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Don't you get sick of the players that keep coming out and saying " we have to dig ourselves out of this hole ". We have heard it all before and nothing ever changes. Clarke the latest player to feed us BS. Why not go to Coventry, work their bollards off and get a result and then talk about a POSITIVE result in Monday nights paper. Don't talk the talk if you can't walk the walk. There is only so much crap that you can take in one season. Jolley talks a good game, but as yet has not delivered anything new in my opinion. Still, he has to have time as he has inherited the worst team ever to pull the famous stripes on. I still think we may well get out of this hole, but only because the bottom two teams are hopeless as well. One thing is for sure, if we do survive this season in the EFL, the GTFC marketing department are going to have to work wonders in selling season tickets.
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Don't you get sick of the players that keep coming out and saying " we have to dig ourselves out of this hole ". We have heard it all before and nothing ever changes. Clarke the latest player to feed us BS. Why not go to Coventry, work their bollards off and get a result and then talk about a POSITIVE result in Monday nights paper. Don't talk the talk if you can't walk the walk. There is only so much crap that you can take in one season. Jolley talks a good game, but as yet has not delivered anything new in my opinion. Still, he has to have time as he has inherited the worst team ever to pull the famous stripes on. I still think we may well get out of this hole, but only because the bottom two teams are hopeless as well. One thing is for sure, if we do survive this season in the EFL, the GTFC marketing department are going to have to work wonders in selling season tickets.
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I agree completely ................ when are you planning to delete your account
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I think it’s refreshing to hear a new angle. He seems to think they need to work hard on the training ground and that could help. I don’t think that’s been mentioned before !!!
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I think it’s refreshing to hear a new angle. He seems to think they need to work hard on the training ground and that could help. I don’t think that’s been mentioned before !!!
Yes, that will do it I'd have thought. Sounds so simple. Is it too late now to 'kickstart' our season?
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I think we all (well maybe all ) realise this team is not capable of gaining too many more points this season, that said a win against Barnet, and a couple of draws along the way could well be enough if Chesterfield and Barnet don't get their act together. Its all about scraping over the line now.
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I think we all (well maybe all ) realise this team is not capable of gaining too many more points this season, that said a win against Barnet, and a couple of draws along the way could well be enough if Chesterfield and Barnet don't get their act together. Its all about scraping over the line now.
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Realistically though, what do people expect him to say to the press/radio?
I'm sure if they didn't do any interviews there'd be moans and groans about them not respecting fans enough to front up and do interviews.
Don't take it too seriously and let's just worry about what happens on a Saturday. Just my thoughts.
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All we need to do is go back to basics and keep us shale.
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Don't you get sick of the players that keep coming out and saying " we have to dig ourselves out of this hole ". We have heard it all before and nothing ever changes. Clarke the latest player to feed us BS. Why not go to Coventry, work their bollards off and get a result and then talk about a POSITIVE result in Monday nights paper. Don't talk the talk if you can't walk the walk. There is only so much crap that you can take in one season. Jolley talks a good game, but as yet has not delivered anything new in my opinion. Still, he has to have time as he has inherited the worst team ever to pull the famous stripes on. I still think we may well get out of this hole, but only because the bottom two teams are hopeless as well. One thing is for sure, if we do survive this season in the EFL, the GTFC marketing department are going to have to work wonders in selling season tickets.
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Realistically though, what do people expect him to say to the press/radio?
I'm sure if they didn't do any interviews there'd be moans and groans about them not respecting fans enough to front up and do interviews.
Don't take it too seriously and let's just worry about what happens on a Saturday. Just my thoughts.
Pretty sure there wouldnt be....we've had enough of standard press interviews this season from the players, managers, B.O.D. I for one would be quite happy to not hear from anyone at the club for the rest of the season until the season is over (resignations aside) when they can announce their apologies for completely mismanaging every single aspect of the football club and pleading for forgiveness.
