set of 6 : Thu Feb 02, 2012 3:29 pm  

hi folks, happy new year, sorry for intrusion. could i alert you to this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/20 ... per-league super league preview with brian carney and dave woods, relaunching the set of 6 blog we carried every week last season. as with all web stuff the more hits, and especially responses, the better, so any help much appreciated. good luck for season, and i shan't bother you again (if you talk to redvee, any chance someone could mention on there too??

hi folks, happy new year, sorry for intrusion. could i alert you to this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/20 ... per-league super league preview with brian carney and dave woods, relaunching the set of 6 blog we carried every week last season. as with all web stuff the more hits, and especially responses, the better, so any help much appreciated. good luck for season, and i shan't bother you again (if you talk to redvee, any chance someone could mention on there too??

Re: set of 6 : Thu Feb 02, 2012 9:35 pm  

I'm looking forward to these as they are always a great read and there is some sound discussion, which hopefully more people will join in with this season!

Re: set of 6 : Fri Feb 03, 2012 4:15 pm  

Please feel free to "bother us" throughout the season, Andy, you are always welcome. I enjoyed the blogs last season, a good read.

Re: set of 6 : Sat Feb 04, 2012 1:53 pm  

Dee wrote:

Please feel free to "bother us" throughout the season, Andy, you are always welcome. I enjoyed the blogs last season, a good read.

Ditto. Even if we don't agree with them all the time good RL writing is a premium product these days.

Re: set of 6 : Sun Feb 05, 2012 2:53 am  

Is there a good RL writer currently employed by a mainstream newspaper these days? I'm struggling to think of one. I mean even Dave Hadfield seems to have fallen back on hurling a fistful of moth-eaten cliches at the page and linking them together like a dot-to-dot pattern.

Carney's not too bad on the box (relatively speaking). But I don't recall reading anything of his recently which has stirred more than a glimmer of thought past the last full stop. Dave Woods couldn't cover nuclear Armageddon without making it sound like a Tupperware party. Andy Wilson? The last time I heard his writing was being investigated by the World Health Authority for producing Ebola-like symptoms.

Re: set of 6 : Sun Feb 05, 2012 12:43 pm  

Mugwump wrote:

Is there a good RL writer currently employed by a mainstream newspaper these days? I'm struggling to think of one. I mean even Dave Hadfield seems to have fallen back on hurling a fistful of moth-eaten cliches at the page and linking them together like a dot-to-dot pattern.

Carney's not too bad on the box (relatively speaking). But I don't recall reading anything of his recently which has stirred more than a glimmer of thought past the last full stop. Dave Woods couldn't cover nuclear Armageddon without making it sound like a Tupperware party. Andy Wilson? The last time I heard his writing was being investigated by the World Health Authority for producing Ebola-like symptoms.

That's probably the least intelligent and most immature response to an OP that I have seen in a very long time, and I've seen some utterly stupid and childish responses.

Grow up.

Re: set of 6 : Sun Feb 05, 2012 3:18 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

That's probably the least intelligent and most immature response to an OP that I have seen in a very long time, and I've seen some utterly stupid and childish responses.

Grow up.

I feel like Alice, through the rabbit hole and into some weird kind of upside down back-to-front universe. I mean, being accused of childishness by the winner of The Entertainers Most Childish & Immature Poster Award 2008, 2009 & 2010 is some feat.

I gave an honest appraisal of the standard of RL writing as I see it. I'm not here to flatter anyone's ego and I don't believe in mincing words. Dave Woods, Andy Wilson and company are all grown men. They won't melt like chocolate bunnies in the face of a choice arrangement of vowels and consonants.

I don't recall you springing heroically to the defence of Mr. Wilson on ANY one of the NUMEROUS occasions he's been accused in here of being biased in favour of Wigan. I wonder why?

Re: set of 6 : Sun Feb 05, 2012 3:54 pm  

Mugwump wrote:

I don't recall you springing heroically to the defence of Mr. Wilson on ANY one of the NUMEROUS occasions he's been accused in here of being biased in favour of Wigan. I wonder why?

And you think I'm more childish than you?

I haven't even noticed Andy Wilson being 'accused' of favouring Wigan. I don't care who he supports. He is a very good writer and a very keen RL supporter. He is also the one remaining dedicated RL correspondent in the broadsheet world. I don't read the Guardian but I do think it is a good thing for rugby league fans to support what we do have because otherwise it will all be gone. I also happen to believe he is a very good writer. (And I very often disagree with him; part of the fun of debate I find)

Re: set of 6 : Sun Feb 05, 2012 4:20 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

And you think I'm more childish than you?

This is getting tedious.

I haven't even noticed Andy Wilson being 'accused' of favouring Wigan. I don't care who he supports. He is a very good writer and a very keen RL supporter. He is also the one remaining dedicated RL correspondent in the broadsheet world. I don't read the Guardian but I do think it is a good thing for rugby league fans to support what we do have because otherwise it will all be gone. I also happen to believe he is a very good writer. (And I very often disagree with him; part of the fun of debate I find)

I was about to post something along the lines of us having very different measures for judging good journalism and writing in general but ...

SaintsFan wrote:

He is a very good writer

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SaintsFan wrote:

I don't read the Guardian