I got banned by the Guardian for saying Andrew Simpson was biased towards Northwich Victoria, it seems he has changed allegiance and now is biased towards 1666 Winsford! Does he not know we are the senior team in town and that 1666 are not? If so why so much coverage of a team no higher than Winsford, who get virtually no coverage at all? Mr. Simpson, admit it, you are biased and certainly not towards our wonderful club.
WHS.
The bias sadly is obvious, we are the senior club, with our own ground in the town and the stats today look are about 70% For the Winsford club 15% for the nearly defunct club and 15% for Witton Albion THE senior club in town. The bias is obvious and it is perhaps striking how it changed when Brian Pritchard was not the manager- and even worse since He was not reappointed ! you would think Andrew Simpson had a personal reason for his Bias otherwise how can it be explained !!! Maybe it is time to speak to the Guardian editor and ask for an explanation officially through the club and or for Wittoners to simply stop buying the paper altogether if they do not play fair which they clearly are not.
Strongly disagree chaps i’m afraid. It is probably because we had no game on Saturday so what’s to write about? Simmo is at nearly all if not all of our home games and a few aways and his twitter feed provides updates to those who can’t make it away. It’s also in Simmo’s best interested to include all teams if he wants to sell papers!
There was a time when the Chronicle and Guardian football reports were appreciated by Mid Cheshire footy fans when decent writers like George Newman Alick Day etc delivered accurate and detailed accounts. Since the digital age fell on us it’s all old news and would not pay a penny for it never mind a pound !
Chip shop paper !
Mr Simpson for the coverage your newspaper gives to the town team I don’t know why you bother at all. 1874 are a Northwich team in name only and for your newspaper to give preferential coverage to them is shameful. As previously stated time for a letter to the editor.
At least there will be another 15% available soon!
Simmo is a keen contributor to the programme in his own time, and is at most home games and some away. His remit doesnt just include us, or even just football. He covers the rugby, the bowls, and all the other local sports. He’s always seemed pretty fair to me.
There may have been no game last Saturday but we did play Warrington and even more galling is the promotion of this coming Home Saturdays and next Tuesdays Huge game is barely mentioned WE ARE THE SENIOR CLUB ! But just look at how much promotion 1874 Get 90% of the back page with huge headlines and a big spread on the inside cover also so dont tell Me its fair because it clearly isnt !
I dont care what He does in his spare time to be honest He can watch 1874 or Vics anytime He wants ! but I expect Him to be fair and even handed in the Guardian with His reporting and He isnt. Shades of MTB me thinks.
perhaps we should look at ourselves and how much information we pass on to Simmo . Do we have a press officer ? would someone like to volunteer? like it or not 1874 are very good at getting news and info across to Simmo, but we would rather sit back and hope that others do the job ( Im guilty as well) . Simmo comes to the vast majority of our matches and perhaps the southern section has curtailed his away trips but he, IMO is always fair in his reporting. I have spoken to him at matches and he comes across as a sports nut (not just football) and unbiased in his support for local teams. If we dont give him any news or info the back pages would be very blank.
HE is the reporter and should take news to His audience I cannot believe He would ask for info and not get it, it is HIS job to put together the news about our upcoming games He knows We are playing Lincoln at home on Saturday and that we play Shaw lane next Tuesday and even if we hadnt spoke to Him there is nothing of a story or a headline about WAFC but He manages to create big headlines and headlines about the Winsford team-I could have wrote a story without talking to Witton and so could He but He didnt it was a choice and His choice.
I blame the referee…
GE
He always gets the blame.
I strongly suspect that Simmo is often “leaned on” by some of the older generation 1874 Northwich supporters to give them the better coverage in the Guardian. These will be the same people that tried to stop Northwich Town Council sponsoring our game on boxing day (which they failed to do but they did prevent the council’s representatives being allowed any complimentary food or drink - how’s that for Christmas spirit eh).
Personally I never had a problem with Vcs being on the back page and getting the bigger headlines when they were Northwich’s biggest club. But it should now be us and I agree that the Winsford club are increasingly getting the better coverage. I would hate to see us lower ourselves to some 1874/former Vcs fans level, because we never have done that, but a letter to the Guardian asking for justification of this is far from unreasonable given the circumstances IMO.
Something else to moan about.
Who is the clubs press officer? Surely they need to be engaging more with the Guardian.
I have noticed recently that the clubs online presence is lacking and the website is badly updated and dull.
Its not a moan its about our club being treated fairly, think we have a new person board to look at media etc but he has only just started his role, but Andrew Simpson has enough info available anyway to treat us as the SENIOR club fairly that is what is wrong.
The club has a Communications Manager, yes he is fairly new to the position. As regards the website being updated, I do my best in that respect and provide whatever information the club gives me as and when it is deemed appropriate to do so.
There’s a huge amount of sport in the area, football included. Think if the club were more proactive they would be able to push stories the Guardians way. If this new press officer is any good that would be the first thing to do. Seems a bit off to blame one person for not chasing the club down and begging them for stories.
And to be honest WHS you are a boring sod and I’d ban you. Your more full of c##p than most on the board and nobody really values your opinion. Bore off.
CJ - MTB was a good reporter, his missus was a V*c’s fan. His reports were accurate and his Alick Day column was full of local sport titbits. He obviously had his contacts in the area to get his information and that’s what good journalists did back in the day.
AW - please lay off WHS !
WHEELS - Keep up the good work you are very much Appreciated by all !
Why should I lay off him. He’s the one slinging mud to start this topic off.
I’ll admit I’m a ‘1666’ fan myself but come on here for amusement to watch you lot self implode. You are flying high, have a great manager and a great team and yet you still moan.
How many of you contributors to this forum roll your sleeves up and get stuck into the work that needs to go on at the swamp. Or are you all too busy on here crying that you haven’t got a bigger headline on the back page of what is let’s be fair a small local paper.
Ask yourselves this. Is the reason the Guardian give as much coverage to us as you lot because we are on an equally footing? Or have you forgotten last years CSC?!
Mind the Gap