The Western Mail , The South Wales Echo

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Christ what utter rubbish they are

All over the country newspapers are fading but some seem to still cater for traditional old gits .....like me

I have never been one for reading the guardian , times etc or their sunday equivalent .....its a trial to get through some of the pretentious nonsense in those

I grew up with the western mail and echo and they seemed to be quite distinct papers . The Echo was more a football paper but at least in the old days they had different match reports for city games

As I hated the big papers on a weekend it was great when the western mail expanded to a Wales on Sunday edition

But it's absolutely crap and all its reports , including the football pages are simply repeated in Mondays western mail

I have given up on the Echo and will soon give up on the western mail . The price is extortionate for the rubbish that is in there and its more expensive than most of the competition .

The population of Wales is 3 million ......about 7000 western mails are sold daily

I have heard of a loss leader but that's the end of the line

I havnt been to Queen Street in years , do the fellas still sell the Echo?

They won't be for long

[Talksport]

Christ what utter rubbish they are

All over the country newspapers are fading but some seem to still cater for traditional old gits .....like me

I have never been one for reading the guardian , times etc or their sunday equivalent .....its a trial to get through some of the pretentious nonsense in those

I grew up with the western mail and echo and they seemed to be quite distinct papers . The Echo was more a football paper but at least in the old days they had different match reports for city games

As I hated the big papers on a weekend it was great when the western mail expanded to a Wales on Sunday edition

But it's absolutely crap and all its reports , including the football pages are simply repeated in Mondays western mail

I have given up on the Echo and will soon give up on the western mail . The price is extortionate for the rubbish that is in there and its more expensive than most of the competition .

The population of Wales is 3 million ......about 7000 western mails are sold daily

I have heard of a loss leader but that's the end of the line

I havnt been to Queen Street in years , do the fellas still sell the Echo?

They won't be for long

Totally agree with you. I ditched the Echo a few years ago as its utter rubbish. Never bothered with the Western Mail or Sunday edition.
Now I know you don't like the Daily Mail, but their sport pages are really good, not to mention most of the rest of it too 😂

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Totally agree with you. I ditched the Echo a few years ago as its utter rubbish. Never bothered with the Western Mail or Sunday edition.
Now I know you don't like the Daily Mail, but their sport pages are really good, not to mention most of the rest of it too 😂

I won't have that in my house

I am looking for a decent Saturday paper with the weeks TV in it

But it can't be the Mail for obvious reasons

[ToTaL ITK]

Sometimes Sludge...you remind me of my youth and the VIZ comic

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Sometimes Sludge...you remind me of my youth and the VIZ comic

Wales Live is on the TV tonight

The television equivalent of the echo

Total and utter garbage

[insider]

I haven't read an actual physical paper in about 20 years.
I stopped buying the echo after they printed all those photos of City fans at Stoke.

[JamesWales]

I haven't read an actual physical paper in about 20 years.
I stopped buying the echo after they printed all those photos of City fans at Stoke.

What number were you?

[JamesWales]

The i is a good paper. Times is good but not cheap. Mail has a lot in it and doesn't give a ****. Sunday Times is the only national newspaper to do a Welsh edition.

Unfortunately I can't see many local papers lasting that much longer unless they go free.

[Organ Morgan.]

Am relieved the OP hasn't reminisced about the Daily and Sunday Sport (Spurt, more like) newspapers as we'd like CCMB to remain a family-orientated, smut-free forum.

[UNDERHILL1927]

Sludge aka the Victor Meldrew of the CCMB

[Ninja]

Am relieved the OP hasn't reminisced about the Daily and Sunday Sport (Spurt, more like) newspapers as we'd like CCMB to remain a family-orientated, smut-free forum.

Couldn't fault the sport, great lads mag that was in effect.
Hated the echo and Wales online for 20 yrs or more now tho.

[insider]

What number were you?

I wasn't at the game.
Like a bloke in Barry who lost his job because someone bubbled him to police because of the photos in the echo.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

I wasn't at the game.
Like a bloke in Barry who lost his job because someone bubbled him to police because of the photos in the echo.

I was

Bedlam all day