sadoldgit

Probably better saying that rather than I am here for the wedge!

We know what Poch can do as a manager. We also know what a quality player Toby is. Fortunately we have a decent manager ourselves and a decent replacement in Virgil. It is good to see different reams slugging out at the top even if one of them is Spuds. I think all of the neutrals are rooting for Leicester though.

shaft

frog

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-35579767

I was treated for food poisoning in a hospital in Oregon. The doctor was excellent and phoned me two or three times after seeing him to make sure I was doing ok. Probably worried that I would sue if not!

I suppose if you wanted to be super critical we could be scoring a few more goals, but I would be more than happy to go on winning every game 1-0!

french

I never had a problem with Long but was definitely in the camp of those who think we overpaid for him. Not anymore. For me definitely worth the money now.

It really does need to change in many areas. extra funding would be a good start! I don't know how you can say it will not be sold.

Bloody hell, with the great run we are on RK is still getting flak

Apparently he went to speak to the police a few years ago and asked if they wanted to talk to him about it. They said no. She was 13 when they met and has said 14 when they started having sex. They married when she was 18 but parted soon after. As a side note his son went off with her mother! She looked much older than 13/14 but he knew how old she was. She still looks pretty fit now but has had a tough time and it sounds like it affected her quite badly as she grew up. Surprising that the police aren't interested after the number of collars that have been felt over kiddy fiddling. I suppose the fact that they got married might have helped him.

Readership/hits of online newspapers seem to be falling year on year. I left newspapers in 2004 and at the time they were starting to get excited by online possibilities but we (the old school print side of the business) couldn't work out how that would make money. I still cant get my head around it. When I was at The Guardian the split was about 50/50 between the revenue from sales and the ad sales revenue. I get that the overheads are reduced but so is the income now from what I can gather.

Absolutely!

coke

I went to a few of the locals national conferences in the 90s tasked with nicking ideas from you guys. I presented a paper on subscriptions to the Board but they weren't interested in those days. Did you used to go to the ACE Christmas lunches? Many a liver will never recover from those!

Dennis

I can probably say this now but back in the 70s I used to put the figures together for The Times for ABC. We used to keep the returns notes in my draw and the Circulation Manager would tell me how many credit notes to put through each month depending on what sales figure he wanted.

Were you there when "bulk sales" started off?

Wasn't there a time when virtually all of the titles carried the Newspaper of the Year on their mastheads?

You will know more about selling advertising space that I do Jackanory, but I would imagine a full colour page ad in the Sunday Times would be a lot more appealing than an ad online to both advertisers and consumers? How do newspapers make money online?

jet

Yes you have said this before but it seems odd given that they are saying that it is about working too many hours as it is? If that is the case why isn't Hunt making more of it in support of his plans?

Exactly. I expect that there are 3rd world countries who have better coverage than we do.

I think it depends on what changes are proposed. If the people who work in the NHS think they wont work why not criticise the proposals?