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Post by Wicked Cricket on Feb 17, 2016 14:57:46 GMT
There was shock at The Cricketer Magazine this week when their editor, Alec Swann, unexpectedly left. Perhaps, his younger brother Graeme, spun him a googly? It is unclear the reasons for his sudden departure. Huw Turbervill , The former deputy editor, Huw Tubervill, who is best known for his sporting contributions at The Telegraph has taken over the helm. Meanwhile, Alec continues to be active with his personal cricket blog called The Roar.www.theroar.com.au/author/alec-swann/Like so many magazines, readership continues to drop, and in the case of this specialist publication, alarmingly so. Founded in 1921 by Sir Pelham (Plum) Warner, the magazine went through a series of financial crises including during the 1960s when, at one stage, over 200 of its loyal readers bought shares in The Cricketer just to help keep it afloat.  By 1970, a stability had been achieved and The Cricketer was selling around 13,000 copies a month. This increased under CMJs editorship in the mid-1980s to over 40,000 where it remained stable for the next 20 years; but in the last 5 years there has been a dramatic decline. www.espncricinfo.com/cricketer/content/story/135929.htmlIn 2012, monthly sales had fallen to 32,601. Andrew Miller was drafted in as editor to improve circulation but the opposite effect occurred. After leaving in August 2014, sales had decreased further to around 25,000 and now the present circulation is a mere 22,000. And let us not forget the only other cricket magazine, All Out Cricket, the once new kid on the block, whose circulation barely musters 10,000 sales a month alongside the weekly T he Cricket Paper which allegedly sells a similar figure. Q: So, what has gone wrong?A: The internet.The website Cricinfo looms over cricket magazines like a ‘Monolith of Doom’. Backed by the massive Asian TV/Media company ‘ESPN’, who bought it in 2007, there is a fascinating story behind the site’s success where the decline of The Cricketer was sown by the very company who once owned it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESPNcricinfoCricinfo is FREE, where news, scores, match results, features and the like are uploaded on a daily basis. How can any cricket publication compete? It is no different if a supermarket is built on every town or city high street selling everything from foodstuffs to drinks for FREE. Tesco’s, Waitrose, Lidl, Aldi etc.. would all go bankrupt.  Meanwhile, Cricinfo will continue to throttle every last breath of air out of the final three UK cricket publications until they’ll turn around to the public and say, “Right, we will now charge you £19.99 per month to access us.” Game over. |
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Post by leedsgull on Feb 17, 2016 16:20:03 GMT
I started reading the "Cricketer" after it took over Playfair Cricket Monthly many years ago. I stick with it out of habit as I like something physical to read. However I feel it has failed in it's direction in recent years. It tried to appeal to youth for a while but young people probably do not buy magazines much these days. The quality journalism that I like to read needs to be reinstated. Also as the national papers rarely cover the county game in any depth it should view this as an area to excel in.
I look at Cricinfo daily for news items but rarely read their articles and when I do am not over impressed with the standard. I still feel that for a few years more their is a market for a quality cricket magazine that can cater for us old codgers who require our cricket fix.
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Feb 17, 2016 16:52:01 GMT
Lg, I agree with your sentiment but sadly "the old codgers" are dying off and no-one is replacing them. The decline of The Cricketer is systematic of journalism today where social media has eaten into the fabric of the once noble art. Anyone can blog, tweet or facebook and call themselves a writer. The same applies to photography. "Send us in your photos," shout the BBC Website and "we can publish them and save the Corporation a lot of money." Perhaps, the only creative network which has survived the technology furore is the music business, where common sense prevails and people must pay to download tracks from 'i-tunes'. Even Spotify which has a basic FREE package but in return people must put up with irritating adverts, usually drives a majority to take up their monthly £9.99 Premium Service. 'No adverts, joy oh joy.' But not journalism where so much is free, free, free. Has the Murdoch paywall worked? Impossible to know as circulation figures are vigorously suppressed. The conspiracists might suggest it is all a good wheeze by the New World Order to turn everyone into uniform automatons, being drip fed the same lies and deceptions, because authoritative, truthful, investigative and quality journalism cannot afford to compete in a world of free manipulative information. As Lord Northcliffe famously said over 100 years ago: "News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising." And as to advertising, as newspaper and magazine revenues dramatically decline, so editors are more reluctant to question or investigate their Corporate paymasters by avoiding any contentious issues like their child slave labour abroad so they can produce clothing at an even cheaper price. Onward to the future world of uniformed clones, thinking, believing, saying and uttering the same shallow things.  |
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Post by leedsgull on Feb 17, 2016 17:06:21 GMT
If the future is all online and I do not dispute this, then it seems curious that Trinity Mirror are launching a new daily newspaper at 25p on February 29th.
