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White Rose Forum keeps Yorkshire CCC fans connected

March 21, 2020 by John Fuller Leave a Comment

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The White Rose Forum  is proof that amid the breakneck speed of technology and snowballing innovation online, a chance for a natter about cricket without emojis or character limits has its unquestionable place.

A Yorkshire cricket forum can be a thriving community, a hotbed of debate or a place where people grumble and throw stones via a keyboard.

I’ve been dipping into the White Rose Forum for years now to nudge forum users about a few Cricket Yorkshire articles and occasionally have my tuppence-worth, if I think it will add some value.

A glance down the thread of topics when I wrote was revealed the usual eclectic mix with photos featured, climate change impact on cricket mulled over and media coverage analysed.

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Sports forums can conjure up faulty, unflattering stereotypes about angry men sitting in the dark at computers in their pants dissecting life with laser-guided sarcasm.

Well, I can’t testify as to the wardrobe or mood of all WRF visitors but I know some of them and they’re interesting, intelligent and knowledgeable folk, not to mention fully clothed.

Alex Roberts took over as Administrator from the previous owner in 2003, who had abandoned the Yorkshire CCC forum. It has since been a success story in so much as a loyal collective of Yorkshire County Cricket Club supporters from across the world have stuck with it for getting on twenty years.

To demonstrate the global aspect to online cricket discourse, he oversees the website from Nova Scotia and while there will be members from Dewbury, Scarborough or Huddersfield, input also arrives from Australia and California.

Roberts reckons the Yorkies might well have the record when it comes to a county cricket outlet on the web: “According to my research, we are the oldest county cricket forum, having originally been established in 1999.”

White Rose Forum - Yorkshire CCC Forum

Yorkshire CCC Forum

Once upon a time (but no longer), the White Rose Forum was the official Yorkshire CCC forum and hosted on the official Yorkshire County Cricket Club website (I tracked down a 2012 tweet where the club were trying to push the membership to 500).

As it happens, the White Rose Forum is now at a new online residence, Tapatalk, a home that should last for years and matches the quality of the conversation with the modern design and more functionality to drive interaction and looks better on mobiles and tablets.

A clutch of forum moderators (Steve, Stu and Sid) help Alex keep things ticking over and 3 million page views per year, allied with a membership at 841 and rising, is a triumph for long-form discussion.

Topics vary week to week with debate on cricket watching during self-isolation debate and historical threads just two recent examples.

If you prefer in-depth discussion to scrolling Twitter timelines then this Yorkshire CCC cricket forum could be for you. It ought to be noted there are plenty of non-Yorkshire CCC topics that crop up too.

The White Rose Forum – http://www.whiteroseforum.com

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