Funniest Poster: Cripps landslide.
Best Avatar/Signature: Never take note tbh
Worst Avatar/Signature:^^
Best Thread: 'Some Quality post you don't want to miss' was a great addition this year, but since it doesn't really count I'll say David Bowie
Funniest Thread: I can never think of these off the top of my head. Maybe I'll keep track this year
Worst thread: This is easy... Every Politics thread/debate thread. Honourable mentions to #MadnessIncoming, Ozil thread and Aguero thread.
Best post:
UFGN wrote:My passion for it all is draining away. For looking forward to the future, for wanting better people to run the club, even for the club itself.
30 years a fan, but it's not the club I grew up supporting. Everyone at that club didn't need to be told that it was bigger than any man, any particular group of players, any era even.
The club's identity has been shape-shifted so that it now appears to many to be a cult of one manager, but It is so much more than that. Its a club which rose from its humble amateur roots to become an icon. A club which dominates the community it stands in.
When I was a kid we were very poor. No violins and sad stories, its just a matter of fact. In fact at one point we were homeless and lived in a cheap hotel near Highbury.
We had hardly any material possessions at all and pocket money was rare. There was another lad about my age who was in the same hotel, and we used to go together to the stadium on matchdays.
Not to go in and watch the match of cause, that would have been absurd. Even though it was cheaper back then it certainly wasn't free. We used to go just to be near it. To watch the crowd, the horses, the noise. And afterwards to find a ticket stub, or very occasionally a discarded programme.
To live near the great Arsenal Football Club was something to cling to, and something to be proud of.
That's the power that this club has.....that a kid would scrabble round on the floor to find a ticket stub just to feel like they're part of it. And where did that power come from? From it's history, its longevity, its wonderful successes.
How can anyone value one man above all that?
Best Newbie (i.e. new poster in the last 12 months): EliteKiller
Best Laugh of the Year (could be a post or thread): Cripps in the 2016 review thread
Poster I Agree With Most Often: Probably Sims
Poster I Disagree With Most Often: Arsene Nose
The most 'I won’t hear a bad thing about this player' member: This year would be Sims with Xhaka
The most 'I won’t hear a good thing about this player' member: Tons of different posters who do it to troll, but them aside I'd say AF with Cech
The member you'd most like to throttle: GoonerAlexis. Why waste your time trolling when you're actually a good poster otherwise?
Troll of the year: Cripps as usual, but honourable mentions to Arsene Nose, KG3 and OptimusPrimett
The most underrated poster: CrimsonGunner. Always seem to enjoy his posts
The Emiliano Viviano award:
Giving this one to Callum for leaving earth and not posting enough.