We are terriers

[Jack]

Good luck with the new venture Steven and David... even if it does sound a bit Leedsy or Wednesday-ish.

[exberlinerterrier]

This is the link, for those of you wanting to subscribe. weareterriers.substack.com/p/we-are-terriers-will-launch-on-friday

I’d really encourage getting involved. Only £5 a month for one podcast, and two decent written pieces per week.

Good luck with the new project Steven and David.

[Tinpot]

Just listened to the last Ooh To Be A Terrier.

Only just recently got into it, but it now seems odd that it won't be there.

Looking forward to the new service though.

[exberlinerterrier]

The subscription service is now live.

The first podcast is with Kevin Nagle.

Get signed up Town fans!

[royrace]

Dec 1, 2023 8:47:47 GMT 1 exberlinerterrier said:

The subscription service is now live.

The first podcast is with Kevin Nagle.

Get signed up Town fans!

Got to love the way KN is so supportive of local people/businesses, I don't think it's coincidence that this podcast and new venture gets his first interview for quite some time. 

[Dan]

It's promising that Kevin says he will be in Huddersfield for the whole month of January...

[benhomly]

Dec 1, 2023 10:41:44 GMT 1 Dan said:

It's promising that Kevin says he will be in Huddersfield for the whole month of January...

Blimey if that doesn't put him off then we might have a good 'un

[Big Ern]

Dec 1, 2023 10:41:44 GMT 1 Dan said:

It's promising that Kevin says he will be in Huddersfield for the whole month of January...

Certainly can't be accused of being out of pocket if he is! That's so far in his pocket that he's giving himself a sly tug

[Tinpot]

Last day of t'Examiner having football coverage. I wonder if the Su'lan 5 conclusions will appear there or on the new service.

I'll have a read of Yorkshire Live in the morning but TBH after that I might as well ditch the bookmark. Signing up for the new service tomorrow.

[gledholt terrier]

Dec 1, 2023 12:10:43 GMT 1 Tinpot said:

Last day of t'Examiner having football coverage. I wonder if the Su'lan 5 conclusions will appear there or on the new service.

I'll have a read of Yorkshire Live in the morning but TBH after that I might as well ditch the bookmark. Signing up for the new service tomorrow.

5 conclusions now up.

I meant to post this here yesterday but forgot (first thing I’ve written for a long time, so please forgive clunkiness). It can also be read here in perhaps a more pleasing format htfcreports.com/2023/11/30/texaminer-died-last-night/

T’Examiner died last night

When I was a boy, reading The Examiner, a broadsheet at the time, was a sumptuous pleasure, before I even knew what sumptuous meant.

The type print, the sober and serious stories, the importance of local news which weaved like an invisible thread through a community with it’s liberal tone and innate decency which endowed an unassailable authority on an institution we took for granted for so long.

Selling in it’s tens of thousands, from a plethora of local newsagents throughout the town and the myriad villages up hill and down dale, stretching across housing estates, work places and rural areas, the local paper’s power, carried with a natural responsibility, was palpable and, seemingly, eternal.

Reporters and columnists became known and respected through carrying on traditions rooted in civic pride, a sense of duty and the certainty of righteousness.

Central to the ethos of The Examiner was coverage of sport.

Town and Fartown were covered extensively and respectfully, of course, but if you played in goals for your school and played well despite conceding 9 goals, someone told the local paper about it and your name was put up in lights.

The District, Works and Sunday football leagues were assiduously recorded and elevated.

Local cricket was reported upon comprehensively, accurately and with no little reverence.

Bowls, squash, tennis, rugby union and all other forms of sporting endeavour were recorded and, more importantly, celebrated.

Day in, day out and week in, week out, The Examiner accumulated history, recording the triumphs, failures, tribulations of a Yorkshire town with diligence and compassion and was a huge part of each member of the extensive community’s lives, whether we embraced it or not.

The final ever Huddersfield Town report by a dedicated reporter will be filed in response to the club’s well earned victory at the Stadium of Light, Sunderland, and the tragedy of that fact will only be fully realised in the years to come.

Steve Chicken’s far too short tenure in the footsteps of Alan “Longfellow” Driscoll, Martin Hardy, Paul Clark, Mel Booth, Doug Thompson and others did, at least, end with a victory, but the melancholy will linger hard for those of us whose lives encompassed Examiner coverage of Huddersfield Town over decades.

The loss was, perhaps, inevitable in a world where information is cheap, but that loss will reverberate in ways not immediately apparent.

The resource, wide, deep and, above all, trustworthy, is disappearing fast as the conglomerate which owns local newspaper legacies displays little interest in maintaining investment in the assets which create a continuous, compelling witness to the events which shape our lives, including the fortunes of our local football club.

It is too easy to lapse in to nostalgia, and there is much to be nostalgic about, but every citizen of Huddersfield should feel sorrow at the emaciation of a hugely important institution and find ways of supporting those people trying to keep the spirit of local news alive.

