The Athletic - how long do we give it?

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10-07-2019, 08:18 AM
PSRB

The Athletic - how long do we give it?

Nabbing all these top journalists, who must be being paid a fortune. I just won't pay for content and they'll all be replaced by hungry, young journos who might have something new and interesting to say

Pity the Orn has gone there, though
10-07-2019, 08:23 AM
Sir C

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Originally Posted by PSRB

Nabbing all these top journalists, who must be being paid a fortune. I just won't pay for content and they'll all be replaced by hungry, young journos who might have something new and interesting to say

Pity the Orn has gone there, though

It must, one imagines, have some powerful backing to be able to attract the big names.

I give it a year.
10-07-2019, 08:23 AM
IUFG

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Originally Posted by PSRB

Nabbing all these top journalists, who must be being paid a fortune. I just won't pay for content and they'll all be replaced by hungry, young journos who might have something new and interesting to say

Pity the Orn has gone there, though

Paying for content - I think it is a mindset that the younger types will get before the likes of you and I, p.

I ain't paying either. Whatever they write will be in the free / public domain before long anyway.

I'm assuming all the journos are freelance rather than employees and they'll probably be contractually restricted in where their scribblings can be published.

I'll give it 18 months...
10-07-2019, 08:52 AM
Ash

Won't pay for content?

Shame on you.

Do you steal your food as well?
10-07-2019, 09:00 AM
Monty92

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Originally Posted by Ash

Won't pay for content?

Shame on you.

Do you steal your food as well?

Do you pay for podcasts you listen to?
10-07-2019, 09:04 AM
Ash

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Originally Posted by Monty92

Do you pay for podcasts you listen to?

Yes.

Both of them.
10-07-2019, 09:07 AM
Monty92

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Originally Posted by Ash

Yes.

Both of them.

Well bloody well done you.

I trust one of them is Making Sense with Sam Harris?
10-07-2019, 09:08 AM
PSRB

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Originally Posted by Ash

Won't pay for content?

Shame on you.

Do you steal your food as well?

In fairness, I don't pay for content as I get it all free due to the job. The more pertinent point is that there is enough "free" content out there that there is no need to pay for a service such as The Athletic
10-07-2019, 09:15 AM
Ash

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Originally Posted by PSRB

In fairness, I don't pay for content as I get it all free due to the job. The more pertinent point is that there is enough "free" content out there that there is no need to pay for a service such as The Athletic

Depends on how one finds the quality of the writing, and the intrusiveness of the ads. I intend to give the Athletic a go via the Arsenal Vision link. £2.50 a month is a modest fee if value is found imo.
10-07-2019, 09:18 AM
IUFG

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Originally Posted by Ash

£2.50 a month is a modest fee if value is found imo.

It is. in isolation.

How many "less than the price of a pint" fees could you end up paying?
10-07-2019, 09:24 AM
Billy Goat Sverige

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Originally Posted by IUFG

It is. in isolation.

How many "less than the price of a pint" fees could you end up paying?

This is the trouble, especially with the way streaming is going. It was fine with just Netflix. It wasn’t too bad adding in Amazon Prime. Now you’re going to have Apple and Disney+. Warner are also planning on having a streaming service. If they all produce content you watch you’re looking at £50 a month and that’s not even including your TV subscription.
10-07-2019, 09:24 AM
Ash

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Originally Posted by IUFG

It is. in isolation.

How many "less than the price of a pint" fees could you end up paying?

This is a fair point. The answer, I think, is that if everyone pays for a few subs to the sources they like and consume the most, then hopefully all the decent outlets will make a living.

Not so easy for non-sport content though. I support the alt-media site I read most for politics, but not others because there are too many.
10-07-2019, 09:25 AM
Ash

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Originally Posted by IUFG

It is. in isolation.

How many "less than the price of a pint" fees could you end up paying?

Also: Pint of Doom Bar £2.58 in the Coronet on Sunday. :-)
10-07-2019, 09:27 AM
IUFG

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Originally Posted by Ash

Also: Pint of Doom Bar £2.58 in the Coronet on Sunday. :-)

Yes. But.

The Coronet.
10-07-2019, 09:44 AM
Ash

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Originally Posted by IUFG

Yes. But.

The Coronet.

Only a problem for cup games when it fills with the enemy imo. Apart from that it's near the ground, usually has space to breathe, features moderately-priced beverages, and is on my way from home. Does ham egg & chips too. :-)
10-07-2019, 09:45 AM
Ash

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Originally Posted by Monty92

I trust one of them is Making Sense with Sam Harris?

You know that noise some of our less self-aware-and-enlightened-supporters make when the opposition makes a substitution? .....
10-07-2019, 09:45 AM
IUFG

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Originally Posted by Ash

Only a problem for cup games when it fills with the enemy imo. Apart from that it's near the ground, usually has space to breathe, features moderately-priced beverages, and is on my way from home. Does ham egg & chips too. :-)

It is a big place.
It is a 'spoons :-(

The Tollington is just around the corner, a
10-07-2019, 09:50 AM
Sir C

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Originally Posted by IUFG

It is a big place.
It is a 'spoons :-(

The Tollington is just around the corner, a

It is a 'spoons? How the fúck do you microwave hamn egg and chips?
10-07-2019, 09:58 AM
Pat Vegas

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Originally Posted by Ash

Depends on how one finds the quality of the writing, and the intrusiveness of the ads. I intend to give the Athletic a go via the Arsenal Vision link. £2.50 a month is a modest fee if value is found imo.

I feel AWIMB Missed a trick. AFTV are esentially a video format of the old AWIMB
10-07-2019, 09:59 AM
Sir C

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Originally Posted by Pat Vegas

I feel AWIMB Missed a trick. AFTV are esentially a video format of the old AWIMB

:hehe: RCEG would have been great of AFTV. Also greg mitchell coming to blows with Headgear would have been internet gold.
10-07-2019, 10:02 AM
IUFG

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Originally Posted by Sir C

:hehe: RCEG would have been great of AFTV. Also greg mitchell coming to blows with Headgear would have been internet gold.

Berni as Claude.

WES as Ty.
10-07-2019, 10:27 AM
barrybueno

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Originally Posted by Ash

Won't pay for content?

Shame on you.

Do you steal your food as well?

Fúck that Ash, I pay for the laptop and the broadband, everything else should be 'free' imo
10-07-2019, 12:16 PM
7sisters

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Originally Posted by PSRB

Nabbing all these top journalists, who must be being paid a fortune. I just won't pay for content and they'll all be replaced by hungry, young journos who might have something new and interesting to say

Pity the Orn has gone there, though

I find I only have time to listen to stuff while I’m painting or doing stuff around the house. How do people get the time to do all this stuff ?
It’s kids and dogs, isn’t it ? :-\
10-07-2019, 12:43 PM
Herbert Augustus Chapman

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Originally Posted by 7sisters

while I’m painting

While you're painting! You do mean painting and decorating don't you 7? You're not some fey homosexualist that paints pictures are you?
10-07-2019, 01:07 PM
7sisters

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Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman

While you're painting! You do mean painting and decorating don't you 7? You're not some fey homosexualist that paints pictures are you?

Of course, H. Why, I’m stinking of undercoat and white spirit as I type. 👍
10-07-2019, 01:47 PM
Pokster

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Originally Posted by 7sisters

Of course, H. Why, I’m stinking of undercoat and white spirit as I type. ��

H smells of white spirit most afternoons

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