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Pretty sure there wouldnt be....we've had enough of standard press interviews this season from the players, managers, B.O.D. I for one would be quite happy to not hear from anyone at the club for the rest of the season until the season is over (resignations aside) when they can announce their apologies for completely mismanaging every single aspect of the football club and pleading for forgiveness.
Let's hope Mr Jolley doesn't have to plead for forgiveness.
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As Town fans we all want the same thing, league survival. I honestly don't think as a club we could survive another stint in non-league. My gut instinct is that we will survive but only just. The scary thing is our form, and just what a bad team has been assembled this season, how the hell did we get in this state. Massive home crowds will be vital to pump up the atmosphere and although I am always a season ticket holder, I would be quite happy for the club to give out free tickets just to pack BP and give us that vital edge we need at home. It is a massive ask, but 7,000 plus crowds in our remaining home fixtures would make a significant difference in my opinion. BP needs to be rocking in these final home games, the clubs future could literally depend on a handful of games.
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A 'rocking' BP just a myth in my view. It makes no odds and its proven. The fans won't keep us up. It's what happens on the pitch that counts, and we've heard this flim flam time and again. Get behind the lads, pack the park, be the twelfth man etc....all bullsh1t. It's got f@ck all to do with the fans IMO. The players need to get their act together on the pitch, in front of 10k or 1k.
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A 'rocking' BP just a myth in my view. It makes no odds and its proven. The fans won't keep us up. It's what happens on the pitch that counts, and we've heard this flim flam time and again. Get behind the lads, pack the park, be the twelfth man etc....all bullsh1t. It's got f@ck all to do with the fans IMO. The players need to get their act together on the pitch, in front of 10k or 1k.
Exactly. How many do Accrington get? Anyway, aren't we all toxic bullies?
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All we need to do is go back to basics and keep us shale.
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If we go down they'll have to work miracles
That will be heads in the sand and send ST renewal packs out in June then same as the past 40 years
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A 'rocking' BP just a myth in my view. It makes no odds and its proven. The fans won't keep us up. It's what happens on the pitch that counts, and we've heard this flim flam time and again. Get behind the lads, pack the park, be the twelfth man etc....all bullsh1t. It's got f@ck all to do with the fans IMO. The players need to get their act together on the pitch, in front of 10k or 1k.
Not having that I have seen the BP crowd win numerous games with it`s partisan backing.Just because it hasn`t been seen or heard much in the past 15 years doesn`t mean it isn`t there waiting to be awoken from it`s slumber.Anyone in the ground with relatively small gates against WBA,Gillingham,Aldershot will recall what a BP crowd can do. When Gillingham came here top of the league ex England Manager Peter Taylor came out afterwards and said the crowd won em the game my players where scared to death.WBA was the one though BP was a bear pit Ivano fever had hit the east coast and even though the game was only 1-0 to Town the Albion players,management and fans had been put through the mincer.The next Season Town 5 Albion 1 they were beaten before they kicked off.Right back to the 70s Lawrie Mac pulled an opposition Manager to one side in the tunnel and went can you hear that? It`s the Pontoon and it`s 2pm wait til 3pm when it`s full you wont beat us with that crowd.Yes we may be toxic we may be to blame for all manner of things but not backing our team when they give us something to shout about.Nah
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That will be heads in the sand and send ST renewal packs out in June then same as the past 40 years
AND If they do a buy one get one free they still wont sell much more than 1,000 if we go down.
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I just read the latest “news” from our esteemed GT expert Liam Woods. Another one who spends his working day with his head stuck on his mobile I assume. There is a paragraph headed ICYMI - can someone who is au fait with this sort of non-English enlighten me - what the hell does it mean?
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The problem with these sorts of articles is that they don't give us anything new.
It's the same old tired quotes, rolled out because the journalist has a job to do and footballers have to say something.
But it doesn't have to be this way.
This is no personal criticism to the individuals who write for the Grimsby Telegraph as I appreciate they're probably under-paid and over-worked, and asked to do more than write, but...
