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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2019 9:32:55 GMT
I think it’s fair comment. If you’ve been on the forum a while chances are you follow the club heavily and find where the content is (or are given links). I think we do produce great content these days but it tends to be through the YouTube and Twitter channels. Even the Facebook media is a little weak. The main problem is the consistency. If you go on the website you won’t find this stuff and we need to work on ensuring that website, twitter, YouTube and Facebook are all in sync. The other week I went looking for a new player interview on our YouTube and couldn’t find it, it was only on twitter, which also meant I couldn’t cast it onto one of my TVs. Numerous times throughout the season player announcements and team sheets will be missed off facebook altogether or be delayed. Spot on... its consistency. Quite a bit out there just more random than it should be to be effective.
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Post by burnthewitch on Jul 7, 2019 9:34:35 GMT
I have been spending the morning looking at websites, youtube pages and general social media from other clubs. Now I understand Rovers budget is not massive, but I cannot help being surprised at the lack of media content, branding and promotion that is available. Season after season the Rovers kit is not released until open day while other clubs are releasing teasers and getting fans excited. In fact many have released there kits already. However Rovers have to wait to inflate a bouncy castle till the big reveal happens. Also many clubs have interviews with new signings, managers or footage of the club returning to training. Rovers have nothing. I think Rovers really need to look at the things they can do to make the club looks more professional as we do have a terrible reputation for being "rag bag rovers". This does not have to mean spending big money. There are many ideas that can be done on a budget. Sadly Bristol City over the last few years are pulling further and further ahead in every way. Some of the new signings gave interviews, they were reposted on here. You cant have looked very hard. Fairly sure GC has also given a preseason interview too. I was told a few years ago that part of our problem with the shirts is that ours is so unique that it's not a straightforward manufacture. A lot of other kits are fairly generic. Do Wycombe have the same problem? Or Plymouth with their 'one-off' quarters last season? We do seem to have a recurring problem with the release of shirts. Also with our away shirts - insipid yellow anyone? Thought not. We should always have quarters as the away shirt, part of our identity. IMHO.
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Post by Topper Gas on Jul 7, 2019 9:38:12 GMT
Coventry City have very similar shirts to ours last season and have just released there's, but at the end of the day I'd suggest the vast majority of our shirts are sold once the season gets underway.
As far as the media content had I say there's been a vast improvement in the last year or two, we've had the second summer of decent video adverts for season tickets, the Gas Girls video plus every new player has been interviewed with Mark Little already on his second interview.
For a mid table Div 1 side I'd be surprised if any other club is putting out more player interviews.
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Post by Wembley_Gas on Jul 7, 2019 9:40:06 GMT
The Rovers youtube channel used to do a 'on this day' video every week through the season where it would rewind how ever many seasons and show a game Rovers won on that particular weekend which was pretty interesting, not sure why they stopped it but would like to see that come back. Perhaps they ran out of games we won! Seriously though the clips are only really plentiful from when Screen Soccer started recording every home match (circa 88-89 season) and we did have some very lean years in the noughties and early 2010s...probably best they don’t dig up the one win in twelve matches from the Graydon, Buckle, McGhee, Thompson etc. Eras.
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Post by peterhooper57 on Jul 7, 2019 9:42:03 GMT
I have been spending the morning looking at websites, youtube pages and general social media from other clubs. Now I understand Rovers budget is not massive, but I cannot help being surprised at the lack of media content, branding and promotion that is available. Season after season the Rovers kit is not released until open day while other clubs are releasing teasers and getting fans excited. In fact many have released there kits already. However Rovers have to wait to inflate a bouncy castle till the big reveal happens. Also many clubs have interviews with new signings, managers or footage of the club returning to training. Rovers have nothing. I think Rovers really need to look at the things they can do to make the club looks more professional as we do have a terrible reputation for being "rag bag rovers". This does not have to mean spending big money. There are many ideas that can be done on a budget. Sadly Bristol City over the last few years are pulling further and further ahead in every way.
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Post by peterhooper57 on Jul 7, 2019 9:43:37 GMT
I have been spending the morning looking at websites, youtube pages and general social media from other clubs. Now I understand Rovers budget is not massive, but I cannot help being surprised at the lack of media content, branding and promotion that is available. Season after season the Rovers kit is not released until open day while other clubs are releasing teasers and getting fans excited. In fact many have released there kits already. However Rovers have to wait to inflate a bouncy castle till the big reveal happens. Also many clubs have interviews with new signings, managers or footage of the club returning to training. Rovers have nothing. I think Rovers really need to look at the things they can do to make the club looks more professional as we do have a terrible reputation for being "rag bag rovers". This does not have to mean spending big money. There are many ideas that can be done on a budget. Sadly Bristol City over the last few years are pulling further and further ahead in every way. Why mention ********* ?
