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Thu Jan 29, 2026 1:46 pm

What’s all this Walesonline nonsense with charging for “Premium” Cardiff City reads. They charge £1 for the first read then £4.99 monthly.
I thought it was just for our ex-captains articles but they’ve now extended it to others.

They can do one - tw**s :banghead:

Re: Walesonline WhatsApp notifications

Thu Jan 29, 2026 3:18 pm

64Ninian wrote:What’s all this Walesonline nonsense with charging for “Premium” Cardiff City reads. They charge £1 for the first read then £4.99 monthly.
I thought it was just for our ex-captains articles but they’ve now extended it to others.

They can do one - tw**s :banghead:


They're all doing it, BBC started wanting to charge me a subscription last year to read most of their site but the sports pages are still free to read & that's all I need.

Everyone everywhere feels they are entitled to a little of our bank accounts these days & mine is empty so they can all do one.

Re: Walesonline WhatsApp notifications

Thu Jan 29, 2026 10:38 pm

64Ninian wrote:What’s all this Walesonline nonsense with charging for “Premium” Cardiff City reads. They charge £1 for the first read then £4.99 monthly.
I thought it was just for our ex-captains articles but they’ve now extended it to others.

They can do one - tw**s :banghead:

Yes, it certainly hampered my efforts to bring the ‘WOL - Bluebird Player Ratings’ to the Forum on Saturday!

Sadly, WOL are like many other newspapers not selling so many papers these days, so they have to make money by diversifying, and the ‘Premium’ charge appears to be one of them! :ayatollah:

Re: Walesonline WhatsApp notifications

Thu Jan 29, 2026 11:08 pm

Sven wrote:
64Ninian wrote:What’s all this Walesonline nonsense with charging for “Premium” Cardiff City reads. They charge £1 for the first read then £4.99 monthly.
I thought it was just for our ex-captains articles but they’ve now extended it to others.

They can do one - tw**s :banghead:

Yes, it certainly hampered my efforts to bring the ‘WOL - Bluebird Player Ratings’ to the Forum on Saturday!

Sadly, WOL are like many other newspapers not selling so many papers these days, so they have to make money by diversifying, and the ‘Premium’ charge appears to be one of them! :ayatollah:

Chris as long as I do not forget :laughing6: I may have a way to post it :thumbup:

Re: Walesonline WhatsApp notifications

Fri Jan 30, 2026 7:21 am

When opening the page, hit your phone into aeroplane mode and you can read it. Needs to be internet page not the app tho :ayatollah:

Re: Walesonline WhatsApp notifications

Fri Jan 30, 2026 9:04 am

Wales online is a farcically biased outlet and it reads like it’s been written by toddlers.