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Post by trueblackpool on Mar 24, 2011 10:46:25 GMT 1
www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/sport/football/blackpool-fc/pool_star_backs_replacement_for_keeper_1_3212361Have a look at the above article in the towns local newspaper, the one paper that is supposed to have close links with the club and the community. They Quote Cathcart claiming he played against Forrest for the team a couple of times last season. This means 1 of 3 things. 1) Cathcart is telling lies claiming to have done things we all know he has not. 2) I have made a total fool of myself and Cathcart was actually in the team last season. 3) The reporter from the Gazette is making up quotes from blackpool players so that they can write an article. Im fairly sure that it is either 1 or 3, in any case this shows that either Cathcart is not the sort of person we want around the team as he is not honest or the towns local paper has a total disregarded for the facts, if this is the case who ever wrote the article should be appororiatley punished. If i lied in my job i would expect severe punishment and would lose all credibility, why should it be any different in this case. As you might have guessed, i cannot stand a blantent lack of integrity! Rant over.
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Post by yeoldetangerine on Mar 24, 2011 11:11:46 GMT 1
Think you are perfectly entitled to a rant. Telling the truth and integrity are things only those of us of a certain age seem to think are important.
What a bizarre article, do we really expect more from this rag?
Cathie has come through the MU system, would be surprised if he was that loose around the mouth.
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Post by trueblackpool on Mar 24, 2011 12:41:35 GMT 1
I see the gazette has done a bit of editing and changed the original article from,
"But we have Jonathan Tuffey and now Lee too. I played against Lee a couple of times with Blackpool when we were in the Championship last season and he looks a good player. It looks like he’s had a couple of great seasons since Forest got him.”
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But we have Jonathan Tuffey and now Lee too. I played against Lee a couple of times in the Championship last season and he looks a good player. It looks like he’s had a couple of great seasons since Forest got him.”
No apology for getting it wrong or anything.
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Post by sandgrown'un on Mar 24, 2011 13:26:24 GMT 1
Cathcart was on loan for a while last season at Watford.
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Post by Tangerine Sherlock on Mar 24, 2011 15:12:07 GMT 1
He made 12 starts for Watford last year, but I understand your frustration at the gazette.
I have personally stopped looking on the web page since they started the new web site.
I am more likely to get more true facts from USA today newspaper and site than our own local rag.
Plus if the story was written by Will Watt he follows this forum via twitter, also the things him, and our club secertery post on twitter and the Pics they post i can assure you the word professional does not even enter the void between their ears.
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Post by trueblackpool on Mar 24, 2011 16:39:43 GMT 1
I sent the editor of the gazette a snotogram and Steve Canavan Replied with this:
Hello Greg. Thanks for your email, which has been forwarded onto me - the Blackpool writer. This story wasn't one of ours - it has come from Press Association, which is a news agency that has reporters throughout the UK and covers press conferences, then sends stories to newspapers everywhere for publication. They've obviously spoken to Cathcart at a Northern Ireland pess conference and then written the story. It was then picked up by our web team and put onto the internet. First I knew about it was your email. I've let our web team know and I assume they will either take the story down, or correct the part that is wrong. Cheers for writing in and all the best, Steve
It appears they do not even proof read things before they rob them and stick them up on the web.
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Post by Tangerine Sherlock on Mar 24, 2011 17:54:09 GMT 1
LOL i know which site they get the stories from, not a bad job really is it, just sit at your desk and wait for somebody else to do the work for you... Nice snotogram by the way
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Post by bigjohncraven on Mar 24, 2011 18:08:46 GMT 1
I think Cathcart was on loan at Plymouth last season,thats probably how it got srewed up. So all this "Be the first to know" rubbish they put out has now been well and truly put to bed. "Be the last to know" read the Gazette!!
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Post by Tangerine Sherlock on Mar 24, 2011 18:16:55 GMT 1
I am sure in the past we have posted items on here before the gazette got hold of them lol
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