Post by OohMac on Jun 8, 2016 21:00:05 GMT
After a pretty embarrassing week on the back pages of The BN "Appointment Today" and then no closer I was wondering what we make of the staff at Bolton News.
A lot of fans have aimed their frustrations at the club because we didn't announce an appointment. But there was never a conference scheduled, there was no tip off. All they had was a throwaway quote from the son of Ken Anderson a novice who himself has come across as a flip flop man at the best of times. Should they really have ran with that? Definitely not for me.
In recent weeks they seem to have been hours if not days behind other media outlets. They are supposed to be dedicated to the one club, they wrote a piece on Chris Powell as a contender 2 days after he accepted the Derby Assistant job (later used the asterisk and said their story preceded it. It didn't)
This season they introduced the fan view - which I like in theory. Think they could chose a selection of fans who offer a different vantage point to keep it a bit fresh. Only so much you can hear about the "Nice pint and pie of the day" before you get bored.
Think the problem I have with the staff is that they appear to me to be waiting around in an office, dunking bourbons and throwing shrivelled up paper balls in a novelty basketball hoop. They don't seem to be searching for a story. I have the image of them being like me and my friends in be early days wanting takeaway food but none of us being bothered to pick up the phone.
Marc Iles is always open to respond on Twitter to his credit but when it comes to tackling big issues he's a shrieking violet - very rarely has anything negative to say, player ratings start at 7 and only decrease of the player has a nightmare. He had the chance to ask Gartside some questions and completely bottled it. Someone pointed out that he isn't a Bolton fan at all and since then it makes more sense. Iles either just doesn't care enough or doesn't know what it really means to do the job.
The media shouldn't be scared of the club. The club should be scared of the media. It's a powerful tool.
I don't want a dour, cynical report on everything but for me the paper shows such a lack of ambition at the moment. How many times have any of them banged on Ken Andersons door this week(not literally). I mean for God sake how many times will they use the same image of him in his salmon tie. That pretty much sums the whole thing up. Why should they get anything new when they can use what they have?
If we are to change just the smallest thing; DavidM to do match reports with better wifi router.
A lot of fans have aimed their frustrations at the club because we didn't announce an appointment. But there was never a conference scheduled, there was no tip off. All they had was a throwaway quote from the son of Ken Anderson a novice who himself has come across as a flip flop man at the best of times. Should they really have ran with that? Definitely not for me.
In recent weeks they seem to have been hours if not days behind other media outlets. They are supposed to be dedicated to the one club, they wrote a piece on Chris Powell as a contender 2 days after he accepted the Derby Assistant job (later used the asterisk and said their story preceded it. It didn't)
This season they introduced the fan view - which I like in theory. Think they could chose a selection of fans who offer a different vantage point to keep it a bit fresh. Only so much you can hear about the "Nice pint and pie of the day" before you get bored.
Think the problem I have with the staff is that they appear to me to be waiting around in an office, dunking bourbons and throwing shrivelled up paper balls in a novelty basketball hoop. They don't seem to be searching for a story. I have the image of them being like me and my friends in be early days wanting takeaway food but none of us being bothered to pick up the phone.
Marc Iles is always open to respond on Twitter to his credit but when it comes to tackling big issues he's a shrieking violet - very rarely has anything negative to say, player ratings start at 7 and only decrease of the player has a nightmare. He had the chance to ask Gartside some questions and completely bottled it. Someone pointed out that he isn't a Bolton fan at all and since then it makes more sense. Iles either just doesn't care enough or doesn't know what it really means to do the job.
The media shouldn't be scared of the club. The club should be scared of the media. It's a powerful tool.
I don't want a dour, cynical report on everything but for me the paper shows such a lack of ambition at the moment. How many times have any of them banged on Ken Andersons door this week(not literally). I mean for God sake how many times will they use the same image of him in his salmon tie. That pretty much sums the whole thing up. Why should they get anything new when they can use what they have?
If we are to change just the smallest thing; DavidM to do match reports with better wifi router.