I believe it's possible to get something new from an interview. It's too easy to let it slide into a boring said-it-all-before story if you keep asking the same questions.
I remember doing an interview with our loan keeper Alan Fettis in 2003/4 (a relegation season). We had a game against Blackpool and I asked him whether he had any fond memories of playing against Blackpool.
Turns out he actually scored against them, while at Hull, when he was brought on as a sub!
Having learnt my trade as a journalist, and had the initial passion to be one, I feel the true art of journalism has been lost.
I don't think it's in the teaching so much... it's just the world has changed, people want instant news, instant gratification and it's easier to type up 300-400 words of regulatory guff to get new 'content' on site before others report something similar than spend a few days doing some authentic journalism - you know, digging deeper for stories, so we don't have to hear Clarke talk about putting more effort in come Saturday afternoon.
The world is changing, journalism is changing, everyone with a phone now has the ability to be one, demands are changing... it's tough to ask your editor-in-chief for time to write things.
I know someone who used to work for the Pontefract & Castleford Express as a trainee journalist... they got paid an absolute pittance, were expected to work all hours and turn up in the middle of the night if a story broke, and then write literally 20 stories in one day.
You go into journalism for the love of telling stories, not the money, but there comes a point where it's not worth it. This country has so many qualified journalists but not many jobs. They undercut each other to get a chance, so true talent ends up going into other professions like comms and PR.
That's some wider thoughts on the issue of boring stories. I think footballers have a responsibility to speak honestly as it's all too easy for them to waffle away in a monotone voice.
Someone like Matt Dean, if you listen to his line of questioning, is very good at prising out a little extra. His questions are always searching, open ended and usually press his interviewees quite well.
It's probably why I stopped reading the Telegraph's articles a few years ago but continue to listen to Humberside. I don't even read Town's official site to get GTFC news... the stuff I want to know usually breaks on Twitter, and other than Cod Almighty and here I don't venture much further for info.
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The problem with these sorts of articles is that they don't give us anything new.
It's the same old tired quotes, rolled out because the journalist has a job to do and footballers have to say something.
But it doesn't have to be this way.
This is no personal criticism to the individuals who write for the Grimsby Telegraph as I appreciate they're probably under-paid and over-worked, and asked to do more than write, but...
I believe it's possible to get something new from an interview. It's too easy to let it slide into a boring said-it-all-before story if you keep asking the same questions.
I remember doing an interview with our loan keeper Alan Fettis in 2003/4 (a relegation season). We had a game against Blackpool and I asked him whether he had any fond memories of playing against Blackpool.
Turns out he actually scored against them, while at Hull, when he was brought on as a sub!
Having learnt my trade as a journalist, and had the initial passion to be one, I feel the true art of journalism has been lost.
I don't think it's in the teaching so much... it's just the world has changed, people want instant news, instant gratification and it's easier to type up 300-400 words of regulatory guff to get new 'content' on site before others report something similar than spend a few days doing some authentic journalism - you know, digging deeper for stories, so we don't have to hear Clarke talk about putting more effort in come Saturday afternoon.
The world is changing, journalism is changing, everyone with a phone now has the ability to be one, demands are changing... it's tough to ask your editor-in-chief for time to write things.
I know someone who used to work for the Pontefract & Castleford Express as a trainee journalist... they got paid an absolute pittance, were expected to work all hours and turn up in the middle of the night if a story broke, and then write literally 20 stories in one day.
You go into journalism for the love of telling stories, not the money, but there comes a point where it's not worth it. This country has so many qualified journalists but not many jobs. They undercut each other to get a chance, so true talent ends up going into other professions like comms and PR.
That's some wider thoughts on the issue of boring stories. I think footballers have a responsibility to speak honestly as it's all too easy for them to waffle away in a monotone voice.
Someone like Matt Dean, if you listen to his line of questioning, is very good at prising out a little extra. His questions are always searching, open ended and usually press his interviewees quite well.
