Perhaps people are being put off by a clique group of select people taking the piss out of anyone offering an alternative answer to the question asked? And then you wonder why the numbers are dropping? Newbies read that sort of thing and just don't want to know.
We spoke about this a couple of years ago and I think it was a valid point at the time when the YF was so heavily enmeshed with the 4 kings.
However I think things have shifted and the reason for the slow down of posters on here is due to a few issues. The guys who run and moderate this site cannot be expected to keep up the intensity season after season. Life kicks in, things change, I've done unpaid Cycle Advocacy stuff for a few years and it needed a massive amount of energy to keep doing it, so I have a bit of an idea how hard it must be for the YF crew.
I've contributed less this season, because of Real Life issues that has impacted on my following the Nix and other stuff I do.
I still struggle with the new site, linking particularly seems to be a big problem, but also the ability to no longer PM is a big pisser too.
Changes I'd make:
I would move Patrick up to Mod Status first off and get a few of the youngsters in training.
I would look at the inner circle of the YF and try and bring folk in. Again Patrick would be my first choice. Passionate, artistic,( he knows his rings so I hear), but bright enough to be even handed. A sort of unpaid scholarship to the YF company? Feverish you are the major stake holder no?
I can't blame the down turn in traffic on any one thing but what does spring to mind is that the club has not helped in the way it's played, been presented, etc, and we've not had a signing that inspires us or the NZ A league footballing community since Ifill and Rojas. We will be back we are just having a bit of a Disco Nap.
Viva Yellow Fever!!