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Sean Thornton said:
It's just a rehash of an earlier article JS did.

Biggs is an idiot.
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I don't know what either are trying to achieve by producing reports like these, surely the advertisers don't get any benefit from it!

And yeah Biggs, i imagine was a reasonable sports journalist when he was younger and understood the sport better, but nowadays he's got no contacts within either club and he's clutching at straws, relying on his old boys network to relay stories from their prime to fill space between getting a Wilder or Carlos (or Jos) onto his sofa for a shit chat.
 
Blade56 said:
What gets me after all the hype about the Dresso they use an old photo with heavy sanding on the pitch.. Don't dis the Dresso :mad:
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Good point. They surely have a much newer photo of the ground, they even printed a photo of what the new Kop and South Stand would look like after upgrades, why not put that up, afterall the melting pot will be ready by the time the ground is finished won't it?
 
SwissBlade said:
Good point. They surely have a much newer photo of the ground, they even printed a photo of what the new Kop and South Stand would look like after upgrades, why not put that up, afterall the melting pot will be ready by the time the ground is finished won't it?
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Poor standards or deliberate bias?
 
S5Blade said:
Yeah, a melting point isnt a bad thing is it? Just means its not ready and cooking? Seems a weird headline, intended to be more dramatic than it actually is......

I also looked on Giphy for "Melting Pot" and got this, so it must be good.....

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OMG! - are we selling Ryan Leonard?
 
Dkc said:
It's not a negative headline, it's implying that the Blades' future is uncertain / up in the air. But why miss a chance to slag off the Star (before reading the article, of course)?
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That’s how I read it, though I would have perhaps gone for a simpler “Blades Ownership In The Balance”. I’m sure some were disappointed by them not going for a “Blades Future Looking Terrific With Move To Sole Ownership”
 



Nothing to get excited about. Nothing to get worked up about either. Just news that's been on here for several days . Plenty of people don't go on forums or even the Internet . Reading a Paper is the only bit of excitement they get.
 
I should coco said:
Oi!

That's my job. I am employed on here to post that story on a regular monthly basis and I take great exception to some Johnny Come Lately turning up and posting it.

As it happens it got its February run out yesterday in another tedious exchange with our own super sniffer hack Danny04

https://www.s24su.com/forum/index.php?threads/hull-fans-protesting.62183/page-9#post-1613289
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I didn't know you took a job with Crab Media (A division of Crab Industries)?

Cutting edge investigative journalism. Talking of which, don't forget to confirm these appointments with Big V.
 
Bizarre timing for a front page headline. Nothing has changed since last week and there is no investigative journalism here just guess work. It's not the article itself I find strange, all papers produce pointless articles like this where the writer guesses what could happen in a situation, but I can't for the life of me see why it's splashed across the front page. I know there are slow news days but rehashing a story from last week and putting it on the front page is just odd.
 
JohnDenver said:
Melting pot is a very odd choice of words.
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It's not just an odd choice of words, it's completely inappropriate use of a phrase with quite specific meaning and I think that kind of thing is important. I think it's as easy to get it right as it is to get it wrong. I don't think The Star has an agenda, it's simply poor use of English.
 
The only thing I ever used to read in "The Star" was the "Court Report" section, to see which of my old school mates from Gleadless Valley had been sent down.

Best front page headlines ever ("back in the day", as our US cousins would say) were the ones with the old retired military bloke at Millhouses, who was always staring at his neighbours, over the garden fence, so they took him to court, and ended up on the front page for about two weeks running (The Star somehow persuaded the bloke to put on an army jacket, probably from the Army and Navy stores on the Wicker and have his picture taken, looking pompous)

The other classic was the young girl who was banned from attending the end-of-year school prom, when her Mum had already bought her a dress (Mum was furious!), even though it turned out her daughter was an absolute nightmare at school, always causing trouble, and had been warned loads of times that if she carried on with bad behaviour, she couldn't attend. Great front page photo of Mum and daughter, with the standard "right ladies, can you both put on a really sad face for the camera?".
 
HodgysBrokenThumb said:
That is quite a few of us that you have randomly insulted. Does reading that paper make me a bad person?
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It was a tongue firmly in cheek type comment, intended to poke a bit of fun at a certain poster who gets somewhat offended by any criticism of The Star.

As it happens, I have a copy of Monday’s sat on my desk :p (although admittedly I didn’t buy it myself, haven’t done in a long, long time)

I don’t know if you’re a bad person. You could be Kevin Blackwell for all I know.
 
HodgysBrokenThumb said:
I would have given you a like for that, but the Star's malign influence on me makes me unable to perform any act of kindness...:(
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To be fair I don't not read it on purpose, I don't tend to read any of them. The Star could be brilliant for all I know, I just like to slag it off because all the cool kids do.
 
Roygbiv said:
I know there are slow news days but rehashing a story from last week and putting it on the front page is just odd.
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Well yes it is odd, but if your turn that on its head, taking last week's story and splashing it all over the front page could suggest 'movement' and 'goings on'.

"Mildred, Star's gorrit all or t'front page. Th'is no smoke weout fire I'm tellin thi. Star nevva gets it wrong tha nose....."

I know all the Star apologists will trot out the 'damned if they do, damned if they don't line', but this is classic local- rag-shit-stirring based on nothing other than suggestion, and a lack of anything more substantial to report.

Maybe all their teams of crack investigative journalists are still tied up trying to hold SYP to account over Hillsborough, the Rotherham child sex scandal or even Tramgate from last September?
 



Trigger Blade said:
It's not just an odd choice of words, it's completely inappropriate use of a phrase with quite specific meaning and I think that kind of thing is important. I think it's as easy to get it right as it is to get it wrong. I don't think The Star has an agenda, it's simply poor use of English.
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I didn’t want to be that blunt. :)

The fact it’s a front page splash makes it all the more strange. Doesn’t the top editor always have final say on that?
 
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