Rick Waghorns response to WOTB post. (warning - its long!)

MY MESSAGE:
Hello Rick
I emailed you earlier in the season with the 'You The
Boss' section for an earlier game. I would just like
to say that I was extremely disappointed with your
'Citizen Journalist' article last week which I felt
stirred up a hornets nest totally unecessarily. I got
the jist of what you said, but feel whatever your
intentions you have now lost credibility with
thousands of fans and will find your job much harder
over coming months as a result.

If proof were needed of this then check the home page
article on Wrath of the Barclay which basically makes
you,Steve Foley and Nigel Worthington public enemy
number 1, 2 and 3.

I would urge you to look at results in the month of
January and start reporting on what goes on the pitch
rather than what goes on at peoples computer desks. We
really cant take this rubbish from Worthington any
longer.

Regards

RICKS RESPONSE:
So do you think Leon 'Damo's shagging your missus!' McKenzie would see
it as
an unnecessary debate?

Or Dean Ashton? Or Jason Shackell?

This 'unnecessary debate' as I was trying to point out goes way, way
beyond
what goes on a football pitch; it goes right to the very heart of the
way
this world we all live in is viewed and reported on...

Is that such a trivial matter?

Without going all grandiose on you, I would suggest it is one of the
biggest
debates this world currently has to wrestle with.

Or would you rather that you local football writer put his blinkers on
and
not dare to throw anything in the melting pot that strayed beyond the
boundaries of Norfolk and actually got people thinking and talking?

Do you actually think that the whole message-board community and the
views
expressed there on have been a help or a hindrance this season?

Dean got the piss ripped out of him completely in the dressing room by
the
boys on the back of all the internet rumours - do you think that made
him
more or less inclined to stay here? More or less inclined to listen to
Alan
Pardew whenever he got on the phone?

Did it do Leon McKenzie's state of mind any good - already raw and
fragile
as he found himself embroiled in a very messy divorce and custody
battle -
to find himself (a) in Hellesdon Hospital on lock down and (b) the
knowledge
that everyone in this city 'knew' that his missus was being banged up
by
Damien Francis? How did that help Leon?

You tell me.

You tell me whether having a debate between what is truth and what is
fiction is unnecessary or not and bears no relation to what has and
hasn't
happened on the pitch this season?

Yes, of course, there are a hundred and one other factors to be
considered.
Fine.

Unnecessary debate? Disagree.

It's a fundamental debate - and for having that debate and actually
getting
people to THINK about the way this world works, I'll live with not
being on
Wrath Of The Barclay's Christmas card list.

WELL THATS HIS RESPONSE, DISCUSS!

Posted By: waddo75 on February 1st 2006 at 14:46:35

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