Richard Hughes, director of football

[El Dangerous]

46 minutes ago, dave u said:

 

Eat worms? What have I missed here, is that a thing now? I thought it was just Sean Dyche.

Bill Gates and his pals at the New World Order want us to eat bugs instead of meat to stop climate change or something. I wouldn’t listen to them they’ve been shit since Hall, Nash and Hogan left.

[Chris]

2 hours ago, gkmacca said:

Any decent journalist (let's call him or her a 'reporter') will point out the inaccuracy of an official position. And the club's version is plainly, undeniably, inaccurate.

 

And that's not some minor, niche, issue. It's a huge issue.

 

The club keeps putting out the claim that Slot inherited an excellent squad that can only be improved by genuinely special talents. This is simply untrue. Slot inherited a squad that had some good players but also some glaring gaps, and had fallen away badly in the last part of the season. Then several players left.

 

So Slot now has a squad that is smaller than the one that was found wanting last season. 

 

So the idea that Slot has some wonderfully varied, ticking-all-the-boxes squad of stellar talents, full to bursting, is insulting nonsense. There is absolutely no justification in any 'reporter' keeping repeating that claim as if it's indisputably correct. 

 

Hughes is overseeing a depleted squad that now requires more players just to recover the size and standard that the club keeps pretending is still there.

 

Report that, why don't they?

That’s not journalism. That’s opinion. He could write that, but it wouldn’t be journalism. 
 

And Slot is the one always talking about the excellence of the squad he inherited. 

[Anubis]

You have to hand it to Hughes, he's sat quietly and allowed this thread to turn into a discussion on Pearce's journalistic merit, and not his own abject failure in the transfer market. He's a slippery little bastard.

[gkmacca]

15 minutes ago, Chris said:

That’s not journalism. That’s opinion. He could write that, but it wouldn’t be journalism. 
 

And Slot is the one always talking about the excellence of the squad he inherited. 

 

Reporting on inaccuracies is not 'opinion'. Don't be ridiculous. And where did you find your speciously apodictic definition of journalism, anyway?

[Chris]

34 minutes ago, gkmacca said:

 

Reporting on inaccuracies is not 'opinion'. Don't be ridiculous. And where did you find your speciously apodictic definition of journalism, anyway?

 

To answer your question: 2001-2004: Liverpool John Moores University – BA Hons Journalism; 1st class. After that, a 20 year career in it (barring a couple of years break where I dabbled in performing arts marketing at LIPA)

 

Him reporting what the club is saying, re availability, squad quality is reporting. Him directly contradicting that would be his opinion and such a piece would be labelled as such. If he gets someone else to say that; a source within the club, a prominent ex-player then it's reporting/journalism.

 

 

 

[3 Stacks]

7 minutes ago, Chris said:

 

To answer your question: 2001-2004: Liverpool John Moores University – BA Hons Journalism; 1st class. After that, a 20 year career in it (barring a couple of years break where I dabbled in performing arts marketing at LIPA)

 

Him reporting what the club is saying, re availability, squad quality is reporting. Him directly contradicting that would be his opinion and such a piece would be labelled as such. If he gets someone else to say that; a source within the club, a prominent ex-player then it's reporting/journalism.

 

 

 

Nice CV, pal. Knew your Pearce thing is because you're in the biz.

[gkmacca]

5 minutes ago, Chris said:

 

To answer your question: 2001-2004: Liverpool John Moores University – BA Hons Journalism; 1st class. After that, a 20 year career in it (barring a couple of years break where I dabbled in performing arts marketing at LIPA)

 

Him reporting what the club is saying, re availability, squad quality is reporting. Him directly contradicting that would be his opinion and such a piece would be labelled as such. If he gets someone else to say that; a source within the club, a prominent ex-player then it's reporting/journalism.

 

 

 

 

Oh how very impressive. Double First, doctorate, Fellowship, King's College Cambridge. What larks, eh? Any more lists to boast about? You sound a bit chippy. But that's just an opinion.

 

Your definition, I repeat, is insultingly misleading. It sounds like it's been bounced about inside the heads of Leslie Stephen and Karl Popper. Poor old John Wilkes. Maybe if you gave up your pose as the God-like arbiter of what does and doesn't pass for journalism, you might be able to contribute as, you know, one of those ordinary posters you seem to despise.

[Chris]

1 minute ago, gkmacca said:

 

Oh how very impressive. Double First, doctorate, Fellowship, King's College Cambridge. What larks, eh? Any more lists to boast about? You sound a bit chippy. But that's just an opinion.

 

Your definition, I repeat, is insultingly misleading. It sounds like it's been bounced about inside the heads of Leslie Stephen and Karl Popper. Poor old John Wilkes. Maybe if you gave up your pose as the God-like arbiter of what does and doesn't pass for journalism, you might be able to contribute as, you know, one of those ordinary posters you seem to despise.

 

Good chat. 

 

EDIT: It wasn't meant to be impressive. It was a shit course at a shit uni that did nothing to prepare me for what came after. You asked, I answered. 

[Anubis]

I went to Liverpool Polytechnic if anyone's interested.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

University of Life - dropped out

[The wanderer]

Postal course in Japanese for me.

[The wanderer]

35 minutes ago, Chris said:

 

To answer your question: 2001-2004: Liverpool John Moores University – BA Hons Journalism; 1st class. After that, a 20 year career in it (barring a couple of years break where I dabbled in performing arts marketing at LIPA)

 

Him reporting what the club is saying, re availability, squad quality is reporting. Him directly contradicting that would be his opinion and such a piece would be labelled as such. If he gets someone else to say that; a source within the club, a prominent ex-player then it's reporting/journalism.

 

 

 

Did you go to SFX by any chance?

[Chris]

1 minute ago, The wanderer said:

Did you go to SFX by any chance?

 

 

No, sir. 

[cloggypop]

Got a rubber brick out of a swimming pool once. 

[sir roger]

2 minutes ago, cloggypop said:

Got a rubber brick out of a swimming pool once. 

 

In your pyjamas ?

[cloggypop]

2 minutes ago, sir roger said:

 

In your pyjamas ?

 

Well, I don't like to boast. 

[Anubis]

9 minutes ago, cloggypop said:

Got a rubber brick out of a swimming pool once. 

 

Angelo Pappas over here.

[Jairzinho]

13 minutes ago, cloggypop said:

Got a rubber brick out of a swimming pool once. 

 

That's the real qualification.

[VladimirIlyich]

26 minutes ago, cloggypop said:

Got my dick out at a swimming pool once. 

You are Len Fairclough?

[cloggypop]

Just now, VladimirIlyich said:

You are Len Fairclough?

 

You calling me a Manc?

 

[No2]

Chris issues come and get me plea to JWH.

[Kevin D]

Curious tenure so far. 

 

Very little evidence that he's been brought in to improve the team.

[Binomial]

53 minutes ago, Kevin D said:

Curious tenure so far. 

 

Very little evidence that he's been brought in to improve the team.

He's a fucking fraud.

 

Tasked with raising as much money as possible to fill John's pockets, won't renew Salah Virg or Trent because we see Bradley Quansah and Doak as viable replacements and what's even better is we don't have to pay any of them near as much!

[sir roger]

5 hours ago, Kevin D said:

Curious tenure so far. 

 

Very little evidence that he's been brought in to improve the team.

 

Very little evidence he actually exists.

[Daisy]

Cunt.