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Feb 17, 2016 17:51:58 GMT
Lg, A good find. news.sky.com/story/1643634/trinity-mirror-to-unveil-new-day-tabloidPerhaps, with the success of the 'i', Trinity see an opportunity to compete. A cheap daily paper is attractive. Meanwhile, Johnston Press who bought the 'i' are rapidly growing as a publishing power house. They even purchased the local FREE 'Brighton & Hove Independent' last year for what was rumoured to be a derisory £50,000. www.cityam.com/234766/johnston-press-boss-ashley-highfield-on-the-i-lebedev-and-the-future-of-print-mediawww.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2015/jul/03/johnston-press-acquires-free-weekly-newspaper-in-brightonThere is still a growing market for FREE newspapers and magazines as seen with the recent successes of 'The Metro' and 'Evening Standard'. But how much advertising revenue remains out there? Everyone seems to be running towards the net like lemmings, yet advertisers are not comfortable about the readership figures they're being told. As our own Mod reminds us, a fair number of page views come from search engine bots including this Forum. The general consensus is around 20% of hits are caused by bots spying on the latest posts to then place in their personal search sites. At least advertisers can trust print circulation figures unlike online which seems more hit and miss and guestimates. It is ironic that in the days of Alfred Harmsworth, William Randolph Hearst and the like, newspapers were the ideal Capitalist dream - an excuse to print money. Apart from a few exceptions, the web has completely changed this. |
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Feb 18, 2016 16:38:37 GMT
The Sussex Cricket Supporters Club Need You!
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“We need far more green counters at Waitrose!” comes the cry, as the Sussex Cricket Supporters Club attempts to raise money via the Supermarket’s community projects charity is lagging well behind in third and final position.  The Hove outlet next to the ‘Greyhound Stadium’ donates £1,000 each month to three specified local good causes which are found in the 'Community Matters' boxes. Last month £438 was given to ‘Rockinghorse’; £312 to 'Age UK'; and £250 to 'Cruse Bereavement Care'. The amount of money donated is dependent on the number of green counters lying in each box. In total over £14m has been awarded by Waitrose to 30,000 different causes since the scheme began. Depending on the amount of money you spend on a shop at this outlet, so the number of green counters you'll be given at the checkout. The person can then decide which boxes to place the counters in. At present, with 18 days of February already gone, the Sussex Cricket Supporters Club will be lucky to gain £100 as there is very fierce competition. Presently, way ahead is the charity ‘Brighton Oasis Project’ which works to help women with drug and alcohol problems alongside children affected by family substance misuse. Second comes ‘The Ripple Pond’, a charity to aid service personnel and army veterans with physical and emotional difficulties including PTSD. So, yes, the competition is fierce.  Please can Sussex supporters start shopping at the Hove Waitrose and place their counters in that all-important first box, otherwise, the amount gained by the end of February may be spartan.
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Post by flashblade on Feb 18, 2016 17:03:43 GMT
The Sussex Cricket Supporters Club Need You!
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“We need far more green counters at Waitrose!” comes the cry, as the Sussex Cricket Supporters Club attempts to raise money via the Supermarket’s community projects charity is lagging well behind in third and final position. The Hove outlet next to the ‘Greyhound Stadium’ donates £1,000 each month to three specified local good causes which are found in the 'Community Matters' boxes. Last month £438 was given to ‘Rockinghorse’; £312 to 'Age UK'; and £250 to 'Cruse Bereavement Care'. The amount of money donated is dependent on the number of green counters lying in each box. In total over £14m has been awarded by Waitrose to 30,000 different causes since the scheme began. Depending on the amount of money you spend on a shop at this outlet, so the number of green counters you'll be given at the checkout. The person can then decide which boxes to place the counters in. At present, with 18 days of February already gone, the Sussex Cricket Supporters Club will be lucky to gain £100 as there is very fierce competition. Presently, way ahead is the charity ‘Brighton Oasis Project’ which works to help women with drug and alcohol problems alongside children affected by family substance misuse. Second comes ‘The Ripple Pond’, a charity to aid service personnel and army veterans with physical and emotional difficulties including PTSD. So, yes, the competition is fierce. Please can Sussex supporters start shopping at the Hove Waitrose and place their counters in that all-important first box, otherwise, the amount gained by the end of February may be spartan. I have to disagree with your priorities on this one, fluffy. Is cricket more important than "help(ing) women with drug and alcohol problems alongside children affected by family substance misuse", or "aid(ing) service personnel and army veterans with physical and emotional difficulties including PTSD"? I'd be interested in others' views on this. |
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Post by hhsussex on Feb 18, 2016 18:24:23 GMT
The Sussex Cricket Supporters Club Need You!
