You have written a match for a game we weren't at based on Radio commentary!?

You might as well have posted a link to the BBC text commentary.

A match report from someone not at the game isn't worth reading.

You will have an excellent career in journalism as you have already mastered the basics. Why would you go when you can just ask others.

It wasnt you who told the press that Walton scored an own goal was it??

A match report from someone not at the game isn't worth reading.

Good luck with your match reports. Stop being grumpy the rest of you at least the lad based them on BBC Tees and not Pools World.

Perhaps sticking to the ones where you are at the game would be better practice though, that way the resident panel of experts can tell you if you are right.

You've not annoyed anyone at all mate don't be daft, but I'd stick to games you're at for match reports for your blog. Not an ounce of anger just feedback.

Good! Just wanted to make sure!

I think I will just stick to home matches from now on. It's good advice to be fair

Cheers PJ

Do what you want to do, people don't have to read them if they aren't interested. I was neither there nor listening on radio so found it interesting.


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The only comments about tonight's game have been from Mr Fetish who was there, the only debate on here I see is about team selection in the last week. Not any specifics about the game. Most of us have seen two of the three games to be fair.

It's YOUR blog, do what you want! As you said it's practice for journalism which 60% of the time is picking up someone else's story and rehashing it.

completely agree with Yloop. More than half the time you'll be taking others work and juggling it around to make it your own, besides, it's your blog and you can write what you like!!

Haha much appreciated

I just thought that I may have annoyed a few people and that's what I want to avoid! I have to admit that I enjoy writing the home game reports more than I do for away games. I need ways to make the blog more interesting though.

Any advice?

I think this thing about Spender's 'not being there' isn't a proper description of what's going on. If anyone's interested I could give a breakdown of the conversations in which the 'not being there' thing arises.

The conversations mainly consist of comments made by Spender, apparently about football or the Club, but in fact laden with inferences about the views of the other people he's talking to. Naturally the others pick up on these undercurrents and become annoyed, often replying with a knee-jerk reaction (eg 'You weren't there, what do you know?)

Spender is then in a position to attract sympathy from his friends ("no-one will let me say what I think because I wasn't there) and to be able to cast the 'opponents' as objectionable morons.

It's a trick that works over and over again and masks the fact that Spender could if he wanted join in a reasonable discussion by listening to another person's comment and replying to it (even if it's Tree or Grave!) That is, reply to it without insulting the person who said it.

Some of the mods share his approach.

No, nothing of nothing, I regret nothing
Neither the good I have done, nor the bad
All that is the same (translated idiomatically)
No, nothing of nothing, I regret nothing
It's paid, swept away, forgotten; I am insane with what has happened

With my mementos I lit the fire
My shames, my pleasures
I no longer need any of the these
Swept away lovers with their own tremblings
Swept away forever
I return to zero/nothing

No, nothing of nothing, I regret nothing
Neither the good I have done nor the bad
No, nothing of nothing, I regret nothing
Because my life, because my joy
Today begin with you

No, I regret nothing

I'm assuming that is a reply to Monkeybutt.

Is she a looker like?

Laden with inferences about people's views? How does that work?

Nobody commented on individual performances after the game last night. The suggestion that they did is factually incorrect.

There was debate over the last week about whether the squad should be rotated, something the manager discussed with the local media, and for those who dont live here it was repeated on the BBC here :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24912562

Some of us who go to the Reserve games and who have been to the JP Trophy games commented on the form and merits of the fringe players. Having seen the likes of Holden, Richards, Rodney, Walker, etc I would say I'm qualified to do that. Ive also seen us play 3 times in a week this season so feel qualified to comment on that.

When I go into work and the Newcastle and Sunderland fans are commenting on their players I dont join in for the simple reason I havent seen any of them play on anything even remotely resembling a regualr basis. So I'm not in a position to have an opinion.

If people who have never seen some of our players want to comment on their merits, be that Spender or tripledecker or whoever , they are perfectly entitled to do so. Likewise people are entitled to state that their opinion counts for less than shite, as its based on the square root of fuck all.

I felt Cooper had scope to rotate his squad, and I stated several times this was an opinion based on what Ive seen in first team and reserve team games this season.

Poor use of semi colon as well by the way.

If people who have never seen some of our players want to comment on their merits, be that Spender or tripledecker or whoever , they are perfectly entitled to do so.

I've attempted to based on radio commentary, messages from mates at the match and whatever else I can use. I was just going to do all the home games as I'm at them all but I'm just practising my own writing style really.

Do you think it's a bad idea or is it worth a try? I just thought it might be helpful to those who didn't have a clue what happened. I won't be offended

were you on the train next to us after the match going to Cardiff?