Birmingham Mail and Villa coverage

[Risso]

Sometimes you can only stare open-mouthed in amazement.

Honestly Dave, how has he got the job?

[LeeB]

Sometimes you can only stare open-mouthed in amazement.

Honestly Dave, how has he got the job?

Unpaid internship would be my guess.

[Dr Butler]

That London team they refer to though couldn't beat this backward  Midlands team last year... another shocking article from the Mail again.

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[aj2k77]

Well the editor we know is terrible, there have been articles ranging from abusive to inaccurate the last 12 months. Don't read the paper, don't click on the website. Let is die the slow death it deserves.

[Proposition Joe]

Villa will be out to show their much-fancied opponents tomorrow that they, too, are on the up.

But the only way they can do that is by recording similar, if not better, results than Palace have achieved in recent years.

Really? How'd he figure that out?

[chrisw1]

It is a very poor article.

But the general point that Palace are ahead of us right now is fair enough, as is praising the signing of Cabaye.  But the over enthusiastic boffing of pants over them, unnecessary knocking of us and generally poor penmanship is ridiculous.

How hard would it have been to write an article rightly praising Palaces achievements but also discussing the genuine excitement about some of our new signings and the new start under Sherwood making this a game to really look forward for all concerned?

[pauliewalnuts]

How hard would it be, every now and then, for them to write an article which suggests they actually want Villa to do well, rather than sounding like it is written by someone who revels in the club struggling?

[chrisw1]

serious question, does anyone on here ever have a dialogue with them about this perception of how they treat Villa?  Surely they would be embarrassed if they saw this thread?

[dave.woodhall]

serious question, does anyone on here ever have a dialogue with them about this perception of how they treat Villa?  Surely they would be embarrassed if they saw this thread?

Several of us have tried but I get the feeling that they either have their heads in the sand or, more likely, they look at this thread and see clicks..

[pauliewalnuts]

serious question, does anyone on here ever have a dialogue with them about this perception of how they treat Villa?  Surely they would be embarrassed if they saw this thread?

Me, Mac and Damon had an interaction with Steve Wollaston about it a while back on twitter. There was another with Mat Kendrick a few weeks back.

To be fair to him, he offered to give me a call in the week if i wanted to talk about it, an offer which I didn't take up, which he didn't need to do.

I do think that the standard of the Villa coverage improved significantly when they dropped Bill Howell and Mat K got the gig, only to absolutely plummet when Gregg Evans took over.

It isn't the job of the local media to automatically support everything the club do, or to act as some form of semi official cheerleaders, but you'd think that the largest local newspaper in the area would at least show once in a while that they want the club to do well.

Instead, they seem too busy churning out shit designed to appeal more to those who don't want us to do well.

Why on earth is Mat Kendrick reduced to tweeting intelligence-insulting "spot yourself in the crowd" style drivel while the Villa gig goes - yet again - to someone who quite clearly has a downer on us?

[OzVilla]

They editorial team and management should absolutley read this thread. They need a serious wake up call if they could be bothered that is.

[chrisw1]

serious question, does anyone on here ever have a dialogue with them about this perception of how they treat Villa?  Surely they would be embarrassed if they saw this thread?

Several of us have tried but I get the feeling that they either have their heads in the sand or, more likely, they look at this thread and see clicks..

Well I honestly think you should try again and use this article as an example.  I'm sure you could write a far better version to show them how it could and should be done.

[pauliewalnuts]

Also, just to add, "Gregg" with a double 'g' is entirely unacceptable, too.

[pauliewalnuts]

They editorial team and management should absolutley read this thread. They need a serious wake up call if they could be bothered that is.

Everything is based around click throughs to the web site these days.

They seem to "compete" on a crude numbers basis rather than on quality. Look at the immense amount of advertising on that site, for starters. The content is so piss poor, it is probably just as well the adverts make it almost impossible to find.

[Villa Lew]

Agree with this Mail article. How can the police cope with us, Blues, Albion. Wolves and Walsall all playing at home on the same night, yet have to move the United game to Friday night due to a couple of hundred EDL members marching.
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/police-confident-handling-big-match-9893639