Man up and show some balls

[I should coco]

" ... Queen of the South, nil ... Stirling Albion, five ... "

I was at that game too. No arrow in the ball at that one either!

I'd hear him snort dismissively. He'd obviously had them down as a draw. He wasn't one to watch form.

I suppose he had his hands full with his child prodigy?

"Daddy, daddy can we go down the Canal Basin and look at the ships again?"

 

[The Crab]

My dad used to do it and put twenty 'there', twenty 'there' and randoms all over the place. He used to do the pools as well. And he'd sit at ten to five and biro in all the results as James Alexander Gordon would read them out.

" ... Queen of the South, nil ... Stirling Albion, five ... "

I'd hear him snort dismissively. He'd obviously had them down as a draw. He wasn't one to watch form.

pommpey

Sounds like me when I used to do the Fixed Odds. Never won fuck all, plenty of near misses with the two from each section. Always seemed to be the "bankers" who let me down too.

 

[I should coco]

Always seemed to be the "bankers" who let me down too.

Chase Manhattan
Goldman Sachs
S G Warburg.....

twats, the lot of them.

 

[pommpey]

Think the survey provides a revenue stream to replace the income lost from people not buying the paper.

Or visiting the site, even.

pommpey

 

[pommpey]

I was at that game too. No arrow in the ball at that one either!



I suppose he had his hands full with his child prodigy?

"Daddy, daddy can we go down the Canal Basin and look at the ships again?"

He worked at Manor Lane SWD and then at Bernard Road Bin Lorry Depot, so, not far.

pommpey

 

[I should coco]

Or visiting the site, even.

Now you've been on there once, they know where you live.

Expect a top Star sleuthound to come round to your cabin and thrust a survey in your mits anytime soon.....

They have to 'maintain revenue' and some bugger has to pay Danny04 's mortgage.

 

[The Crab]

Chase Manhattan
Goldman Sachs
S G Warburg.....

twats, the lot of them.

I rode the credit crunch rather well, but then again I was pretty fucked already

 

[itsinyerblood]

And I'd rather be able to pay my mortgage at the end of the month

Does this explain the absence of truly decent journalism as featured in the video about Wilder and the transfer deadline day?

A small, online company, with extremely limited resources, and yet they pulled off a great piece of journalistic investigation, something The Star gave up on many moons ago. Not surprising considering the group The Star belongs to is so heavily dependent on advertising, but also sad that The Star can't focus on it's local teams and bring us decent investigative pieces such as this.

 

[Sothall_Blade]

Does this explain the absence of truly decent journalism as featured in the video about Wilder and the transfer deadline day?

A small, online company, with extremely limited resources, and yet they pulled off a great piece of journalistic investigation, something The Star gave up on many moons ago. Not surprising considering the group The Star belongs to is so heavily dependent on advertising, but also sad that The Star can't focus on it's local teams and bring us decent investigative pieces such as this.

Bleacher Report - A small, online company with extremely limited resources?

 

[Bartleby]

I don't look at the Star online any more because of that very thing. I know its a piggy rag and all that, but I used to like catching up on Sheffield news (have done for years) but now it's like being goosefatted up the chimney just because you want to know what the back pages say.

pommpey

I use Adblock Plus and it's fine (other than the quality of some of the reporting)

 

[itsinyerblood]

Bleacher Report - A small, online company with extremely limited resources?

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Let me clarify, yes, their parent company is minted. But the resources I was referring to was the resource generally referred to as 'who you know', and it was only due to the fact that a Bleacher journalist already knew Chris Wilder, so with only a 'Hi, remember me Chris?' link to depend on, the journalist managed to pull this off. Sorry for the imprecise wording, but I maintain that Bleacher did a first rate job in exposing the role of agents.

 

[Sothall_Blade]

Let me clarify, yes, their parent company is minted. But the resources I was referring to was the resource generally referred to as 'who you know', and it was only due to the fact that a Bleacher journalist already knew Chris Wilder, so with only a 'Hi, remember me Chris?' link to depend on, the journalist managed to pull this off. Sorry for the imprecise wording, but I maintain that Bleacher did a first rate job in exposing the role of agents.

