the Hoggy thread has notched up its half century of posts in one day today - is this a thread record and will it have time to score its maiden ton by close of play tonight?

It peaked too early and lacked fresh material to enable it to maintain it's momentum. You need one of those classic "six wickets down for 33 recovering to 530 for 8" days if you want to top 100 posts in a day...
Perhaps Hoggy could provide some new inspiration today;he's partnering Bruce Forsyth in a celebrity Skydive for Children in Need or he's joining Madonna in opening an orphanage in Malawi...

I think we exceeded this around the time of PinoyBill's death, if I'm not mistaken. Some of the match threads this season ran to over 200 posts if you count all four days.