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@Corker77...good response Matt and thanks for the detailed reply.

I come from your background - but as someone who has worked closely with editors/journos and in other sectors - so I do realise that things like budgets, staff numbers, the wider commercial concerns of publishers who are running a business and deadline constraints actually mean that an editor is often a fixer-in-chief rather than someone who has the power to wave a magic wand and publish exactly what he thinks is right and whenever he wants. The days of the editor being king - able to make each issue his own - are well and truly gone and are not not coming back.

I still buy BN but not every week; and the reason why is that I still don't like are those filler pages where the team chatting to itself about the week ahead and we get polls and lazy top-tens as well....the heartbeat of the magazine should still be current news and using some of the great global contacts/network you used to have...not the team sitting around saying 'well, I think this.' Sounds harsh, but you are a weekly news title and opinon-ed pieces should be the preserve of the editoral leader and not extend into the meat of the magazine?

It's hard to ask any weekly printed publication to be "news" led nowadays though. I get BN every week and have done for the best part of 25 years. The news parts used to be my favourite as I would read for the first time about matches made etc. Now, because of forums and news-sites, there is generally nothing in the news section that I did not already know. Instead, some of the interviews recently (Eubank Jnr etc) have been the highlights of the paper.

My biggest grumble of the current BN is devoting a page every week to world rankings, which barely change week-to-week.

Bring back the "Old Timers" page - a great way for the various EBA's to share news.

Ok Matt, you've convinced me there will be changes. Took out new subscription. It pays to keep in touch with the punters - even those up north in Gods country.