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Ian Bowyer
The Athletic must be close to going bust.
The Mrs got me a subscription at £60 for the year 2 years ago, and I thought the coverage of football in generalwas pants.
No cricket correspondent either!
OK: Daniel Taylor and the other one wrote some decent articles about Forest, but they didn't appear every week.
Anyway, I resisted the temptation of the £1 per issue special offer late December.
Now, in January it is £1.99 per issue.
And even at the £1 I thought it was a poor investment.
I agree cap. I was excited to join having heard good things. I paid a quid a month and only read about 5 articles, none of which were that interesting. I went weeks without checking it at all and cancelled. I actually deleted the app before my contract ran out.

I get far more interesting stuff on here. Obviously a fair amount of waffle too, which I quite like 🤣
 

Morpeth

John Robertson
The Athletic must be close to going bust.
The Mrs got me a subscription at £60 for the year 2 years ago, and I thought the coverage of football in generalwas pants.
No cricket correspondent either!
OK: Daniel Taylor and the other one wrote some decent articles about Forest, but they didn't appear every week.
Anyway, I resisted the temptation of the £1 per issue special offer late December.
Now, in January it is £1.99 per issue.
And even at the £1 I thought it was a poor investment.
Agreed - I got it for a quid or £3 or something for three months and it's just a bit pointless. Paul Taylor is useless too - always has been.
 

Otis Redding

Try A Little Tenderness
Anderson was talking of possibly trying to bring in Jurgen Klinsmann and Jordan Letchkov if they got the nod for the takeover.
In fairness to him Nicola, Anderson's proposal to the 200 members at that time was a significant amount (rumoured circa £30m) to go directly towards a transfer kitty rather than paying them thousands each for their token £1-value share. As self-appointed members' representative, our prominant former defender deemed that to be unacceptable, campaigning instead for the 'Bridgeford (sic) Consortium' carpetbaggers.

One committee member, George Waterhouse, led a group of members who were willing to forego any financial remuneration for their share by backing the Anderson Group bid, but were out-voted, sadly. There was some talk of alleged arm-twisting before the vote.
 

Rzar

Bob McKinlay
Some of the stuff on the Athletic is really good.

But does seem like it is descending into waffle in recent months. They love a long article which essentially says very little. The one they did on EM a few months ago was the best example (the one that they intended to be a hatched job if he sacked Cooper), must have been thousands of words long and you went away from the article learning absolutely nothing.
 

rockhopper

Jack Armstrong
Some of the stuff on the Athletic is really good.

But does seem like it is descending into waffle in recent months. They love a long article which essentially says very little. The one they did on EM a few months ago was the best example (the one that they intended to be a hatched job if he sacked Cooper), must have been thousands of words long and you went away from the article learning absolutely nothing.
Agreed, I remember reading that article, was like the bloody encyclopedia brittania, talk about padding it out.

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Franzy

First Team Squad
Some of the stuff on the Athletic is really good.

But does seem like it is descending into waffle in recent months. They love a long article which essentially says very little. The one they did on EM a few months ago was the best example (the one that they intended to be a hatched job if he sacked Cooper), must have been thousands of words long and you went away from the article learning absolutely nothing.
Totally agree Rzar, I do however manage to find enough decent articles each day to make my £1 monthly investment worthwhile.
 

McKenzie

Geoff Thomas
Agreed - I got it for a quid or £3 or something for three months and it's just a bit pointless. Paul Taylor is useless too - always has been.
He seemed to step his game up a bit when he first started there but now his articles are basically like his ones from the Post, no real contacts or substance, just scraping information from other places and putting it into a nicely worded article.
 
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