Hi M,
lovely day here for your golf in between the forecast rain. Re posting direct links to prior posts, yes it's more awkward with this new website format. My method is to hold your mouse pointer midscreen over the relevant post, click R/H button, click "properties" on the resulting dropdown menu, so displays the precise "Address(URL)". Copy this and paste onto your new post to give a direct hyperlink, as I have below. Same method applies to linking to other items, photos, etc off the new site.
Unfortunately the old way of just copy & pasting the URL from top of your browser only gives a link to the overall site, not individual items.

Hoping this helps you, I've made it sound harder than it is :-)

Here's a couple of those old Coopey/Churcham threads,
http://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=33359
http://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=32656

Hi Rachel, welcome to the forum,
please do try searching the forum and the whole website yourself, there's a huge amount of info available. Re the forum, the above thread has a member named "Coopey". Their username is displayed in blue, meaning they should be still actively using the site occasionally. If you click their blue icon you can send direct & private emails directly to their email inbox, so perhaps more likely that they will see it and hopefully help you out.

Good luck, J