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View Mstrobez's Profile Mstrobez Flag 20 May 21 7.56am Send a Private Message to Mstrobez Add Mstrobez as a friend

Just signed up for a trial with them. They did a piece on Roy that really was excellent. But generally speaking, does anyone else have a subscription with them?

Reason I ask is that they seem to position themselves as journalists that are closest to the club. But Matt Woosnam, the guy who leads the Palace section said the following on March the 17th:

"The Supporters Trust had a meeting with the club recently and the suggestion appeared to be that there would not be significant funds available this summer."

Yet, in an article yesterday evening regarding Eze's injury:

"There had been significant funds set aside to invest in the upcoming window."

Bizarre.

 


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Edited by Mstrobez (20 May 2021 7.57am)

 


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View Badger11's Profile Badger11 Flag Beckenham 20 May 21 8.13am Send a Private Message to Badger11 Add Badger11 as a friend

They must be from the Daily Mail school of journalists I often see contradictory headlines side by side especially about COVID. You would think the editor would do something about that.

 


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View Mstrobez's Profile Mstrobez Flag 20 May 21 8.26am Send a Private Message to Mstrobez Add Mstrobez as a friend

Yeah they do come across as a bit "Guardian". Hiding behind a paywall whilst presenting themselves as close sources to the club when they may well just be in the same boat as anyone else.

 


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View CharlieCPFC's Profile CharlieCPFC Flag South London 20 May 21 9.48am Send a Private Message to CharlieCPFC Add CharlieCPFC as a friend

To be fair though why would the club reveal their hand to the supporters trust? Also need to factor in that things do change from time to time, I find the Palace section on the Athletic brilliant personally.

 

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View Crazy_Eagle's Profile Crazy_Eagle Flag South London 20 May 21 11.28am Send a Private Message to Crazy_Eagle Add Crazy_Eagle as a friend

I helped one with an article last year - wasn't that impressed with the outcome. I think they overhype themselves.

 


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View Frickin Saweet's Profile Frickin Saweet Flag South Cronx 20 May 21 11.45am Send a Private Message to Frickin Saweet Add Frickin Saweet as a friend

as someone said above, it's possible that both statements were assumed to be correct at the time. Hodgson's decline may not have been foreseen when the first article was written and therefore funds were found/budgets re-done to address our immediate financial needs which look different now to back then.

 

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View Cucking Funt's Profile Cucking Funt Flag Clapham on the Back 20 May 21 3.35pm Send a Private Message to Cucking Funt Add Cucking Funt as a friend

Fifield is generally reliable. Not sure about the rest.

 


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jeeagles Flag 20 May 21 3.51pm

Originally posted by Badger11

They must be from the Daily Mail school of journalists I often see contradictory headlines side by side especially about COVID. You would think the editor would do something about that.

One brother worked for the Guardian, the other for the Telegraph. Smart guys though.

All news is just turning into a more sophisticated version of clubcall. Click bait with fees. You aren't going to get any "stop the presses" stories from it. As the OP's quotes proves, just don't believe what they tell you until it happens.

Editors main objectives are to sell stories. The truth is a minor inconvenience.

 

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View Mstrobez's Profile Mstrobez Flag 20 May 21 5.38pm Send a Private Message to Mstrobez Add Mstrobez as a friend

Originally posted by Frickin Saweet

as someone said above, it's possible that both statements were assumed to be correct at the time. Hodgson's decline may not have been foreseen when the first article was written and therefore funds were found/budgets re-done to address our immediate financial needs which look different now to back then.

Perhaps but there’s no way both of these things could be true in this space of time. Either we’ve had "significant" funds set aside for a rebuild this summer, or we haven’t. And if we had, they would’ve been set aside prior to March of this year.

 


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Tom-the-eagle Flag Croydon 20 May 21 5.51pm

Radio five had a journalist from The Athletic on this morning talking about Fat Sam and West Brom. He didn’t appear to know anymore than Adrian Chiles.

In fact, the poor bloke could not stop stuttering, worst bloke for radio.

 


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View braunstoneagle's Profile braunstoneagle Flag the middle of bumf*** nowhere... 21 May 21 8.03am Send a Private Message to braunstoneagle Add braunstoneagle as a friend

in have/have had a athletic subscription mine runs out this week. i only take it up when im offered a really good deal to renew.

having said that, i generally find the content on there good and all the palace based journo’s are proven reliable sources over a long period of time

 


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