[Archived] Is The Telegraph Desperate For Column Inch Or What

[ABBEY]

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/13423648.Brazil_legend_Rivaldo_s_son_emulates_Blackburn_Rovers_boss_Gary_Bowyer/

[K-Hod]

They come out with some guff in there these days, most of it isn't even local news!

[onlyonejackwalker]

The LET are clearly backed into a corner,

Niggle at the club for accuracy and updates and criticise decisions taken and potentially lose the primary source of their local news if pushing too hard.

Plod along merrily with nothing new to say, blowing sunshine up everyone at the club and risk losing their readers / paying customers who rightly demand much more.

This is a total non-story. Bit like saying Bowyer and Suarez have much in common with their black hair.

The LET needs to make some strategic decisions quickly as to how they wish to further and grow their brand. Glad I am not in charge of that task.

[tomphil]

Look on the bright side at least they didn't slide a mention of FFP into that article. Must be a first.

[donnermeat]

Eidur Gudjohnsen did this too I believe.

[Al]

Glad I never buy the rag. Just flip it over in Asda and read the Rovers headline. It's rarely worth reading any further and normally just repeating what has been said on here.

[Rover_Shaun]

So Rivaldo and his son are playing for Hereford?

[McClarky]

Yet another slow news day eh.

[47er]

Glad I never buy the rag. Just flip it over in Asda and read the Rovers headline. It's rarely worth reading any further and normally just repeating what has been said on here.

LOL----did exactly the same this morning in Asda! That was the most hopeless non-story I think the Telewag has ever printed!

Its as if they have to fill a certain number of column inches every day but nothing's happening!

TBF there was also an article from Wheelock telling Rovers to get on with it and make some signings fast. That's about as critical as he's ever got.

[Mike Graham]

Sadly the LET will probably disappear soon.

The Lancs Evening Post (LEP) is also really suffering along with the Evening Gazette in Blackpool. The LEP went from 75K+ sales to now around 7.5K on a good day.

Probably the best we can expect is a Lancashire United Evening Wotsit.

[West Yorks Rover]

Sadly the LET will probably disappear soon.

The Lancs Evening Post (LEP) is also really suffering along with the Evening Gazette in Blackpool. The LEP went from 75K+ sales to now around 7.5K on a good day.

Probably the best we can expect is a Lancashire United Evening Wotsit.

Are you Gordon in disguise ?

[tkturner]

what a complete waste of time even putting that "story" out there...

probably never heard of Bowyer...

[Amo]

Probably the closest to transfer news we're gonna get.

[BlooBoy]

Oh the irony of this thread ..

...meanwhile back on the BRFCS messageboard we re upto page 136 of Transfer Talk Part 2 started in mid june and nothing actually worth discussing yet we still are !

The LET desperate for news where we just discuss the same things over and over again . ..yawn..

The messageboard should be shut down for three weeks in summer ,let everyone get the last previous season out of their head and come back hopefully with things to actually discuss instead of "Re-Issue ! Re-Package ! Re-Package ! Re- Evaluate the threads ..." ..

[47er]

So you're equating a newspaper which has the job of producing news and opinion for profit with a Message Board where fans discuss Rovers among themselves purely for interest?

If you think the Board should close down for 3 weeks because it is boring why not just avoid reading it?

[bazza]

I read the LT "article" on line and scrolled down to find comments had been disallowed.

I wonder why.

That was the most disappointing thing about the "article".

[jim mk2]

Sad reflection on the state of local newspapers. Production moved to South Wales and reporting staff a fraction of years gone by.

Local newspapers used to be the eyes and ears of the community - their decline and impending demise is bad for democracy.

[Mattyblue]

The fact a Lancashire newspaper spelt 'Clog' wrongly in a headline today said it all.

[BlooBoy]

So you're equating a newspaper which has the job of producing news and opinion for profit with a Message Board where fans discuss Rovers among themselves purely for interest?

If you think the Board should close down for 3 weeks because it is boring why not just avoid reading it?

Im saying accusing the LET of publishing no news whilst discussing no news page after page is a little ironic.

I have nt for two weeks and now i have it feels like groundhog day 47er..

Sad reflection on the state of local newspapers. Production moved to South Wales and reporting staff a fraction of years gone by.

Local newspapers used to be the eyes and ears of the community - their decline and impending demise is bad for democracy.

Thank the internet for that im afraid,people want to know about current views ..good ole Google...or Online editions of said newspapers.

[ABBEY]

It's not like wheelcock to run a ffp story is it like today's .. A real journo would be asking/investigating how other clubs are getting away with it .

[perthblue02]

Personally found the article in question quite refreshing in a not really saying anything kind of way ,no blubbering about FFP like we did not know it was going to happen, and unlike pre-seasons stories at the same time last year, no gushing platitudes of undying love and gratefulness to Mrs D.

Something seems to have changed Mrs D's chosen franchise employee of the year recently,

I expect that in a rural Indian newspaper a chip fryer promoted to store manager at a Wanky's XPRS is expelling his gratefulness to the Queen of Pune via print

[Gav]

It's not like wheelcock to run a ffp story is it like today's .. A real journo would be asking/investigating how other clubs are getting away with it .

Yes you're right Abbey, the local Rovers reporter should be sat on Shaws doorstep until he tells us what he's doing about it, and if he's doing nothing about it say so!

The reporter is like most of our fans, scared of his own shadow, doesn't want to upset the apple cart because things can always get worse! FFS.....

[Al]

It's not like wheelcock to run a ffp story is it like today's .. A real journo would be asking/investigating how other clubs are getting away with it .

These are not journo's Abs. They just fill a few column inches each day and think up a headline that they think will sell a few papers.

[AllRoverAsia]

Probably the closest to transfer news we're gonna get.

Now that av is a cracker

[ABBEY]

Makes me laugh and it speaks volumes how wheelcock **abbey waves to Paul and Paul blushes on reading this**

Raids this board for his info ie. The film

But never ever reports on the unrest .