Birmingham Mail and Villa coverage

[peter w]

Isn't the Mail's circulation only 23,000 ? If so there are three time as many views of this topic than their paper gets, maybe Dave should start a hostile takeover of his smaller sister rag ?   

Is that all? Obviously too many to be aiming for The Shit as their target audience though.

[Steve R]

I am serious when I say that the Mail has fast become (in terms of sport at least) nothing more than a students' blog and that from a position of fairly serious football journalism - back in the days of Matts, Hickman and Ian Willars.  The guy they get to cover the Villa looks like Adrian fcukin Mole and acts with similar maturity, whilst their only serious reporter, Mat Kendrick is confined to sitting in his car in a desolate outpost recording himself crying at our demise and stating the obvious, or, even worse doing the 'face in the crowd' crap every weekend.

From what little I have seen, that is easily the best feature on the site. Quite seriously, these are the images that have been used for the Face In The Crowd features from the link on the previous page.

[Nev]

I used to follow Kendrick on Twitter but the amount of shit he retweets has proved too much.

From a lifelong family link, a paper delivered every day and read cover to cover by my late Mom, my sister joining the Chipper Club and countless Villa articles cut out and kept by myself, it now ceases to register in any way.

I think it's a great shame.

[Tony Erdington]

He weeps

I didn't know there circulation was only 23k, well that makes sense why they are trying to provoke 10's of thousands of Villa fans into a reaction. Get the clicks on there abject dross. Yes they have a lot in common with the Obsessed.

Love it.

[KevinGage]

http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/uk-regional-daily-print-sales-down-102-cent-birmingham-mail-loses-quarter-sales-year-year

So naturally the response to declining newspaper sales is to make the paper even worse, hence uninspiring urchins such as Smegg Evans filling space with bantz.

Seems like the paper is sadly going through a managed decline.  Much like we are, in fact.

[ciggiesnbeer]

Call me crazy but actually trying to support your local clubs , particularly the biggest which has a gate larger than your entire circulation, might be a way to attract readers.

Pissing them off and aggressively disliking them seems pretty stupid.

Villa could have been a potential way of growing again. Instead they have chosen more decline.

[Musicmaan]

Isn't the Mail's circulation only 23,000 ? If so there are three time as many views of this topic than their paper gets, maybe Dave should start a hostile takeover of his smaller sister rag ?   

As low as that, really?! Good grief, what's the point?

[The Man With A Stick]

I'm surprised it's that high.  23,000?  What gave they been doing, giving it away outside the Whorethorns?

[tomd2103]

I'm surprised it's that high.  23,000?  What gave they been doing, giving it away outside the Whorethorns?

They were giving it away on a Friday in town a few years ago.

[Abbeyfealeavfc]

New Day of Trinity Mirror closing down after 9 weeks may be a sign of where the Birmingham Mail (also of trinity mirror) is heading. A regional paper betraying their regional audience can only have one outcome.

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

I find it strange that other regional papers have been cited here as models of excellence - all the Scousers I've spoken to think the Echo is a rag and except for it's stance on Hillsborough would've gone down the pan a long time ago.
I do think that some of this indifference is based on the fact that its printed in M*nchestor though.
Also, as far as I can tell all online regional papers have gone down the 'You'll never guess what happened next' route.
Dismal.

[peter w]

You're right AHC. In saying that they do not look to antagonise clubs in their area. the whole point is that they are representing their readership and their readership's interests. I have no problem with face in the crowd because the local media should be about happy news stories and showing how great it is to live in that area. Cats up trees, trips down memory lane, 9 year-olds with a heart condition going to America to play the trombone, street lighting and so on and so on. yes, their are the odd 'news' story but turn to the sports pages and they support their local teams as their readership do.

I can understand when fans of our rivals complained about us getting more coverage but that is the result of being the biggest club in the region. And they're probably right. Its akin to Scots calling the BBC the EBC.

But what the Mail, and to a lesser extent WM do, is to dance on the grave and ridicule one of the clubs that the majority of their readership support. It is a truly bizarre editorial decision and it is purely a click bait business plan. But one that will end in failure because when they are desperate and want us, and when these shit for brains 'journalists' realise that their next editors will want to see more in the back catalogue than 6th form newspaper blogs, they will be truly buggered. They're doing it to themselves. What goes around comes around.

[langleylions]

I see the slaaaaag is taking the piss again in her column in the sun .god she still is pissed off about her song aint she. Every week she puts little pisstakes in that rag of a paper about us

[saunders_heroes]

I see the slaaaaag is taking the piss again in her column in the sun .god she still is pissed off about her song aint she. Every week she puts little pisstakes in that rag of a paper about us

She writes for the Sun which just about sums up the type of person she is.

[aj2k77]

I see the slaaaaag is taking the piss again in her column in the sun .god she still is pissed off about her song aint she. Every week she puts little pisstakes in that rag of a paper about us

She writes for the Sun which just about sums up the type of person she is.

She's a total sad fuck. She's spent the majority of her career in the shadow of us and she'll never fully get over it.