Adidas Thread [16] - all info, pics and new here please.

I am just curious as to how you came to rate Josh as a subpar player? Have you seen him play regularly by being his teammate/coach/opponent? Are you judging him based on his technique in videos that mostly just show some ball striking? Furthermore why does his footballing ability even matter as it relates to his status as the current maven of football boot reviews?

You imply that playing ability/history does matter significantly to be credible as a reviewer. Then you outright say it doesn't matter. Then imply again that it does matter and allude to style trumping substance all around, which is implying Josh is all show and again not credible because he isn't as good of a player as dare I say, you (in your own opinion). It's pretty transparent why you won't attack Bryan at SC101 given that most of his reviews come off as fluff pieces to the IBC...much more than Josh's anyway. Bryan captained a national championship team in college here in the USA, played in MLS, PDL, and I think USL for a bit. Your thinly veiled attempt at self aggrandizing as a better player and thus a better reviewer than someone else based on ability wouldn't hold up there. Bryan is light years ahead of anything you've achieved as a player despite being much more inline with what you are saying is wrong with the reviewers of the world, yet he goes unmentioned by you.

Also, I am pretty sure Josh was a regular member here when you were JonIsAnOwl. SR4U has a very similar name to the site you are/were working for, and you clearly have watched enough of him to rate him as a player and reviewer...don't act like you can't be assed to know his name for sure. That attempt at being too cool for school is laughable.

 

That's pretty rich coming from you. Your history of "drama queen" behavior is well documented. Hell, it's the reason you're JEN now and not JonIsAnOwl.

I highly doubt you've never heard of SC101 given your role as a boot reviewer for a competing site. Not to mention the fact that you've engaged with other SC101 contributors here. I'm sure I could go back and mine the data from your posts under this handle or your last one and find you to be at best "misremembering"....maybe kinda like this:

I wasn't libelous towards you (slander is spoken, not published). I called you on your bullshit, which you take offense to because you lack substance and character as well as the courage of your convictions. That also isn't libel. It's my opinion of you based on my interactions. If I said "Jon/JEN molests rodents" and tried to pass that unfactual statement off as fact, thus damaging your "reputation" then it's libel if in print, slander if spoken. We all know you're a lot of things, but a rodent molester isn't one of them so I digress.

It's kinda like that time when you had one of your drama queen moments and ranted about gun control. You chose to call me a hillbilly and were sure that I owned an armory and wanted to shoot innocent people or at least condone that act when preformed by others - despite not ever being part of the conversation. You did that with never having spoken to me outside this site, let alone having spent time with me or been exposed to my position on guns, nut jobs, and the legal system. That is libel vs what I said about your childish and annoying behavior.

Again, you're very transparent and I really don't need to say anymore about you or the character traits you display. I have no need to damage your credibility, you do a fine job of that yourself by talking out of both sides of your mouth.

As for the health of the forum...you must know something I don't. While message boards are not the newest form of Internet, it's tried and true; we've been here in this incarnation since 2002 and don't seem to be going anywhere. This isn't my company or my job, it's something I do for free. If it fails, I'm not losing anything other than a regular contact point for a topic on which I'm passionate.

Also, it's been proposed that you be banned. It's not my idea, but one that I fully support. I've held off on doing it in the past b/c I didn't want to seem like I was targeting you or abusing my position. At this point, I'm going through with it because you're a bane on the forum, not just to me.

 

I respect Bryan. I wasn't intending to slate him, if it came off that way. I think he writes good reviews, but I have seen him become less critical and more cozy seeming with companies over the years. I get it...he needs to protect his interests as I believe the site is his main income source now vs. starting out. He isn't untrustworthy, I just think he holds back on being as critical as he could be when it comes to under-performing product. He has never overtly lied, just been more PC about saying when something sucks, or kinda sucks. In my limited interactions with him, he's been a nice guy and straightforward. I was supposed to guest in that league for a few weeks when I was in CA several years ago, but my knee was just starting to go bad and I thought it would be a disservice to my friends if I tried to huff around without being able to cut and plant at full stop.

Again, same for Josh...to be fair I have had a lot more personal interaction with him than SC101 folks just because he was a valued member here for a long period of time. I think he does a good job and gives the people what they want in terms of opinion and facts combined. He might lack the high detail that some of us crave in some reviews, but he's gotta appease the masses, much like BB at SC101.

 

I like it...it is a bit 2002 WC Final Vapor, but I think that combo always looks good.