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Anyone know what happened to Douglas Higginbottom? Hasn't posted in over a year.

He posts on BM now apparently.

Mase wrote:He posts on BM now apparently.

That's ok then. Was a bit concerned he'd fallen off his ladder.

He was a boring cunt...BM is a good place for him and his ladders.

I used to enjoy reading DH's training ground reports, back in the day, seems like an age ago now.

All the best DH.

He's still around. He's quite active on twitter. Probably just got bored of the constant bickering on here tbf

Once City banned him from the training ground he didn’t bring anything to the forum so left.

london blue 2 wrote:He's still around. He's quite active on twitter. Probably just got bored of the constant bickering on here tbf

His posts were 100% far more boring than the bickering on here.

BTW Patrick - this should be in OT and not on the main site page.

Also miss Chinner's Bollox and not just for the WAGS.

blues-clues wrote:Also miss Chinner's Bollox and not just for the WAGS.

Just imagine new posters reading this and thinking What the FUCK is chinners bollox????

london blue 2 wrote:He's still around. He's quite active on twitter. Probably just got bored of the constant bickering on here tbf

the good old days at Carrington

his gout spread to his typing finger I reckon

carl_feedthegoat wrote:

london blue 2 wrote:He's still around. He's quite active on twitter. Probably just got bored of the constant bickering on here tbf

His posts were 100% far more boring than the bickering on here.

BTW Patrick - this should be in OT and not on the main site page.

You fucked him off. And this place is so much poorer as a result.

dazby wrote:

carl_feedthegoat wrote:

london blue 2 wrote:He's still around. He's quite active on twitter. Probably just got bored of the constant bickering on here tbf

His posts were 100% far more boring than the bickering on here.

BTW Patrick - this should be in OT and not on the main site page.

You fucked him off. And this place is so much poorer as a result.

I thought I had fucked you off , but here you are ,just like covid.

Mase wrote:He posts on BM now apparently.

yep, took his ladder, bag of sweets and cheeky smile to bm where the crowd is much younger than on here

Nigels Tackle wrote:

Mase wrote:He posts on BM now apparently.

yep, took his ladder, bag of sweets and cheeky smile to bm where the crowd is much younger than on here

Didn’t he meet up with a 14 year old off here?

littlebig wrote:I used to enjoy reading DH's training ground reports, back in the day, seems like an age ago now.

All the best DH.

Ditto. It was good to read of the goings-on in training. I recall driving back from work one day and hearing Doug on Talkshite (a station I rarely tuned into at the time and never do at all nowadays). It was the day of the bust-up between Balotelli and Mancini and the presenters of the phone-in programme were hyping the incident up. Doug did his best to put them straight on what had actually happened but the presenters were having none of it - they couldn't believe that someone had been able to get a good view of the events by climbing up a stepladder!

Besides giving useful info on our youngsters through his regular attendance at academy games, Doug was also a welcome antidote to some of the knee-jerking that often predominates in match threads. In the end, I think it was the fall-out from some of the reactions to his more considered comments that led him to move on. Evidently, not everyone misses his contributions (!) though I certaily feel the forum lost a valuable contributor when he left.

Mase wrote:

Nigels Tackle wrote:

Mase wrote:He posts on BM now apparently.

yep, took his ladder, bag of sweets and cheeky smile to bm where the crowd is much younger than on here

Didn’t he meet up with a 14 year old off here?

Wowzers

belleebee wrote:

littlebig wrote:I used to enjoy reading DH's training ground reports, back in the day, seems like an age ago now.

All the best DH.

Ditto. It was good to read of the goings-on in training. I recall driving back from work one day and hearing Doug on Talkshite (a station I rarely tuned into at the time and never do at all nowadays). It was the day of the bust-up between Balotelli and Mancini and the presenters of the phone-in programme were hyping the incident up. Doug did his best to put them straight on what had actually happened but the presenters were having none of it - they couldn't believe that someone had been able to get a good view of the events by climbing up a stepladder!

Besides giving useful info on our youngsters through his regular attendance at academy games, Doug was also a welcome antidote to some of the knee-jerking that often predominates in match threads. In the end, I think it was the fall-out from some of the reactions to his more considered comments that led him to move on. Evidently, not everyone misses his contributions (!) though I certaily feel the forum lost a valuable contributor when he left.

Yes, he was driven away

belleebee wrote:

littlebig wrote:I used to enjoy reading DH's training ground reports, back in the day, seems like an age ago now.

All the best DH.

Ditto. It was good to read of the goings-on in training. I recall driving back from work one day and hearing Doug on Talkshite (a station I rarely tuned into at the time and never do at all nowadays). It was the day of the bust-up between Balotelli and Mancini and the presenters of the phone-in programme were hyping the incident up. Doug did his best to put them straight on what had actually happened but the presenters were having none of it - they couldn't believe that someone had been able to get a good view of the events by climbing up a stepladder!

Besides giving useful info on our youngsters through his regular attendance at academy games, Doug was also a welcome antidote to some of the knee-jerking that often predominates in match threads. In the end, I think it was the fall-out from some of the reactions to his more considered comments that led him to move on. Evidently, not everyone misses his contributions (!) though I certaily feel the forum lost a valuable contributor when he left.

Yes, he was driven away

Nick wrote:

Mase wrote:

Nigels Tackle wrote:

Mase wrote:He posts on BM now apparently.

yep, took his ladder, bag of sweets and cheeky smile to bm where the crowd is much younger than on here

Didn’t he meet up with a 14 year old off here?

Wowzers

Some kid called Lewis if I remember correctly.