When is enough ENOUGH?!?

Hi there,
My name is Brendon but everyone calls me Merk - I have been making and running forums for a number of years but recently have converted over to vBulletin for my latest project which is a Sports Website.

To give you a little background information about me so you can understand where I am coming from - I grew up as a sports person, playing sport, thinking of sport watching sport lol everything sport was my life.

However a number of injuries in recent years have resulted in Doctors telling me I am unable to play competative sport any more. So with my love of sport I have moved into creating a sports website - seem I live in Australia it is based on Australian Sport.

Sorry to bore you guys with that information but I thought it allows you an insight into what I am doing.

I was wondering if I could get some advice from you guys as to when enough is enough when it comes to building your forums...

http://forums.sports-force.net.au

As you can see on that link we have our announcement forums, followed by key sport boards for people to chat and then our general area where people can chat about current affairs, graphics etc etc

As I said I have recently come over to vBulletin and am learning as I go - I was wondering if this is too much, whether it covers everything or what any key suggestions may be?

I do thank you all in advance for any information or advice you may be able to provide.

When is enough ENOUGH?!? you passed enough a while back!

Where to start...

1. Get " Ideas/Suggestions/Feedback," "Link Heaven," and "Graveyard" out of the top section--put them at the bottom.

2. Get rid of the whole "The Sheds" section--except maybe the introductions.

That leaves every sport ever played--and two sections for some. There is an old adage--watch where they walk, then put the paths there. When beginning a forum, you want a few general categories that can become active, rather than lots of specific categories that have little traffic. Plan to reorganize message sections in 3 months, 6 months, then 1 year--as you see what topics are popular. You also need some focus. I would start out with rugby, football, and fantasy rugby--lose motor sports, tennis, cricket and golf.

Try to stay under 10 forums total--including off-topic and announcements.

hope this helps.

--don

thanks for your input after 10 days of moving house I am about to go through over the next few days and clean it all up and take some of your advice with me I am happy to loose forums however will keep Cricket there as its about to hit Cricket Season here in a month or so and so people will be talking about it