I agree absolutely. I made a similar point to yours to Danny04 on a different thread:-

https://www.s24su.com/forum/index.p...ght-into-yesterday.57606/page-12#post-1439687

 

[shorehamview]

Think the survey provides a revenue stream to replace the income lost from people not buying the paper.

You don't see paperboys/girls delivering the Late Night Star any more, and maybe because it's now a morning "news" paper, and possibly because their delivery service was fucking woeful towards the end. We used to have it delivered, and when Thursday's paper arrived on Friday and the Friday one is presumably still AWOL we decided that we'd had enough paying for it and sacked it off. I've not bought one since, and my life is no emptier than it was before.

 

[speedymcgeady]

Y'see, back in the day, when the young whippersnapper from Herdings Shops pushed the Satdi Star through our letterbox and me dad would go and get it in his vest and work trousers, on opening he wasn't knocked off his feet by a barrage of ads and apps bouncing off his bald melon. No. Inside was Keith Strong with the telly stuff, some news about a bin lorry which had mounted the kerb and clipped a bus stop in Southey, an article about Ena Prolapse who'd just retired from t'B&C after fifty years of work on t'knicker counter ("Ah selled some pants once to Tony Christie, thanose"), some little bastards had broke into a garage in Ecclesfield and stole a motorised lawnmower and left it on t'slip road of the southbound jct 33 and after the Births Marriages and Deaths ("Nahden, Elsie," me dad would say. "Norris from t'Baggy's deeyerd. He were only seventy one. Stroke. Funeral's next Tuesday. Ar.") we'd have six or seven pages of bowls, darts, dominoes, more darts, cricket and Tony Pritchett trying to stir up excitement at Mick Speight's cartledge niggle being passed as okay (pic of Mick and his 'tache with the 'club doctor' in his nuthouse white coat) and no adverts. It was a joy. The nearest we got was a quarter pager on page seven from Wigfalls telling us they were doing a special offer on rentals at 10/- a week on a 20" B/W Binatone with automatic channel changing (you still had to tune it in mind)

No 'have you seen what Ivy Tilsley looks like now she's dead?' or 'I lost ten stone in an afternoon with this weird Barnsley Trick' (its 'eat less, move about more, readers')

People still managed to get by. If I and many are not using the website because it's lumpen and bloated with 'advertisement opportunities' don't you think there will be a saturation point - a place where the lines cross on the graph, where it is time to give it a rest and try another strategy? It gets on my tits, so it does. It makes me not care if you pay your mortgage and not go on there (I am sorry to say) and rely on other means of info (like on here)

And its a piggy rag. Everyone knows it.

pommpey

Fuckin " nuthouse white cooert"

 

[The Crab]

You don't see paperboys/girls delivering the Late Night Star any more, and maybe because it's now a morning "news" paper, and possibly because their delivery service was fucking woeful towards the end. We used to have it delivered, and when Thursday's paper arrived on Friday and the Friday one is presumably still AWOL we decided that we'd had enough paying for it and sacked it off. I've not bought one since, and my life is no emptier than it was before.

I think in terms of the delivery service, I'd see it like this. Back in the early eighties when I had paper rounds, the money wasn't earth shattering but it was ok. Fast forward a few years and less and less kids were bothered because they got more pocket money, so why would they bother schlepping round with a huge sack (oooh matron) and getting attacked by Dogs (and in one case of mine, a Goose).

 

[The Crab]

I wasn't amazed at all with how Michelle from Eastenders looks now. I was quite ambivalent about it to be honest.

Lets face it, she was a bit ropey in her prime. she's hardly going to have improved, I know I fucking haven't

 

[Pinchy]

That wasn't on the front page. It was part of a feature where people come with issues that are affecting them and they get help to sort it. Why he's leaning on grass in white slacks, I can't say

My all-time favourite headline was in the now defunct News of the World. It was nearly 50 years ago, when it was still a broadsheet, but I can still see the words and typeface clearly:

"Vicar hits man over head with kettle"

 

[Isaw Joeshaw]

My all-time favourite headline was in the now defunct News of the World. It was nearly 50 years ago, when it was still a broadsheet, but I can still see the words and typeface clearly:

"Vicar hits man over head with kettle"

My favourite is from The Daily Star some 20 years ago which read :-

" The Virgin Mary Built My Garden Shed "

 

[Pinchy]

My favourite is from The Daily Star some 20 years ago which read :-

" The Virgin Mary Built My Garden Shed "

Yes, but at least one of the headlines isn't true...

