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General Category => Altrincham FC First Team => Topic started by: Mrs Warbouys on July 13, 2017, 10:46:25 AM
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article can be found here
http://www.fcbusiness.co.uk/news/article/newsitem=5069/title=altrincham+fc+seek+new+investment
Well worth sharing this with people you think could be interested
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The story was covered on Non League Daily today too:
http://www.nonleaguedaily.com/headlines/altrincham-seek-new-investment.html
Let's hope this gets shared as far and wide as possible!
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Is it just me that thinks it's strange that this is headline news on thenonleaguedaily and fc business, but not on our own website?
This club is an absolute shambles at times. That's laughable.
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Is it just me that thinks it's strange that this is headline news on thenonleaguedaily and fc business, but not on our own website?
This club is an absolute shambles at times. That's laughable.
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Its not really news now to the fans on the website - this was covered at the time - its "old" news.
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Its not really news now to the fans on the website - this was covered at the time - its "old" news.
But the club should be advertising the fact that 51% of it is up for sale, and spreading the word on our website from as many different publications as showcase it. FCbusiness is one of the biggest publications in football, and just the type of target that should be hit. This should be shouted from the rooftops, not ignored.
The fact that on our own website we get news about the tealady at tinpot fc retiring after 30 years and not the biggest development at our club for the last 20+ years just shows how the clubs priorities are all wrong. It has nothing to do with "old news".
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It does however (by virtue of us both playing a friendly v kidsgrove this week) cover Burton Albion's preparations for their second season in the Championship.
I'll just leave that there.
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Its not really news now to the fans on the website - this was covered at the time - its "old" news.
........... FCbusiness is one of the biggest publications in football, and just the type of target that should be hit. This should be shouted from the rooftops, not ignored.
But it's in FCbusiness. That's why this thread exists.
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Is it just me that thinks it's strange that this is headline news on thenonleaguedaily and fc business, but not on our own website?
This club is an absolute shambles at times. That's laughable.
Total farce - clearly the club not truely interested in selling
Again we the supporters have had our pants down
Rowley out, Laidler out
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Is it just me that thinks it's strange that this is headline news on thenonleaguedaily and fc business, but not on our own website?
This club is an absolute shambles at times. That's laughable.
Yes, fair point.
Previous official website updates would suggest that if any other club (either at our level or other non-league club with local interest) had been featured in Non-League Daily in the same story yesterday, then it would have been reported on the official Altrincham FC site. So it does seem strange that such positive coverage was willfully ignored when it was actually about Alty.
I’m not sure that most Alty fans, or outside readers for that matter, would consider ex-Alty youth player Boris Melingui scoring in a pre-season for Nantwich Town to be more news-worthy. But I could be wrong.
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I've said it for a while. It's not the altrincham fc website. It's John Laidlar's blog.
The website's main news section should focus only on current Altrincham Football matters and events (ladies and reserves inclusive).
If the content from John's research was formed in to a susinct blog once a week. It would be a much better reviewx
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I love our website
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Bit of a storm in a teacup this.
There is a more crucial matter here which is that the clubs website is akin to an early internet fanzine site. Most clubs in our league have better websites and whilst its not necessarily make or break to the playing side any potential investor would most likely go straight to our official site to research the club and think we're a lost cause.
Here's my local clubs website: http://www.thamefootball.co.uk/
They are in the step below us, but rising fast as a community club. We're light years away from that.
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I much prefer our website to those pitchhero type sites
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I much prefer our website to those pitchhero type sites
There are other options
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Im not saying we should go the pitchero way, its a bit soulless, but we really lack in structure on our website. Its fine for those of us who use it frequently but to a newcomer the website is not obvious to navigate, the content is presented quite poorly and the structure is not really laid out too well or in sync with most other websites. It all equates to new visitors ditching it for other sources.
I dont have an issue with the content, just that its structured poorly. As hashtag says, Alty news gets bundled in with everything and it just reads like a blog.
I'm not knocking John Laidlar by the way. Given what he has to work with and the level of support he gets from the club his efforts are great.
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By reading John Laidlar's award winning official site daily you become quite knowledgeable about all non league matters whilst keeping up to date with Alty matters......I think it's much nicer than many sites I stumble across...that thame one for example gave me a headache and looked very limited depite the glitz....
The only thing I don't like about altrinchamfc.co.uk is having to enter the site then choosing to have news in full or highlights.....I've clicked on the site clearly I want to enter it why give the choice??
I think it's evolved over time and will be difficult to change in a big way format wise, you'd have to start from scratch.....then risk losing a lot of the historical content..
The only thing not on there is a way to purchase club merchandise and tickets etc and pay online.
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There's not a link to the fans forum is there?
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No there isn't......but the chairman might cut off Mr laidlar's internet if there was......there are links to alty tv and tasc so it is clearly a deliberate omission.....
It is an official site after all and shouldn't include anything that goes against the Rowley line.
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The website does need a redesign to be responsive on all devices and it was in that plan thing and maybe there could be some different ways of displaying the info.
However I think John (and Dana his wife who does a lot of the research) deserve a bit more respect than "Laidlar out".
They work about 364 days a year bar a weeks holiday and Xmas day. Most days I head over there at 10:30 to hit F5 and see the latest news.
That story was run in full when the initial release was done. Not sure why it would be put on again yesterday just because it (pleasingly) went out again over a much more relevant channel. Be better it went on again next week when it dies down again.
Not saying they are keen to push it but just think it's unfair to have a pop at John.
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I'm not having a pop at John mate, it's clearly been sent from the top that he can't run the story.
Another day gone by and still no news of it, yet we have a feature length story about Steve Butrs hopes for Stalybridge this season.
The whole thing is a shambles, we're not even headlining signings now, just the fact we need more match day volunteers.
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Yeah, it doesn't have to be a character assassination or get personal. It's actually the painstaking dedication from the Laidlers to provide a constant stream of content for the site that makes it so surprising that a story and public appeal from our own football club was ignored by our own official website.
I've little doubt it would have been reported on our website if it was about a different football club.
That said, at least the football club (and The Sport Business) pushed it out via their social media channels. Which, in the current age, is probably more important anyway.
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Having spoken recently to a few people locally about a new site, many were shocked and appalled about our current website.
Both from a functionality point of view and design.
How many clicks to find our fixtures?