/2uXBWLL.jpg?1

FluSH
09-11-2014, 09:58 PM
Nice find Damien... I bet by the switch in ppl you took the first shot and I took the second one lol