What is really irritating me at the minute is the Telegraph's insistence on listing a player's former clubs in the headlines when referring to a current Town player.

When they are here I don't really see the need for this. What is wrong with 'Town's new keeper coach may have duel role' instead of listing his four 'former' clubs? It is something I've noticed over recent weeks in between various pop-up ads.

Rant over!

I said this a couple of weeks ago on here but everyone ignored me! :(

I think it's very very poor journalism if they can't think of an alternative way of writing a headline.

Glad it's not just me then. I agree it's pretty poor journalism but in reality that seems to go hand in hand with the publication!

It's a SEO (search engine optimisation) thing that they do because it's an utter nonsense of a publication these days.

I liked it when they referred to Pittman as 'ex Aston Villa'. Didn't he play for them until he was about 15?!

It's something they've been told to do as other papers in their group do it. Not poor journalism!

poor journalism by the group then!

sad thing is that a quick google would have told them he's ex-gtfc anyway. 2mins in on this video:

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Happy Mariner - absolutely a man after my own heart!
When I read former Charlton Athletic player Aswad Thomas etc,  I nearly blew my effing top!

Why would a Grimsby-based newspaper think Charlton Athletic would be key words to type in?

What next? Former Nottingham Forest striker Alan Buckley??

I work in the newspaper industry and teach journalism skills in HE, and while the SEO is a valid point (eg: if you use Grimsby Town enough times in a headline someone is more likely to find the GT) it needs to be used sensibly.

Great headline writing is a top skill to have for a sub-editor, but like a lot of basic skills in the industry, has become under-valued on the alter of 'must get news online ASAP' and to hell with quality'... that's why much of the website material on local rags is littered with mistakes (no-one employs proofreaders any more).

Sloppy journalism has been allowed to flourish due to big corporations putting profit and cost-cutting over everything else.

It's that thing Chrisblor said. Anyone searching for Charlton will dig up the GrimTel so it gets more hits which they can then tell prospective advertisers.

Also as that Dave Gorman bloke pointed out on the telly, they're not local papers any more so its identikit "articles" written to a template with just a change in the location of the dogging sites.

I tried to follow the Lincoln game the other night on my tablet in the living room, but the updated text commentary was very quickly obliterated by an ad for ringtones that I couldn't shift.

The whole newspaper group in charge are rubbish.

What amazes me is that anybody buys or even chooses to read the telegraph anymore.t

Quoted from friskneymariner

What amazes me is that anybody buys or even chooses to read the telegraph anymore.t

I am a former Telegraph reader. :)

former Nottingham Forest and Aston Villa youth team player Pittman may be on the bench on saturday.

Quoted from friskneymariner

What amazes me is that anybody buys or even chooses to read the telegraph anymore.t

I certainly wouldn't buy it, but as an exile I like to keep up to date with the affairs of my Motherland!

Don't worry folks it will be a weekly sooner rather than later. Might as well read Nigel Lowther's Cleethorpes Chronical. At least he is a fan.

Quoted from oldun

Don't worry folks it will be a weekly sooner rather than later. Might as well read Nigel Lowther's Cleethorpes Chronical. At least he is a fan.

Everyone I speak to from scunny at work says that now their paper is a weekly, it's only good for the deaths and court appearance columns :(

Quoted from gtfc98

former Nottingham Forest and Aston Villa youth team player Pittman may be on the bench on saturday.

Thank god we never signed john burridge

Quoted from WOZOFGRIMSBY

Thank god we never signed john burridge

;D

Quoted from RoboCod

I tried to follow the Lincoln game the other night on my tablet in the living room, but the updated text commentary was very quickly obliterated by an ad for ringtones that I couldn't shift.

The whole newspaper group in charge are rubbish.

I too followed it on my tablet, in the living room (not your living room), and it was no problem at all.
You need to adjust your browser security settings.

UTM

what you have to realise is. the telegraph has gone downhill more than the Mariners have in the last ten years

Quoted from mariner tommy

I too followed it on my tablet, in the living room (not your living room), and it was no problem at all.
You need to adjust your browser security settings.

UTM

I actually tried it again a little later and the pop up had gone, but when it first appeared no amount of settings adjustments would shift it, . No close button on it either, just a stupidly annoying ad.

Quoted from WOZOFGRIMSBY

Thank god we never signed john burridge

but we did in 95-96

This is the headline that annoys me the most.

"Grimsby Town boss Paul Hurst hails Torquay United as 'best team' they've faced in the Conference- as he targets 'major improvement' "
Just fed up of this constant talking up of the opposition to prepare everyone for the worst.

Maybe there is a journalist writing the headline rather than Hurst himself?...

Quoted from TheRonRaffertyFanClub

This is the headline that annoys me the most.

"Grimsby Town boss Paul Hurst hails Torquay United as 'best team' they've faced in the Conference- as he targets 'major improvement' "
Just fed up of this constant talking up of the opposition to prepare everyone for the worst.

I know what you mean

That headline annoys me because it's far too long!

Quoted from TheRonRaffertyFanClub

This is the headline that annoys me the most.

"Grimsby Town boss Paul Hurst hails Torquay United as 'best team' they've faced in the Conference- as he targets 'major improvement' "
Just fed up of this constant talking up of the opposition to prepare everyone for the worst.

Reverse psychology i'm led to believe.

Quoted from promotion plaice

Reverse psychology i'm led to believe.

Certainly puts my enthusiasm into reverse. :-/