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Turfmoore wrote:
Junior82 wrote:
sthn.jeff wrote:

Odd how one of the better recent stories about the Nix has been written by a Political reporter


He's got a degree in Journalism so he's the real McCoy.

Attracted to this thread because of recent soccer v football post.  


However, noticed earlier discussion regarding NZH political reporter John Armstrong.  I was at University at same time as John.  He's an Ipswich Town tragic from way back (I think originally from Ipswich). 

Football (soccer?) man through and through.


Did a guest Phoenix column in the Herald when all the columnists switched around their jobs for an edition. Did a stokin job. Obviously follows the Phoenix, perhaps better than some of the commentators or other football writers! Have to wonder if he's got an alias on here...

edit:duh this thread is so old the original post refers back to that column!

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terminator_x wrote:

The Herald are finally having a public poll on whether to use "soccer" or "football"

Make sure you vote and send "soccer" to the grave.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11270563


hmmm....very late to this the Herald. Not sure I care excessively, but as Terry Pratchett says you should always support a plain girls attempts to reinvent herself (I'm misremembering and paraphrasing)...(oh and the plain girl is football, I mean soccer, I mean...) 
Sure the most bitter grudge holding must call it soccer people are folk who actively despise the sport itself, but hey- it's in Nicky Hornby as soccer and in The Soccer Tribe...it's a term in use in the UK, though most would say football...
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76% for football.

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" Football " has dropped to 61% in the poll. Everyone needs to vote and drag the Herald into the 21 century...

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The people have spoken and the New Zealand Herald will now refer to the beautiful game as football..................

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11271881

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The people have spoken and the New Zealand Herald will now refer to the beautiful game as football..................

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11271881

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Hoo bloody ray!

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Think it was my vote late yesterday that swung it :-)

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Here's your chance to vote again - the Herald is running a poll on those who want to watch the World Cup.

It looks as though no one is interested.   

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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/fifa-world-cup/news/article.cfm?c_id=524&objectid=11273595

Read this pile of dung and you'll realise that a few at The Herald aren't happy with this soccer/football development. Words such as childish, immature and outdated come to mind...

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He's either a good WUM or an absolute melter.

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He's either a good WUM or an absolute melter

I'm going for the latter...

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I'm sure John Armstrong will be able to take him round to the Herald bike sheds and educate him on football and journalism (maybe something about shoving his column inches where the deadline can't be moved).

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Auckland City vs. San Lorenzo on NZ Herald website more popular than the All Blacks:

Pretty amazing: "it was one of the website's top five most popular sports story of the year."

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c...

"QUALITY FOOTBALL IS POPULAR IN NZ:

Nzherald.co.nz's live blog of the game had over 100 thousand page views. In other words, it was one of the website's top five most popular sports story of the year, more viewed than our most read All Blacks story. The footballing audience is out there."

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"Click when you're winning, you only click when you're winning..."

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Colvinator wrote:

"Click when you're winning, you only click when you're winning..."

Who cares!?

Bigger than the most popular All Blacks story. That is HUGE for NZ football. HUGE.

It shows that there is a market out there for football. it just needs to be captured and brought into crowds.

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A good effort for what is considered an Auckland Rag as well.

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A good effort for what is considered an Auckland Rag as well.

Well I guess it was Auckland City

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A good effort for what is considered an Auckland Rag as well.

Well I guess it was Auckland City

Again... WHO CARES! A New Zealand FOOTBALL event out trafficked the All Blacks most popular story of the year.

Stop and think about that.

That's bloody amazing.

We shouldn't be being tribal about this. Waitakere fans, Mt. Wellington fans, North Shore United fans, Waikato BOP fans, HB United fans, Phoenix fans, Waterside Karori fans, Mirimar Rangers fans, TW fans, Island Bay, Nighthawks, Olympic... Caversham... Tech... shark any football fan in New Zealand should be giddy about this.

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It's a cool stat but of course the reason there was more clicks is that it was on when people were at work, when All Blacks play people are watching the match on the weekend. Still awesome though. Would have been interesting if game was on the evening as to what viewer numbers they would have got, could've been pretty big.

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Waterside Karori

(just saying)

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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/ar...

Sports editor Anendra Singh interviewed Panama in the capital city courtesy of Positively Wellington Tourism.

Interesting.

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Narbon describes the team as a team who "don't give up on any balls".

Interesting

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I enjoy reading articles from Burgess.

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do these guys actually have a football reporter? Whole lot of games play over last 2 days with some upset etc. Stuff going on between pogda and mourinho etc.... and lead article at mo is about abmravich having residency block... who actually gives toss? Other stores on football page at mo...  7 year old sings... footballer sleeps around... 

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Is there really any point in linking articles that require us to pay to be able to view?

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Not all heroes wear capes Dale.

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Good lad! 

There was another way to reveal it which was shown via video on Reddit, but it looks like they've patched that up. 

LG
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NZ Herald, 90% advertising, 10% articles.

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Lonegunmen wrote:

NZ Herald, 90% advertising, 10% articles.

0.1% decent football articles.

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99.9% copy errors, appears that they havent had a copy editor for the last 5 years and simply dont care.

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So pay to lessen reliance on advertising?

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martinb wrote:

So pay to lessen reliance on advertising?

Had the opposite effect on Sky TV - Pay more every year, and still excessive advertising. 

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would never pay their subscription but would be interested from those who do if there has been a decrease in advertising

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