Huddersfield Hub are very worthy of support, and from a Town perspective, Steven Chicken, with colleague David Hartrick, is now taking the Huddersfield Town torch independent with a Substack venture. Go to weareterriers.substack.com and subscribe.

The service, including their excellent and well established podcast plus Town articles is a snip at £5 per month. Recording the history of Huddersfield Town is massively important and a fiver per month a very small price to pay for its continuance.

A significant community asset was extinguished this week and should be rightly mourned.

For me, a love of words, Huddersfield and Huddersfield Town grew out of reading Driscoll, Hardy, Booth and the rest in the pages of t’Examiner, every day of the week bar Sunday.

RIP The Huddersfield Daily Examiner.

(I was that schoolboy goalkeeper)

[Frankiesleftpeg]

Dec 1, 2023 10:41:44 GMT 1 Dan said:

It's promising that Kevin says he will be in Huddersfield for the whole month of January...

He'd be advised to bring some socks with him.

[htafcokay]

Dec 1, 2023 13:13:17 GMT 1 Frankiesleftpeg said:

Dec 1, 2023 10:41:44 GMT 1 Dan said:

It's promising that Kevin says he will be in Huddersfield for the whole month of January...

He'd be advised to bring some socks with him.

And his cheque books. 

[Walton-on-the-Hill Terrier]

Dec 1, 2023 13:21:42 GMT 1 htafcokay said:

Dec 1, 2023 13:13:17 GMT 1 Frankiesleftpeg said:

He'd be advised to bring some socks with him.

And his cheque books. 

Check books.

[mosher]

Dec 1, 2023 13:39:34 GMT 1 Walton-on-the-Hill Terrier said:

Dec 1, 2023 13:21:42 GMT 1 htafcokay said:

And his cheque books. 

Check books.

Two responses to that:

If you're being ironic 

If you're not 

[overtonterrierspirit]

Dec 1, 2023 12:48:02 GMT 1 gledholt terrier said:

Dec 1, 2023 12:10:43 GMT 1 Tinpot said:

Last day of t'Examiner having football coverage. I wonder if the Su'lan 5 conclusions will appear there or on the new service.

I'll have a read of Yorkshire Live in the morning but TBH after that I might as well ditch the bookmark. Signing up for the new service tomorrow.

5 conclusions now up.

I meant to post this here yesterday but forgot (first thing I’ve written for a long time, so please forgive clunkiness). It can also be read here in perhaps a more pleasing format htfcreports.com/2023/11/30/texaminer-died-last-night/

T’Examiner died last night

When I was a boy, reading The Examiner, a broadsheet at the time, was a sumptuous pleasure, before I even knew what sumptuous meant.

The type print, the sober and serious stories, the importance of local news which weaved like an invisible thread through a community with it’s liberal tone and innate decency which endowed an unassailable authority on an institution we took for granted for so long.

Selling in it’s tens of thousands, from a plethora of local newsagents throughout the town and the myriad villages up hill and down dale, stretching across housing estates, work places and rural areas, the local paper’s power, carried with a natural responsibility, was palpable and, seemingly, eternal.

Reporters and columnists became known and respected through carrying on traditions rooted in civic pride, a sense of duty and the certainty of righteousness.

Central to the ethos of The Examiner was coverage of sport.

Town and Fartown were covered extensively and respectfully, of course, but if you played in goals for your school and played well despite conceding 9 goals, someone told the local paper about it and your name was put up in lights.

The District, Works and Sunday football leagues were assiduously recorded and elevated.

Local cricket was reported upon comprehensively, accurately and with no little reverence.

Bowls, squash, tennis, rugby union and all other forms of sporting endeavour were recorded and, more importantly, celebrated.

Day in, day out and week in, week out, The Examiner accumulated history, recording the triumphs, failures, tribulations of a Yorkshire town with diligence and compassion and was a huge part of each member of the extensive community’s lives, whether we embraced it or not.

The final ever Huddersfield Town report by a dedicated reporter will be filed in response to the club’s well earned victory at the Stadium of Light, Sunderland, and the tragedy of that fact will only be fully realised in the years to come.

Steve Chicken’s far too short tenure in the footsteps of Alan “Longfellow” Driscoll, Martin Hardy, Paul Clark, Mel Booth, Doug Thompson and others did, at least, end with a victory, but the melancholy will linger hard for those of us whose lives encompassed Examiner coverage of Huddersfield Town over decades.

The loss was, perhaps, inevitable in a world where information is cheap, but that loss will reverberate in ways not immediately apparent.

The resource, wide, deep and, above all, trustworthy, is disappearing fast as the conglomerate which owns local newspaper legacies displays little interest in maintaining investment in the assets which create a continuous, compelling witness to the events which shape our lives, including the fortunes of our local football club.

It is too easy to lapse in to nostalgia, and there is much to be nostalgic about, but every citizen of Huddersfield should feel sorrow at the emaciation of a hugely important institution and find ways of supporting those people trying to keep the spirit of local news alive.

Huddersfield Hub are very worthy of support, and from a Town perspective, Steven Chicken, with colleague David Hartrick, is now taking the Huddersfield Town torch independent with a Substack venture. Go to weareterriers.substack.com and subscribe.