It's probably why I stopped reading the Telegraph's articles a few years ago but continue to listen to Humberside. I don't even read Town's official site to get GTFC news... the stuff I want to know usually breaks on Twitter, and other than Cod Almighty and here I don't venture much further for info.
In our case the interviewer should just interrupt when the cliches start trickling out and just say....." yes you have been saying that for the last 5/6/7/8/9/10/11/12/13/14/15/16/17 games so can we have a new answer please"
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The problem with these sorts of articles is that they don't give us anything new.
It's the same old tired quotes, rolled out because the journalist has a job to do and footballers have to say something.
But it doesn't have to be this way.
This is no personal criticism to the individuals who write for the Grimsby Telegraph as I appreciate they're probably under-paid and over-worked, and asked to do more than write, but...
I believe it's possible to get something new from an interview. It's too easy to let it slide into a boring said-it-all-before story if you keep asking the same questions.
I remember doing an interview with our loan keeper Alan Fettis in 2003/4 (a relegation season). We had a game against Blackpool and I asked him whether he had any fond memories of playing against Blackpool.
Turns out he actually scored against them, while at Hull, when he was brought on as a sub!
Having learnt my trade as a journalist, and had the initial passion to be one, I feel the true art of journalism has been lost.
I don't think it's in the teaching so much... it's just the world has changed, people want instant news, instant gratification and it's easier to type up 300-400 words of regulatory guff to get new 'content' on site before others report something similar than spend a few days doing some authentic journalism - you know, digging deeper for stories, so we don't have to hear Clarke talk about putting more effort in come Saturday afternoon.
The world is changing, journalism is changing, everyone with a phone now has the ability to be one, demands are changing... it's tough to ask your editor-in-chief for time to write things.
I know someone who used to work for the Pontefract & Castleford Express as a trainee journalist... they got paid an absolute pittance, were expected to work all hours and turn up in the middle of the night if a story broke, and then write literally 20 stories in one day.
You go into journalism for the love of telling stories, not the money, but there comes a point where it's not worth it. This country has so many qualified journalists but not many jobs. They undercut each other to get a chance, so true talent ends up going into other professions like comms and PR.
That's some wider thoughts on the issue of boring stories. I think footballers have a responsibility to speak honestly as it's all too easy for them to waffle away in a monotone voice.
Someone like Matt Dean, if you listen to his line of questioning, is very good at prising out a little extra. His questions are always searching, open ended and usually press his interviewees quite well.
It's probably why I stopped reading the Telegraph's articles a few years ago but continue to listen to Humberside. I don't even read Town's official site to get GTFC news... the stuff I want to know usually breaks on Twitter, and other than Cod Almighty and here I don't venture much further for info.
That is all well and good Rich but some of us do not belong to social media, by choice. Some of that choice is because you have to be so careful, a lot of what is on there is nearer gossip than gospel. Look at the rubbish that was on twitter prior to the managerial appointment. To be honest I cannot be @rsed to wade through the crap to find the truth. You probably know that Liam Wood is unbelievably one of the oldest staff members at the GT. I think he has a hipster beard, probably to make himself look older and wiser. I am reluctant to use the description journalist because to me that conjures up pictures of real pros like Roy Line, John Kirkby and Charlie Eckberg in the press box. A lot of what Woods, Dean and co. write is simply culled from cyberspace in some form or other. They are not alone. The cut and paste brigade rules in the newsroom as well. The way it works is governed by the bosses, Mirror Group has streamlined everything to minimise costs and maximise profits. I agree with you about the interviews. It is hard to keep coming up with a fresh angle. Time they packed it up ..... but they won’t.
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Anyway, aren't we all toxic bullies?
I can see FSB planning a recruiting drive at Blundell Park and our away games.
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The problem with these sorts of articles is that they don't give us anything new.
