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Post by Colyton Gas on Jan 27, 2021 16:33:26 GMT
Their website list all the areas including LEDBURY? ? Have asked their advice on which edition I need to buy to read about the Rovers.Don't think it reaches the Potteries though!!!!!! I attach their reply. Thank you for your message. Unfortunately the newspaper had an unusually early print deadline last night (there has been a small Covid outbreak at the printworks we use which has put deadlines under pressure). I hope that this is a temporary situation with early deadlines and we'll soon be able to carry midweek sport match reports. There is full reaction from Paul Tisdale in tomorrow's newspaper, including a report on the game. Not being able to carry the report is as frustrating to us as it is too fans such as yourself - particularly when Rovers picked up a good point away from home! Thank you for your support of the Western Daily Press. Best wishes
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Post by Topper Gas on Jan 27, 2021 18:48:38 GMT
Western daily press and the evil post just as bad as one another Both Crap journalism ,misleading headlines and both consider the unwashed from BS3 to be the only football team in Bristol But they are both better they nothing which is the way they are heading with the rise of the internet. In a few years time i doubt they'll be any local football newspapers/websites and so all we will be able to read is about Premiership sides in the national press.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2021 18:53:39 GMT
I thought the WDP was purchased to find out the cost of livestock not the result of a football match.
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Post by Antonio Fargas on Jan 27, 2021 22:19:46 GMT
Western daily press and the evil post just as bad as one another Both Crap journalism ,misleading headlines and both consider the unwashed from BS3 to be the only football team in Bristol But they are both better they nothing which is the way they are heading with the rise of the internet. In a few years time i doubt they'll be any local football newspapers/websites and so all we will be able to read is about Premiership sides in the national press. Except we don't get nothing with the rise of the internet, we get the ability for anybody to turn in a match report and have it read on the other side of the planet within five minutes of the full time whistle. We get the ability to analyse shedloads of statistics of any conceivable sort. We get clubs tweeting about anything they can think of, and making videos every time someone signs, or before and after every match. We get the ability to discuss upcoming games with each other and fans of opposing teams ahead of match days. We get any number of match reports and analyses (as many as we as fans can come up with between us). I know it sounds like a bit of a joke, relying on forums and joe random (or SteveK) on the internet, but if you consider what we used to get back in the day (even though back then the Evening Post, etc, was in-depth and decent quality) then it doesn't even come close to what is available for us today.
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Post by geoffeastville on Jan 27, 2021 23:23:06 GMT
The papers I never buy - but are way less anoying than any Newspaper Website - I defy anyone to stay on a Bristol Live page for more than 30 seconds - bombarded with a heap of unwanted rubbish. The Nationals are no better. Their days in print are numbered and their online environment takes the attitude 'if you are getting it for free we are going to make it real annoying for you' - ! Which is why I come here for Rover news. Forums have always been the best source of both news and genuine ctitique and information online. No one on them has any commercial interests - and opinons are 'genuine' at least ?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2021 13:22:52 GMT
Sam Frost has just said the WDP deadline is 2030, hence why no match report in the following mornings paper. BP deadline is 2230.
