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Yeah but it’s the journalist equivalent of Patty with his secret streams.

‘I know something you don’t know, doodah, doodah.’

He's got to promote his title. It's just part of the game. They all do it.

Would you rather he just said nowt to avoid criticism and we find out at the same time it drops regardless?

Or he puts it on twitter and another outlet claims the scoop?

At least we know there's some positive news to look forward to this afternoon.
 
Ajayi being out for 4-6 weeks does nothing to shake the concerns we’ve swapped 2 dependable CBs for 2 with dodgy injury records..

I think it's an obvious concern and not what we'd have done in an ideal world, but I guess just one of the realities of working under the financial circumstances we're in. Selling Kamara before he's really blossomed is another.
 
Baz isn’t a particularly good investigative journalist. That’s why he works for Reach where 95% of his work could easily be mistaken for AI-generated slop. He has his sources at the club and he will ask them to confirm or deny rumours. Baz couldn’t be bothered, or didn’t he think it necessary, to follow up with the club regarding the legal details of Puerta and Laalaoui’s contracts. He just repeated several times ‘uh, yeah, they’re not Hull City players’ even though they’re Hull City employees and no longer contracted to their previous clubs. He doesn’t research things he’s reporting on which is lazy, in my opinion.

If you want sports journalism that does a bit more digging to uncover things that has higher editorial standards, read The Athletic.

I agree with that fully. Everything seems to change every other day regarding wage caps and business plans etc. All through different videos and tweet replies.

I don't see why he doesn't do an actual deep dive article explaining it all, surely that would get the HDM site huge amounts of traffic, which is what they'll request from his work?
 
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I think it's an obvious concern and not what we'd have done in an ideal world, but I guess just one of the realities of working under the financial circumstances we're in. Selling Kamara before he's really blossomed is another.
I think it was more to do with SJ thinking we needed better than Jones and Macca. Selles also appeared to think the same but had little choice than to use Macca at LB. Imo, they were both correct
 
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I agree with that fully. Everything seems to change every other day regarding wage caps and business plans etc. All through different videos and tweet replies.

I don't see why he doesn't do an actual deep dive article explaining it all, surely that would get the HDM site huge amounts of traffic, which is what they'll request from his work?
But it wouldn’t get the site huge amounts of traffic would it…in fact it would reduce their income so they obviously don’t want him to do that.
They earn money from clicks so 10% of the fans clicking on ****ty teasers and half stories 20 times earns them twice as much as every single fan clicking on one well researched and comprehensive article.
Until people stop engaging with ****ty clickbait that business model will continue to be the one they use…sadly
 
I think it was more to do with SJ thinking we needed better than Jones and Macca. Selles also appeared to think the same but had little choice than to use Macca at LB. Imo, they were both correct

If they're 'better', then why didn't Boro snap up Ajayi and Blackburn Famewo on a free instead of paying potentially up to 3m and 500k respectively? They may well be technically better. But the reason they were free is because of their injury records. Not much use on the treatment table, are they?
 
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