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Post by South Stand Ultra on Jul 7, 2019 9:44:55 GMT
I have been spending the morning looking at websites, youtube pages and general social media from other clubs. Now I understand Rovers budget is not massive, but I cannot help being surprised at the lack of media content, branding and promotion that is available. Season after season the Rovers kit is not released until open day while other clubs are releasing teasers and getting fans excited. In fact many have released there kits already. However Rovers have to wait to inflate a bouncy castle till the big reveal happens. Also many clubs have interviews with new signings, managers or footage of the club returning to training. Rovers have nothing. I think Rovers really need to look at the things they can do to make the club looks more professional as we do have a terrible reputation for being "rag bag rovers". This does not have to mean spending big money. There are many ideas that can be done on a budget. Sadly Bristol City over the last few years are pulling further and further ahead in every way. Why mention ********* ?
Think its pretty obvious...
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Post by Kingswood Polak on Jul 7, 2019 9:46:16 GMT
Great start for a newbies first post. A common theme seems to be developing here, sign up to the forum and slag the club off. As has been said, several interviews have been released of new signings and others. Instead of worrying when the new kit will be released, what thoughts do you have on GC's team rebuilding etc etc etc? The way I read it is that we don’t make enough of our unique kit and nickname plus a few other things. I’ve had many away fans ask to buy my skull & crossed bones flag and we could definitely do well out of that. I agree on the kit even though we know what it’s basically going to be. We are, very much, the poor relations here. The 82 are light years ahead of us. That is just a fact & I do wonder why as we have people employed to do this stuff so, I’d guess, we already pay them though there is no doubt that more money helps.
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Post by Kingswood Polak on Jul 7, 2019 9:50:10 GMT
Some of the new signings gave interviews, they were reposted on here. You cant have looked very hard. Fairly sure GC has also given a preseason interview too. I was told a few years ago that part of our problem with the shirts is that ours is so unique that it's not a straightforward manufacture. A lot of other kits are fairly generic. Do Wycombe have the same problem? Or Plymouth with their 'one-off' quarters last season? We do seem to have a recurring problem with the release of shirts. Also with our away shirts - insipid yellow anyone? Thought not. We should always have quarters as the away shirt, part of our identity. IMHO. It may be now but we played in non quartered shirts for long periods of our history. When I started going, we played in solid blue with white trim. We have played in stripes too and then the black Arab shirt. I agree that it’s become a part of our identity but it’s not so,historically.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2019 9:52:00 GMT
I have been spending the morning looking at websites, youtube pages and general social media from other clubs. Now I understand Rovers budget is not massive, but I cannot help being surprised at the lack of media content, branding and promotion that is available. Season after season the Rovers kit is not released until open day while other clubs are releasing teasers and getting fans excited. In fact many have released there kits already. However Rovers have to wait to inflate a bouncy castle till the big reveal happens. Also many clubs have interviews with new signings, managers or footage of the club returning to training. Rovers have nothing. I think Rovers really need to look at the things they can do to make the club looks more professional as we do have a terrible reputation for being "rag bag rovers". This does not have to mean spending big money. There are many ideas that can be done on a budget. Sadly Bristol City over the last few years are pulling further and further ahead in every way. Why mention ********* ? The budget? I know...
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Post by daniel300380 on Jul 7, 2019 10:10:13 GMT
I have been spending the morning looking at websites, youtube pages and general social media from other clubs. Now I understand Rovers budget is not massive, but I cannot help being surprised at the lack of media content, branding and promotion that is available. Season after season the Rovers kit is not released until open day while other clubs are releasing teasers and getting fans excited. In fact many have released there kits already. However Rovers have to wait to inflate a bouncy castle till the big reveal happens. Also many clubs have interviews with new signings, managers or footage of the club returning to training. Rovers have nothing. I think Rovers really need to look at the things they can do to make the club looks more professional as we do have a terrible reputation for being "rag bag rovers". This does not have to mean spending big money. There are many ideas that can be done on a budget. Sadly Bristol City over the last few years are pulling further and further ahead in every way. Are you not on social media then?? Thought the video teasers, before player's signed have been good. The interviews with player's that signed have been better than normal. They have edited them, so as they are talking, you can see them holding up scarves and having photos taking etc. There was a video put on of the player's returning to training. A teaser video of Clarke as Captain, the day before it was announced etc. The season ticket videos have been good, for the last 2 seasons. I agree that the kit could have been released already. But you couldn't have looked very hard, if you didn't see everything else.
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Post by blueridge on Jul 7, 2019 10:18:00 GMT
Last season's shirts are being sold in the shop for £10 - new kit not being released for sale until the 28th July - a bit late IMO - just a week before the season starts.
