Guardian Season Preview

[MagicBoots]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009 ... ason-guide

They have highlighted Paul Granger as our one to watch???

Can anyone tell me about this guy? Perhaps I'm just being a bit simple...

[Darlo_Chris]

I think he was the 16 year old left winger who played the full 90 minutes at Bradford Park Avenue

[mikkyx]

Anyone got more of these? (with links if poss.) - might do a little article rounding up what the media think of our chances.......

[MagicBoots]

I've been away, so haven't heard anything from the Bradford Game.

Did the lad look any good? Enough for a national newspaper to describe hime as "one to watch"?!

[TwoSaints]

Anyone got more of these? (with links if poss.) - might do a little article rounding up what the media think of our chances.......

The Times have us going down http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/ ... =24&page=3

[real_darlo_85]

Paul Grainger has only just been picked up for our youth team (from Sunderland) this season. I find it hard to believe he is our 'one to watch' off the back of one appearence at Bradford PA. They've either looked through our team and blindly picked any random player or its complete mis-identity because I think we all know that out of our young players our 'ones to watch' would be Josh Gray/Curtis Main.

What I do believe is that this is yet another case of a national papers' poor mans attempt at previewing the leagues outside the Premiership/Championship!

[Hawkeye]

Football (or lower-league football at least) is probably the one thing that the tabloids tend to be better at reporting than the broadsheets (other than the latest exploits of Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen, etc). I've now seen both The Times' and the Guardian's efforts at League Two previews and it's easy to see that they've not done their homework. None of us really know anything about this Granger chap and I doubt The Guardian do either. Looks to me as if they've just picked out a random name from our squad. I've not seen any of pre-season, but from what I've read on here it looks as though Gary Smith will be the one to watch this season (or even Windass if he stays fit).

[Makka Pakka]

Anyone got more of these? (with links if poss.)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/footba ... eason.html

[herts_darlo]

Anyone got more of these? (with links if poss.) - might do a little article rounding up what the media think of our chances.......

Well, twohundredpercent (who I normally follow with somewhat slavish devotion) have us finishing 24th...

http://www.twohundredpercent.net/?p=1746

[Makka Pakka]

http://www.skysports.com/opinion/story/ ... 75,00.html

[poly12]

National newspaper reporting on lower league football has been nothing more than a joke for as long as I can remember.

There's no chance we'll go down. If anything I have a feeling that we might be able to sneak the play offs - particularly if we keep the back 4 of Bower, Miller, Foster and Arnison fit. There won't be teams putting many past us with that defence.

Above all, Colin Todd is the best man for the job given the situation the club is in and most importantly, knows how to get the best from a small squad of players.

[darlo2001uk]

There's more chance of us going down than making the play offs, although I don't believe we will be relegated.

15 or 16 would be my estimate - and I would be quite happy with that.

[doc_64]

Anyone got more of these? (with links if poss.)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/footba ... eason.html

forgive if im wrong but didnt david preece go to aberdeen years ago, these posh papers know nowt

[TeessideQuaker]

He did indeed, many many years ago.

[Hawkeye]

Anyone got more of these? (with links if poss.)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/footba ... eason.html

forgive if im wrong but didnt david preece go to aberdeen years ago, these posh papers know nowt

Fantastic journalism! Bravo!

[connor2k7ovdarlo]

Funny to see in one of the links given a comment has been made on Barry Conlon as...' The Best player in the division'