After last week's vision of what things could be like with a bit of variety, it's a back to normality with a thud in this weeks edition of The Reporter.
A back page Stalybridge Celtic story with a picture of John Reed - check; a Droylsden piece with a photo of Dave Pace pointing - check; David Eyres in a Preston North End away shirt - check; Droylsden team photo - check; and last but by no means least that photo of the Stalybridge squad, just in case you'd forgotten what they looked like in the two weeks since it was last printed.
Looking over these pages you suddenly start to realise just how small the papers archive of current sports photographs must be. All of the above images have been used on countless other occasions already this season (one more than most), which is why from this week forward Chip Wrappers is going to keep track of how often they're used. Of course this kind of thing would have been better starting at the beginning of the season but that's Mossley80 for you - an entity that's constantly evolving to remain on the cutting edge of... something or other.
If anybody wants to have a guess on which picture will finish second in the appearance table (the winner's a bit of a given going off the first two months of the season) in this Fantasy Photo League, get in touch via the usual methods. Don't forget that are a couple of other regular photos that will be added to the selection in the coming weeks (e.g. the Gary Lowe picture, the two alternates for Pace and Reed and that picture of Celtic's Paul Sykes in which he sports an alice band).
However the big talking point of the week comes courtesy of The Reporter's review of the Oldham Town-Ashton United MPC game. Instead of printing what was sent into them by the Robins own match reporter, the report has obviously been hijacked by somebody at the paper in order to stick the boot in on the Ashton manager. To get a better idea of what's gone I suggest reading some of the threads on the Ashton forum here and here.
Now I'm all for the paper growing a backbone and offering opinion but to do it in such a sneaky way is breathtakingly misguided. Put it this way, do you think that they'd criticize John Reed's tenure at Stalybridge and effect the rise in admission at Bower Fold has had on attendances? Or the Council's handling of some local affairs? No, of course they wouldn't which makes this attack seem all the more cowardly.
Still, now that Ashton have been touch with them, it's going to be fun seeing them squirm their way out of this one in next weeks edition. Till then...
2 Comments:
The Droylsden article in the Reporter even has them playing Kettering when in fact they're against Kidderminster.Good eh??
It makes you wonder if their quest for accuracy is any better in the rest of the paper doesn't it?
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