The service, including their excellent and well established podcast plus Town articles is a snip at £5 per month. Recording the history of Huddersfield Town is massively important and a fiver per month a very small price to pay for its continuance.

A significant community asset was extinguished this week and should be rightly mourned.

For me, a love of words, Huddersfield and Huddersfield Town grew out of reading Driscoll, Hardy, Booth and the rest in the pages of t’Examiner, every day of the week bar Sunday.

RIP The Huddersfield Daily Examiner.

(I was that schoolboy goalkeeper)

Summed up perfectly Gledholt.
I too am very sad to see the end of what was, a truly “local” paper.
My personal relationship with the paper, started as a boy, where I actually managed to read unaided for the first time, when I read a midweek match report ( League Cup v Arsenal)
Then, as a paperboy, turning up at the newsagents, wating for the familiar orange and black van to arrive with bundles of them.
I remember the smell of the print and of the eager customers waiting outside the shop for their arrival.
You see, these people would be talking to each other, we had communities and now all we have are people at home staring at a screen.
The Examiner was a crucial part of our lives.
As you say, it was always inevitable that it would end and I’m pleased that we have an alternative source for our Town news.
I’ll be signing up.

[Tinpot]

Dec 1, 2023 12:48:02 GMT 1 gledholt terrier said:

Dec 1, 2023 12:10:43 GMT 1 Tinpot said:

Last day of t'Examiner having football coverage. I wonder if the Su'lan 5 conclusions will appear there or on the new service.

I'll have a read of Yorkshire Live in the morning but TBH after that I might as well ditch the bookmark. Signing up for the new service tomorrow.

5 conclusions now up.

I meant to post this here yesterday but forgot (first thing I’ve written for a long time, so please forgive clunkiness). It can also be read here in perhaps a more pleasing format htfcreports.com/2023/11/30/texaminer-died-last-night/

T’Examiner died last night

When I was a boy, reading The Examiner, a broadsheet at the time, was a sumptuous pleasure, before I even knew what sumptuous meant.

The type print, the sober and serious stories, the importance of local news which weaved like an invisible thread through a community with it’s liberal tone and innate decency which endowed an unassailable authority on an institution we took for granted for so long.

Selling in it’s tens of thousands, from a plethora of local newsagents throughout the town and the myriad villages up hill and down dale, stretching across housing estates, work places and rural areas, the local paper’s power, carried with a natural responsibility, was palpable and, seemingly, eternal.

Reporters and columnists became known and respected through carrying on traditions rooted in civic pride, a sense of duty and the certainty of righteousness.

Central to the ethos of The Examiner was coverage of sport.

Town and Fartown were covered extensively and respectfully, of course, but if you played in goals for your school and played well despite conceding 9 goals, someone told the local paper about it and your name was put up in lights.

The District, Works and Sunday football leagues were assiduously recorded and elevated.

Local cricket was reported upon comprehensively, accurately and with no little reverence.

Bowls, squash, tennis, rugby union and all other forms of sporting endeavour were recorded and, more importantly, celebrated.

Day in, day out and week in, week out, The Examiner accumulated history, recording the triumphs, failures, tribulations of a Yorkshire town with diligence and compassion and was a huge part of each member of the extensive community’s lives, whether we embraced it or not.

The final ever Huddersfield Town report by a dedicated reporter will be filed in response to the club’s well earned victory at the Stadium of Light, Sunderland, and the tragedy of that fact will only be fully realised in the years to come.

Steve Chicken’s far too short tenure in the footsteps of Alan “Longfellow” Driscoll, Martin Hardy, Paul Clark, Mel Booth, Doug Thompson and others did, at least, end with a victory, but the melancholy will linger hard for those of us whose lives encompassed Examiner coverage of Huddersfield Town over decades.

The loss was, perhaps, inevitable in a world where information is cheap, but that loss will reverberate in ways not immediately apparent.

The resource, wide, deep and, above all, trustworthy, is disappearing fast as the conglomerate which owns local newspaper legacies displays little interest in maintaining investment in the assets which create a continuous, compelling witness to the events which shape our lives, including the fortunes of our local football club.

It is too easy to lapse in to nostalgia, and there is much to be nostalgic about, but every citizen of Huddersfield should feel sorrow at the emaciation of a hugely important institution and find ways of supporting those people trying to keep the spirit of local news alive.

Huddersfield Hub are very worthy of support, and from a Town perspective, Steven Chicken, with colleague David Hartrick, is now taking the Huddersfield Town torch independent with a Substack venture. Go to weareterriers.substack.com and subscribe.

The service, including their excellent and well established podcast plus Town articles is a snip at £5 per month. Recording the history of Huddersfield Town is massively important and a fiver per month a very small price to pay for its continuance.

A significant community asset was extinguished this week and should be rightly mourned.

For me, a love of words, Huddersfield and Huddersfield Town grew out of reading Driscoll, Hardy, Booth and the rest in the pages of t’Examiner, every day of the week bar Sunday.

