I'm mostly responsible for Owzat and Big Al leaving, I'm afraid.
Owzat took himself waaaaaaaaaaaaay too seriously. He had a go at me for the Premium Member forum, saying that we shouldn't let guys like Stu in or other guys Owzat disagreed with. I got sick of him and dumped some of his new threads that he started in the then new section back into the normal forums (you'll remember Owzat started about a dozen new topics a day). He took the hump and hasn't really been back since.
Big Al leaving was a major misunderstanding. I wasn't a moderator long and I deleted one of his topics accidentally instead of moving it. I apologised to him and while he didn't leave straight away, it was the begining of the end.
Owzat is no loss as he was a MAJOR whinger, but I'd like to see Big Al back here.
He had a sense of humour.