Iles reporting PFA pulled out of funding wages

[radcliffe white]

Go on ken 

[frank_spencer]

47 minutes ago, Eavesy said:

He was absolutely devastated having to announce they’ve been paid.

 

its okay. Maybe he can post an article encouraging fans to question why ken hasn’t given away Walsall tickets. Despite the football association setting minimum prices for tickets.

The FA set minimum pricing but clubs can subsidise discounts iirc as long as the away club and FA receive the same amount of money they would have done at the set price. 

But those missing a few braincells don't get that a club losing money hand over fist can't afford that. 

Edited December 14, 2018 by frank_spencer

[DazBob]

7 minutes ago, Traf said:

https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/sport/17299203.bolton-wanderers-ban-the-bolton-news-reporter-from-university-of-bolton-stadium/

 

No one to blame but himself.

He's been playing with fire for too long. Was only a matter of time.

[Zico]

he can watch on ifollow, be reet

Edited December 14, 2018 by ZicoKelly

[Big E]

Only BWFC could ban a guy who has clearly been stirring shit up and still have fans sayings its outrageous. Fuck me i hate my old fella sometimes for getting me embroiled with these inbred morons. 

[Traf]

Thumb-headed spunkmonkey had it coming.

[Carlos]

Let's be honest, he's been angling at this for fucking ages.

[Zico]

all the shit stirring and in the end it was a muppets gif that overstepped the mark

[Traf]

2 minutes ago, Carlos said:

Let's be honest, he's been angling at this for fucking ages.

I actually had quite a long chat with Marc at Atherton pre-season and I said I wouldn't be surprised if he got banned before Christmas. His attitude was to shrug it off. he laughed and suggested it might a good thing. This is why I've felt he was working to an agenda. He can now further stoke up the frenzy on twitter as the "bad boy", getting more clicks for that shitty rag. That's all it is now : clickbait for ads.

[Steejay]

1 minute ago, Traf said:

Thumb-headed spunkmonkey had it coming.

Aye, but I think that’s what he’s been after all along. He’s kept pushing and pushing and he seems to enjoy being some kind of figurehead for the ‘masses.’ His credibility has dropped even lower IMO. 

[Steejay]

2 minutes ago, Mr Grey said:

It's pretty bad when the club ban the local press from Matches, it's all been tit for tat, whether you like Iles or not, it's is job to report, and before some of you state that he doesn't tell the truth etc...etc.. he's a Journo so it makes him more a less a liar from the start, but you all seem to believe our chancer of a chairman who is becoming more of a John Noakes by the week.

 

Personally i don't believe Iles or Sweaty Ken (or Tank Top Ken) or the ST

Is it just Iles that has been banned? Not the BEN???

[Sluffy]

Not surprised at all - he's been completely unprofessional and obviously anti-the club owner for a long time in association with others and his personal comments and actions on social media.

It's been my opinion for what it is worth the Iles believed that Anderson would be 'toppled' in recent weeks and hence his coordinated attack with the ST (The ST has been so active in years - so why now at the same time Iles went all in?) in the last two weeks or so.

I think he's been badly advised by his close associates - all of whom seemed to have an anti-Anderson agenda,

I think Iles has been played and not been smart enough to know it.

After saying all that I hope he is still kept in a job as his superiors on the paper clearly were happy enough to let him carry on over a considerable length of time without having a quiet word with him about keeping his personal views and his professional life completely apart.

 

[Guest]

This exactly what Iles wants. Ken you've made a blunder here. Giving him more exposure and more freedom to vent his spleen. 

Idiotic. 

[DazBob]

6 minutes ago, Mr Grey said:

It's pretty bad when the club ban the local press from Matches, it's all been tit for tat, whether you like Iles or not, it's is job to report, and before some of you state that he doesn't tell the truth etc...etc.. he's a Journo so it makes him more a less a liar from the start, but you all seem to believe our chancer of a chairman who is becoming more of a John Noakes by the week.

 

Personally i don't believe Iles or Sweaty Ken (or Tank Top Ken) or the ST

I don't see it as banning the press. Just Iles 

I'm sure if the BN send another reporter they'll be allowed in.

[Traf]

It'll give rise to another excuse for fans who already don't go. 

[Marc505]

I support Iles.

[TroySwoosh]

#teamken

[Leyther_Matt]

13 minutes ago, Traf said:

It'll give rise to another excuse for fans who already don't go. 

Exactly. If he wants to risk his livelihood for a bit of Twitter self-approval then that’s up to him. 

It was on the cards ever since he got on the V1 bus at Tyldesley en route to Piccadilly on an away game and didn’t have any bus cans for us. 

[Carlos]

Send in Boner, he's a thoroughly professional journo.

[DazBob]

1 minute ago, Leyther_Matt said:

Exactly. If he wants to risk his livelihood for a bit of Twitter self-approval then that’s up to him. 

Exactamundo. He's committed career suicide all for a few likes and retweets. 

[Zico]

has the phrase "freedom of speech" been uttered yet on social media?

[DazBob]

1 hour ago, DazBob said:

No more Twitter for me today. 

I'm back on. It's become fun again now.

[Dr Faustus]

I'm visualising Lies letting Ken know 'he will become more powerful now than he can ever imagine' in an Obi Wan/Darth Vader stand off

[Sluffy]

It will be interesting how the Bolton News now reacts.

I suspect they need the club stories for their paper than the club needs them, so I would doubt they would 'blank' the club and refuse to report on it.

So I would imagine they would report more professionally on the club and certainly attempt to get both sides of a story before rushing out to a personal twitter account, then post an article (in that order), as Iles has continually done.

I also suspect the ST 'views and comments' would be considerably less aired in future articles - as clearly they have an agenda against the club owner, and despite what they claim or wish to believe, are in no way representatives of Bolton fans as a whole.

All this will lead to more 'boring' reporting on the club and sticking to the official club line no doubt - which isn't a good thing - but certainly better than a loose cannon shit stirring on social media, being biased in his beliefs and not really understanding financial and business workings and reality.

I think Iles as been used as a conduit for staff and players at the club to express their 'personal' dissatisfaction and if he had been more professional how he validated their concerns and used their information to ask and seek clarification of 'issues' from within the club, then there would have been nothing wrong with this - it's what good reporters do - however he seemed to take these concerns at face value - without checking the context or accuracy of what he was being told - and rushed out to tweet and then write an article - because they fitted with his bias towards the club owner.

He therefore has made the voice from within the club that much harder to be heard because he's been unprofessional as the next reporter for the Bolton News will not be so eager to rush to get such 'gossip' out in future.

Wonder if Iles will now be swapped with another reporter - possibly the one who covers for him when he's doing the kids bedroom and such like?

 

[Marc505]

They stand by their man. And rightly so.

 

https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/17299477.comment-we-stand-firmly-by-our-man-marc-iles-after-ken-anderson-bans-him-from-university-of-bolton-stadium/