The New "All-in-one" match threads

[OCD]

I think the all-in-one threads works for the pre-season friendlies but that with competitive games, the 3 separate threads work better.

I see some people are asking for a combined pre-match and match thread but then it's not as easy to find out what the team line-up is and you have to be able to differentiate from people saying what the team should be and what it actually is.

[Mister E]

I hate change, me.
3 works better.

[Goldie.7]

So if we lose on wednesday, it might be because we reverted to old threads? Will we ever sleep again, lying in bed wondering what if....

Maybe we should keep the combined whilst we are on a roll, and then go to the popular vote.

Good idea, lets just hold tight till Wednesday. Win it stays till due course, draw we go by vote, lose back to normal?

[El Hurricane]

I'm all for the 3 separate threads, please change back

[olaftab]

Keep post match separate please. I am OK with single for pre and match.

[paulcomben]

I was sat in Frankley Services for half an hour trying to find the final whistle.

The match thread is awesome while the game is being played but of no real interest afterwards.

Just my opinion, like.

Well, that is horrifying. Nobody should have to spend any time at Frankley Services.

[The Left Side]

Free the Match Thread 3

[eamonn]

I think the all-in-one threads works for the pre-season friendlies but that with competitive games, the 3 separate threads work better.

I see some people are asking for a combined pre-match and match thread but then it's not as easy to find out what the team line-up is and you have to be able to differentiate from people saying what the team should be and what it actually is.

Depends though. Sometimes, when Legion is up to his oxters marking SATs and Dave is enjoying the delights of Bath some crafty beggar starts the match thread early on the day of the game and it becomes a continuation of the pre-match thread.

Sometimes, reading back over the match thread afterwards, especially when we lose, can provide some much needed relief. You think you've taken a defeat badly, then you go on there and see the reaction to us conceding - Risso et al demanding Bennett and Lambert's balls on a breadboard and you smugly realise that you do still have some semblance of sanity.

[levico]

I'm with three separate threads party. After a long, tiring but wonderful day at the match yesterday I just couldn't face the 86 page thread. Like there's, I like to review the contemporaneous (I think that's the word) comments.

[Clampy]

I don't mind either way although at least with three separate threads, you can choose which want you want to read.

[Fergal]

How about trialing Pre- and Match thread with a separate post match thread?

[not3bad]

In the original post (see Arsenal thread) there are two links. One takes you to just before kick-off the other takes you to full-time.

Yeah I suppose that could work.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

If you go back to seperate threads then those of us in favour of all in one threads may protest by keeping our match and post match comments in the pre match thread, thus treating it as an all in one thread. Of course you could always lock the pre match threads and match threads as and when you start up the others but politically this will make you appear dictatorial.

[Louzie0]

I think the all-in-one threads works for the pre-season friendlies but that with competitive games, the 3 separate threads work better.

I see some people are asking for a combined pre-match and match thread but then it's not as easy to find out what the team line-up is and you have to be able to differentiate from people saying what the team should be and what it actually is.

Depends though. Sometimes, when Legion is up to his oxters...

Oxters. I think our northern friends use this word (for armpits) but don't know we don't.
Fabulous, though, I think we should. Much better.

[Chris Smith]

If the H & V junta bully boys attempt to impose anything other than the old three separate threads then we should rise up in protest, each of us start multiple threads every match day until the old order is reinstated.

Posters of the Villa unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains.