Mighty Boosh
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my referral link if anyone's signing up in the near future, 40% off here
If you know any students, ask them to get a student subscription. 50% off for first four years. I am a student so thinking of getting one.I've been subscribed for about two weeks now.
My opinion is that it's definitely worth it if you're a fan of long-form journalism and other sports besides football. If you intend to lurk in their "community" Q&A forums and wait for transfer scoops from Mitten & co. then it's a waste of money.
I'm an MMA obsessive too, the journalists they have in this field are great! And the NFL content is aplenty now the season approaches.
I live in New York and travel on the subway a lot so the fact that the Athletic app is available offline with articles is a big plus as mobile phone reception is non-existent when commuting.
I'm going to pay the heavily discounted upfront annual fee when my trial ends.
Only technophobes. And Sun readers.I can't remember the last time I read a newspaper. Do people still buy them?
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Cheers to the person who signed up using this, appreciated!my referral link if anyone's signing up in the near future, 40% off here
Seriously what is the point in having 60% off for one day ffs. They should do it for at least a month, or even 6 months.Lolz60% off just for today I think
Not working too well for Uber and co.Their stated business strategy is pretty disgusting:
“We will wait every local paper out and let them continuously bleed until we are the last ones standing,” Alex Mather, a co-founder of The Athletic, said in an interview in San Francisco. “We will suck them dry of their best talent at every moment. We will make business extremely difficult for them.”
Sounds like standard Silicon Valley late-stage capitalism to me.Their stated business strategy is pretty disgusting:
“We will wait every local paper out and let them continuously bleed until we are the last ones standing,” Alex Mather, a co-founder of The Athletic, said in an interview in San Francisco. “We will suck them dry of their best talent at every moment. We will make business extremely difficult for them.”
Their stated business strategy is pretty disgusting:
“We will wait every local paper out and let them continuously bleed until we are the last ones standing,” Alex Mather, a co-founder of The Athletic, said in an interview in San Francisco. “We will suck them dry of their best talent at every moment. We will make business extremely difficult for them.”
Good to hear. Hope you can cancel ASAP and weren't taken for too much money.I signed up and regret it. You get the same content for free elsewhere. The United coverage in particular is lame. There is better coverage on the threads here. Save your money.
Shocked anyone would think this but each to their own.I signed up and regret it. You get the same content for free elsewhere. The United coverage in particular is lame. There is better coverage on the threads here. Save your money.
They won't.They’ll go bust before the big publishers do.
News is consumed for free both on tv, online and for 20p a newspaper.
Id never pay a subscription to read a fecking online article. If there’s even anything remotely must read it’s posted within minutes online anyway.
I signed up for a year so no refund. I stopped bothering, but just checked it. The United articles are like Give Ole 2 More Years, and Ed Woodward Is To Blame For Everything, and All The Problems Are At The Top. The City article is about Silva’s tweet. The Arsenal one is something like Why Emery Should Be Sacked. Not the exact titles but you get the idea. Same stuff you get here and the BBC. If you do try it only subscribe for a month so you can get out if you want.Good to hear. Hope you can cancel ASAP and weren't taken for too much money.
Anyway, I've always been of the mind that if you lurk on a forum dedicated to any particular subject with loads of other people that you're (a) going to automatically hear about anything of significance to the subject and (b) going to find more insight amongst the crowdsourced contributions of the masses.
If the number of comments on the post match threads is any indication, they don’t have a lot of football fans signing up. United seems to have the most with like 50 comments. The other teams are more like dozen or two. The coverage of the US sports may be better and more popular. I hope so for their sakes.I can't see them make it work long term, think they will fold as soon VC funding dissipates.
fecking hell, is that a real quote?Their stated business strategy is pretty disgusting:
“We will wait every local paper out and let them continuously bleed until we are the last ones standing,” Alex Mather, a co-founder of The Athletic, said in an interview in San Francisco. “We will suck them dry of their best talent at every moment. We will make business extremely difficult for them.”
I was never going to try it. I want to see it crash like all establishment media entities. But I must say I'm not displeased that they've taken a bunch of apparently good journalists from general news sites just to put them in a containment pen of harmless sports nonsense. (Actually, the more I think about it, the more I see The Athletic as very indirectly conducive to my dream. Carry on!)I signed up for a year so no refund. I stopped bothering, but just checked it. The United articles are like Give Ole 2 More Years, and Ed Woodward Is To Blame For Everything, and All The Problems Are At The Top. The City article is about Silva’s tweet. The Arsenal one is something like Why Emery Should Be Sacked. Not the exact titles but you get the idea. Same stuff you get here and the BBC. If you do try it only subscribe for a month so you can get out if you want.
That's how a lot of these types talk in settings that aren't necessarily meant to end up being shared on massive public forums like this. Just remember all the shit Zuckerberg has been found to have said about Facebook's idiot users in private (not that this Athletic quote was private but it certainly wouldn't have been intended for mass consumption).fecking hell, is that a real quote?
The Athletic wont be around in 3 years let alone 10.They won't.
Thanks.So a big name journalist goes there, so what? How hard is it to write about footy to a good standard? I've read some stuff on here that is good enough so it can't be difficult to replace these journos who are jumping ship.
It's as much about networking and getting good intel as it is about writing. Ornstein has the best connections at Arsenal of any journalist.So a big name journalist goes there, so what? How hard is it to write about footy to a good standard? I've read some stuff on here that is good enough so it can't be difficult to replace these journos who are jumping ship.
The actual stuff that relies on networking is pretty "mobile" though. Sure, you can hide the article behind a paywall, but there's nothing stopping people from tweeting "Arsenal in pursuit of player x [Ornstein]". If you want quality tactical or statistical analysis then sports journalists never were your (wo)men anyway, that stuff can only be found in blogs and on twitter. 95% of what these people do is stating the obvious in eloquent terms or trying to create drama by taking a quote out of context, I sincerely doubt most of them offer more than name recognition.It's as much about networking and getting good intel as it is about writing. Ornstein has the best connections at Arsenal of any journalist.
In fact you'd want these stories to be leaking out in order to encourage new people to sign up.The actual stuff that relies on networking is pretty "mobile" though. Sure, you can hide the article behind a paywall, but there's nothing stopping people from tweeting "Arsenal in pursuit of player x [Ornstein]".
People who leak information may want the biggest audience and could turn away from Ornstein & co in favour of the next journo they trust that isn't hidden behind a paywall.The actual stuff that relies on networking is pretty "mobile" though. Sure, you can hide the article behind a paywall, but there's nothing stopping people from tweeting "Arsenal in pursuit of player x [Ornstein]".
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