It's the same old tired quotes, rolled out because the journalist has a job to do and footballers have to say something.
But it doesn't have to be this way.
This is no personal criticism to the individuals who write for the Grimsby Telegraph as I appreciate they're probably under-paid and over-worked, and asked to do more than write, but...
I believe it's possible to get something new from an interview. It's too easy to let it slide into a boring said-it-all-before story if you keep asking the same questions.
I remember doing an interview with our loan keeper Alan Fettis in 2003/4 (a relegation season). We had a game against Blackpool and I asked him whether he had any fond memories of playing against Blackpool.
Turns out he actually scored against them, while at Hull, when he was brought on as a sub!
Having learnt my trade as a journalist, and had the initial passion to be one, I feel the true art of journalism has been lost.
I don't think it's in the teaching so much... it's just the world has changed, people want instant news, instant gratification and it's easier to type up 300-400 words of regulatory guff to get new 'content' on site before others report something similar than spend a few days doing some authentic journalism - you know, digging deeper for stories, so we don't have to hear Clarke talk about putting more effort in come Saturday afternoon.
The world is changing, journalism is changing, everyone with a phone now has the ability to be one, demands are changing... it's tough to ask your editor-in-chief for time to write things.
I know someone who used to work for the Pontefract & Castleford Express as a trainee journalist... they got paid an absolute pittance, were expected to work all hours and turn up in the middle of the night if a story broke, and then write literally 20 stories in one day.
You go into journalism for the love of telling stories, not the money, but there comes a point where it's not worth it. This country has so many qualified journalists but not many jobs. They undercut each other to get a chance, so true talent ends up going into other professions like comms and PR.
That's some wider thoughts on the issue of boring stories. I think footballers have a responsibility to speak honestly as it's all too easy for them to waffle away in a monotone voice.
Someone like Matt Dean, if you listen to his line of questioning, is very good at prising out a little extra. His questions are always searching, open ended and usually press his interviewees quite well.
It's probably why I stopped reading the Telegraph's articles a few years ago but continue to listen to Humberside. I don't even read Town's official site to get GTFC news... the stuff I want to know usually breaks on Twitter, and other than Cod Almighty and here I don't venture much further for info.
You need to learn about paragraphs. You trained as a journalist, i thought you would need a few basics of grammar for that
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You need to learn about paragraphs. You trained as a journalist, i thought you would need a few basics of grammar for that
Wellllll....when he says he trained as a journalist.........he was actually a stunt double for Tommy Target.
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Wellllll....when he says he trained as a journalist.........he was actually a stunt double for Tommy Target.
Page 6 Between the david bury and boyes adverts
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I applied for the job as Tommy Wrights stunt double a few years back. Didn't get it. During the evaluation game I tucked away a neat finish into the bottom corner and was told I was nothing like him
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Less talking and more training and doing the job on the pitch, please.
Few words, but says everything needed. We are Brazil if you believe what the club says in the telegraph.
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That is all well and good Rich but some of us do not belong to social media, by choice. Some of that choice is because you have to be so careful, a lot of what is on there is nearer gossip than gospel. Look at the rubbish that was on twitter prior to the managerial appointment. To be honest I cannot be @rsed to wade through the crap to find the truth. You probably know that Liam Wood is unbelievably one of the oldest staff members at the GT. I think he has a hipster beard, probably to make himself look older and wiser.
I am reluctant to use the description journalist because to me that conjures up pictures of real pros like Roy Line, John Kirkby and Charlie Eckberg in the press box. A lot of what Woods, Dean and co. write is simply culled from cyberspace in some form or other. They are not alone. The cut and paste brigade rules in the newsroom as well. The way it works is governed by the bosses, Mirror Group has streamlined everything to minimise costs and maximise profits.
I agree with you about the interviews. It is hard to keep coming up with a fresh angle. Time they packed it up ..... but they won’t.
In my experience of overworked, understaffed newsrooms, the problem is nearly always not the people at the coalface.
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