"Stars" leaving before weekend......

[Th!stledo]

Thanks for the pep talk, coach

Yer welcome son.

 

[Houston_Blade]

They’ve done it again, there’s an article on the Green’Un app describing Joao as a “star”, surely if he plays for the Pigs he must be a “superstar”?!

 

[Slim Man]

The day Carruthers and Lavery are considered 'Blades stars' will be a fine day. I'm also likely to see a pig fly past my window, and hell will likely be frozen over.

 

[Rodders]

To everyone who feels "deceived" and "cheated" by this headline:

Were you all expecting Wilder to be sending Fleck and O'Connell out to Hartlepool and Cheltenham or something? Get a grip.

 

[Th!stledo]

That's my philosophy on life. It's served me well over the last 47 years. Utb

Served a mate well for 37yrs too... spent the last 20yrs since, in prison on fraud charges.

 

[sitwell]

When does a player become a Star and a star become a legend ?
Carlton Palmer is apparently a pig 'legend'

 

[blade too long]

can we sell stars
Ill give 2000 quid for Andromeda

 

[sheffielder]

I can’t imagine how deceived you must have felt clicking a story headlined ‘Blades stars could leave on loan’ and finding out that four members of United’s first-team squad could, actually, leave on loan. One day, I’m sure you’ll learn to trust again. The first answer on your link is the most enlightening: ‘This is simply a question of style.’

Would a better description be fringe player and not Star, and just for reference why are these 4 players news when the star reported it on the 18th (google helped search)

 

[I should coco]

Carlton Palmer is apparently a pig 'legend'

No! Once again if thread has taught you nothing else, it is that punctuation and grammar are vital.

It should have read; "Carlton Palmer is a leg end"

"Leg" can of course be interchangeable for "bell' in certain grammatical styles.

 

[stringer]

Would a better description be fringe player and not Star, and just for reference why are these 4 players news when the star reported it on the 18th (google helped search)

Did the piece on the 18th say Chris Wilder thought it'd happen before this weekend?

 

[8lade]

Edit - I'm out. Sean Thornton has achieved his goal with this thread. All the best, lads

Good luck to you Danny04

 

[Th!stledo]

Did the piece on the 18th say Chris Wilder thought it'd happen before this weekend?

Yeah you're right. Your article quoted him... or did it?

 

[sheffielder]

Did the piece on the 18th say Chris Wilder thought it'd happen before this weekend?

So are you quoting or paraphrasing when you say that he said "2 stars will leave before the weekend"

 

[Weasel]

103 posts so far of squabbling bollox.

 

[sheffielder]

Did the piece on the 18th say Chris Wilder thought it'd happen before this weekend?

It's not really news is it, or worthy of an extra page. So the only thing which might make people click is the word '"stars"'

Were both from when you had a direct conversation with him as you have quoted him?

 

[sheffielder]

103 posts so far of squabbling bollox.

Meh, we all give and take.

 

[Sean Thornton]

To everyone who feels "deceived" and "cheated" by this headline:

Were you all expecting Wilder to be sending Fleck and O'Connell out to Hartlepool and Cheltenham or something? Get a grip.

Who is this "all" ?

 

[Weasel]

Meh, we all give and take.

No, some give. Some are takers.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Meh, we all give and take.

#lwantahalo.

 

[Th!stledo]

......

 

[stringer]

Yeah you're right. Your article quoted him... or did it?

Yes, it did. The headline paraphrased what he said, which they often do.

So are you quoting or paraphrasing when you say that he said "2 stars will leave before the weekend"

I never said he said that, directly or indirectly.

It's not really news is it, or worthy of an extra page. So the only thing which might make people click is the word '"stars"'

Were both from when you had a direct conversation with him as you have quoted him?

Yes, it is news. Did nobody suspect the four might play on Saturday? And yes. Or are you suggesting I fabricated the interview?

 

[sheffielder]

Yes, it did. The headline paraphrased what he said, which they often do.



I never said he said that, directly or indirectly.



Yes, it is news. Did nobody suspect the four might play on Saturday? And yes. Or are you suggesting I fabricated the interview?

Don't know as you're not really admitting to having the interview

 

[stringer]

Don't know as you're not really admitting to having the interview

Wow, debating a story is one thing but suggesting I’ve fabricated an interview is quite another

 

[stringer]

And now I've looked at the rest of the paper, I am pleased to say that there is a full-page item on the SU Community Foundation (p. 4). Can you do a link to that? All very positive, though I'm not sure about the 79 year-old bloke 'booting people left, right and centre' at walking football. Is that a paraphrase or a direct quote? Either way, as a devout coward, I'm staying well away...

 

[Hamburg Blade]

I haven’t invented shit, that’s what I was taught. But course, you know better

Yes, so it would seem. Not everything you were taught is going to be right. I was taught that dinosaurs died out because of an ice age. It doesn't mean I carry on believing that despite the fact that a little bit of research tells me that was wrong.
You really do like digging yourself into holes. It's quite a bizarre habit.

 

[sheffielder]

Wow, debating a story is one thing but suggesting I’ve fabricated an interview is quite another

You’re the one suggesting that not me. I asked if you interviewed him personally

 

[Rodders]

Yes, so it would seem. Not everything you were taught is going to be right. I was taught that dinosaurs died out because of an ice age. It doesn't mean I carry on believing that despite the fact that a little bit of research tells me that was wrong.
You really do like digging yourself into holes. It's quite a bizarre habit.

As someone who only took English up to A Level, I also understand double quotations to be a direct quote from someone, and single quotes to be an interpretation.

 

[NuddysGloves]

6 pages??? SIX PAGES OF THIS?!?!?!?!? CHRIS WILDER LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE WITH YOUR "GETTING YOUR BUSINESS DONE EARLY" POLICY!!!


FUUUUUUUUCK just used quotation marks didn't I......here we go again......

 

[Benny and the Blades]

It only proves the point, that where ignorance predominates vulgarity inverably aserts it's self .....

 

[Bartleby]

To everyone who feels "deceived" and "cheated" by this headline:

Were you all expecting Wilder to be sending Fleck and O'Connell out to Hartlepool and Cheltenham or something? Get a grip.

No but there's speculation about Billy going out to Bratford and that's what I think the bait was on this headline.

It is definitely clickbait but doesn't bother me and it's nowt new - in the days before online news the Star used to run headlines like "barmaid's arm burned by chip shop vinegar" to sell copy on quiet news days. It made it sound like she'd been attacked but was just summat about a chippy using the wrong grade of acetic acid in their condiments. It amused me that summat like that was the headline on the newspaper serving a city of half a million