The Flashing Blade

[Northyorksblade]

Can someone tell me how much they are and I'll send Matt a cheque for the season. Can't remember how many issues a season. About 4?

 

[Trigger Blade]

Can someone tell me how much they are and I'll send Matt a cheque for the season. Can't remember how many issues a season. About 4?

Five a season, but one's just gone out, so four left. They're £1.60 inc postage and the address is as per DJ's post above.

Anyone know roughly what the costs are for running such a publication? I'd really hate to see it hit the wall.

In the last issue of each season, there's a breakdown of costs and income. I'll dig the last figures out later, but circulation is way down and costs probably aren't. Result....unhappiness.

It's struck me since the advent of the t'interweb and message boards like this, that so many people have so much to say, but FB struggles like mad for material. I'm as guilty as anybody, I used to contribute regularly and have done very little for donkeys' years.

 

[Tyler Durden]

Five a season, but one's just gone out, so four left. They're £1.60 inc postage and the address is as per DJ's post above.


In the last issue of each season, there's a breakdown of costs and income. I'll dig the last figures out later, but circulation is way down and costs probably aren't. Result....unhappiness.

It's struck me since the advent of the t'interweb and message boards like this, that so many people have so much to say, but FB struggles like mad for material. I'm as guilty as anybody, I used to contribute regularly and have done very little for donkeys' years.

It might help if it's more visible, particularly on matchdays. I'd happily spend an hour or two as a vendor if that's what it takes.

 

[Northyorksblade]

Five a season, but one's just gone out, so four left. They're £1.60 inc postage and the address is as per DJ's post above.


In the last issue of each season, there's a breakdown of costs and income. I'll dig the last figures out later, but circulation is way down and costs probably aren't. Result....unhappiness.

It's struck me since the advent of the t'interweb and message boards like this, that so many people have so much to say, but FB struggles like mad for material. I'm as guilty as anybody, I used to contribute regularly and have done very little for donkeys' years.

Cheers Trigger. I used to contribute too, under some stupid female pseudonym for some weird reason.

 

[Bert]

Cheers Trigger. I used to contribute too, under some stupid female pseudonym for some weird reason.

Now things are becoming much clearer.

 

[LA Blade]

Mine just arrived in the mail here

 

[raul]

Cheers Trigger. I used to contribute too, under some stupid female pseudonym for some weird reason.

Ah, but without that, we would never have met.....

 

[Silent Blade]

My favourite flashing Blade front page photo with a caption is the one of a footballer laying on the ground biting an opponent's shin and the caption was "Wally Downes back in training". He broke his ankle by Alan Harper of Wendy in a behind closed doors friendly match before the start of the 1988-89 season and he was back in training a few months later

 

[Northyorksblade]

Ah, but without that, we would never have met.....

correct, you wrote many an article too as I remember. Do you still contribute?

 

[Bladesway]

Cheers Trigger. I used to contribute too, under some stupid female pseudonym for some weird reason.

Jean Hatchet?

 

[Northyorksblade]

Jean Hatchet?

Oh no, sussed! Lock em up for life, no parole!

 

[Dkc]

It would be a shame if a Blades institution were to fold when a day's wages for a single player would probably keep it going for a year.

I'd chuck in if there was a fundraiser to keep it afloat. Or maybe just a subscription drive.

 

[Sirius]

If you've got some editions, I believe near the back there's details on how to get in touch.

I never read an edition but I did contribute a couple of articles from far far away.

 

[United Aren't Back.]

I've got a full set from the start to around 2010 I think. I used to write for it years ago, the first thing I had published anywhere was an obituary of Gil Reece I did.

Anyone know how to get in touch with the editor?

I tried the email address in there t'other week but it didn't work.

It works for me.

 

[United Aren't Back.]

He deserves praise for keeping it going so long.

I used to read one for Wimbledon FC too, called Yidaho, which was quite good.

I wonder how many are still going.

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I used to read Falkirk unofficial fanzine, Hull hell and happiness, king of the kippax, city gent, and Grorty Dick.

 

[BushBlade]

I used to read Falkirk unofficial fanzine, Hull hell and happiness, king of the kippax, city gent, and Grorty Dick.

Was the last one a porno?

 

[JJ Sefton]

I used to read Falkirk unofficial fanzine, Hull hell and happiness, king of the kippax, city gent, and Grorty Dick.

Talk of the Town End, the fanzine of the old Enfield FC, claimed to be the first fanzine. I think it started in about 1983.

 

[United Aren't Back.]

Was the last one a porno?

WBA...enough said. Pre Megson, pre Warnock.