[Misc] Would you pay £40 a year for ad-free sports writing from the likes of Andy Naylor?

Bozza · Jun 28, 2019

Seems very likely that Andy Naylor will be part of The Athletic's forthcoming UK launch.

Would you pay £40 per year for ad-free Premier League coverage from a group of top writers?

https://www.northstandchat.com/showthread.php?373820-Andy-Naylor-is-leaving

jonny.rainbow · Jun 28, 2019

Using the term ‘Top writer’ and Andy Naylor in the same breath is the epitome of incongruity.

Bozza · Jun 28, 2019

jonny.rainbow said:
Using the term ‘Top writer’ and Andy Naylor in the same breath is the epitome of incongruity.

"An American Sports Website Is On A Hiring Spree For Some Of Britain's Top Football Writers"

https://www.buzzfeed.com/markdistefano/athletic-football-writers

AmexRuislip · Jun 28, 2019

Isn't that what the Argus on line is, free with adbloc

Change at Barnham · Jun 28, 2019

77p a week? Providing there was plenty of quality content that was related to Brighton I would consider it.
If there was an introductory offer to sample it I'm fairly sure I'd sign up.

Bozza · Jun 28, 2019

AmexRuislip said:
Isn't that what the Argus on line is, with adblock??.

As I posted on the other thread, The Athletic aren't interested in churning out multiple say-nothing articles a day, as Andy Naylor has had to do to please whoever owns The Argus these days. The Argus wants high volume to attract clicks to pages saturated in ads.

The brief of a writer at The Athletic will be to produce long-form deeper pieces. Quality, not quantity.

GT49er · Jun 28, 2019

No.

Let's hope AZGull doesn't try his luck at going commercial....................

Moshe Gariani · Jun 28, 2019

Quite illogically I wouldn't dream of paying £40 a year...

But I would spend far more than that annually on print newspapers.

Blue Valkyrie · Jun 28, 2019

Yes, for sure I'd give it a go.

If the albion then went down - and albion content disappeared - then I'd bin off the subscription

AmexRuislip · Jun 28, 2019

Bozza said:
As I posted on the other thread, The Athletic aren't interested in churning out multiple say-nothing articles a day, as Andy Naylor has had to do to please whoever owns The Argus these days. The Argus wants high volume to attract clicks to pages saturated in ads.

The brief of a writer at The Athletic will be to produce long-form deeper pieces. Quality, not quantity.

Apologies Bozza, have just read that post.
Perhaps the sports reporting over here needs some much needed competition.
The Football Whispers site, you've introduced on here is an example of half decent footy reporting.
IMO of course.

Doc Lynam · Jun 28, 2019

Why would I pay £40 a year when we have some of the best investigative writing and thought provoking piece for free on NSC!

Change at Barnham · Jun 28, 2019

Bozza said:
"An American Sports Website Is On A Hiring Spree For Some Of Britain's Top Football Writers"

https://www.buzzfeed.com/markdistefano/athletic-football-writers

Having read the BuzzFeed article it sounds as if it could be a very interesting project. Particularly if it can get some journos like Jonathan Liew and Oliver Kay to move across. I will follow it's progress with interest.

Blue3 · Jun 28, 2019

I suspect we are beyond the need of sports journalists as information appears to be gathered by many and formed into a collective whole the days of access to a select few are long gone

Ⓩ-Ⓐ-Ⓜ-Ⓞ-Ⓡ-Ⓐ · Jun 28, 2019

I would pay £40 for Timmy though. He's a great writer.

The Andy Naylor Fan Club · Jun 28, 2019

Ⓩ-Ⓐ-Ⓜ-Ⓞ-Ⓡ-Ⓐ;8970249 said:
I would pay £40 for Timmy though. He's a great writer.

Go to bed. You're drunk... :lolol:

vegster · Jun 28, 2019

Hard to know, probably not.

Falmerfourtickets · Jun 28, 2019

Ⓩ-Ⓐ-Ⓜ-Ⓞ-Ⓡ-Ⓐ;8970249 said:
I would pay £40 for Timmy though. He's a great writer.

14 posts in. It be he’d wager post 7 or 8.

Well, if he hadn’t done his dough at Cartmel - or so I read Twitter

The Andy Naylor Fan Club · Jun 28, 2019

Ⓩ-Ⓐ-Ⓜ-Ⓞ-Ⓡ-Ⓐ;8970249 said:
I would pay £40 for Timmy though. He's a great writer.

The Andy Naylor Fan Club said:
Go to bed. You're drunk...

Falmerfourtickets said:
14 posts in. It be he’d wager post 7 or 8.

Well, if he hadn’t done his dough at Cartmel - or so I read Twitter

See what you've done? :tantrum:

Bry Nylon · Jun 28, 2019

Doc Lynam said:
Why would I pay £40 a year when we have some of the best investigative writing and thought provoking pieces for free on NSC!

Aww, you guys!

studio150 · Jun 28, 2019

Change at Barnham said:
Having read the BuzzFeed article it sounds as if it could be a very interesting project. Particularly if it can get some journos like Jonathan Liew and Oliver Kay to move across. I will follow it's progress with interest.

Not the same Jonathan Liew who when he was at the Telegraph wrote an article about Southampton winning League One when we were the runaway winners

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