Oh dear

[stringer]

Our local closed Facebook group (Only in Meersbrook) has had to ban one Star journalist who basically mined the group for content and photos to post verbatim and without permission on the Star website.

I have ads disabled on my work browser so was unable to view the Star website to see evidence of the above... until I realised you could just view the cached version unimpeded via Google.

Who was that?

Be nice if you posted a direct link to the twitter feed its taken from (cuts out all the star adverts).
Thanks in advance.

Sorry chief CW isn’t on Twitter

 

[LJBlade]

Sorry, I'll ask him the precise minute next time, and God forbid Coutts comes back a second earlier or later...

The headline says that Wilder has revealed a date but there's no date mentioned in the article?

 

[stringer]

The headline says that Wilder has revealed a date but there's no date mentioned in the article?

True. Or time

 

[georgebernardshaw]

*click*

*some bird off Love Island*

pommpey

More to the point, how many carp did yer catch the other day, mate?

 

[Damski]

With respect solely to Danny in his role and as a Blade, but the fucking Sheffield Star online is an impenetrable sack of dripping, clickbaity, idiot-enchanting dogshit. It takes fucking ages to load, and just when you think you are hovering over the area of the page you want, the scrollbar or any other such essential, detail-friendly device as such, the page suddenly re-adjusts and you click, and off you go, spiralling away from United's new signing and onto a series of fucked-up, buy-this-buy-this-buy-this cuntbatter, specifically engineered for subnormal pigfans who spend all their fucking days playing candy crush or fortnite and breeding more fat, squealing, dysfunctional Kylescum. Either that, or the brave attempts at journalism are simply re-engineered tweets from simpleton ITKs who are about as ITK as that thick parasite Joey Essex is on basic functionality.

Don't worry though, because the Portsmouth Evening News is no different. There's some or other marketing formula or metric attached to it which gives the money men a return on just how much we want to know facts divided by how easy they can steer us toward triviality, for 5p per click.

Now there's a weird tip.

pommpey

Vintage Pommpey

 

[Gerritforud]

True. Or time

Who is Scott Coutts? "
Sheffield United have pencilled-in a behind-closed-doors game for Paul Coutts after Chris Wilder revealed he hopes to have the midfielder available by the end of next month.
Scot Coutts has returned to full-time training after sustaining the injury last November, after a poor challenge from Burton Albion’s Marvin Sordell."
https://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/foo...-significant-step-in-rehabilitation-1-9311698

 

[Linz]

Who was that?

Dan Windham.

He lifted a story about youths threatening a woman in her back garden and she complained, quite rightly, that taking it out of a closed group and posting it on The Star left her open to reprisals.

 

[LJBlade]

True. Or time

So you can see why that headline is misleading?

 

[stringer]

So you can see why that headline is misleading?

Not particularly. Put it this way, if I didn't know when CW thought Coutts was set to return and I read a story pinning it down to a one-week period, I wouldn't complain. But hey ho

 

[LJBlade]

Not particularly. Put it this way, if I didn't know when CW thought Coutts was set to return and I read a story pinning it down to a one-week period, I wouldn't complain. But hey ho

You said he'd 'revealed the date' but there's no date mentioned. I'm sure that someone with your intelligence could have come up with a headline that better reflected what was actually 'revealed' but then I suppose that might have resulted in a lot fewer 'clicks'.

Further to that Wilder hasn't even pinned it down to a one week period, unless you've misquoted what he actually said.

 

[Eric Cartman]

Sorry, I'll ask him the precise minute next time, and God forbid Coutts comes back a second earlier or later...

So you've got a rough time, ish, sort of.

Great article, mate.

 

[Eric Cartman]

Typical Star, you couldn't write it could you

Neither can they...

 

[stringer]

You said he'd 'revealed the date' but there's no date mentioned. I'm sure that someone with your intelligence could have come up with a headline that better reflected what was actually 'revealed' but then I suppose that might have resulted in a lot fewer 'clicks'.

Further to that Wilder hasn't even pinned it down to a one week period, unless you've misquoted what he actually said.

