No Frills Attached · Issue 870

Dear gair rhydd,

Eagerly, I picked up a copy of this week’s Gair Rhydd and turned to the back page. I did this in expectation of a reasonably sized piece about Cardiff’s University Ultimate Frisbee team, NoFrills, and their victory last weekend, especially considering NoFrills are now UK and Ireland National Champions.

On viewing the back page, I was highly disappointed to see nothing but a large picture of a snooker table, with a relatively small article about Cardiff’s snooker club win.

Now, I’m sure this is fantastic news for the snooker club, and I obviously don’t want to take their glory away, but was there no way the space on the back page could have been used more wisely and shared between both clubs?

My disappointment increased with each page I turned until I eventually found the article three pages from the back. The title of ‘Bridging the gap’ and the photo are uninspired and unrelated – the photo is not of the Cardiff team.

The Ultimate tournament, that Cardiff won, was a BUSA tournament which earned the University many valuable points, leaving aside the fact that winning Nationals is a first in the history of NoFrills.

Armed with this information, did you not think it important enough to put it on the back page? Isn’t that where such good news goes?

I understand that the running of Gair Rhydd is soon to change, and will have an induction of new editing/writing teams, but I felt I needed to express my opinion on this matter.

The university football and rugby seasons may be over, but many minority sports are yet to complete some of the most important tournaments of their sporting year. Therefore, I would highly advise you to be more diligent in your choices for the back page article in future.

Melanie Biggs