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“We need far more green counters at Waitrose!” comes the cry, as the Sussex Cricket Supporters Club attempts to raise money via the Supermarket’s community projects charity is lagging well behind in third and final position. The Hove outlet next to the ‘Greyhound Stadium’ donates £1,000 each month to three specified local good causes which are found in the 'Community Matters' boxes. Last month £438 was given to ‘Rockinghorse’; £312 to 'Age UK'; and £250 to 'Cruse Bereavement Care'. The amount of money donated is dependent on the number of green counters lying in each box. In total over £14m has been awarded by Waitrose to 30,000 different causes since the scheme began. Depending on the amount of money you spend on a shop at this outlet, so the number of green counters you'll be given at the checkout. The person can then decide which boxes to place the counters in. At present, with 18 days of February already gone, the Sussex Cricket Supporters Club will be lucky to gain £100 as there is very fierce competition. Presently, way ahead is the charity ‘Brighton Oasis Project’ which works to help women with drug and alcohol problems alongside children affected by family substance misuse. Second comes ‘The Ripple Pond’, a charity to aid service personnel and army veterans with physical and emotional difficulties including PTSD. So, yes, the competition is fierce. Please can Sussex supporters start shopping at the Hove Waitrose and place their counters in that all-important first box, otherwise, the amount gained by the end of February may be spartan. I thought this discussion was oddly familiar - see my post here unofficialsussexccc.freeforums.net/post/15533/threadand the following discussion. I cannot read the small print on the photo but I don't think it says "we will ensure this money is ring-fenced so that it only goes to charitable activities in support of diversity encouraged by Sussex County Cricket club". If that is the case, and I'm very happy to withdraw it when proven otherwise, I think it is pretty unworthy of charitable giving in these desperate times when public money is withdrawn by central government and charities have to fight for the scraps to fulfil their purposes to those in need. I love my cricket but it comes a long way behind the needs of those other sufferers. |
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Feb 19, 2016 10:04:29 GMT
Fb & Hhs,
I agree with your sentiment.
I was writing purely from a fan's perspective and not the bigger picture. The supporters club does not fit comfortably alongside the two far worthier charitable causes. Perhaps, if the club had specified a particular aspect, it may have helped. But, I am not surprised it has garnered the fewest counters and if I was a member of the public and had read about each charity, I don't think my 'greenies' would have entered the first box.
While, I applaud the club for showing initiative and approaching Waitrose, in the present Britain we live in, 'Community Matters' covers a wide range of charities whose needs are far greater than the local county cricket club.
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Feb 23, 2016 16:53:21 GMT
Parish Notices - March
_____________________________Below are the March events at the Hove ground including a clash with the AGM and the ‘Quiz & Curry Night’… Eek!  6th: Mother’s Day Lunch - 3 course meal; FREE gift for Mother; 12.30pm onwards - £25 per person. 6th: Mother’s Day Tea - sparkling wine, selection of classic tea delights. 2.30pm onwards - £12.50 per person. Tel: 01273 827124: 1839@sussexcricket.co.uk (for both events). 9th: The Sussex Cricket Society Evening invites, Mike Charman 1st XI scorer, to discuss his work. 7.30pm start in the Spen Cama Pavilion. 17th: The Sussex Cricket Society final lunch of the winter - guest speaker is former Sussex Captain/player and MCC President (2012-13) Mike Griffith. 17th: ‘Sussex Cricket Ltd’ AGM in Boundary Rooms - all card carrying Members are invited. Begins at 7pm. 17th: ‘Quiz & Curry night’ at Spen Cama Pavilion - Arrival is from 6.45pm for food - Quiz starts at 8pm. £10 for both - £5 for Quiz. Contact Kevin Berry on: 01273 827124 or via e-mail: kevin.berry@sussexcricket.co.uk 28th/29th: First Match of the season!! 2 day friendly against Surrey at Hove.
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Post by hhsussex on Feb 23, 2016 21:27:04 GMT
Parish Notices - March
_____________________________Below are the March events at the Hove ground including a clash with the AGM and the ‘Quiz & Curry Night’… Eek! 6th: Mother’s Day Lunch - 3 course meal; FREE gift for Mother; 12.30pm onwards - £25 per person. 6th: Mother’s Day Tea - sparkling wine, selection of classic tea delights. 2.30pm onwards - £12.50 per person. Tel: 01273 827124: 1839@sussexcricket.co.uk (for both events). 9th: The Sussex Cricket Society Evening invites, Mike Charman 1st XI scorer, to discuss his work. 7.30pm start in the Spen Cama Pavilion. 17th: The Sussex Cricket Society final lunch of the winter - guest speaker is former Sussex Captain/player and MCC President (2012-13) Mike Griffith. 17th: ‘Sussex Cricket Ltd’ AGM in Boundary Rooms - all card carrying Members are invited. Begins at 7pm.
17th: ‘Quiz & Curry night’ at Spen Cama Pavilion - Arrival is from 6.45pm for food - Quiz starts at 8pm. £10 for both - £5 for Quiz. Contact Kevin Berry on: 01273 827124 or via e-mail: kevin.berry@sussexcricket.co.uk
28th/29th: First Match of the season!! 2 day friendly against Surrey at Hove. Shame the AGM clashes with the Quiz and Curry night. Still, there won't be too much that should delay the downing of the poppadoms and lager, just a few sententious speeches and a ritual declaration of faith in the finest that can be found within the Sussex stockade, and damnation to all foreigners, the ECB and anyone who has the impertinence to suggest that all is not for the best in this most perfect of all possible worlds. |
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Post by alythman on Feb 23, 2016 21:38:53 GMT
that comment is just plain weird
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2016 21:49:10 GMT
But not as weird as your objection to it...
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Post by flashblade on Feb 23, 2016 21:55:27 GMT
that comment is just plain weird Don't see why. It just reflects the beliefs of those who have become disenchanted and frustrated with the SCCC management. |
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Feb 24, 2016 10:54:56 GMT
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