Rob Knowles

The programme is consistently shoddy. For example in the Ipswich review welcoming Tony Mowbray to Oakwell. Fixtures often wrong. I honestly don't know why we purchase it. It cannot be relied on for any accuracy.

Rob. We are not interested your arguments on the internet or how much you earn or your wife or anyone else for that matter. We just want a good Oakwell Review. You are the editor, the buck stops with you.

Now get on with it.

 

Name and address

Conkotyke

Why not e-mail Rob your thoughts and ask if you can meet him? Then again, that would take some guts to give him your name and address wouldn't it?

Rob is a one-man band doing a lot of work for the club, he's bound to make mistakes.

Leave him alone. If you don't like the Oakwell Review, don't buy it! And if you think it can be improved, why not write to the club, instead of slagging Rob off on a fans' message board?

How old are you by the way? Judging by your post, I am imagine you're writing this in your school dinner break...

 

yep just looking through old programme from bury 1978, 15p, and much more professional!!! mediocrity rules with the review!

 

Stpped buying it due to all the errors etc.

 

^ what he said nt

 

RE: Name and address

I will quite happily supply those details to the club. I have not 'slagged' him off at all. I have simply stated that the Oakwell Review has been consistently shoddy. Which is true, it has become a running joke the amount of errors that are found. I have never come on here and abused him in any way. I appreciate that his job may not be the easiest. But I feel he has acted totally unprofessionally. I think my post is legitimate.

 

the review is quite an expensive publication and therefore one would not expect schoolboy errors! if i was as unprofessional in my work i'd be in serious trouble! however, dont think this is a major point of debate, nothing to get irate about. ps.. i will gladly give Rob my name and address, dont think he'll come knocking somehow!! ridiculous statement luke

 

WHY?

Why the hell should everyone have to attend private meetings?

No personal matters in the club programme.

Improve the quality of publication.

Everyone is happy. No private fecking meeting required.

 

Agreed Supertyke

I shall probably be in Barnsley on Saturday night and so maybe I should meet over a pint, all the people who wish to air their issues with me lol.

 

RE: Name and address

Where has this 'complain in person' rubbish come from when we're not happy about something. The best way of complaining is by letter or email with name and address supplied for replies. Maybe letter writing is my strength and for others it isn't, but I get the best results that way. Occasionally a phone call or personal visit does the trick, but I think you're more likely to lose your cool and with it the moral high ground, or get totally fobbed off that way. Better to leave actually speaking to them as something to fall back on as a last resort. Never show too much of your hand to start with, which you tend to do in a discussion.

 

Are you Rob Knowles in disguise? nt

 

LUKE

I was simply saying the editor should get on with the job of editing, which has been the problem. Rather than engaging in tit for tatting with anonymous people on the internet. I would never say anything I wouldn't say to someones face.

I think once the editor has thought about what he has done he will realise his mistake. I appreciate everyone makes mistakes, and can act rashly, especially when we believe we have been insulted.

I have nothing against Rob on a personal level. I just wish the Review was better value for money.

 

WHY

should you and him hide behind an internet pseudonym while you go and pull him to pieces in matters where you have little expertise in?
It becomes a personal matter after seeing person(s) nit pick on an almost daily basis.
Go on, go give him a hand, if its that bad as you seemingly love to make out offer some of your time to proof read a few pages of the programme. Try to be constructive rather and ripping everything to shreads.
But that requires you to be a bit grown up and well thats just not going to happen is it?


Nb the daft content on the website....see contractual obligations. I've mentioned that before.

 

RE: WHY

Nobody's hiding, he can email people if he wants. I just don't know why people would need to meet someone in person when all the feedback/advice they can give is 'be better at your job'.

And as for pointing things out on here, website errors seem to be ironed out quickly enough when everyone's taking the piss on this messageboard.

 

actually i am very well educated and a fundamental part of my job is producing client care plans and training and development programmes for staff, so proof reading wouldnt remotely challenge me! correct information is only a click away in this day and age, its not difficult! think you would rather like zimbabwe, cuba or china for ex, they are not too keen on freedom of speech there! if i performed poorly in my work i would be taken to task, and rightly so.

 

I think D/T's comments were aimed at Conkotyke and Dreamboy3000, although I could be wrong.

 

If they were, they were unwarranted. I have never nit picked the Revew on here. Although it has become a joke amongst supporters. My post was in response.

If the editor did not want to provoke a debate and comments from such people as myself then he should have thought before publishing.

 

That's just how it looked. Not really sure who it was aimed at.

 

RE: Name and address

I don't mind slagging him off having suffered from his ineptness. He put spin on my email, published it in the Review without permission and published a different reply from the one he actually sent me.

The guy's an arse and should not do a job he's incapable of doing properly.

 

in the grand scheme of life this is an extremely minor focus for debate, but for some strange reason it is provoking an unhealthy response. the review is open to critisism and praise by those who read or buy it, as is any publication in this country. i personally think the barnsley chronicle neglects to tackle major social issues, preferring to concentrare on mrs jones missing cat etc- little thought provoking journalism! the point is that this is my opinion, whereas others may think the chron is a great read, and i respect thier opinion as i do other peoples beliefs. i kinda believe certain posters have a personal interest in all this, and this is clouding thier judgment and thus taking the debate out of its perspective.