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Post by Dr Gas on Jan 28, 2021 16:24:34 GMT
Sam Frost has just said the WDP deadline is 2030, hence why no match report in the following mornings paper. BP deadline is 2230. So much for today's technology, eh? When I had my morning paper round, back in the 1960's, they would be brought to me around 6am. If Rovers had played the night before, I used to read the reports in the various papers, national and local, before delivering them. In those days, the usual evening kick off time was 7.30pm, with only a 10 minute half-time. The only time the reports might be lacking something is if it was a cup game that had gone to extra time, as that would mean missing the deadline for printing. Even so. they did sometimes get the extra time report in on the odd occasion. In those day, the papers came by train from London, so for a "local" paper not to be able to even report on an evening game, especially as the kick off time is earlier than back then, is pitiful. I believe that the local rags are now printed in Watford! This is due to the Reach Group having 4 printings sites (Watford, Oldham, Teeside, Cardonald), so not actually very local. Even so, transport is FAR quicker nowadays, and with reporters able to submit their reports and for them to be printed digitally there does not appear to be any reason that their deadlines need to be so early.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2021 16:45:29 GMT
Sam Frost has just said the WDP deadline is 2030, hence why no match report in the following mornings paper. BP deadline is 2230. So much for today's technology, eh? When I had my morning paper round, back in the 1960's, they would be brought to me around 6am. If Rovers had played the night before, I used to read the reports in the various papers, national and local, before delivering them. In those days, the usual evening kick off time was 7.30pm, with only a 10 minute half-time. The only time the reports might be lacking something is if it was a cup game that had gone to extra time, as that would mean missing the deadline for printing. Even so. they did sometimes get the extra time report in on the odd occasion. In those day, the papers came by train from London, so for a "local" paper not to be able to even report on an evening game, especially as the kick off time is earlier than back then, is pitiful. I believe that the local rags are now printed in Watford! This is due to the Reach Group having 4 printings sites (Watford, Oldham, Teeside, Cardonald), so not actually very local. Even so, transport is FAR quicker nowadays, and with reporters able to submit their reports and for them to be printed digitally there does not appear to be any reason that their deadlines need to be so early. Back in the day you could get a Green un from your local paper shop within the hour of the game finishing on a Saturday, irrespective of that being home or away. Obviously most of the paper was pre printed, but the match reports were very detailed and the scores of even local matches played that day were published.
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Post by LJG on Jan 28, 2021 16:55:18 GMT
Sam Frost has just said the WDP deadline is 2030, hence why no match report in the following mornings paper. BP deadline is 2230. So they've got a full nine years to get something in. No excuse.
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Post by Gasshole on Jan 28, 2021 19:21:38 GMT
Just yesterday I saw a bloke sitting on a bench reading a newspaper, he looked completely normal. I tried not to stare, but my kids were pointing and laughing. By the time I had grabbed my cine camera from the car he had vanished. I told a few friends at work, but you could tell that they didn’t really believe me.
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Post by Antonio Fargas on Jan 28, 2021 20:16:56 GMT
Just yesterday I saw a bloke sitting on a bench reading a newspaper, he looked completely normal. I tried not to stare, but my kids were pointing and laughing. By the time I had grabbed my cine camera from the car he had vanished. I told a few friends at work, but you could tell that they didn’t really believe me. Bloke came round my house, going door to door, last week saying he was trying to restart paper rounds and would I like to order a paper. I told my wife and she just burst into tears. /true story
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Post by Colyton Gas on Jan 28, 2021 20:51:07 GMT
Green 'Un and Pink 'un on the streets Sats before six with full match reports.Best page was the Rovers 'Club News'which we all savoured. I had to leave Eastville matches early to get to Totterdown to deliver my paper round.
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Post by syg on Jan 28, 2021 22:37:09 GMT
The WDP employees no journalists as such, they simply pick things from other mediums and print it.
100% a waste of space.
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Post by aghast on Jan 28, 2021 23:08:09 GMT
Green 'Un and Pink 'un on the streets Sats before six with full match reports.Best page was the Rovers 'Club News'which we all savoured. I had to leave Eastville matches early to get to Totterdown to deliver my paper round. It was a great effort and seemed amazing at the time and still does now, but it couldn't compete with today's technology. Want a match report? Walk up the road at 6pm to buy a paper. Want to watch a film of your choice? Get in the car and rent one from a vast selection at Blockbuster. Then drive back to return it. Want a pizza? Go and eat one at your local Italian. BBC football, Netflix and Just Eat have seen all these off. Is it progress? It's quicker, but I'm not sure the instant fix is actually as satisfying.
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Post by Gasshole on Jan 29, 2021 5:12:29 GMT
Just yesterday I saw a bloke sitting on a bench reading a newspaper, he looked completely normal. I tried not to stare, but my kids were pointing and laughing. By the time I had grabbed my cine camera from the car he had vanished. I told a few friends at work, but you could tell that they didn’t really believe me. Bloke came round my house, going door to door, last week saying he was trying to restart paper rounds and would I like to order a paper. I told my wife and she just burst into tears. /true story She may be pregnant, any bite marks in the soap ?
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