Dig Dig Posted 18 December, 2012 Share Posted 18 December, 2012 As per the title, who would you recommend following on Twitter for good Saints or general football related news and information. Of course there are the official accounts to follow but any gems which are slightly under the radar or even the ones to avoid. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Charlie Posted 18 December, 2012 Share Posted 18 December, 2012 (edited) For Saints: @solentsport - BBC Radio Solent Sport - decent Saints stuff @bigadamsport - Adam Blackmore from Solent - often has some good info @SimonPeach - posts on here, works for Press Assoc and has a line to Sibley Football: @henrywinter - Best Football Writer in the UK IMO @OliverKayTimes - Close second @GraemeBailey - Sky Website writer - good feed of news One to Avoid: @johncrossmirror - Writes for the Mirror (poorly) about Arsenal, basic knowledge of football, no knowledge of anything outside top 4 (and Arsenal). Best Saint to Follow: @JackCork1 Best Saints Fans: @crstig @dansfc @mdig83 @duncanholley Edited 18 December, 2012 by Saint Charlie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paris Posted 18 December, 2012 Share Posted 18 December, 2012 Luke Shaw's quite good ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smirking_Saint Posted 18 December, 2012 Share Posted 18 December, 2012 @Reluctantnicko Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dig Dig Posted 18 December, 2012 Author Share Posted 18 December, 2012 For Saints: @solentsport - BBC Radio Solent Sport - decent Saints stuff @bigadamsport - Adam Blackmore from Solent - often has some good info @SimonPeach - posts on here, works for Press Assoc and has a line to Sibley Football: @henrywinter - Best Football Writer in the UK IMO @OliverKayTimes - Close second @GraemeBailey - Sky Website writer - good feed of news One to Avoid: @johncrossmirror - Writes for the Mirror (poorly) about Arsenal, basic knowledge of football, no knowledge of anything outside top 4 (and Arsenal). Best Saint to Follow: @JackCork1 Best Saints Fans: @crstig @dansfc @duncanholley Cheers for the info. Not sure about Peach, he seems to be a bit of a vessel for the dark forces IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Charlie Posted 18 December, 2012 Share Posted 18 December, 2012 Cheers for the info. Not sure about Peach, he seems to be a bit of a vessel for the dark forces IMO. Not sure what you mean. He is at most of the pressers so puts quotes from those on twitter which is handy. Ultimately no journalist is ITK about Saints anymore because the club are tight with info. Peach is no different, he reports what is said by Adkins etc, but rarely gets a sniff of anything else, exactly like the Echo don't etc. For me the only ones who have that little bit extra are Solent, I assume because the club chooses to feed them things every so often, and I know Adam Blackmore speaks to NC every so often - not aware any of the other Journalists ever do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fitzhugh Fella Posted 18 December, 2012 Share Posted 18 December, 2012 I think you will find Peach is reasonably close to Adkins. The other day I heard "a story" re Adkins and something that was said post the West Ham game. The info was slightly damning/worrying and so I ended up checking with Peach who was with Adkins, post the West ham game and he was able to put the story into proper context which portrayed Adkins words much more sympathetically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 18 December, 2012 Share Posted 18 December, 2012 I think you will find Peach is reasonably close to Adkins. The other day I heard "a story" re Adkins and something that was said post the West Ham game. The info was slightly damning/worrying and so I ended up checking with Peach who was with Adkins, post the West ham game and he was able to put the story into proper context which portrayed Adkins words much more sympathetically. which was..? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Charlie Posted 18 December, 2012 Share Posted 18 December, 2012 (edited) I think you will find Peach is reasonably close to Adkins. The other day I heard "a story" re Adkins and something that was said post the West Ham game. The info was slightly damning/worrying and so I ended up checking with Peach who was with Adkins, post the West ham game and he was able to put the story into proper context which portrayed Adkins words much more sympathetically. He is close in that he interviews Adkins before and after games as part of the press conferences. The same Adkins who as we know gives little away unfortunately. As he is a Saints fan he usually asks decent questions. There is a Scottish guy from Sky who has been at the PC's recently and is a complete tool - never asks about Saints, just Adkins job security and other issues in football, constantly looking to trip NA up. What there isn't is a Journalist who finds out information that Saints do not themselves give out. Edited 18 December, 2012 by Saint Charlie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dig Dig Posted 18 December, 2012 Author Share Posted 18 December, 2012 He is close in that he interviews Adkins before and after games as part of the press conferences. The same Adkins who as we know gives little away unfortunately. As he is a Saints fan he usually asks decent questions. There is a Scottish guy from Sky who has been at the PC's recently and is a complete tool - never asks about Saints, just Adkins job security and other issues in football, constantly looking to trip NA up. What there isn't is a Journalist who finds out information that Saints do not themselves give out. The dark forces comment was tongue in cheek. The last I saw from Peach on twitter was him questioning the integrity of Gazza's shoulder injury. If he is so close to Adkins, why would he do this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fitzhugh Fella Posted 18 December, 2012 Share Posted 18 December, 2012 which was..? That's the trouble I can't repeat it.....people tell you things but the first thing they say to me is "but you can't put that on any forums" and I have to respect that. Now if you were a drinker in my local.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fitzhugh Fella Posted 18 December, 2012 Share Posted 18 December, 2012 The dark forces comment was tongue in cheek. The last I saw from Peach on twitter was him questioning the integrity of Gazza's shoulder injury. If he is so close to Adkins, why would he do this? I think he is closer than most - Adkins is aware he is a fan, I think he trusts him and I reckon he tells him things he wouldn't tell other less trusted journos. Trouble is, Peach can't then tell us, so it is all a bit pointless really. We all have to rely on gossip and rumour and read between peach's lines (which is why this forum flourishes). