having read further back through the thread where you mentioned 'one or two simpletons' I'd like to clarify who you are referring to?squirtyflower said:it is, I pass it every single home game, I'll look out for you Stuartstuart brennan said:paulchapo said:I may be wrong but i would guess there is no way your average blue could access the press box?
Yes you can, it's just at the back of the lower tier of Colin Bell stand
Dr Mick said:stuart brennan said:Dr Mick said:Long gone are the days of Peter Gardner riding on the team coach. The closest Stuart gets to the action these days is from seat D7 in the press box. If he was willing to be totally honest with us all he would admit that he knows no more about what's actually going on at City on a day to day basis than we do.
He and his newspaper are reduced to trawling the internet for City news; visiting sites like BM, copying and pasting from other media outlets, speculating, guessing and possibly even just making it up. A lot of what you get from Stuart is probably no more than his own opinion which is no more or less valid than the opinion of anyone else on here. Except of course he is united fan and so I take whatever he says with a large pinch of salt.
Yet again, you talk utter bollocks, and libellous bollocks at that.
You give me one instance where I have cut and pasted from another media outlet.
You claimed earlier you are a journalist. I find that very hard to believe, given your level of ignorance about the way newspapers operate.
I have come on here under my own name - you know exactly who I am, and where you can find me.
Have you got the balls to tell us who you are? Or are you too "snivelling and underhand" to do that?
One thing that you can't seem to get over is my United past, which may explain your hostile, sneering, abusive attitude from the outset.
Calm down love.
You give me one instance where I have cut and pasted from another media outlet - The MEN takes stories from the Daily Mirror quite often, almost word for word, sometimes..
oakiecokie said:r.soleofsalford said:stuart brennan said:You are describing the official website, not a newspaper.
There are other fans who think we are too close to United/City and don't criticise enough.
Criticism is healthy if it is valid and constructive, and we always try to do that.
But the slant of the paper is definitely towards our local clubs, not away from them.
Can you think of a successful newspaper/TV channel/radio station that only carries good news?
It is a business model which has sustained us for decades, and continues to do so. I'm afraid the gleeful predictions of our imminent demise are, as Mark Twain said, greatly exaggerated.
"The Manchester Evening News was one of the worst performers according to the latest ABC figures, reporting a drop in circulation of 13.2%.
The Manchester Evening News suffered one of the biggest year-on-year falls in circulation among the main regional evening newspapers in England in the first six months of the year,
Trinity Mirror's part paid-for, part free title reported a 13.2% year-on-year fall to 78,894, according to the latest Audit Bureau of Circulations figures published on Wednesday.
The circulation decrease was 6.5% compared to the previous six-month ABC audit period to the end of December 2011.
Paid-for circulation accounted for 52,696 of MEN's total circulation, down from about 57,000 in the last period.
The MEN's year-on-year decline was only matched among regional evening papers by the Nottingham Post, which lost 13.3% of circulation compared to a year ago"
hey stu, take a gander at this. "WAY TO GO M.E.N" !!!
So based on those figures they have dropped 165 copies a week.Is that a major problem for them or are they making bigger profits from on line services ?? And before anyone asks,it is a question and not a statement.
Dr Mick said:The MEN takes stories from the Daily Mirror quite often, almost word for word, sometimes..
At least he's got the balls to come on here and put his point across, the forum is better for it, I'd be getting a tap on the shoulder, if I came across with that somewhat aggressive postsquirtyflower said:having read further back through the thread where you mentioned 'one or two simpletons' I'd like to clarify who you are referring to?squirtyflower said:it is, I pass it every single home game, I'll look out for you Stuartstuart brennan said:Yes you can, it's just at the back of the lower tier of Colin Bell stand
in fact why not tell me to my face on Sunday, I'm in block 128 just to the left of you, i walk pass the press box on the way to my seat
wear a carnation so i can recognise you
The Pink Panther said:If we play poorly, then I expect the MEN to say we played "poorly" just as I expect the MEN to report that we were excellent, if we were
What I don't expect from our local paper is cheap shots at the club, especially when the shots are aimed at positives
That dig at City over the small tourism award was totally uncalled for. As already said, it was a positive for the club and it ended up a piss take. A bit of fun it may well have been, but you've seen the reaction on here and how people who thought the MEN was a rag paper have had their views endorsed
What the fuck was the sports editor thinking by allowing the Boateng scuffle photo to be used? If you really are the City reporter Stuart, I'd be blowing my top in the office as that was just fucking stupid and again it's endorsed the pro rag view and a piss take of City
If we can't rely on our local paper to be supportive and positive when there are positives to be reported, what chance does the club stand in the nationals
r.soleofsalford said:oakiecokie said:r.soleofsalford said:"The Manchester Evening News was one of the worst performers according to the latest ABC figures, reporting a drop in circulation of 13.2%.
The Manchester Evening News suffered one of the biggest year-on-year falls in circulation among the main regional evening newspapers in England in the first six months of the year,
Trinity Mirror's part paid-for, part free title reported a 13.2% year-on-year fall to 78,894, according to the latest Audit Bureau of Circulations figures published on Wednesday.
The circulation decrease was 6.5% compared to the previous six-month ABC audit period to the end of December 2011.
Paid-for circulation accounted for 52,696 of MEN's total circulation, down from about 57,000 in the last period.
The MEN's year-on-year decline was only matched among regional evening papers by the Nottingham Post, which lost 13.3% of circulation compared to a year ago"
hey stu, take a gander at this. "WAY TO GO M.E.N" !!!
So based on those figures they have dropped 165 copies a week.Is that a major problem for them or are they making bigger profits from on line services ?? And before anyone asks,it is a question and not a statement.
yep misleading isnt it.
I learnt to do this from reading piss poor reporting
andyhinch said:At least he's got the balls to come on here and put his point across, the forum is better for it, I'd be getting a tap on the shoulder, if I came across with that somewhat aggressive post