My fault
Originally posted by DaveCopsey
I feel a resounding sence or respocibility for all these arguments and i dont want t opick up robbos medical bill after he burstst a blood vesle. I will conclude my point with no mean of final dig but my reference to my spelling problems is due to a combination of what my local doctor describes as mild dyslexia and the missing of 3 years of lower education. The only reason i felt HURT by your reply robbo is that when you first enter a sport you develope role models who you idelise (which i did with you) i looked up to you and saw where i wanted to be.
When maby as a jest you had a dig (which i now see as it was intended) i found it hard to accept that me a very new player at 16 was 'struck down' by you when i had built up an ideology about you.
Please reply without more fight talk because i by no means wanted t ostart this fight but i would l9ike to offer my hand to make a mends, not because you are over twice my size but because you share a simlar interset as me and i will give you respect for what you have done.
In return i mearly would like you to encourage me (and all new players) and come and give us some support at tounies as it would make me happy.
Please reply and tell me if u feel that there is still a rift (because i will hide at all tournies).
sorry and good luck too all 
dave (the fight starter copsey)
Dave, you are 16 years old for God's sake, my youngest kid is about the same age as you (no disrespect intended at all), I don't think there is a bone in my body that could have a problem with you now.
I am old enough and hopefully wise enough, that I realise a 16 year old (and obviously a 48 year old) can both say things that gets us into places we would rather not be.
We both fell victim to that I think in this instance.
When I look back, as I did over a lot of the threads I had been involved in, there is a certain degree of what look like 'smart ass' comments and I suppose, if you didn't know me, they could have been viewed as arrogant.
I will say this much and in doing so, still uphold my belief that I should and will be 100% honest in everything I write, when I write stuff, I am only trying to be informative or to be funny.
I think sometimes I might lose sight of how others might read them.
That said, there is a third category of posting that I indulge in and that is one of attack (or rather defending myself), this is where I perceive I am being attacked by one or more people and from then on, it's all out war, I ain't gonna give no quarter till it's done.
This situation only ever comes about when I believe 100% that the people who are attacking me are not doing it on a point of principle or holding reasoned opinions but are doing it, because it is me.
Now I only come to this type conclusion after I have taken certain steps.
I know I'm a pri#k sometimes, a quick tempered one on occasion that's for sure but to offset that I have some very close friends with me who work on the magazine.
Rancid, TJ and Mr Big, all of whom would not bat an eyelid in telling me if I was getting out of order and believe me, at least two of them would tell me to shut the f##k up if I was going down that road.
And I will tell you something else, I would shut the fu#k up in a heartbeat not for any other reason than I have great respect for all three of them and would know their advice was sound and in my best interest.
So, around me I have a support group of highly intelligent and well-intentioned people who I value greatly.
I got no such restraining order in this thread hence the consequent tone.
But I have learnt one thing (as if I hadn't learnt this already) big things can grow from such stooopid little acorns, what begun as a 'smart ass' but well intentioned comment from myself descended into situations that could have gone pretty bad had any of us ever met up mid-arguing.
Thankfully sanity clawed its way back into proceedings and we all got back our 'normal' heads instead of those wrapped in bandages (joke !!!).
OK, I hope that not only clears my end up but also draws a line under things past.
I have no problem with you Dave, Famine, Pestybollocks (joke, couldn't resist it, sorry
) , in fact, I am at peace with the world and loving every second of it........till the next time
And in any case, I was getting severe stick from 'er indoors and that ain't good when that sh#t starts happenin
Laters all
Robbo