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Chalet Posted 18 December, 2012 Share Posted 18 December, 2012 Chaplow is pretty good value on Twitter. The Nigel Adkins parody account has some funny lines, although a lot less tweets this season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_clark Posted 18 December, 2012 Share Posted 18 December, 2012 Not Big Sam is cracking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Charlie Posted 18 December, 2012 Share Posted 18 December, 2012 Not Big Sam is cracking. Yeah, that one is so close to the edge! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saints_is_the_south Posted 18 December, 2012 Share Posted 18 December, 2012 @philmcnulty @Marcotti @RorySmithTimes @paddybarclay The above are decent follows for football in general. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Cat Posted 18 December, 2012 Share Posted 18 December, 2012 The Saints players are much quieter this season. Last year Jos was very active as was Cork, Chaplow and De Ridder. Now barely a tweet from any of them apart from Chaplow. Orders from the club perhaps, or a conscious decision between the players after what happened to Lallana on there. Jaidi is worth following. Sid Lowe too if you are interested in Spanish football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Charlie Posted 18 December, 2012 Share Posted 18 December, 2012 The Saints players are much quieter this season. Last year Jos was very active as was Cork, Chaplow and De Ridder. Now barely a tweet from any of them apart from Chaplow. Orders from the club perhaps, or a conscious decision between the players after what happened to Lallana on there. Jaidi is worth following. Sid Lowe too if you are interested in Spanish football. Probably also that none of those players get in the team so have little to tweet about that is Saints related. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Garrett Posted 18 December, 2012 Share Posted 18 December, 2012 Luke shaw is a constant moaner on twitter tbf! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat from Poole Posted 18 December, 2012 Share Posted 18 December, 2012 The best parody account by an absolute mile is WengerKnowsBest. Very funny. As noted above, NotBigSam is also very good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperMikey Posted 19 December, 2012 Share Posted 19 December, 2012 Me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colinjb Posted 19 December, 2012 Share Posted 19 December, 2012 Didn't we have a thread for this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Le God Posted 19 December, 2012 Share Posted 19 December, 2012 Didn't we have a thread for this? It is one of the stickies on the main forum... http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?24915-Libel-Reminder-Use-of-Main-Board-Rules-Useful-Links Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dorsetdave Posted 19 December, 2012 Share Posted 19 December, 2012 The best parody account by an absolute mile is WengerKnowsBest. Very funny. As noted above, NotBigSam is also very good. If it's comedy value you you are after, then @pn_neil_allen is hard to beat although the tweets are often full of Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsmith77 Posted 19 December, 2012 Share Posted 19 December, 2012 I like @rchap04 and @officialsaints Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Cat Posted 19 December, 2012 Share Posted 19 December, 2012 Luke shaw is a constant moaner on twitter tbf! He also does that thing that loads of people his age seem to do where he makes wordssss much looonger than they neeeed to beeee. *confused face* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
get_rich Posted 19 December, 2012 Share Posted 19 December, 2012 Best football related feed is @MirrorFootball - very funny, you might need to follow for a while to get some of their jokes though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatch Posted 19 December, 2012 Share Posted 19 December, 2012 can we get a list of forumers to block as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Bateman Posted 19 December, 2012 Share Posted 19 December, 2012 He also does that thing that loads of people his age seem to do where he makes wordssss much looonger than they neeeed to beeee. *confused face* loooooooooool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
up and away Posted 19 December, 2012 Share Posted 19 December, 2012 Not sure what you mean. He is at most of the pressers so puts quotes from those on twitter which is handy. Ultimately no journalist is ITK about Saints anymore because the club are tight with info. Peach is no different, he reports what is said by Adkins etc, but rarely gets a sniff of anything else, exactly like the Echo don't etc. For me the only ones who have that little bit extra are Solent, I assume because the club chooses to feed them things every so often, and I know Adam Blackmore speaks to NC every so often - not aware any of the other Journalists ever do. That sounds about right to me, I don't believe any of them have a good link to Adkins. Blackmore will freely tell you that he gets no more out of Adkins then what is intended, very little. Bearing in mind that Blackmore is one of the few decent people you bump into in that sort of position, I would be doubtful if others are coming away with bucket loads. Blackmore is very astute in reading Adkins body language but without a well aimed quip or gripe to accompany, it is unknown about the cause. A surprise source is Les Reid, though very occasionally things just get blurted out by accident, but not any in depth expose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintmatt Posted 19 December, 2012 Share Posted 19 December, 2012 @deppoinexile, he was the only source I trusted during the Ramirez transfer saga Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chorlton Posted 19 December, 2012 Share Posted 19 December, 2012 FullKit******s is worth following. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractor_Saint Posted 19 December, 2012 Share Posted 19 December, 2012 FullKit******s is worth following. +1 for that! Also me.. sometimes I tweet sense (most of the times probably not) @tractorsaint Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miltonroader07 Posted 19 December, 2012 Share Posted 19 December, 2012 @miltonroader is quality Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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