faxtastic wrote:long may it continue should be another good game and hopefully another good win on sunday against gateshead.
playing some cracking rugby and the crowds will hopefully be getting up to the 3,000 mark on a regular basis by the end of the season.
well done to everyone from fans to players to coaches and the behind the scenes team you are going to take this club back to where it belongs.
As part of the sound team I have links with Phoenix FM and therefore have produced radio advertisements for the Gateshead game and the widnes game in the past with more to come this season. This will hopefully encourage fans old and new to consider coming to matches every so often.
The Metal Ashes of Phoenix metal show on friday nights 8-10pm only on Phoenix FM.
The one and only negative note is the website. The results, stats and League Table are running 3-4 weeks behind as usual.
The Internet is all about communication and if the news is not kept up to date then we might as well not bother with a website at all. As I have said before it is our "shop window to the world" and, at present, it makes the club look inefficient and amateurish which, as we all know, is no longer true.
The excuse "it's maintained on a voluntary basis" is just not good enough. It can't cost a fortune, in the overall scheme of things, to have it professionally hosted and maintained. Halifax Town seem to manage it, their website is updated with the result and the updated table soon after the final whistle. It even has a live feed to the match progress.
As I say, in every other respect, both on and off the pitch, the club is performing brilliantly so why be let down by something which could be so easily resolved?
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Fax Machine wrote:Sorry to bring this up YET AGAIN!
The one and only negative note is the website. The results, stats and League Table are running 3-4 weeks behind as usual.
The Internet is all about communication and if the news is not kept up to date then we might as well not bother with a website at all. As I have said before it is our "shop window to the world" and, at present, it makes the club look inefficient and amateurish which, as we all know, is no longer true.
The excuse "it's maintained on a voluntary basis" is just not good enough. It can't cost a fortune, in the overall scheme of things, to have it professionally hosted and maintained. Halifax Town seem to manage it, their website is updated with the result and the updated table soon after the final whistle. It even has a live feed to the match progress.
As I say, in every other respect, both on and off the pitch, the club is performing brilliantly so why be let down by something which could be so easily resolved?
agree with every word of that. plus it makes the team look like they arnt the best team in the league cause we are not top yet according to the website. it needs to be sorted and quick.
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faxtastic wrote:agree with every word of that. plus it makes the team look like they arnt the best team in the league cause we are not top yet according to the website. it needs to be sorted and quick.
Not too many weeks ago we were told that the website is to be dropped and replaced with a generic RFL website, which will be adopted by most clubs in our league. The website we currently have is not the best but nobody else has volunteered to do it and the last time it was put out to an independant Web provider the quote was a 5 figure sum. At present the website and online shop is completely free.
But having said that, yeah, its a bit rubbish.
Has anyone heard when the new website will be up and running?
Joined: Oct 26 2005 Posts: 1530 Location: Going downhill, fast!
for a predominantly volunteer organsiation and only a few remunerated and very hard working staff - i am more than happy with the way things are going
the website will refresh when it is ready to go - it must be out of the clubs hands if it is going across several clubs in the league
Waddy-Fax wrote:I bloody love this game, anyone else sat at their desk getting wound up and angry reading all this, the same way you feel after you've watched Rocky and wanna do push ups and sh/t?
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[quote="Standidge"]Not too many weeks ago we were told that the website is to be dropped and replaced with a generic RFL website, which will be adopted by most clubs in our league. The website we currently have is not the best but nobody else has volunteered to do it and the last time it was put out to an independant Web provider the quote was a 5 figure sum. At present the website and online shop is completely free.
But having said that, yeah, its a bit rubbish.
Has anyone heard when the new website will be up and running?[/quote]
Probably before the East stand is completed
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The thing that really puzzles me is that, while the results are 4 weeks behind, suddenly the result from 4 weeks ago is updated when we have just played another game making it still 4 weeks behind. Surely it wouldn't take much longer, once you're in update mode, to update the other results and the player stats?
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