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steven


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Today's Net Post at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/tennis/article7061724.ece leads with the Parliamentary committee's 'investigation' into British Tennis this week. He's trying to work out who's been called to testify there and gets stuck at Tony Hawks and Petch. Hmm.

He also rolls out Tony Pickard "the only Brit alive to have coached a player to a Wimbledon title" (he omits to mention that Pickard was also the DC captain who shared the 4 losses in a row record with Lloydy until JL broke it with the loss to Lithuania ...), who has a few things to say, though the first person to comment takes a well-aimed shot at him.

All good fun ... if it wasn't so serious.

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Steven you didn't mention the wild card for Heather for Miami.

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steven


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I thought we already knew (?) but can't think now where we knew from, so perhaps we didn't! If not, that is the biggest news of the lot, I agree. smile.gif

-- Edited by steven on Monday 15th of March 2010 12:50:57 PM

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Well, now I am not as surprised as I previously said I was about Heather missing out on Jersey  smile



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i guess this should go here: from June times will be charging £1 a day or £2 a week to access their online content :(

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Josh


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Any chance of OEM arranging a secret login for us...?

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That's not going to be too popular.

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I'm moving to the guardian for my lunch time reading

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helki


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johnnylad wrote:

I'm moving to the guardian for my lunch time reading


Really!? wink Better improve their spelling, then.wink

 



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I must admit I quite like the Grauniad   smile

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The Telegraph often has decent tennis coverage, too.

Sorry, Times. I won't be paying for info that is easily available elsewhere free.

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that will backfire...stupid times

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Drew wrote:

that will backfire...stupid times


What, you mean like Murdoch's other informed gambles such as taking on the print unions, Sky, etc ...

Businesses that don't make profits eventually go under. And giving away your product for free sure as hell isn't going to make you a profit.

Fair play to the Times, £104 pa seems like better value than BBC TV.

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It is certainly a gamble by the Times group. Newspapers are not making money and a lot more people are getting their news on line. I don't think it will work unless all the quality press follow suit, which they may well do. I have to say I don't like reading a whole paper online, but it is useful to look at certain articles. I wouldn't be parting with £104 a year for one newspaper though! Not in addition to paying for the paper ones! It could make it difficult to access archive articles when doing research and as such will limit the great value of the internet as an information source.

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Very interesting article today

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/tennis/article7084788.ece

OEM certainly leads the complaints about the coaching structure/funding though many others have spoken out. For all the parlimentary review that took place, it does seem that the LTA will carry on as before. Even if not wholsale cullings, it would have been nice to read that they were at least going to make a few changes to the way that operated.

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