Danny Hall!

[Pedro's Winger]

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this was quite a good example after the birmingham game talking about any remaining patience running out after one home defeat and a cup loss playing a second string team.

As others have said i quite like him on co-comms but i do think the local media generally missed the mark a bit over the summer simply peddling the ‘everyone’s baffled and outraged’ view about wilder leaving when the many arguments for and against were reflected in some really good articles on the pinch for example. Comments like this don’t really help either.

Surely his job as a journalist isn't to 'help' but to report facts and have an opinion.
Is there something in what he said that wasn't and isn't accurate or a reasonable opinion to hold?

 

[Pedro's Winger]

Go back to when wilder was booted out and Selles was appointed to the present day, Sheffield Star/Sheffield United and read every one of Danny Hall's vindivtive articles.

I haven't said, so far without any discernible evidence, that Danny Hall has some kind of vendetta against the manager that now apparently appears in every piece he writes.
Surely it's easy to present some examples.

 

[Silky Sabella]

I haven't said, so far without any discernible evidence, that Danny Hall has some kind of vendetta against the manager that now apparently appears in every piece he writes.
Surely it's easy to present some examples.

Overview !

 

[Willglynning]

Overview !

I know you’re on the windup; but I do agree that local media have been outwardly critical of his appointment, even prior to a ball being kicked.

Recent results haven’t helped, by any stretch of the imagination, but there’s been a clear agenda at play.

I’d be very interested to see what would have happened last season if you swapped our opening three games with the Oxford, Millwall and Plymouth sequence. I doubt it’d be as sensationalist, despite those three consecutive games being arguably just as abject as anything from this season.

 

[Pedro's Winger]

Overview !

That isn't Hall's reporting and in any event none of that is remotely vindictive.

 

[Pedro's Winger]

I know you’re on the windup; but I do agree that local media have been outwardly critical of his appointment, even prior to a ball being kicked.

Recent results haven’t helped, by any stretch of the imagination, but there’s been a clear agenda at play.

I’d be very interested to see what would have happened last season if you swapped our opening three games with the Oxford, Millwall and Plymouth sequence. I doubt it’d be as sensationalist, despite those three consecutive games being arguably just as abject as anything from this season.

Hall's reporting is sensationalist? He's about the most steady eddie local reporter there is.
Holding an opinion that sacking a manager after a 92-point season is at least questionable is hardly sensationalist or unreasonable.

 

[Silky Sabella]

That isn't Hall's reporting and in any event none of that is remotely vindictive.

Free world, think what you want, I know what I know !

 

[Willglynning]

Hall's reporting is sensationalist? He's about the most steady eddie local reporter there is.
Holding an opinion that sacking a manager after a 92-point season is at least questionable is hardly sensationalist or unreasonable.

“Sheffield United’s new owners have been warned that they are “on the verge of making a historic mistake” as they continue to consider manager Chris Wilder’s future at Bramall Lane. Wilder’s position is uncertain following a review of last season’s play-off heartbreak, with sections of the board keen to make a change.
News of the possibility of Wilder’s departure has dominated conversation amongst Unitedites since it emerged last week. One Blades fan, on his friend’s stag do in Germany, returned early to his hotel to digest the news that it was a distinct possibility.”

 

[Dougie]

“Sheffield United’s new owners have been warned that they are “on the verge of making a historic mistake” as they continue to consider manager Chris Wilder’s future at Bramall Lane. Wilder’s position is uncertain following a review of last season’s play-off heartbreak, with sections of the board keen to make a change.
News of the possibility of Wilder’s departure has dominated conversation amongst Unitedites since it emerged last week. One Blades fan, on his friend’s stag do in Germany, returned early to his hotel to digest the news that it was a distinct possibility.”

What’s sensationalist there?

 

[Willglynning]

What’s sensationalist there?

One Blades fan, on his friend’s stag do in Germany, returned early to his hotel to digest the news that it was a distinct possibility.

 

[Bladesman]

One Blades fan, on his friend’s stag do in Germany, returned early to his hotel to digest the news that it was a distinct possibility.

I thought this was a joke but its there in black and white.

https://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/football/sheffield-united/sheffield-uniteds-owners-sent-historic-mistake-warning-as-chris-wilders-future-remains-in-balance-5178217

 

[Dougie]

One Blades fan, on his friend’s stag do in Germany, returned early to his hotel to digest the news that it was a distinct possibility.

What’s your definition of sensationalist in this context?

 

[Mendi]

 

[Striker]

Maybe Danny Hall reports things as he sees them and Selles isn't that impressive. Just a thought

 

[Willglynning]

What’s your definition of sensationalist in this context?

‘a person who presents stories in a way that is intended to provoke public interest or excitement, at the expense of accuracy.’

Highlighting an uncitable example of one unknown fan’s alleged outrage isn’t exactly an accurate depiction of the news.

 

[Bladesince61]

https://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/football/sheffield-united/beleaguered-sheffield-united-boss-responds-to-biggest-fan-criticism-as-pressure-mounts-pre-middlesbrough-5289030

The opening paragraph is full of negatively slanted language. ‘Square pegs in round holes’ didn’t seem to be an issue when Hamer was put out on the left, or Burrows was put in midfield, or Diaz on the right, but ‘disastrous’ when Selles plays Cannon wide right and everyone else in their favoured position?

It wasn't an issue then as we were winning most games. It's an issue now as we are incapable of even getting a draw.

 

[steve26272]

‘a person who presents stories in a way that is intended to provoke public interest or excitement, at the expense of accuracy.’

Highlighting an uncitable example of one unknown fan’s alleged outrage isn’t exactly an accurate depiction of the news.

I read that in the voice of Simon Jordan

 

[Willglynning]

I read that in the voice of Simon Jordan

He's a prick but I'll take it

 

[Rodley]

It's Danny Hall now, before it was James Shield, Its Radio Sheffield, it's Rob Staton, it's Alan Biggs. Some people just love to hate.

Getting ridiculous isn’t it?

 

[Silky Sabella]

Getting ridiculous isn’t it?

It is. Some people can't just reply to the relevance of the post. Instead, they twist and turn it just to hear their own voice

 

[The Crab]

The Danny Hall I came to know was kind enough to include something I wrote in one of his books, and gave me a signed book with a message that meant a lot.

None of us can help who our employers are, but I was just as grateful to Danny then as I am now.

He might not always be right, but are any of us?