RIP The Huddersfield Daily Examiner.

(I was that schoolboy goalkeeper)

Not on t'Examiner they're not.

Although, main reason for responding was that this reminded me of the match reports that used to come on here. Really good to see you've continued the writing. I've always enjoyed it.

[benhomly]

Dec 1, 2023 12:48:02 GMT 1 gledholt terrier said:

Dec 1, 2023 12:10:43 GMT 1 Tinpot said:

Last day of t'Examiner having football coverage. I wonder if the Su'lan 5 conclusions will appear there or on the new service.

I'll have a read of Yorkshire Live in the morning but TBH after that I might as well ditch the bookmark. Signing up for the new service tomorrow.

5 conclusions now up.

I meant to post this here yesterday but forgot (first thing I’ve written for a long time, so please forgive clunkiness). It can also be read here in perhaps a more pleasing format htfcreports.com/2023/11/30/texaminer-died-last-night/

T’Examiner died last night

When I was a boy, reading The Examiner, a broadsheet at the time, was a sumptuous pleasure, before I even knew what sumptuous meant.

The type print, the sober and serious stories, the importance of local news which weaved like an invisible thread through a community with it’s liberal tone and innate decency which endowed an unassailable authority on an institution we took for granted for so long.

Selling in it’s tens of thousands, from a plethora of local newsagents throughout the town and the myriad villages up hill and down dale, stretching across housing estates, work places and rural areas, the local paper’s power, carried with a natural responsibility, was palpable and, seemingly, eternal.

Reporters and columnists became known and respected through carrying on traditions rooted in civic pride, a sense of duty and the certainty of righteousness.

Central to the ethos of The Examiner was coverage of sport.

Town and Fartown were covered extensively and respectfully, of course, but if you played in goals for your school and played well despite conceding 9 goals, someone told the local paper about it and your name was put up in lights.

The District, Works and Sunday football leagues were assiduously recorded and elevated.

Local cricket was reported upon comprehensively, accurately and with no little reverence.

Bowls, squash, tennis, rugby union and all other forms of sporting endeavour were recorded and, more importantly, celebrated.

Day in, day out and week in, week out, The Examiner accumulated history, recording the triumphs, failures, tribulations of a Yorkshire town with diligence and compassion and was a huge part of each member of the extensive community’s lives, whether we embraced it or not.

The final ever Huddersfield Town report by a dedicated reporter will be filed in response to the club’s well earned victory at the Stadium of Light, Sunderland, and the tragedy of that fact will only be fully realised in the years to come.

Steve Chicken’s far too short tenure in the footsteps of Alan “Longfellow” Driscoll, Martin Hardy, Paul Clark, Mel Booth, Doug Thompson and others did, at least, end with a victory, but the melancholy will linger hard for those of us whose lives encompassed Examiner coverage of Huddersfield Town over decades.

The loss was, perhaps, inevitable in a world where information is cheap, but that loss will reverberate in ways not immediately apparent.

The resource, wide, deep and, above all, trustworthy, is disappearing fast as the conglomerate which owns local newspaper legacies displays little interest in maintaining investment in the assets which create a continuous, compelling witness to the events which shape our lives, including the fortunes of our local football club.

It is too easy to lapse in to nostalgia, and there is much to be nostalgic about, but every citizen of Huddersfield should feel sorrow at the emaciation of a hugely important institution and find ways of supporting those people trying to keep the spirit of local news alive.

Huddersfield Hub are very worthy of support, and from a Town perspective, Steven Chicken, with colleague David Hartrick, is now taking the Huddersfield Town torch independent with a Substack venture. Go to weareterriers.substack.com and subscribe.

The service, including their excellent and well established podcast plus Town articles is a snip at £5 per month. Recording the history of Huddersfield Town is massively important and a fiver per month a very small price to pay for its continuance.

A significant community asset was extinguished this week and should be rightly mourned.

For me, a love of words, Huddersfield and Huddersfield Town grew out of reading Driscoll, Hardy, Booth and the rest in the pages of t’Examiner, every day of the week bar Sunday.

RIP The Huddersfield Daily Examiner.

(I was that schoolboy goalkeeper)

I can remember when the Examiner would fall through the letterbox at around 6pm on a Saturday tea time with a full match report of the game played that afternoon. That's when games used to finish at 4.40 not 5.10 of course. Me and my brother would wait to hear for the letterbox and then race to the back door to see who could get to it first to scan down the report to see the names of the Town scorers in bold. Not everything is progress

[gledholt terrier]

Dec 1, 2023 14:20:17 GMT 1 benhomly said:

Dec 1, 2023 12:48:02 GMT 1 gledholt terrier said:

5 conclusions now up.

I meant to post this here yesterday but forgot (first thing I’ve written for a long time, so please forgive clunkiness). It can also be read here in perhaps a more pleasing format htfcreports.com/2023/11/30/texaminer-died-last-night/

T’Examiner died last night

When I was a boy, reading The Examiner, a broadsheet at the time, was a sumptuous pleasure, before I even knew what sumptuous meant.

