[Misc] The Athletic

Paulie Gualtieri

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• Dec 11, 2023

• #21

First year it came out I declined the annual £70’ paid £35 for the content as was commuting to London daily.

At the end I wasn’t offered a deal but noticed new sign ups were on offer at £1 month.

I have been on that for the last 2 or 3 years.

Personally I don’t see a price point above £2.99 per month for what you get

 

durrington gull

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Aug 29, 2004

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• Jan 12, 2024

• #22

Paulie Gualtieri said:

First year it came out I declined the annual £70’ paid £35 for the content as was commuting to London daily.

At the end I wasn’t offered a deal but noticed new sign ups were on offer at £1 month.

I have been on that for the last 2 or 3 years.

Personally I don’t see a price point above £2.99 per month for what you get

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My subscription running out next week so have cancelled before it goes up to £7.99 and awaiting a new offer/deal!

 

Paulie Gualtieri

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durrington gull said:

My subscription running out next week so have cancelled before it goes up to £7.99 and awaiting a new offer/deal!

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I didn’t get any decent deal offered so opened a subscription in my sons name at £1.50’a month

 

jackanada

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Jul 19, 2011

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• Jan 12, 2024

• #24

I did a test if the athletic but really there wasn't enough content I was interested in to justify any level of subscription.
There's still the odd Albion article I'd like a gander at though which I tend to click through to from on here.
Incidentally did you know that the big subscribe pop up that covers all but the first few lines of the article doesn't happen if you've disabled JavaScript for the site?

 

CheeseRolls

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• Jan 12, 2024

• #25

Fomo'ed into a £1 per month offer. Can't really complain at that level, but also expected to find more interesting stuff to read. They are running a series of ads on X at the moment, which are irritatingly banal including;

"Our experts guide you through what each club has done to their ground and what could come next" not the most compelling premier league read for me.

 

thedonkeycentrehalf

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Jul 7, 2003

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• Jan 12, 2024

• #26

Paulie Gualtieri said:

I didn’t get any decent deal offered so opened a subscription in my sons name at £1.50’a month

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When mine expired, the first offer I got wasn't great so I held back and I think it was only about three weeks before I got a much more generous offer (I think it was £1.50 a month).

As for content, once you get out of the Albion bubble there are some really interesting deep dive articles on there.

 

durrington gull

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• Jan 19, 2024

• #27

Just renewed at £2 a month

 

Stumpy Tim

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• Jan 19, 2024

• #28

I only read it for the Albion content, and to be honest I don't think it's even worth the £1 a month. I'll probably cancel for good when it's up in August

 

Nathan

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Jan 8, 2010

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• Nov 8, 2024

• #29

Have just cancelled my subscription before it goes to £7.99 a month. Will wait for the offer to come in, although the deals don't seem as good as they were at the start of the year.

 

Ali_rrr

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Feb 4, 2011

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Utrecht, NL

• Nov 8, 2024

• #30

Nathan said:

Have just cancelled my subscription before it goes to £7.99 a month. Will wait for the offer to come in, although the deals don't seem as good as they were at the start of the year.

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Black Friday is coming up and they normally do a deal then. Mine expired in September and there's no way I am paying full price for it so best just to wait. Some stories are still free.

 

Paulie Gualtieri

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• Nov 8, 2024

• #31

Nathan said:

Have just cancelled my subscription before it goes to £7.99 a month. Will wait for the offer to come in, although the deals don't seem as good as they were at the start of the year.

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Got my reminder in the diary next week so in a similar boat.
I’m paying £1 a month currently, I’d double it at best but suspect they can’t go that low anymore.

I paid £29.99 for the first year, fun how things go

 

Nathan

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Jan 8, 2010

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• Nov 8, 2024

• #32

Paulie Gualtieri said:

Got my reminder in the diary next week so in a similar boat.
I’m paying £1 a month currently, I’d double it at best but suspect they can’t go that low anymore.

I paid £29.99 for the first year, fun how things go

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Think I was on £1.50 a month, might struggle to get that again.

 

AZ Gull

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Oct 14, 2003

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• Nov 8, 2024

• #33

Nathan said:

Have just cancelled my subscription before it goes to £7.99 a month. Will wait for the offer to come in, although the deals don't seem as good as they were at the start of the year.

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I paid $24 for the year on Nov 7 last year (taking advantage of a reduced price).

Not wanting to pay the full cost of a subscription this time around, I cancelled the sub last week - and immediately was offered a rate of $19.92 for a further 12 months (which I accepted).

 

Paulie Gualtieri

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• Nov 8, 2024

• #34

Nathan said:

Think I was on £1.50 a month, might struggle to get that again.

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Checked in early and just accepted this