James Shield...

[BigBed]

James Shield is a lifelong Coventry fan isn't he!?!?












CUNT!

 

[Grappler]

Local journalists do a great job for very little pay in very difficult circumstances. If they do go under it will be a sad day.

hate arguing with fellow Blades over this, but why on earth would a Sheffield based newspaper give any space to a letter from a Coventry fan? Surely the job of The Star is to support Blades, Eagles, Sharks, etc., plus the unclean, because the readers are from Sheffield, not bleeding Coventry

 

[Pollingtonblade]

To say it's an irrelevant local rag people are rather getting in a bit of a lather about it.

If the job of the vile rag is to get people talking it's certainly achieved its objective here.

 

[Bladesman]

To say it's an irrelevant local rag people are rather getting in a bit of a lather about it.

If the job of the vile rag is to get people talking it's certainly achieved its objective here.

It won't translate in to more sales for The Star though.

 

[Rodley]

Itz "were u erd dis pal" if you want to be pedr..peda...pede...a asshole aboot it

Were all Blayards rnt we?!

 

[originaltrueblade]

Ive unfollowed him, good riddance!

 

[Linz]

Local rags are mainly full of compo faces and dog shit if Angry People in Local Newspapers is anything to go by.

Stay for the comments:

https://www.facebook.com/angrypeopleinlocalnewspapers/

 

[FleaPitBlade]

Bit OTT. I dont think the offending letter should have been given whatever the print version of air time is, but Ive always found The Star and their journos to be nothing but helpful and accomodating whever Ive wanted publicity for anything.

By all means, dont buy it or follow the journos if you dont want to but its a bit out of order dragging the hacks down for doing their job, even if you do think theyre doing it poorly. As has been mentioned, theyre not millionaires but just working blokes trying to earn a living.

 

[GrayBlade]

Growing up in the 60's and 70's, everyone read the Star, you either had it delivered or you bought it on your way home from work. I remember lads at school in the 70's who were paper lads, delivering the Star at night, after school, massive paper rounds because everyone had it.

Now??

Well, I remember in recent years, such classic front pages as the mum who was complaining because her daughter was banned from the end of year school "prom" (another USA invasion, in my day it was the end of year school "disco") for bad behavior, and she had already spent 30 odd quid on a prom dress, or the front page where one neighbour in Millhouses was complaining because the next door neighbour was watching them over the garden fence. Gripping stuff indeed. Forget the plight of industry, or crime, when you can have a front page of a prom dress story or neighbours falling out in Millhouses!

We had s couple of excellent journos back then who knew their stuff as well.

Peter Howard and 'Tell it to Tony' Hardesty.

 

[Grappler]

Bit OTT. I dont think the offending letter should have been given whatever the print version of air time is, but Ive always found The Star and their journos to be nothing but helpful and accomodating whever Ive wanted publicity for anything.

By all means, dont buy it or follow the journos if you dont want to but its a bit out of order dragging the hacks down for doing their job, even if you do think theyre doing it poorly. As has been mentioned, theyre not millionaires but just working blokes trying to earn a living.

Not any of the "hacks" pal, this one stops with the editor, why on earth print a letter like that?

 

[Rodley]

Bit OTT. I dont think the offending letter should have been given whatever the print version of air time is, but Ive always found The Star and their journos to be nothing but helpful and accomodating whever Ive wanted publicity for anything.

By all means, dont buy it or follow the journos if you dont want to but its a bit out of order dragging the hacks down for doing their job, even if you do think theyre doing it poorly. As has been mentioned, theyre not millionaires but just working blokes trying to earn a living.

Ah but "I hope you lose your job and the company goes under" is the new "I don't agree with you". The sooner you get with the programme Presty the sooner you'll be on the path to eternal bitterness.

 

[FleaPitBlade]

Not any of the "hacks" pal, this one stops with the editor, why on earth print a letter like that?

I dont know - like I said, if it were me I wouldnt have gone with it. Im just sticking up for James Shield and his comrades who, whatever peoples views on their competancy, dont really deserve to be dragged through the mud.

 

[Grappler]

We had s couple of excellent journos back then who knew their stuff as well.

Peter Howard and 'Tell it to Tony' Hardesty.

There was also the lad who covered local music, back in the day. In those days it was all about telling real local news, not this watered down shit that is tailored towards people who watch TOWIE and Geordie Shore, two TV programs I am proud to say I have never wasted a second of my life watching

 

[Hackblade]

hate arguing with fellow Blades over this, but why on earth would a Sheffield based newspaper give any space to a letter from a Coventry fan? Surely the job of The Star is to support Blades, Eagles, Sharks, etc., plus the unclean, because the readers are from Sheffield, not bleeding Coventry

hate arguing with fellow Blades over this, but why on earth would a Sheffield based newspaper give any space to a letter from a Coventry fan? Surely the job of The Star is to support Blades, Eagles, Sharks, etc., plus the unclean, because the readers are from Sheffield, not bleeding Coventry

I think you misunderstand the nature of journalism if you think it's the role of a newspaper to be a cheerleader for sports teams.

 

[Linz]

I think you misunderstand the nature of journalism if you think it's the role of a newspaper to be a cheerleader for sports teams.

Just Wednesday then?

