whatsagrecianern
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I don’t often buy the Western Morning News , mainly because of it’s consistent Argyle bias but I was tempted in to buy this Sundays edition because it heralded an insight into City’s Academy. This was a brilliantly informed and insightful piece by Stuart James. If those “stay away” protesters who think they are punishing Tisdale or the “suits” withholding their entrance fee – I will repeat my assertion you are cutting off your nose to spite your face- Grimes, Pym, Moore-Taylor have taken 10 years of investment to get to International level and play in our first team. Not showing for home games only serves to strangle this sort of effort.
The display on Saturday was fantastic , at last , City replicated the form that those hundreds who follow them away having been telling the home support about.
Met up with some Bury fans Saturday night and they were “purring” in magisterial fashion about the performance of Pym, Grimes. Moore-Taylor, and the entire team. Quite right too! This is undoubtedly one of the best City line-ups in the last 5 years. Tell your friends, tell your kids and bring them down to see these youngsters playing. They may only have until January to catch some of them.
I then turned to the report of the game in the WMN – by Simon ‘Pop’ Larkins.
Whilst the sub editors managed to summon up “super win” in the headline I struggle to find an adjective in Larkins report – is he having a laugh??
I can only think of half a dozen reasons for this dreary, unimaginative report of the game:
1. He tweeted his report in and was struggling for characters
2. He gets fined by the editor for each adjective he uses
3. He wasn’t at the game at all and was reporting from his local watching the vide printer.
4. He actually would rather be somewhere else and thinks St.James Park is a bit below him, when really he should be having a World exclusive with Woy Hodgson.
5. He is just a really poor reporter who can’t get across the level of skill, determination, planning, training, management and support it took to overhaul the league leaders who had only lost once this season. This was a class performance and this is in no way reflected in his report.
6. He’s about to be a victim of the WMN next economy drive and is about to be let go and, frankly, doesn’t give a “phuq”
When I see “City got a free kick. Grimes kicked it. It went in the net” -it makes me wonder what planet he’s on.
I would love to see his own reportage of his Monday morning at work.
“ I went to work. I went to my desk. I went to see the editor. He gave me my P45”
Surely he can summon up some sensible description of the game I saw
Meanwhile in the WMN Argyle lost but were really unlucky !
The display on Saturday was fantastic , at last , City replicated the form that those hundreds who follow them away having been telling the home support about.
Met up with some Bury fans Saturday night and they were “purring” in magisterial fashion about the performance of Pym, Grimes. Moore-Taylor, and the entire team. Quite right too! This is undoubtedly one of the best City line-ups in the last 5 years. Tell your friends, tell your kids and bring them down to see these youngsters playing. They may only have until January to catch some of them.
I then turned to the report of the game in the WMN – by Simon ‘Pop’ Larkins.
Whilst the sub editors managed to summon up “super win” in the headline I struggle to find an adjective in Larkins report – is he having a laugh??
I can only think of half a dozen reasons for this dreary, unimaginative report of the game:
1. He tweeted his report in and was struggling for characters
2. He gets fined by the editor for each adjective he uses
3. He wasn’t at the game at all and was reporting from his local watching the vide printer.
4. He actually would rather be somewhere else and thinks St.James Park is a bit below him, when really he should be having a World exclusive with Woy Hodgson.
5. He is just a really poor reporter who can’t get across the level of skill, determination, planning, training, management and support it took to overhaul the league leaders who had only lost once this season. This was a class performance and this is in no way reflected in his report.
6. He’s about to be a victim of the WMN next economy drive and is about to be let go and, frankly, doesn’t give a “phuq”
When I see “City got a free kick. Grimes kicked it. It went in the net” -it makes me wonder what planet he’s on.
I would love to see his own reportage of his Monday morning at work.
“ I went to work. I went to my desk. I went to see the editor. He gave me my P45”
Surely he can summon up some sensible description of the game I saw
Meanwhile in the WMN Argyle lost but were really unlucky !