The type print, the sober and serious stories, the importance of local news which weaved like an invisible thread through a community with it’s liberal tone and innate decency which endowed an unassailable authority on an institution we took for granted for so long.

Selling in it’s tens of thousands, from a plethora of local newsagents throughout the town and the myriad villages up hill and down dale, stretching across housing estates, work places and rural areas, the local paper’s power, carried with a natural responsibility, was palpable and, seemingly, eternal.

Reporters and columnists became known and respected through carrying on traditions rooted in civic pride, a sense of duty and the certainty of righteousness.

Central to the ethos of The Examiner was coverage of sport.

Town and Fartown were covered extensively and respectfully, of course, but if you played in goals for your school and played well despite conceding 9 goals, someone told the local paper about it and your name was put up in lights.

The District, Works and Sunday football leagues were assiduously recorded and elevated.

Local cricket was reported upon comprehensively, accurately and with no little reverence.

Bowls, squash, tennis, rugby union and all other forms of sporting endeavour were recorded and, more importantly, celebrated.

Day in, day out and week in, week out, The Examiner accumulated history, recording the triumphs, failures, tribulations of a Yorkshire town with diligence and compassion and was a huge part of each member of the extensive community’s lives, whether we embraced it or not.

The final ever Huddersfield Town report by a dedicated reporter will be filed in response to the club’s well earned victory at the Stadium of Light, Sunderland, and the tragedy of that fact will only be fully realised in the years to come.

Steve Chicken’s far too short tenure in the footsteps of Alan “Longfellow” Driscoll, Martin Hardy, Paul Clark, Mel Booth, Doug Thompson and others did, at least, end with a victory, but the melancholy will linger hard for those of us whose lives encompassed Examiner coverage of Huddersfield Town over decades.

The loss was, perhaps, inevitable in a world where information is cheap, but that loss will reverberate in ways not immediately apparent.

The resource, wide, deep and, above all, trustworthy, is disappearing fast as the conglomerate which owns local newspaper legacies displays little interest in maintaining investment in the assets which create a continuous, compelling witness to the events which shape our lives, including the fortunes of our local football club.

It is too easy to lapse in to nostalgia, and there is much to be nostalgic about, but every citizen of Huddersfield should feel sorrow at the emaciation of a hugely important institution and find ways of supporting those people trying to keep the spirit of local news alive.

Huddersfield Hub are very worthy of support, and from a Town perspective, Steven Chicken, with colleague David Hartrick, is now taking the Huddersfield Town torch independent with a Substack venture. Go to weareterriers.substack.com and subscribe.

The service, including their excellent and well established podcast plus Town articles is a snip at £5 per month. Recording the history of Huddersfield Town is massively important and a fiver per month a very small price to pay for its continuance.

A significant community asset was extinguished this week and should be rightly mourned.

For me, a love of words, Huddersfield and Huddersfield Town grew out of reading Driscoll, Hardy, Booth and the rest in the pages of t’Examiner, every day of the week bar Sunday.

RIP The Huddersfield Daily Examiner.

(I was that schoolboy goalkeeper)

I can remember when the Examiner would fall through the letterbox at around 6pm on a Saturday tea time with a full match report of the game played that afternoon. That's when games used to finish at 4.40 not 5.10 of course. Me and my brother would wait to hear for the letterbox and then race to the back door to see who could get to it first to scan down the report to see the names of the Town scorers in bold. Not everything is progress

Those Saturday teatime reports, phoned in from the ground home and away, were things of infinite beauty.

[gledholt terrier]

Dec 1, 2023 14:09:31 GMT 1 Tinpot said:

Dec 1, 2023 12:48:02 GMT 1 gledholt terrier said:

5 conclusions now up.

I meant to post this here yesterday but forgot (first thing I’ve written for a long time, so please forgive clunkiness). It can also be read here in perhaps a more pleasing format htfcreports.com/2023/11/30/texaminer-died-last-night/
)

Not on t'Examiner they're not.

Although, main reason for responding was that this reminded me of the match reports that used to come on here. Really good to see you've continued the writing. I've always enjoyed it.

Yes, apologies - meant on the new Substack.

I paused the reports and haven’t gone back to doing them yet (a combination of work and apathy for away games means they would be too sporadic).

[Walton-on-the-Hill Terrier]

Dec 1, 2023 13:57:04 GMT 1 mosher said:

Dec 1, 2023 13:39:34 GMT 1 Walton-on-the-Hill Terrier said:

Check books.

Two responses to that:

If you're being ironic 

If you're not 

Nagle will have check books.

[mosher]

Dec 1, 2023 16:09:14 GMT 1 Walton-on-the-Hill Terrier said:

Dec 1, 2023 13:57:04 GMT 1 mosher said:

Two responses to that:

If you're being ironic 

If you're not 

Nagle will have check books.

Aaa, is that another thing they spell incorrectly over there?

Aluminum, Color, Apologize, Pediatrics, Catalog, Center and the like.

