Stuart Brennan. MEN.

[Oystercatcher28]

Papers are so out-dated, my news is on this forum and I take everything as FACT

 

[Nascent Blues]

Papers are so out-dated, my news is on this forum and I take everything as FACT

Your house is on fire.

 

[The Flash]

Papers are so out-dated, my news is on this forum and I take everything as FACT

Corky's gay for you...

 

[mancityvstoke]

Bring back the pink final

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Had some guy knocking on the door yesterday trying to drum up me buying the MEN.

I answered in a City top and his face dropped. Told him as a blue there is no way I'm buying that paper

He said its full of City. Told him cos its got loads of City content doesn't mean its good to read and quoted the tour piece and the 10 goal thriller headline.

With a shug of his shoulders he was away.

I got the feeling it wasn't the first time today he'd been bombed out.

 

[Anonymous]

50 years ago my dad said to me that the M.E.N. was a biased red paper. maybe still with lingering sympathy over the air disaster (we all did) or so I thought. well now 50 years on my father's words still ring true.

a biased rag. always will be.

Well said.

 

[stuart brennan]

If you wrote the article and it carries your name then surely you are responsible for it Stuart?

Running to Peter Spencer to grass up some poor kid in charge of captions who's probably on £6 per hour, shows exactly what sort of a person you are and tells us a great deal about the type of company you work for if that sort of behaviour is considered acceptable. Plus the fact that you've then come out on a public forum to admit that you've tried to get a fellow colleague into trouble is very poor indeed. Disgraceful in fact.

Shite rag loving newspaper that employs shite rag loving journalists.

If you had even the slightest clue, I would reply, but you are wrong on just about every point. My job is to write the articles, I am not responsible for picture captions in any way - I don't see them until they appear in the paper.
There is no "kid on £6 per hour" doing picture captions - your ignorance of this subject knows no bounds.
I don't mind valid criticism, in fact I welcome it, but stupid abuse from idiots likes you just narks me.<br /><br />-- Fri Nov 15, 2013 8:26 pm --<br /><br />

Had some guy knocking on the door yesterday trying to drum up me buying the MEN.

I answered in a City top and his face dropped. Told him as a blue there is no way I'm buying that paper

He said its full of City. Told him cos its got loads of City content doesn't mean its good to read and quoted the tour piece and the 10 goal thriller headline.

With a shug of his shoulders he was away.

I got the feeling it wasn't the first time today he'd been bombed out.

What is the "tour piece"?
And I think you will find the "ten-goal thriller" headline is yet another urban myth, made up by someone on here who, unlike the MEN, really DOES have an agenda.
Someone is at it again on here, making up the "fact" that the MEN website does not run United polls.
The most damaging poll we ever ran was in 1995, when we ran one asking "Should United sack Fergie?" when they had a bad start to the season. Not surprisingly, Blues were all over it, and the answer was a resounding Yes.
Fergie was not impressed, and the relationship between the MEN and United has not been on a good footing since.
But don't let real facts, and actual history, get in the way of your ridiculous ramblings
I've said it a million times, and nobody on here has ever answered it - what could we possibly have to gain by trying to alienate a large proportion of our readership, and potential readership?

 

[Davs 19]

I don't think the MEN has an agenda and I certainly have nothing in particular against Mr. Brennan.

The publication should have the honesty to drop the word 'evening' from it's name as it hasn't been such for years and pedals yesterday's news.

There is also a very good reason that it's circulation is declining faster than any other regional paper bar 2, even though 30.000 of it's claimed 90,000 circulation is now given away free.

It's no longer a good paper......my opinion and many others.....

 

[oakiecokie]

If you wrote the article and it carries your name then surely you are responsible for it Stuart?

Running to Peter Spencer to grass up some poor kid in charge of captions who's probably on £6 per hour, shows exactly what sort of a person you are and tells us a great deal about the type of company you work for if that sort of behaviour is considered acceptable. Plus the fact that you've then come out on a public forum to admit that you've tried to get a fellow colleague into trouble is very poor indeed. Disgraceful in fact.

Shite rag loving newspaper that employs shite rag loving journalists.

If you had even the slightest clue, I would reply, but you are wrong on just about every point. My job is to write the articles, I am not responsible for picture captions in any way - I don't see them until they appear in the paper.
There is no "kid on £6 per hour" doing picture captions - your ignorance of this subject knows no bounds.
I don't mind valid criticism, in fact I welcome it, but stupid abuse from idiots likes you just narks me.

-- Fri Nov 15, 2013 8:26 pm --

Had some guy knocking on the door yesterday trying to drum up me buying the MEN.

I answered in a City top and his face dropped. Told him as a blue there is no way I'm buying that paper

He said its full of City. Told him cos its got loads of City content doesn't mean its good to read and quoted the tour piece and the 10 goal thriller headline.

With a shug of his shoulders he was away.

I got the feeling it wasn't the first time today he'd been bombed out.

What is the "tour piece"?
And I think you will find the "ten-goal thriller" headline is yet another urban myth, made up by someone on here who, unlike the MEN, really DOES have an agenda.
Someone is at it again on here, making up the "fact" that the MEN website does not run United polls.
The most damaging poll we ever ran was in 1995, when we ran one asking "Should United sack Fergie?" when they had a bad start to the season. Not surprisingly, Blues were all over it, and the answer was a resounding Yes.
Fergie was not impressed, and the relationship between the MEN and United has not been on a good footing since.
But don't let real facts, and actual history, get in the way of your ridiculous ramblings
I've said it a million times, and nobody on here has ever answered it - what could we possibly have to gain by trying to alienate a large proportion of our readership, and potential readership?

Well I can answer that SB without too may problems,its called follow the sheep and stupidity,from some of my fellow Blues.Because a couple are very vociferous in their constant slagging of the MEN,others as I`ve said are like bloody sheep and follow them.
Pick any newspaper up in the country and you can pick faults left,right and centre.Unfortunately some even see you as a "sheep dressed in wolfs clothing" due to and I quote "your allegiance towards United".I couldn`t give a toss who you do/have an affinity towards,all I know is that since you took over the reigns of writing about my Blues,you have given me no reason to be critical of your reasoned reports and excellent coverage.
Can`t see much criticism of todays half page coverage by Mike Keegan,writing about the United fan who awas jailed for attacking a Liverpool fan.Oh no !! The MEN NEVER writes negatives about United !!
How the fuck would they know if they never read it ??
Unbelievable,but oh so true.

 

[stuart brennan]

I don't think the MEN has an agenda and I certainly have nothing in particular against Mr. Brennan.

The publication should have the honesty to drop the word 'evening' from it's name as it hasn't been such for years and pedals yesterday's news.

There is also a very good reason that it's circulation is declining faster than any other regional paper bar 2, even though 30.000 of it's claimed 90,000 circulation is now given away free.

It's no longer a good paper......my opinion and many others.....

I have no problem with your opinion at all.
But those on here who claim we have an anti-City agenda, or the equally blinkered Reds who call us the Manchester Evening Blues, really need to stop seeing only what they want to see, and hearing only what they want to hear.