Jacko, you are absolutely right, in my view.
Too often these days do PPRuNe posts exceed the banter and mutual pi$$-taking limit and descend into mean-spirited personal abuse.
For whatever faults he might have had in military life (I only knew him when he was doing his FJ cross-over training), Paul obviously brightened up the boring world of the chav-stuffed people-tubes.
Another Bud Holland? No, not really.
It does sound like it was rather a case of 'strike three' for him with his footballer-on-the-flight deck incident.
If he cheers up a few folk in this depressing, totalitarian world of Brave nuLabor with his after dinner talks, then good luck to him.