Media Thread - 2021/22

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

DT this morning, or should that be the DDT, is calling on Southgate to 'unleash' TAA. Does that mean he will relinquish any notion of defensive duties, most of which he is incapable of delivering, and shoving him upfield. Didn't he try that a month or so back? The guy is subject to more hype than a team load of Cruyffs 'n di Stefanos, let alone Dave Ewing!

 

[waspish]

You can't be click-bait and subscription based.

The whole point of click-bait journalism is to get you to click on an article where you'll go to a website that will show you ads, and that generates ad revenue.

If you're a subscription model with no adverts, click-bait doesn't do anything for you. You just attract people to a pay-walled page with no adverts that doesn't convert anyone into a subscriber.

Unfortunately on BM, click-bait has just become a word for any article containign information or a headline people don't like.

Yep that right but if you still have to have the views people reading them! Do you think if they have half dozen people constantly just reading there articles they will lose there job. Shit on city reading of that article sky rockets guess what more the same will come along with the positives ones.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

News Now Man City is best for click-bait headlines.

Read into the headlines before clicking on the story/article and you can workout it's either made up bullsh*t and lies with no quotes or substance, plagiarised, or about another team, with City used in the headline/story.(mainly from the Liverpool Echo and Liverpool.com, both owned by the same media company)

With registered offices in an L4 gutter!

 

[stonerblue]

For those of us old enough to remember, John Giles was a sublime footballer who went on to be a rather poor manager.
That said, it's so rare to hear a pundit speak positively about a potential City signing, that it us actually hartening.

‘I think he could do more’ | Kalvin Phillips could slot in at Manchester City

Leeds legend John Giles joined Nathan Murphy to discuss Kalvin Phillips's potential move to Premier League Champions Manchester City.

www.otbsports.com

Obviously, if we do sign Phillips, we all hope he's proven right, I am not so sure that his judgement should be taken as gospel though :-)
Check out this absolute belter from two and a half years ago....

"Guardiola has to get De Bruyne out" - John Giles on Manchester City problems | OffTheBall

Kevin De Bruyne is acting like a "spoiled brat" at Manchester City and should be dropped by Pep G...

www.otbsports.com

He was. The David Silva of his generation.

 

[Cityfan1977]

As did Liverpool that season.

What about 1977 ?
Where City never in the lead that year

 

[petrusha]

I don’t think The Athletic generally do that tbf (in their City coverage, at least) and Ballus is a very good reporter with integrity. Some Blues have complained that we have only had one reporter covering us (compared to 3/4 for Liverpool and United) so this is welcome news on that front.

Despite the fact that United already have at least three dedicated writers at The Athletic covering them, Ballus's remit is being stated specifically to include United as well as City (and also "the Premier League and Spanish-speakers involved on the game"). In view of the fact that we have one dedicated reporter, I find it rather underwhelming that they aren't stating he's arriving mainly to work on City.

I'd unsubscribed from The Athletic ages ago but was lured back in by one of their £12 for 12 months offers. I quickly became dissatisfied and terminated my subscription, though I have access for another 6 months, at which point the year I paid for will expire. This news won't prompt me to reverse my decision unless I see he's actually primarily assigned to covering us.

 

[wolviedinho]

You can't be click-bait and subscription based.

The whole point of click-bait journalism is to get you to click on an article where you'll go to a website that will show you ads, and that generates ad revenue.

If you're a subscription model with no adverts, click-bait doesn't do anything for you. You just attract people to a pay-walled page with no adverts that doesn't convert anyone into a subscriber.

Unfortunately on BM, click-bait has just become a word for any article containign information or a headline people don't like.

One could argue that you are baiting now with the last point. Very much a sweeping viewpoint on bluemoon members. Everything online is aimed at being edgy or controversial for financial rewards.Hyperbolic drivel mostly but hey that’s the world we now live in.

Easy this baiting.

 

[bluechippie]

Yeah. Don’t you remember? Every time we have had to win the last game to become champions, we have collapsed into a sea of mediocrity, failing against QPR, Brighton, Villa. Pep out, I say.

Did we have to beat West Ham in 2014 or would a draw have been enough? I cant remember!

 

[crazyg]

You know that he will. If he has agreed to join them, he has agreed to all the other shite that comes with it.
Just start with low expectations and work your way down from there.

So he'll go from Pol to Pot?

 

[halfcenturyup]

A game lasts 90 minutes!

95 minutes, thank God. Ah .... CL SFs, strike that.

 

[laserblue]

Oh Aldo, you’ve outdone yourself. Some crackers to save you clicking on the link.

Real Madrid have always been a pretty arrogant club that believes the world revolves around them.

United have put in their worst season in living memory.

Meanwhile, this was the campaign when Liverpool became the first English team to take their trophy wins past the 50 mark, with Manchester City needing another £5 billion of transfer spending and at least a decade to get near that total.

Losing the Premier League title on the final day of the season after it seemed like City were going to bottle it again was tough to take.

More people showed up in the first mile of Liverpool's open-top bus parade than Manchester City attracted for their own badly attended parade to toast their Premier League win.


Rival fans laughing at Liverpool are a million miles behind Jurgen Klopp's winners


https://www.sundayworld.com/sport/s...es-behind-jurgen-klopps-winners-41721172.html

I seem to recall Liverpool bottling it when City won it in 2014 and 2019 too.

 

[KS55]

Did we have to beat West Ham in 2014 or would a draw have been enough? I cant remember!

A draw would have seen us win it on goal diff. A loss and pool were winners by a point

 

[citizen_maine]

So he'll go from Pol to Pot?

Ballus to bollox

 

[Centurions]

One could argue that you are baiting now with the last point. Very much a sweeping viewpoint on bluemoon members. Everything online is aimed at being edgy or controversial for financial rewards.Hyperbolic drivel mostly but hey that’s the world we now live in.

Easy this baiting.

If he'd said "for all bluemooners" then you may have had a point, however he didn't, so it's not a "sweeping viewpoint".

 

[Blue Mist]

A game lasts 90 minutes!

Sometimes a game lasts 93.25 seconds

 

[wolviedinho]

If he'd said "for all bluemooners" then you may have had a point, however he didn't, so it's not a "sweeping viewpoint".

Well done.

 

[cheekybids]

A draw would have seen us win it on goal diff. A loss and pool were winners by a point

& that year Nolan & Andy Carroll were going to win it for them.

 

[dickie davies]

He’ll be 64 this year and yet, if you read anything he writes and didn’t know better, you‘d swear it was the ramblings of a 13 year old!

I think "13" is the amount of functional brain cells he has left following all his years of alcohol abuse

 

[Pingu the Penguin]

 

[Degsy]

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