No, no error at all.......try and keep up.
Hmmm valid point.
Ok you can have WPNCOS back, but we (Fatty fans) are keeping TPC.
This is not how these things go. It's beholden upon the person who bestows the title to remove it or to pass it onto another player. For example, Smitteh (iirc) bestowed the late Phillip Hughes with the title "The Prince". You can't then have some Indian or SL blow-in come along and say "Ooooh look at this numpty who's made X hundred runs in our domestic T20 competition. Even though they bowl underarm at him, he is The Prince. Let's call him The Prince" and expect the rest of the site or indeed the world to just accept that. It's not how it works.
Which is why you can't call Herath TPC. I bestowed that nickname upon TPC several years ago, because he had returned to the Test team after being dropped when he looked like a complete spud, then came back with a better technique after working hard and became one of, if not the best, batsman in the world. The People love that. It's the sort of quality that people who grew up watching TOTAB appreciate, because it shows heart and a hunger to succeed. That's why he's The People's Champion. Herath on the other hand, I love him. Quality bloke. But his disposition shows he's obviously just very hungry, very often. He isn't The People's Champion. He's The Fat ****'s champion, and good on him. I can't think of anyone more worthy of the title TFCC. It sits well with him.
Likewise, when people call de Villiers "AB". Ridiculous. He pops in 15-20 odd years after TOTAB finishes his career, and this moniker just gets dropped on him and people accept it. What's worse, he is happy to run with it, and he knows deep down in his tiny little heart that he's not worthy of it, that he's just a pale imitation of the great man. Then people want to argue the toss over who the "real" AB is. Appalling. There is but one.
I find this sort of thing is happening all the time, and it is annoying. Just this morning I fielded a call from a potential client who started off saying she had an issue with a hospital not treating her properly. Seemed reasonable. Next thing she was accusing them of stealing medical reports from her bag while she was there, but leaving her x rays behind, and that was part of her being "reprogrammed". Being the sensitive soul I am, I dismissed her concerns out of hand as laughable, as I do with the blow-ins on here who think ascribing previously assigned nicknames to others is funny. She told me "I don't know why I bothered to be risen and save people". At this point the conversation got interesting, so I thought I'd explore the matter further, just as I humour the Trogs here who think it's funny to copy a nickname and give it to someone else a few years later because they lack the intellect to think of something for themselves.
So I asked her if she thought she had risen from the dead. She said yes. I then asked her if she thought she rose from the dead in order to save people. She said yes, which made sense because why else would you rise from the dead unless you were going to do something pretty substantial?
Next I asked her the big question: Did she think she was Jesus Christ? She said "No, I'm not Jesus Christ, I'm Allan Border, The One True AB".* At that point I knew she was bat **** crazy so I terminated the call.
I think it's important that people on here, and indeed in the wider cricketing fraternity and society in general, respect the origins and traditions of the nicknames bestowed upon players, officials and even supporters. That's why it's hard to change your username on here, and so it should be. If, for example, weldone changed his username, he can't just expect people to change straight away and not still refer to him as "Oh ****ing hell, that **** weldone has posted again". Respect the traditions of the game and the forum ffs.
I've no problem with Fatty Herath getting any one of a million positive nicknames, Same with de Villiers. But just come up with something like Herath himself - something with a lot of substance. This whole "Oh, I'll call this bloke X even though that nickname is taken and haw haw haw isn't it funny to post about the nickname which I've stolen from its true owner to try and aggravate other people" stuff is ****. What's more, it's disrespectful. It's the online forum and cricketing equivalent of Terra Nullius, and we all know what the High Court and Midnight Oil had to say about that.
Think about it. Be imaginative. Think for yourselves ffs.
*This story is actually true btw, except for the part about Allan Border.