Say it quietly [ssssshhhhhh] but some of their spellings make more sense than ours 

[Macduff]

Dec 1, 2023 12:48:02 GMT 1 gledholt terrier said:

Dec 1, 2023 12:10:43 GMT 1 Tinpot said:

Last day of t'Examiner having football coverage. I wonder if the Su'lan 5 conclusions will appear there or on the new service.

I'll have a read of Yorkshire Live in the morning but TBH after that I might as well ditch the bookmark. Signing up for the new service tomorrow.

5 conclusions now up.

I meant to post this here yesterday but forgot (first thing I’ve written for a long time, so please forgive clunkiness). It can also be read here in perhaps a more pleasing format htfcreports.com/2023/11/30/texaminer-died-last-night/

T’Examiner died last night

When I was a boy, reading The Examiner, a broadsheet at the time, was a sumptuous pleasure, before I even knew what sumptuous meant.

The type print, the sober and serious stories, the importance of local news which weaved like an invisible thread through a community with it’s liberal tone and innate decency which endowed an unassailable authority on an institution we took for granted for so long.

Selling in it’s tens of thousands, from a plethora of local newsagents throughout the town and the myriad villages up hill and down dale, stretching across housing estates, work places and rural areas, the local paper’s power, carried with a natural responsibility, was palpable and, seemingly, eternal.

Reporters and columnists became known and respected through carrying on traditions rooted in civic pride, a sense of duty and the certainty of righteousness.

Central to the ethos of The Examiner was coverage of sport.

Town and Fartown were covered extensively and respectfully, of course, but if you played in goals for your school and played well despite conceding 9 goals, someone told the local paper about it and your name was put up in lights.

The District, Works and Sunday football leagues were assiduously recorded and elevated.

Local cricket was reported upon comprehensively, accurately and with no little reverence.

Bowls, squash, tennis, rugby union and all other forms of sporting endeavour were recorded and, more importantly, celebrated.

Day in, day out and week in, week out, The Examiner accumulated history, recording the triumphs, failures, tribulations of a Yorkshire town with diligence and compassion and was a huge part of each member of the extensive community’s lives, whether we embraced it or not.

The final ever Huddersfield Town report by a dedicated reporter will be filed in response to the club’s well earned victory at the Stadium of Light, Sunderland, and the tragedy of that fact will only be fully realised in the years to come.

Steve Chicken’s far too short tenure in the footsteps of Alan “Longfellow” Driscoll, Martin Hardy, Paul Clark, Mel Booth, Doug Thompson and others did, at least, end with a victory, but the melancholy will linger hard for those of us whose lives encompassed Examiner coverage of Huddersfield Town over decades.

The loss was, perhaps, inevitable in a world where information is cheap, but that loss will reverberate in ways not immediately apparent.

The resource, wide, deep and, above all, trustworthy, is disappearing fast as the conglomerate which owns local newspaper legacies displays little interest in maintaining investment in the assets which create a continuous, compelling witness to the events which shape our lives, including the fortunes of our local football club.

It is too easy to lapse in to nostalgia, and there is much to be nostalgic about, but every citizen of Huddersfield should feel sorrow at the emaciation of a hugely important institution and find ways of supporting those people trying to keep the spirit of local news alive.

Huddersfield Hub are very worthy of support, and from a Town perspective, Steven Chicken, with colleague David Hartrick, is now taking the Huddersfield Town torch independent with a Substack venture. Go to weareterriers.substack.com and subscribe.

The service, including their excellent and well established podcast plus Town articles is a snip at £5 per month. Recording the history of Huddersfield Town is massively important and a fiver per month a very small price to pay for its continuance.

A significant community asset was extinguished this week and should be rightly mourned.

For me, a love of words, Huddersfield and Huddersfield Town grew out of reading Driscoll, Hardy, Booth and the rest in the pages of t’Examiner, every day of the week bar Sunday.

RIP The Huddersfield Daily Examiner.

(I was that schoolboy goalkeeper)

An elegant and erudite piece Martin.
Thanks.

[kennyk2]

[Tinpot]

Mentioned by David Hartrick in AHTTC. Also a link on there:
www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/tv/martin-lewis-urging-people-who-28193032?int_source=nba

[runner76]

Any idea how many paid subs they have?

[townrwe]

Should probably offer a weeks/months free trial. I'm not going to sign upto something without guaranteed continuity or knowing the quality of the broadcast without the weight of the examiner behind them or what future interviews are scheduled.

But good luck, hope it goes well.

[ACW]

Dec 1, 2023 12:48:02 GMT 1 gledholt terrier said:

Dec 1, 2023 12:10:43 GMT 1 Tinpot said:

Last day of t'Examiner having football coverage. I wonder if the Su'lan 5 conclusions will appear there or on the new service.

I'll have a read of Yorkshire Live in the morning but TBH after that I might as well ditch the bookmark. Signing up for the new service tomorrow.

5 conclusions now up.

I meant to post this here yesterday but forgot (first thing I’ve written for a long time, so please forgive clunkiness). It can also be read here in perhaps a more pleasing format htfcreports.com/2023/11/30/texaminer-died-last-night/

T’Examiner died last night

When I was a boy, reading The Examiner, a broadsheet at the time, was a sumptuous pleasure, before I even knew what sumptuous meant.

