This is a time of great change in sports journalism and that's the thinking behind The Mixed Zone newsletter which launches this Thursday.
I do appreciate that it isn't easy to have to dip into your pocket so I promise to do all that I can to offer good value. I fully appreciate every single subscription, I really mean that. Paul O'Donovan - now alongside Fintan McCarthy in the lightweight double sculls - has a real chance to cement a place in history as Ireland's greatest Olympian.