[Albion] The argus

[AmexRuislip]

Really poor brought a copy today and not even a match report in the paper for last nights game and £1.15 now .

The 90% of the £1.15 pays for paper rounds.

 

[Since1982]

Seems like a lifetime ago when I did two Evening Argus paper rounds after school and was always at the newsagent on a Saturday evening waiting for the sports edition complete with match reports. Good grief I'm old.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

The problem being that first of all they are no longer a local paper - I don't want to know about what's happened in Rye, Crawley or Bognor. They lost their localisation when they started to use national reporters to report stories. Reporters with no local knowledge. Hell, there was even a story published a couple of years ago about a woman that "saved" an old table by rubbing it down and painting it. She was based in ..... Bolton

Most of what they publish is mind numbing rubbish so there's no way I'm going to actually pay for it. Stories about their trips to restaurants ( with the reporter trying to be a new Grace Dent ), summaries of hygiene scores that any of us could look up on the council website, Rightmove screen scrapes etc etc etc. If they want people to pay then they need to publish proper news - not the dumbed down paste and copy stuff their American owners want them to do to save money. Vicious circle really, publish rubbish and people will stop paying, people stop paying so they cut more costs thus producing even worse rubbish.

One benefit if they go under would be Cllr Lyons no longer being able to spew his stupid comments nor would we have to suffer Steve 'hypocrite' Davis' regular column.

If you think that is bad, try the Liverpool Echo - exactly the same only more and worse (and different councillors).

 

[seagurl]

My grandad used to always buy the late edition of The Evening Argus on a Saturday. I'd go over the road to the newsagents to buy it for him. Used to look at the clock as the latest always delivered about the same time every Saturday. He'd turn straight to the back page where if you turned to paper at 90° there would be printed last minute news that was too late for main paper. It would also have the Albion football scores which of course was what he was really interested in.

 

[amexer]

What is Brighton and Hove news like.

 

[Eeyore]

My grandad used to always buy the late edition of The Evening Argus on a Saturday. I'd go over the road to the newsagents to buy it for him. Used to look at the clock as the latest always delivered about the same time every Saturday. He'd turn straight to the back page where if you turned to paper at 90° there would be printed last minute news that was too late for main paper. It would also have the Albion football scores which of course was what he was really interested in.

Oh yes, I remember that now. I used to wait for it on Saturday night because I would copy out the football scores into an exercise book. My first memory was writing Brighton 1 Halifax 0. I looked back and it was early 1976, so I would have been 6 at the time.

I wonder if any NSCers remember the match itself. I suspect it's not overly memorable.

 

[Weststander]

If you think that is bad, try the Liverpool Echo - exactly the same only more and worse (and different councillors).

Awful football pages … clickbait sh1t stirring, no factual stuff, swamped with pop ups. I’ve heard the same said about the Manchester Evening News.

 

[Weststander]

Oh yes, I remember that now. I used to wait for it on Saturday night because I would copy out the football scores into an exercise book. My first memory was writing Brighton 1 Halifax 0. I looked back and it was early 1976, so I would have been 6 at the time.

I wonder if any NSCers remember the match itself. I suspect it's not overly memorable.

I’ve a family photo of Vinnicombe’s report & match pics on my childhood bedroom wall. It was the day after Albion 2-0 CP. My second ever game, Feb 76, gate of over 33,000.

 

[Eeyore]

I’ve a family photo of Vinnicombe’s report & match pics on my childhood bedroom wall. It was the day after Albion 2-0 CP. My second ever game, Feb 76, gate of over 33,000.

Yes, the Halifax match was played just before that to a crowd of 20,000 less. The Palace match looks like it was an evening affair too. Halifax were bottom and the weather that day (you knew I would look it up...) was mostly dry but rather cold. So no indication, apart from Palace being in the promotion race, as to why the crowd was so different. But our crowds were very fair weather back then. Maybe folk chose one or the other.

 

[southstandandy]

I used to like to Sports Argus on a Saturday tea-time when most matches were played on a Saturday. You could pick it up about 6.30pm around town and it was great to take into the pub in the evening to analyse results, tables, and get photos and a brief match report from the afternoon's game etc, before the advent of mobile phones.

Sadly now all news, local or otherwise is available at the click of a button - part of the reason the physical paper is dying out.

 

[Albion my Albion]

Sadly now all news, local or otherwise is available at the click of a button - part of the reason the physical paper is dying out.

This is the major reason local newspapers are dying all over the world.

 

[Sirnormangall]

Really poor brought a copy today and not even a match report in the paper for last nights game and £1.15 now .

I also bought it today ( first time in years) and automatically assumed there would be a match report

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

I used to like to Sports Argus on a Saturday tea-time when most matches were played on a Saturday. You could pick it up about 6.30pm around town and it was great to take into the pub in the evening to analyse results, tables, and get photos and a brief match report from the afternoon's game etc, before the advent of mobile phones.

Sadly now all news, local or otherwise is available at the click of a button - part of the reason the physical paper is dying out.

I remember heading off with my Dad to wait outside the Argus office by Worthing station for the Sports Argus with the match report. Was always a full report of the first hour and a brief summary of the last half hour.

 

[Brovion]

I had paid for that Guess u guys know best!

Er, yes, they do. You might have paid for it, but everyone else who saw it would have seen it for nothing - without even visiting the site. Bozza has mentioned this many times in the past.

EDIT: Sorry, on re-reading that sounds a bit preachy and holier-than-thou. Apologies. People usually say 'Sorry' when their wrists have been slapped for copy 'n' pasting articles, and I just thought your response was a bit odd.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

What is Brighton and Hove news like.

From a news perspective it's not too bad - better, and quicker, than the Argus. The Albion bits are written by a complete bellend who can barely write English though.

 

[Bozza]

I had paid for that Guess u guys know best!

Yes - you have paid for you to view it, but not to make it freely available for thousands of others to view.

I receive legal approaches from deep-pocketed media organisations about copyright theft, and any one of them has the potential to financially ruin NSC.

Whether content sits behind a paywall or not, the media organisation producing it should receive the clicks to their own website to monetise in any way they see fit.

Sorry - I know this comes across as being a bit teacher-y, but this sort of thing is probably the biggest ongoing threat to NSC's existence.

 

[Bozza]

Here’s a link to an online version of the article you posted:

Former Albion stars and comedians to play in charity football match

Former Brighton and Hove Albion captain Guy Butters and comedian Joe Wilkinson will take part in a charity football match.

www.theargus.co.uk

 

[Gwylan]

Yes, the Halifax match was played just before that to a crowd of 20,000 less. The Palace match looks like it was an evening affair too. Halifax were bottom and the weather that day (you knew I would look it up...) was mostly dry but rather cold. So no indication, apart from Palace being in the promotion race, as to why the crowd was so different. But our crowds were very fair weather back then. Maybe folk chose one or the other.

I remember that Palace match. It was played in a bit of a fog, so much so that there was a brief thought that it could have been abandoned. It was packed. so crowded that I couldn't stand at my normal spot on the chicken run and had to move closer to the south stand.

IIRC Sammy Morgan scored both our goals. I have no recollection of the Halifax game at all, although I'm sure I'd have gone to it