Another BBC related complaint.

This is a quote from their article about Treviso/Ospreys. Now, this seems a bit juvenile, and failing that, terrible journalism. Whoever wrote this should probably consider a new profession.

"Adam Jones cried off because of a calf injury to force a late Ospreys change."

Apart from a bit of grammar whats the issue

That's not journalism....even the BBC are anti Welsh...I bet a 606v2 poster wrote it

Well for a man who is payed to write I'd expect him to be able to employ basic grammar, and follow that up with the use of 'cried off' it's just a very poorly written statement. The writer uses phrases that wouldn't be out of place on a junior school playground, not on a national news website.

Looseheaded wrote:Well for a man who is paid to write I'd expect him to be able to employ basic grammar, and follow that up with the use of 'cried off' it's just a very poorly written statement. The writer uses phrases that wouldn't be out of place on a junior school playground, not on a national news website.

Just corrected that for you...

But yes, cried off sounds sh*t.

i think you mean Poopie

Cheers Cari, alcohol is not my friend when ranting. But nevertheless, I am not paid for my grammatical errors, whereas the writer is.

Is it possible he meant "carried"?

This would at least imply that he was careless in not checking his work, rather than being juvenile...

No chance

There aren't enough people in the med team to carry him off

QED must be cried off

Whats the problem with the use of cried off?

Its a common phrase.

Honestly if I worked for BBC and this was the biggest complaint I'd be very happy.

"Cried off" is a pretty common phrase for this type of thing. Wiktionary uses sport as the example to explain its meaning.

Sorry, but I have to cry off the game on Saturday, as my mother-in-law is coming to visit.

It's not great journalism (maybe his mother-in-law was coming to visit and it was just an excuse?), but it's hardly worth losing sleep over.

I think you're annoyed as "cried off" makes it sound like Jones is a slap right?

England cried off the RWC 2011

Yep, sounds fine to me

Actually just brightened my evening, to picture Adam Jones "crying off" because the coaches told him he couldn't play makes me snort.

Why doesn't someone ask him about it in the Q&A?

Has the OP never heard the phrase before? Quite a common one used in sports journalism.

greybeard wrote:Has the OP never heard the phrase before? Quite a common one used in sports journalism.

Agree this is a baffling complaint.

I think it was the next line that provoked the complaint.

Adam Jones cried off because of a calf injury to force a late Ospreys change. When questioned about the injury he said that it was ´vealy sore' and he couldn´t continue.

Got no problems with the complaint. That´s a shocker.

kiakahaaotearoa wrote:I think it was the next line that provoked the complaint.

Adam Jones cried off because of a calf injury to force a late Ospreys change. When questioned about the injury he said that it was ´vealy sore' and he couldn´t continue.

Got no problems with the complaint. That´s a shocker.

That sentence wasn't mentioned in the original post and the posted clearly said "cried off" was the issue for him.

That´s right march me back 10m Stag.

No room for poetic licence here. We need more debate on the use of cried off. In these dark, financial times, not enough emphasis is placed on the banal and trivial things of life. Somehow I can´t help but feel if our politicians were more at ease with this phrasal verb, we wouldn´t be in this mess in the first place.

kiakahaaotearoa wrote:That´s right march me back 10m Stag.

No room for poetic licence here. We need more debate on the use of cried off. In these dark, financial times, not enough emphasis is placed on the banal and trivial things of life. Somehow I can´t help but feel if our politicians were more at ease with this phrasal verb, we wouldn´t be in this mess in the first place.

Cry off
To break or withdraw from a promise, agreement, or undertaking.

If I was Adam Jones, I'd take em to Court for defamation

Scandalous slight on his Welsh manhood.

Gibson wrote:Scandalous slight on his Welsh manhood.

Is that like an intimate tattoo?

See? More scandal.