Someone of my limited intelligence would pin the end of a month to the back end of it. First week the start, middle 2 weeks the middle
If you don't that's fair enough

So you've got a rough time, ish, sort of.

Great article, mate.

Cheers mate. Thought the manager's thoughts on when the team's most influential player would return would be interesting, and glad I wasn't wrong

 

[Eric Cartman]

BREAKING: PAUL COUTTS TO RETURN TO THE FIRST TEAM...

The Star can reveal, that The Star understands, at some point, maybe even in 2018, Paul Coutts is set to return to the first team at Sheffield United, boss Chris Wilder has revealed, speaking exclusively to The Star.

The twitter reaction to this is wage budget Scott Hogan rumours and obviously everyone is excited by the possible return, maybe even this season, the Star can reveal.

 

[stringer]

BREAKING: PAUL COUTTS TO RETURN TO THE FIRST TEAM...

The Star can reveal, that The Star understands, at some point, maybe even in 2018, Paul Coutts is set to return to the first team at Sheffield United, boss Chris Wilder has revealed, speaking exclusively to The Star.

The twitter reaction to this is wage budget Scott Hogan rumours and obviously everyone is excited by the possible return, maybe even this season, the Star can reveal.

If journalism doesn't work out for you there's always comedy

 

[Eric Cartman]

If journalism doesn't work out for you there's always comedy

Speaking of which, hows your stand-up coming along?

 

[don240]

Who was that?


Sorry chief CW isn’t on Twitter

Probably why the star don't actually say when Coutts will return.

 

[stringer]

Speaking of which, hows your stand-up coming along?

Not great pal but the other's OK, cheers

Probably why the star don't actually say when Coutts will return.

Apart from where it does

 

[don240]

Apart from where it does

Where?

 

[Tom Bott]

drink from a horn

I used to know a girl who did that.

 

[Tezza1889]

I’m guessing Paul coutts return will be sometime around the time he’s finished trying to see what Victoria Principal looks like these days...

Let’s just say January, or whatever..

 

[stringer]

Where?

Don't worry about it, I've got better things to do with my day

 

[Tezza1889]

Danny, take it as a laugh lad, just because you work there it’s not your responsibility to defend some of the antics they get up to..

 

[don240]

Don't worry about it, I've got better things to do with my day

DItto mate.

 

[pommpey]

More to the point, how many carp did yer catch the other day, mate?

Nil. Pressure system came over, lake went dead.

It's Coking Farm in North Dorset. Absolutely brilliant venue. Even though I blanked, it was a lovely 48 hours in the bivvy. She was next door in the caravan site in the … um … caravan.

Blanking just makes me more resolute. I will top 30lb this year if it fucking kills me!

pommpey

 

[Gerritforud]

Does the article go on to explain who Scot Coutts is and when he will return?

 

[georgebernardshaw]

Nil. Pressure system came over, lake went dead.

It's Coking Farm in North Dorset. Absolutely brilliant venue. Even though I blanked, it was a lovely 48 hours in the bivvy. She was next door in the caravan site in the … um … caravan.

Blanking just makes me more resolute. I will top 30lb this year if it fucking kills me!

pommpey

That’s the fucking spirit, we’re looking for a downpour in October for our Upper Tweed week, or else it’s bolloxed.

One of our crew fishes for Barbel at Cromwell Lock, fish up to 15lbs apparently...

Gerrumcort

#teammaggots

 

[stringer]

Does the article go on to explain who Scot Coutts is and when he will return?

You were joking weren’t you?

 

[MobileBlade]

https://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/foo...-significant-step-in-rehabilitation-1-9311698

Nice link in the middle of that to the extract from your book Danny. Hope the book doesn't make this thread either:

 

[S64 Blade]

Date, should have read timeframe or something similar, in the context of the Coutts article.

I actually think Danny is alright, despite his attempts to cover for his employer. I’d personally be looking for another job, as I think he can do better than the OTT hyperbole that the editor of the Star seems to have set as the standard.