Following the "change in attitude" of the WE towards our club I have recently started to purchase it again.
Over the last few weeks I have become amazed by the amount of non stories they have been running.
Last weeks back page posed a question, this weeks suggests players we may be interested in from hull, both of these were hot topics on here. And comments after games from fans come largely from postings on this forum too.
I always had WE sports journalists down as a lazy feckless bunch, but I'm fairly sure most of what comes on here first ends up as a WE exclusive.

The internet and social networking in particular is a dream come true for newspaper proprietors; cut the staff in half and of those who are left, cut their expenses down by having them trawl the internet for stories instead of getting out there to do real journalism.

I give you phone hacking as exhibit A; all done from a desk and once in place, the stories write themselves.

The papers been crap for years, the filling space Leeds United page is further proof of this. In fairness, local newspapers will be extinct soon. Most only buy them for the deaths and reports from the courts.

Have they managed to crowbar a story of the former QEGS student and current union captain in?

"Man angry at road" with a picture of a man, arms crossed with an angry look on his face stood beside said road.

They always have photo's of angry people with their arms crossed!

I sometimes read it for a laugh.

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I buy it for the guarenteed artists impression of what something could look like if certain permission is granted or funding found.

Wood Street grassed over was my fav, although i do believe this was trialed for a weekend??

I must have seen 20 new swimming pools & 35 new hospitals.

Anybody think that the right-hand photofit at the bottom has a passing resembelence to Motu Tony in a hat????!!!

Interest bit at the bottom: www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/sport ... _1_3800502 "It’s not just on the pitch where Agar is looking to introduce personnel and former Bradford Bulls and Crusaders man Martin Clawson is set to be named as conditioner in Agar’s new team of backroom staff." I think this guy was the GB conditioner and worked for an NRL club.

Interest bit at the bottom: www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/sport ... _1_3800502 "It’s not just on the pitch where Agar is looking to introduce personnel and former Bradford Bulls and Crusaders man Martin Clawson is set to be named as conditioner in Agar’s new team of backroom staff." I think this guy was the GB conditioner and worked for an NRL club.

Slightly o/t about the quality of the paper. But on the site it says agar is in oz now with potential overseas signings in mind and linked with martin clawson as new conditioner

Martin Clawson news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 239603.stm

Martin Clawson news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 239603.stm

Is Martin Clawson Any relation to our old servant Terry
Re the W Express what can you expect when it is printed in Sheffield

and the stories from York (ap) and owned by a scottish company.

Not much local about

terry is his father...