 

[I should coco]

My all-time favourite headline was in the now defunct News of the World. It was nearly 50 years ago, when it was still a broadsheet, but I can still see the words and typeface clearly:

"Vicar hits man over head with kettle"

My favourite is from The Daily Star some 20 years ago which read :-

" The Virgin Mary Built My Garden Shed "

Yeah but what about the Star's award winning scoops:

"Freddie Starr ate my ham sandwich (said Steve from Steve's Sandwich shop)"

"Lancaster bomber found on South Yorks grass verge"

"Gotcha!" (another unlucky punter snared by an online survey)

 

[stringer]

And its a piggy rag. Everyone knows it.

pommpey

Of course it is. Both sets of fans think so, after all. Ps, no adverts? Are you fucking kidding? I've seen the old papers.

 

[pommpey]

Lets face it, she was a bit ropey in her prime. she's hardly going to have improved, I know I fucking haven't

She had a chin full of beans.

pommpey

 

[Sean Thornton]

Yeah but what about the Star's award winning scoops:

"Freddie Starr ate my ham sandwich (said Steve from Steve's Sandwich shop)"

"Lancaster bomber found on South Yorks grass verge"

"Gotcha!" (another unlucky punter snared by an online survey)

The one they regret most of although was surely "Blades Glory, OwlsDown"

Bet that was some editorial meeting the day after......


Danny04, yes there were adverts, but you didn't have an article about Martha Longhurst, you'll be amazed when you see her like this" and another ten similar options next to it.

Do you think just quoting Twitter pists is good journalism by the way?

 

[stringer]

The one they regret most of although was surely "Blades Glory, OwlsDown"

Bet that was some editorial meeting the day after......


Danny04, yes there were adverts, but you didn't have an article about Martha Longhurst, you'll be amazed when you see her like this" and another ten similar options next to it.

Do you think just quoting Twitter pists is good journalism by the way?

We don't now. They're adverts, not articles by us. Who's quoting Twitter posts?

 

[Worksop II]

the ball was never anywhere near you'd think it to be.

bit like a Connor Sammon effort on Goal ....................

 

[The Crab]

bit like a Connor Sammon effort on Goal ....................

Well if he was in the picture you could rule out it being anywhere near the goal

 

[stringer]

Bet that was some editorial meeting the day after......

I bet it wasn't, as it'd have been a Sunday

 

[Trigger Blade]

Lets face it, she was a bit ropey in her prime. she's hardly going to have improved, I know I fucking haven't

Funnily enough, in Michelle from East Enders case, I think she has improved. She was no looker in her youth, although Dirty Den didn't agree. She then went to America for twenty years or so and has just come back with a completely different head, and probably different body as well. Bizarrely, nobody in Albert Square has noticed, not even members of her family. I like the new version better, in the parlance of this site, I would.

It may take a while The Crab, but get yourself over to the US and rejuvenate for a while and you'll come back a new man/woman

 

[Cheshire Cat]

That's the phrase of the seaon sorted already.

I'm having "breather rings" as a close second. After I've mopped the tea off my laptop screen. Thanks pommpey !

 

[The Crab]

Funnily enough, in Michelle from East Enders case, I think she has improved. She was no looker in her youth, although Dirty Den didn't agree. She then went to America for twenty years or so and has just come back with a completely different head, and probably different body as well. Bizarrely, nobody in Albert Square has noticed, not even members of her family. I like the new version better, in the parlance of this site, I would.

It may take a while The Crab, but get yourself over to the US and rejuvenate for a while and you'll come back a new man/woman

Well I'm going to Florida for a week in December, so it might be enough time to morph a new fingernail or summat