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Post by Hugo the Elder on Jul 7, 2019 11:26:40 GMT
Some of the new signings gave interviews, they were reposted on here. You cant have looked very hard. Fairly sure GC has also given a preseason interview too. I was told a few years ago that part of our problem with the shirts is that ours is so unique that it's not a straightforward manufacture. A lot of other kits are fairly generic. Do Wycombe have the same problem? Or Plymouth with their 'one-off' quarters last season? We do seem to have a recurring problem with the release of shirts. Also with our away shirts - insipid yellow anyone? Thought not. We should always have quarters as the away shirt, part of our identity. IMHO. You could be right, it's just what I was told way back when. Probably a poor excuse. I do think its poor that our shirts are always released so late. They should be about in June ready for people to take on holiday and such.
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Post by gashead1981 on Jul 7, 2019 11:46:19 GMT
You know, I agree on some levels, and everything is still very much a work in progress and TG is doing a great job IMO in increasing revenue and introducing new marketing formats and he hasn’t had it easy in the last year.
I also think the supporters club could do so much more, but they are suffering from a lack of vision also and predominantly the reason for that is there is no young or dynamic minds driving it. Most of the initiatives revolve around dinner and dance evenings. It’s so old school and unimaginative.
As an example, Just look at their new website. It’s atrocious. It’s a copy and paste Wordpress site with absolutely no ranking behind it. It’s clunky, disorganised, full of content which is out of date which has been dragged across from the old site. My wife who is marketing and PR at director level for a big company was actually stunned that a professional had not only designed it, but thought it was good enough to go live.
And yet they all seemed rather chuffed with it. Which is a shame because they could do so much more promotion via SM and the website.
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Post by orgasmic on Jul 7, 2019 12:18:14 GMT
You know, I agree on some levels, and everything is still very much a work in progress and TG is doing a great job IMO in increasing revenue and introducing new marketing formats and he hasn’t had it easy in the last year. I also think the supporters club could do so much more, but they are suffering from a lack of vision also and predominantly the reason for that is there is no young or dynamic minds driving it. Most of the initiatives revolve around dinner and dance evenings. It’s so old school and unimaginative. As an example, Just look at their new website. It’s atrocious. It’s a copy and paste Wordpress site with absolutely no ranking behind it. It’s clunky, disorganised, full of content which is out of date which has been dragged across from the old site. My wife who is marketing and PR at director level for a big company was actually stunned that a professional had not only designed it, but thought it was good enough to go live. And yet they all seemed rather chuffed with it. Which is a shame because they could do so much more promotion via SM and the website. Not disagreeing with your post but pretty sure the website was created by a volunteer with no experience of web design at all. At the time they asked round many members but nobody came forwards to help.
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Post by gashead1981 on Jul 7, 2019 12:49:07 GMT
You know, I agree on some levels, and everything is still very much a work in progress and TG is doing a great job IMO in increasing revenue and introducing new marketing formats and he hasn’t had it easy in the last year. I also think the supporters club could do so much more, but they are suffering from a lack of vision also and predominantly the reason for that is there is no young or dynamic minds driving it. Most of the initiatives revolve around dinner and dance evenings. It’s so old school and unimaginative. As an example, Just look at their new website. It’s atrocious. It’s a copy and paste Wordpress site with absolutely no ranking behind it. It’s clunky, disorganised, full of content which is out of date which has been dragged across from the old site. My wife who is marketing and PR at director level for a big company was actually stunned that a professional had not only designed it, but thought it was good enough to go live. And yet they all seemed rather chuffed with it. Which is a shame because they could do so much more promotion SM and the website. Not disagreeing with your post but pretty sure the website was created by a volunteer with no experience of web design at all. At the time they asked round many members but nobody came forwards to help. The site is by weblake a wordpress development specialist. Even if it was a freebie, you would be better off assigning some of the budget to do it properly. The rewards the other way would be far greater.
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Post by amgas on Jul 7, 2019 12:59:05 GMT
I went on the Rovers website and all I could see was some article about Rovers winning 10-1. What is that all about ? I looked everywhere for an article on Bristol City but could not find one anywhere. Rubbish.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2019 13:16:27 GMT
What takeover, when? Have I missed something? Maybe he means the original takeover when we also switched to Macron. Nott sure why that’s a problem since though. I did. And I'm just speculating that we're at the back of the queue so to speak as we sorted it late on. May be totally wrong though and might be due to sponsorship. Seems to me that it's a wasted opportunity from a marketing and commercial perspective.
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Post by Bourne End Gas on Jul 7, 2019 13:23:25 GMT
The Community Trust does a fantastic job of raising the clubs profile not only in the community but now bringing the women’s football team back to life !
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Post by baggins on Jul 7, 2019 13:23:32 GMT
Nice post and run by the OP. Obviously posted to cause trouble. Can it now be deleted?
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