What is the secret sauce behind the SMB?

[Lonz]

Clean and easy to use on most devices, without too many ads getting in the way of the experience. Helps that we have a reasonably large fanbase from outside the area as well.

 

[Daydream Believer]

Misery loves company

 

[I am a reindeer]

Community..... has made me feel part of the local area

 

[Randy Ostrich]

It's fame is spreading far and wide to the point where everyone wants a piece of us. I hear Gwyneth Paltow is even selling a candle that smells like @jacko100 's vagina

 

[jacko100]

It's fame is spreading far and wide to the point where everyone wants a piece of us. I hear Gwyneth Paltow is even selling a candle that smells like @jacko100 's vagina

 

[PeteFTM]

The well thought out & balanced views.

 

[townieftm]

Is it the most successful football forum? I always like it when I google some shit and google throws up a link to the SMB mind

 

[Boz33]

Showering with a dog
Getting sucked off, off a mate ( he’s not gay tho)
Some fucker buying a Greggs
Eurovision

The list is endless of filing weird old funny threads

 

[Deleted member 5265]

Is it the most successful football forum? I always like it when I google some shit and google throws up a link to the SMB mind

Durham salad for example.

To answer the OP's question, because it's about life not just football. It's a source of both utter bollocks and the best advice you can get.

 

[Deleted member 2014]

There's a canny cross-section of cutthroat's, vagabond's and ne'er-do-well's on here, to stir the pot, and encourage debate.

Then there's the charming, intellectual, witty, rational, and articulate types, like myself, who greatly enhance & contribute, to most topics and threads, on here.

 

[Lukas73]

It’s an eclectic mix of the good, the bad and the absolutely f***ing mental....

I love it....

 

[Frijj]

The friendliness

This is the only forum where genuinely venomous posts are made between users but 99% of them would go out of their way to help the other person.

For all I have significant disagreements with @danbob, @Lardy, @andyj73 etc, I wouldn’t want any actual harm or misfortune to actually befall them.

 

[look out piano]

Where else would I learn such mundane shite as chopping a seagull in half, showering with the dog, Taybarns or Jims Ma?

 

[redandwhiterob]

A lot of other football forums I've come across are unreadable messes, adverts all over with terrible lay outs. Lot of thought goes into this one and I reckon the powers that be have got it right with sub forums, politics, cricket, diet and fitness etc etc

 

[dangermows]

The 'Just eaten a full pack of Haribos' thread was the best and most perfect example of this! Death threats after about 6 posts down, amazing stuff indeed!!

There was one about keeping your cool at all times and by the end of the first page the OP had completely lost his shit

 

[look out piano]

As I've said previously, my late brother told me to join as it would be "right up my street" - he wasn't wrong tbh. I started posting after he died, I wish we'd been posting at the same time as we genuinely got on (I miss him). My other brother is on here too but he doesn't post very often (a lot of folks boil his piss I think ), he's one of my besties (we've lived together in the past anarl).
I don't have many friends, my life revolves around the bairn and work - this place has a lot of good folks and some very funny craic (it gives me a bit of escapism / eases the boredom when I'm sitting on my todd).
We all love SAFC and the lads first and foremost !

 

[tunstall birdman]

There was one about keeping your cool at all times and by the end of the first page the OP had completely lost his shit

I wish I had seen that one?

 

[dangermows]

I wish I had seen that one?

I'm sure someone will know it. Can't think of the title.

 

[My Boy Harry]

A lot of football forums tend to die on their arse after a while, but the SMB has maintained its core user base and kept growing and growing. Why do we think our little corner of the internet so successful compared to other footy messageboards?

Probably because it ends up as a family bound by a failed football club that distributes emotions like confetti.

There is a certain glue in having your backs to the wall all the time, in a pretty unique community region.

 

[look out piano]

Where else would I learn such mundane shite as chopping a seagull in half, showering with the dog, Taybarns or Jims Ma?

And having marvellous fellows like you joining (who support other teams) who come on here to be a part of our crazy board is great (I still remember thee nickname I gave you on one of your first threads, I was trolling you a bit iirc xx ).