 

[Grappler]

I think you misunderstand the nature of journalism if you think it's the role of a newspaper to be a cheerleader for sports teams.

ha ha, ok, so instead of reporting that a local team won a game of football, the Sheffield Star should get involved with an issue because Coventry fans don't like their owners? Local news?

 

[Ricky]

I think you misunderstand the nature of journalism if you think it's the role of a newspaper to be a cheerleader for sports teams.

Pretty sure it also isn't their role to bend over backwards to trash the image of local sports teams.

 

[8lade]

Shield was probably backed into a corner on this one.

Somebody asks a question on Twitter about your boss.
Your boss follows you on Twitter (to make sure you don't say anything out of place).
The question is a direct 'criticism' of your boss' decision.
Do you ask the boss knowing he's an unfair knobhead knowing you will incur his wrath and may even sack you or just ignore it?
(You keep getting the same question, your boss is still looking in to see what you do...)

 

[Greenwich Blade]

I think you misunderstand the nature of journalism if you think it's the role of a newspaper to be a cheerleader for sports teams.

Could we have a "dislike" button please? What a ridiculous comment. Actually it isn't ridiculous if you leave it as it is, but as it is actually the "nature of LOCAL journalism" we are talking about, well that's different.

 

[sheff_blade90]

the good thing is that when majority get the wish for star to disappear, we have tons of media queuing around the block to do journalism on a established 3rd tier team

 

[Greenwich Blade]

the good thing is that when majority get the wish for star to disappear, we have tons of media queuing around the block to do journalism on a established 3rd tier team

No, Coventry will be in the 4th by then.

 

[SandyMcBlade]

Just don't ever let Mr Shields know your age, because once he finds out he never lets go..........

 

[blade.i.am]

Growing up in the 60's and 70's, everyone read the Star, you either had it delivered or you bought it on your way home from work. I remember lads at school in the 70's who were paper lads, delivering the Star at night, after school, massive paper rounds because everyone had it.

Now??

Well, I remember in recent years, such classic front pages as the mum who was complaining because her daughter was banned from the end of year school "prom" (another USA invasion, in my day it was the end of year school "disco") for bad behavior, and she had already spent 30 odd quid on a prom dress, or the front page where one neighbour in Millhouses was complaining because the next door neighbour was watching them over the garden fence. Gripping stuff indeed. Forget the plight of industry, or crime, when you can have a front page of a prom dress story or neighbours falling out in Millhouses!

I had one of those paper rounds. Lived at Norton but did my round from Edam's on Woodseats. Walked down through Graves Park after school, did my round then walked back through the park. Six nights a week.
Every other house seemed to take the Star so, yes, pretty full bag.

 

[Grappler]

I had one of those paper rounds. Lived at Norton but did my round from Edam's on Woodseats. Walked down through Graves Park after school, did my round then walked back through the park. Six nights a week.
Every other house seemed to take the Star so, yes, pretty full bag.

I lived not a million miles away, with the bad lads around the John O'Gaunt, a lad near me had a round that went all the way up Blackstock Road to the Water Tower, took forever to do that one!

 

[GrayBlade]

Hai James!

I think the word that you're looking

Itz "were u erd dis pal" if you want to be pedr..peda...pede...a asshole aboot it

I think the word that you're looking for is peduncle flower.

 

[dublin 10 blade]

I had one of those paper rounds. Lived at Norton but did my round from Edam's on Woodseats. Walked down through Graves Park after school, did my round then walked back through the park. Six nights a week.
Every other house seemed to take the Star so, yes, pretty full bag.

Mine was from the top of Granville road and city road , down all three side rows leading onto Granville , up city road to the three tower blocks and all way up to city road cemetery , Sunday morning was by far the worst with all them big bastard heavy editions two trips then as bag was too heavy .
£2 a week , oh and had a job with milkman on a satdi in morning as well .
All them flats in top end of Norfolk park were a bastard .

 

[Mouth of the South]

I don't rate Shields either and on the few occasions I've met him I've found him to be extremely arrogant and not particularly wise in the ways of football.

The standard of his work is generally poor and he offers very little in the way of opinion or insight.

The best way to oppose him and his employers is simply to not buy the pathetic rag and do not access the website thereby reducing their revenue. If enough people do this they'll eventually get the message.

 

[dublin 10 blade]

I know the Star isn't the best paper by a long shot , but for us exiles living outside of Sheffield it gives us an inside as to what's happening in the old town , this is not an excuse for bad journalism , and I normally take anything written about the Blades in the Star with a huge pinch of salt .
I take most of my info about United from this site , the good the bad and the ugly .
Barney is the font of all knowledge as far as I'm concerned ,
and far a balanced level headed view of all the things Tyler and LYDON are the men to go to .

 

[Finn Keane o' Balmaqueen]

He's NO John Pilger.

 

[rtifati]

The best way to oppose him and his employers is simply to not buy the pathetic rag and do not access the website thereby reducing their revenue. If enough people do this they'll eventually get the message.

Local newspapers want to create some debate because they want to sell papers, but the idea there's some deep-seated bias against one of their own clubs is ridiculous. It doesn't make editorial or financial sense.

Whilst we're in the third division we only have our local media to ask the difficult questions. Yes everything's going well at the moment, but it isn't guaranteed to continue. After all, Coventry were second from top this time last December.

If we stop buying local newspapers eventually there will be fewer voices to challenge the powers that be, whether that's local council chiefs or football club owners. That has to be a bad thing.