After months of deliberation and spreadsheet, calenders and long-range weather forecasts, I've decided to sign-up for membership again for the upcoming season.
Gemma is excited by the prospect of being able to sit inside and read the paper when she is dragged to a Friends Provident Zonal match on a drizzly April afternoon.
I have decided that although the Blog is The Raggy Bear, calling myself "the raggy bear" make me sound like a dishevelled hairy homosexual. Which could be construed as misrepresentation, so I'm going to stop it.
Showing posts with label Raggy Bear. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Raggy Bear. Show all posts
Friday, 21 March 2008
Members again
Saturday, 15 March 2008
An embarrasing retraction
Deary me, no sooner I am crowing about the cutting edge news on the Raggy Bear than I'm forced to print a retraction!
An anonymous poster pointed out the follow article from the Post back in November where the possibility of Majid Haq coming on trial was first reported. So I can't claim to be the first to break the story; I'm the second to break his imminent arrival this week (after the Paisley Express where I poached the story from obviously!) and no-one can take that away from me (apart from possibly some other Paisley based newspaper without an internet presence - its a minefield this blogging lark, I'll be banned in China next).
Tuesday, 11 March 2008
In exalted company
Since starting my blog, I've sometimes felt a little cheap that I rarely have any stories which are down to my investigative prowess (unless you count finding vaguely Warwickshire related articles in the Hindu Times and New Zealand Herald).
So I was somewhat comforted this week that Cricinfo just ripped off an interview by George Dobell in the Post and made an article out of it; Harmison told Donald he was scared. Being as ripping off and regurgitating articles by George Dobell is a central pillar of the Raggy Bear, it made me feel a lot better. At least I have the decency to mention him by name when I trade off his work; Cricinfo just put "Donald told the Birmingham Post" - No he didn't, he told George in The Swan in Harborne - credit where credit's due. Although the fact their article is written by "Cricinfo Staff" might indicate they have a preference for anonymous journalism.
Monday, 7 January 2008
Brave new world website
It looks at though there is the start of a brave new world website at Edgbaston, with the launch of a fancy new site. It seems fairly obvious to your correspondant that the WCCC hierachy are running scared of the Raggy Bear and its burgeoning readership and are attempting to claw back readership by offering news on a wide range of topics from the world of cricket. However the old adage remains true; a jack of all trades and a master of none.
For sporadic and unecessarily detailed news on the bears there is only one site for you.
A side effect of the new website, which appears to use frames, is that it no longer seems possible for me to link to stories on the WCCC website directly. It looks as though in the unlikely event of the WCCC website covering something that slips under the radar of Cricinfo, the Post or the Mail I will just write it here myself as a post, instead of linking to it. I might even pretend I found it out myself.
I liken this media blackout to the North Korean govenment refusing to allow an underground newspaper to carry official party propaganda. I'm running a revolutionary press here, and if the web-goblins at WCCC want to make it hard for me to pass-on their occasional "news" then so be it. Their counterproductive policies will not harm this journal one jot.
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