What happened to Rivals?

[Sid Collins]

Apart from problems with WBAunofficial in the last two weeks, the Rivals network was functioning as usual as of yesterday. This morning an announcement was sent to some rivals publishers (not me - guess we'll all get one sooner or later) saying:

RIVALS WEBSITES CLOSED AS OF 1st JULY- NOTICE OF TERMINATIONFollowing the closure of a company involved in hosting all the relevant websites and a review of www.rivals.net is has been decided to close the Rivals websites as of today.


Plus a bit more technical stuff.

I've applied to get the domain name www.wbaunofficial.com back and can hopefully get the archived data from the site too.

What happens next is totally up in the air. There is talk of a phoenix from the flames rivals type network, but it is of course very, very early days. For now I'd hope to try and keep the community together here so you can find out what, if any, future there is for WBAunofficial.

Cheers

[Baggy1]

Good work Sid - It'd be a shame to break up the fun had on there.

[owen]

Fleeing from the NewsInternational tyranny, the last messageboard, WBAUnofficial leads a rag-tag fugitive gruop of posters on a lonely quest... a shining website known as home.

[hoxton]

Do you feel a bit loike Lepko eh Sid <lolsmiley>

[Tenacious S]

So if this isn't Rivals, rivals lite, fanniesonline, fansonline Jr, kindergarten or anything, what is it?

Can I christen it Rivals return - just like emmerdale?

[bayliss]

Jul 2, 2009 15:03:21 GMT Tenacious S said:

So if this isn't Rivals, rivals lite, fanniesonline, fansonline Jr, kindergarten or anything, what is it?

Can I christen it Rivals return - just like emmerdale?

This is rather more Coronation Street:

The Rovers Return.

[Tenacious S]

Jul 2, 2009 15:10:09 GMT bayliss said:

Jul 2, 2009 15:03:21 GMT Tenacious S said:

So if this isn't Rivals, rivals lite, fanniesonline, fansonline Jr, kindergarten or anything, what is it?

Can I christen it Rivals return - just like emmerdale?

This is rather more Coronation Street:

The Rovers Return.

I rather fear I've just revealed my lack of soap knowledge