South London Press is no more - but Richard Cawley has a Charlton Substack (p3)

shirty5 · May 27

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sam3110 · May 27

Who's going to cover our march through the championship and into the Premier League now?!

clive · May 27

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The Red Robin · May 27

clive said:

Always preferred the Kentish Independent.

What a weird comment when a paper has just closed and people have lost their jobs.

InspectorSands · May 27

Really awful news - gutted for Rich Cawley and @LouisMend, while the news team there had worked their arses off to keep that place going.

It'll be irreplaceable for football coverage in general.

Henry Irving · May 27

A real shame if not a surprise. The "legacy" media is slowly dying.

I hope Rich and the others can find work worthy of their talents.

ElliotCAFC · May 27

Awful news

Danny Addick · May 27

Rich was brilliant. Who’s going to cover local football now - don’t tell me the big newspapers will be interested because they really aren’t.

DA9 · May 27

When I helped the liberal club football team I used to fax over the Sunday results for the whole league every Monday for publication.
Sad news

fenlandaddick · May 27

From Twitter looks like Rich has sone possible options for Charlton coverage next year. I will miss the SLP coverage, have used it for many years online.

RDG · May 27

Sounds like a gap in the market for a Charlton newsletter on Substack...

carly burn · May 27

Bad news this.

killerandflash · May 27

Sad news. Leaving aside the Charlton aspect, the SLP seemed one of the better local papers in London too,

Very sudden, the website is down. The big groups are lousy, but I'm surprised one of them didn't take over the SLP if it was in financial trouble, as it did have a core readership.

wmcf123 · May 27

Is there a way we can all say thanks to Rich and Louis ? Huge part of our lives for a long time (as I am sure Louis will continue to be ).

Fortune 82nd Minute · May 27

killerandflash said:

Sad news. Leaving aside the Charlton aspect, the SLP seemed one of the better local papers in London too,

Very sudden, the website is down. The big groups are lousy, but I'm surprised one of them didn't take over the SLP if it was in financial trouble, as it did have a core readership.

Annoying if the website is down for good (which presumably it will be) as you could access years of back issues in their archive section.

AdTheAddicK · May 27

Gutted for all.

fenlandaddick · May 27

wmcf123 said:

Is there a way we can all say thanks to Rich and Louis ? Huge part of our lives for a long time (as I am sure Louis will continue to be ).

They are on twitter if you have access

Edit:

https://x.com/RichSCawley/status/1927340894635659608

https://x.com/LouisMend/status/1927343345208119504

cantersaddick · May 27

Awful - gutted for Cawley. Who will give us summer transfer rumours now?

wmcf123 · May 27

fenlandaddick said:

wmcf123 said:

Is there a way we can all say thanks to Rich and Louis ? Huge part of our lives for a long time (as I am sure Louis will continue to be ).

They are on twitter if you have access

Of course - I just meant something broader . Thank you .

thai malaysia addick · May 27

Sorry to hear this news.

Gribbo · May 27

Wonder if Rich and Lewis could create a London wide football news website or something. Not sure it would pay enough with a small subscription fee and advertisements, but with their contacts, could be worth a crack?

Airman Brown · May 27

killerandflash said:

Sad news. Leaving aside the Charlton aspect, the SLP seemed one of the better local papers in London too,

Very sudden, the website is down. The big groups are lousy, but I'm surprised one of them didn't take over the SLP if it was in financial trouble, as it did have a core readership.

Unfortunately, the print model is broken. The SLP had been through multiple ownerships and wasn’t going to work any more than all the other titles that have failed in SE London. People will say they don’t care because they don’t read papers - but much of the better internet content is still built on print journalism foundations.

The SLP was always the rival paper for us on the Mercury in the 1980s and 1990s, but Rich has done a fantastic job in keeping the coverage going as the market collapsed around him and is a good mate. I’m sure it’s not the end for him (or Louis, but he didn’t work there).

Proud to have had a byline in the last issue!

Davo55 · May 27

That's a real shame.

clive · May 27

The Red Robin said:

clive said:

Always preferred the Kentish Independent.

What a weird comment when a paper has just closed and people have lost their jobs.

Sorry, i've removed my comment.

lolwray · May 27

I just fear for the future of old fashioned journalism. Big thanks from me to the SLP ,Richard and all his predecessors for their support of CAFC and the wider community.

The Internet has a lot to answer for sometimes

Bedsaddick · May 27

Gutted for the people losing their jobs but let’s be honest , the web site was an abomination and it was only a matter of time .

NomadicAddick · May 27

Gutted for Rich. I’m sure he will keep going, his coverage of South London clubs is excellent and will leave a huge hole if he doesn’t continue in some capacity.

Oh_Yoni_Boy · May 27

That's a shame, considering there are so many local papers out there (mainly online) spewing out crappy paint-by-numbers articles and clickbait - SLP had some brilliant, knowledgeable contributors and regularly put out insightful pieces on Charlton. They'll be missed.