The type print, the sober and serious stories, the importance of local news which weaved like an invisible thread through a community with it’s liberal tone and innate decency which endowed an unassailable authority on an institution we took for granted for so long.

Selling in it’s tens of thousands, from a plethora of local newsagents throughout the town and the myriad villages up hill and down dale, stretching across housing estates, work places and rural areas, the local paper’s power, carried with a natural responsibility, was palpable and, seemingly, eternal.

Reporters and columnists became known and respected through carrying on traditions rooted in civic pride, a sense of duty and the certainty of righteousness.

Central to the ethos of The Examiner was coverage of sport.

Town and Fartown were covered extensively and respectfully, of course, but if you played in goals for your school and played well despite conceding 9 goals, someone told the local paper about it and your name was put up in lights.

The District, Works and Sunday football leagues were assiduously recorded and elevated.

Local cricket was reported upon comprehensively, accurately and with no little reverence.

Bowls, squash, tennis, rugby union and all other forms of sporting endeavour were recorded and, more importantly, celebrated.

Day in, day out and week in, week out, The Examiner accumulated history, recording the triumphs, failures, tribulations of a Yorkshire town with diligence and compassion and was a huge part of each member of the extensive community’s lives, whether we embraced it or not.

The final ever Huddersfield Town report by a dedicated reporter will be filed in response to the club’s well earned victory at the Stadium of Light, Sunderland, and the tragedy of that fact will only be fully realised in the years to come.

Steve Chicken’s far too short tenure in the footsteps of Alan “Longfellow” Driscoll, Martin Hardy, Paul Clark, Mel Booth, Doug Thompson and others did, at least, end with a victory, but the melancholy will linger hard for those of us whose lives encompassed Examiner coverage of Huddersfield Town over decades.

The loss was, perhaps, inevitable in a world where information is cheap, but that loss will reverberate in ways not immediately apparent.

The resource, wide, deep and, above all, trustworthy, is disappearing fast as the conglomerate which owns local newspaper legacies displays little interest in maintaining investment in the assets which create a continuous, compelling witness to the events which shape our lives, including the fortunes of our local football club.

It is too easy to lapse in to nostalgia, and there is much to be nostalgic about, but every citizen of Huddersfield should feel sorrow at the emaciation of a hugely important institution and find ways of supporting those people trying to keep the spirit of local news alive.

Huddersfield Hub are very worthy of support, and from a Town perspective, Steven Chicken, with colleague David Hartrick, is now taking the Huddersfield Town torch independent with a Substack venture. Go to weareterriers.substack.com and subscribe.

The service, including their excellent and well established podcast plus Town articles is a snip at £5 per month. Recording the history of Huddersfield Town is massively important and a fiver per month a very small price to pay for its continuance.

A significant community asset was extinguished this week and should be rightly mourned.

For me, a love of words, Huddersfield and Huddersfield Town grew out of reading Driscoll, Hardy, Booth and the rest in the pages of t’Examiner, every day of the week bar Sunday.

RIP The Huddersfield Daily Examiner.

(I was that schoolboy goalkeeper)

Great post Gledholt.

I played for years in the Huddersfield Open snooker league and each Thursday the Examiner used to print all of the results for all matches played the previous week. They used to print the league tables every few months too.

Before the Open league set up it's own web site, it was the only way to see how everyone was doing. They used to print photos of the player with the highest break that week and the Examiner photographers used to come round the clubs on match days to take pictures of teams which would be published throughout the season. I've still got a print of my team taken in 2001.

Sadly, these days are behind us. The world has moved on. I can accept that the snooker stuff has now moved online to a dedicated Web site, but I can't see the justification of a local newspaper not having dedicated coverage of the local football team.

As you say, it's the deathknell of the Examiner.

[goodbet]

Dec 6, 2023 14:52:09 GMT 1 ACW said:

Dec 1, 2023 12:48:02 GMT 1 gledholt terrier said:

5 conclusions now up.

I meant to post this here yesterday but forgot (first thing I’ve written for a long time, so please forgive clunkiness). It can also be read here in perhaps a more pleasing format htfcreports.com/2023/11/30/texaminer-died-last-night/

T’Examiner died last night

When I was a boy, reading The Examiner, a broadsheet at the time, was a sumptuous pleasure, before I even knew what sumptuous meant.

The type print, the sober and serious stories, the importance of local news which weaved like an invisible thread through a community with it’s liberal tone and innate decency which endowed an unassailable authority on an institution we took for granted for so long.

Selling in it’s tens of thousands, from a plethora of local newsagents throughout the town and the myriad villages up hill and down dale, stretching across housing estates, work places and rural areas, the local paper’s power, carried with a natural responsibility, was palpable and, seemingly, eternal.

Reporters and columnists became known and respected through carrying on traditions rooted in civic pride, a sense of duty and the certainty of righteousness.

