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Indeed.  When I went to Yooni in London my maw would post me the back pages of Sunday's Mail and Monday's Herald so I could keep in touch with Rangers..  She'd usually included a couple of teacakes or snowballs (squashed by the time they got to me).

 

Nowadays?  I read a book on the train going in to London and The FT on the trip back - mainly because of its analysis.  Newspapers no longer do news - I can get that on my iPad.  That being said, there's a visceral delight in reading a broadsheet.

 

You won't need the print medium to keep in touch with Rangers these days.  Just a normal medium will be enough.

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Indeed.  When I went to Yooni in London my maw would post me the back pages of Sunday's Mail and Monday's Herald so I could keep in touch with Rangers..  She'd usually included a couple of teacakes or snowballs (squashed by the time they got to me).

 

Nowadays?  I read a book on the train going in to London and The FT on the trip back - mainly because of its analysis.  Newspapers no longer do news - I can get that on my iPad.  That being said, there's a visceral delight in reading a broadsheet.

I've long since stopped reading a newspaper, myself.

I'm one of those hypocrites though that does lots of on-line shopping and bemoans the state of the High Street.

There's something tactile and pleasing about a newspaper, in the same way that there is about a paperback, as opposed to a Kindle download.

It's not just that though. The fact that there were relatively few newspaper titles, which could be readily categorised, made discretion easier to exercise.

The very existence of programmes like WTPS (Christ, that looks like something else) showed that there was a relatively narrow chunk of media that could be analysed but was hugely relevant.

The disintegration of that is inevitable, but it bothers me.

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I've long since stopped reading a newspaper, myself. I'm one of those hypocrites though that does lots of on-line shopping and bemoans the state of the High Street. There's something tactile and pleasing about a newspaper, in the same way that there is about a paperback, as opposed to a Kindle download. It's not just that though. The fact that there were relatively few newspaper titles, which could be readily categorised, made discretion easier to exercise. The very existence of programmes like WTPS (Christ, that looks like something else) showed that there was a relatively narrow chunk of media that could be analysed but was hugely relevant. The disintegration of that is inevitable, but it bothers me.

This is a really tricky one.  I read books and a paper.  My kids share a couple of Kindles and I regularly download books for them.  I also buy them 'paper' books as, you rightly said, there's a feel that you don't get on a Kindle.  Thankfully, my three are all bookworms but I 'got' them on the cusp of the electronic age.

 

The 'big issue' for journalism, though, isn't the format but accountability.  This closes the circle for we Big Thread Posters.

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Hi, Sunderland fan in peace here.

What's the view of Martin Bain, our new CEO?

I'd have assumed he was banned from having anything to do with football. Evidentially not.

For further details, please see the final ten years in the life of Rangers.

In short... oh crumbs.

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Hi, Sunderland fan in peace here.

 

What's the view of Martin Bain, our new CEO?

Once Murray stepped aside Bain seemed less inept but overall he was pretty hopeless.

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Hi, Sunderland fan in peace here.

 

What's the view of Martin Bain, our new CEO?

I just hope your chairman has a big cheque book..  Martin likes sunbeds and spending other people's money.

 

I should have added - well done in relegating the black and white scum.  Sunderland fans will always find pals on The Big Thread.

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Tedi, I ran this piece through a plagiarism checking program. http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/rangers-record-fc-shameful-hampden-8022425#k4MvTudaseKA3cPE.97

Either a blogger called Jonny is 95% likely to be robbing your ideas or you are called Jonny and you write a blog.

Does Beeny know you are a 'blogger lol' [sic]?

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When reading that blog I thought, that c**t posts on pie and bovril

:lol:

Wizzy, it could be any of we regular Bears.  I loved this bit:

 

The sporting jealousy that always marked our smaller, less successful rivals has been replaced by an intellectually empty, sneering, faux moral superiority.
 
On the money Tedi.  Imagine the cheek of the prepositionally challenged trying to hand out morality lessons.  The diddies like crisps on a roll (see thread) and don't even blink when laughed at.
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I just hope your chairman has a big cheque book..  Martin likes sunbeds and spending other people's money.

 

I should have added - well done in relegating the black and white scum.  Sunderland fans will always find pals on The Big Thread.

Thank you! Gotta say I smiled a bit, but not much because let's face it we're shite, only started playing football with 4 games to go. Still, survival means the chance to run the place like a proper football club, which is why I think we're all a bit 'meh' about Bain.

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Thank you! Gotta say I smiled a bit, but not much because let's face it we're shite, only started playing football with 4 games to go. Still, survival means the chance to run the place like a proper football club, which is why I think we're all a bit 'meh' about Bain.

There are some interesting parallels though, chap.  We played some absolutely beautiful football and were, arguably, the best team in Europe when wee Dick was managing the team and Bain was writing someone else's cheques.  Watching us systematically destroy Parma in a hopping Ibrox is a highlight of my supporting life.

 

But it wasn't sustainable - and I doubt the appointment of Bain will help Sunderland's sustainability.  You need a dour bean-counter.

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Not me, but the author does seem to have a good grasp of what it means to be a Rangers hating P and Ber

 

'The relentless message, drilled by the veritable insane asylum of anonymous twitter obsessives and crusading ‘journalist’ bloggers'

Oh of course I didn't mean the author was actually you - but he certainly has plugged in to the mentalness of the diddy posters.

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Wizzy, it could be any of we regular Bears. I loved this bit:

The sporting jealousy that always marked our smaller, less successful rivals has been replaced by an intellectually empty, sneering, faux moral superiority.

That was the best line, but I'd imagine that the one about "Not everyone are angels" had us sharing a wince. Edited by Monkey Tennis
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There are some interesting parallels though, chap.  We played some absolutely beautiful football and were, arguably, the best team in Europe when wee Dick was managing the team and Bain was writing someone else's cheques.  Watching us systematically destroy Parma in a hopping Ibrox is a highlight of my supporting life.

 

But it wasn't sustainable - and I doubt the appointment of Bain will help Sunderland's sustainability.  You need a dour bean-counter.

That's what I reckon. I'm a bit of a geek about football administrators (!) and would have liked Rob Elston (Everton) or Gareth Rogers (Southampton) - both bean counters but know what's what in a club. Not sure of Ellis Short's tolerance of being disagreed with. I don't doubt for a minute his heart is in the right place and he's desperate for the club to do well but you can't make a business successful without allowing the people around you to give you advice and hear it. What I've learnt about Bain is that he stood up to Murray about the takeover to Whyte, but before that???

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What I've learnt about Bain is that he stood up to Murray about the takeover to Whyte, but before that???

Not really - he does what's right for him.

 

Don't mind The Pixies btw.  They are harmless but 'devilishly tricky little blighters' as JK Rowling said.

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The BRALT.  The sanest thread on P&B right now.  Whoever would have thunk it?

 

The 'upstairs forum' is going tonto about pitch invasions and collateral damage.  Norman is in high dudgeon about nothing as per.  Meanwhile, all is calm and amiable 'down here'.

 

Who fancies a game of draughts or cribbage?

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The BRALT. The sanest thread on P&B right now. Whoever would have thunk it?

The 'upstairs forum' is going tonto about pitch invasions and collateral damage. Norman is in high dudgeon about nothing as per. Meanwhile, all is calm and amiable 'down here'.

Who fancies a game of draughts or cribbage?

It's only the sanest because you and I are in it. The moment we leave it'll descend into the seventh circle of hell again.

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