Central to the ethos of The Examiner was coverage of sport.

Town and Fartown were covered extensively and respectfully, of course, but if you played in goals for your school and played well despite conceding 9 goals, someone told the local paper about it and your name was put up in lights.

The District, Works and Sunday football leagues were assiduously recorded and elevated.

Local cricket was reported upon comprehensively, accurately and with no little reverence.

Bowls, squash, tennis, rugby union and all other forms of sporting endeavour were recorded and, more importantly, celebrated.

Day in, day out and week in, week out, The Examiner accumulated history, recording the triumphs, failures, tribulations of a Yorkshire town with diligence and compassion and was a huge part of each member of the extensive community’s lives, whether we embraced it or not.

The final ever Huddersfield Town report by a dedicated reporter will be filed in response to the club’s well earned victory at the Stadium of Light, Sunderland, and the tragedy of that fact will only be fully realised in the years to come.

Steve Chicken’s far too short tenure in the footsteps of Alan “Longfellow” Driscoll, Martin Hardy, Paul Clark, Mel Booth, Doug Thompson and others did, at least, end with a victory, but the melancholy will linger hard for those of us whose lives encompassed Examiner coverage of Huddersfield Town over decades.

The loss was, perhaps, inevitable in a world where information is cheap, but that loss will reverberate in ways not immediately apparent.

The resource, wide, deep and, above all, trustworthy, is disappearing fast as the conglomerate which owns local newspaper legacies displays little interest in maintaining investment in the assets which create a continuous, compelling witness to the events which shape our lives, including the fortunes of our local football club.

It is too easy to lapse in to nostalgia, and there is much to be nostalgic about, but every citizen of Huddersfield should feel sorrow at the emaciation of a hugely important institution and find ways of supporting those people trying to keep the spirit of local news alive.

Huddersfield Hub are very worthy of support, and from a Town perspective, Steven Chicken, with colleague David Hartrick, is now taking the Huddersfield Town torch independent with a Substack venture. Go to weareterriers.substack.com and subscribe.

The service, including their excellent and well established podcast plus Town articles is a snip at £5 per month. Recording the history of Huddersfield Town is massively important and a fiver per month a very small price to pay for its continuance.

A significant community asset was extinguished this week and should be rightly mourned.

For me, a love of words, Huddersfield and Huddersfield Town grew out of reading Driscoll, Hardy, Booth and the rest in the pages of t’Examiner, every day of the week bar Sunday.

RIP The Huddersfield Daily Examiner.

(I was that schoolboy goalkeeper)

Great post Gledholt.

I played for years in the Huddersfield Open snooker league and each Thursday the Examiner used to print all of the results for all matches played the previous week. They used to print the league tables every few months too.

Before the Open league set up it's own web site, it was the only way to see how everyone was doing. They used to print photos of the player with the highest break that week and the Examiner photographers used to come round the clubs on match days to take pictures of teams which would be published throughout the season. I've still got a print of my team taken in 2001.

Sadly, these days are behind us. The world has moved on. I can accept that the snooker stuff has now moved online to a dedicated Web site, but I can't see the justification of a local newspaper not having dedicated coverage of the local football team.

As you say, it's the deathknell of the Examiner.

You forgot the Dart, dominoes & all fours league tables as well.

It used to be full of useful/useless information that used to be the backbone of our society/culture
and now is just a waste of paper.

You can't even get your fish and chips in old copies anymore.

[exberlinerterrier]

Dec 6, 2023 14:35:58 GMT 1 townrwe said:

Should probably offer a weeks/months free trial. I'm not going to sign upto something without guaranteed continuity or knowing the quality of the broadcast without the weight of the examiner behind them or what future interviews are scheduled.

But good luck, hope it goes well.

When you say “weight of the Examiner behind them”, what do you actually mean? Steven Chicken was single-handedly propping up examiner football coverage.

The content they have now is behind a paywall, but it’s of the same quality as before… the user experience has been enhanced because the landing pages on SubStack are advert free.

I’m happy to vouch for the quality. Arguably it’s a better experience than before, for a more than fair price.

[townrwe]

Dec 6, 2023 15:03:14 GMT 1 exberlinerterrier said:

Dec 6, 2023 14:35:58 GMT 1 townrwe said:

Should probably offer a weeks/months free trial. I'm not going to sign upto something without guaranteed continuity or knowing the quality of the broadcast without the weight of the examiner behind them or what future interviews are scheduled.

But good luck, hope it goes well.

When you say “weight of the Examiner behind them”, what do you actually mean? Steven Chicken was single-handedly propping up examiner football coverage.

The content they have now is behind a paywall, but it’s of the same quality as before… the user experience has been enhanced because the landing pages on SubStack are advert free.

I’m happy to vouch for the quality. Arguably it’s a better experience than before, for a more than fair price.

Fair enough, I just dont see a position where id be willing to subscribe monthly to an unknown, Pretty much every subscription service has a try before you buy, and I think would probably increase uptake and also identify the likely size of the audience and if its likely to be a sustainable model or if it could even be expanded as an offering.