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Appreciate you posting this GVG. While other clubs post extended highlight videos and official match sim reports to give their supporters some insights, we rely on these tidbits to get excited.
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Thanks for sharing.
Preseason is flying by without much noise. The rule change is the first thing that’s caught my attention.
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So...you feeling up to repeating the number of goals Naughton kicked yet?
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comrade
Appreciate you posting this GVG. While other clubs post extended highlight videos and official match sim reports to give their supporters some insights, we rely on these tidbits to get excited.
Under McCartney's tenure we seemed to become more conservative with the kind of details we make public. Under Bevo's reign that seems to have increased, and I don't think the balance is right. Sure we want to protect IP, but at what cost and to what benefit?
I think the club is underestimating the positive impact of using pre-season insights as a legitimate means to stimulate fan interest and in turn increase memberships.
Surely there has to be a middle ground.
To have to rely on tid-bits from supporters who happen to attend training is not engaging, and seems at odds with the clubs message to its members about the club being 'energised by its people' and being 'born to stick together and made of the red,white and blue'.
The disconnect between club rhetoric and what they actually deliver in terms of meaningful and engaging communication with it's members is not acceptable.
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Happy Days
So...you feeling up to repeating the number of goals Naughton kicked yet?
I think he kicked 7 last week in a practice game
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GVGjr
I think he kicked 7 last week in a practice game
That rules. If you’re allowed to wear a headband in season I see no reason why he can’t do that every week.
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Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Under McCartney's tenure we seemed to become more conservative with the kind of details we make public. Under Bevo's reign that seems to have increased, and I don't think the balance is right. Sure we want to protect IP, but at what cost and to what benefit?
I think the club is underestimating the positive impact of using pre-season insights as a legitimate means to stimulate fan interest and in turn increase memberships.
Surely there has to be a middle ground.
To have to rely on tid-bits from supporters who happen to attend training is not engaging, and seems at odds with the clubs message to its members about the club being 'energised by its people' and being 'born to stick together and made of the red,white and blue'.
The disconnect between club rhetoric and what they actually deliver in terms of meaningful and engaging communication with it's members is not acceptable.
I've really noticed the efforts to reduce supporter access to match simulations and training sessions under Bevo.
From the cancellation of the East meets West day, which was a terrific training session for fans, to reduced access to practice games
I think if you're a fan who liked to get to those events and sessions there has been a significant reduction in opportunities of being able to watch the players outside of the seasons games.
The website has improved a lot but 2 or 3 minute edited highlights of training or practice games just isn't the same for me and I think many others.
Perhaps this is right across the competition but I do miss going to training sessions this time of the year and being able to see the players running around
After 14 or 15 years of being a player sponsor I'm starting to reconsider if it's worth it because I'm losing ground on what I previously enjoyed. Covid doesn't help but it's getting harder to stay connected to the club as someone living in Melbourne and willing to go to training sessions, practice and preseason games. Outside of the season there isn't as much between seasons as I have previously enjoyed
Under the McCartney era (not a reflection of his coaching) I actually went along to vastly more club functions and felt a greater level of connection with the club.
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GVGjr
Not going to repeat the number of goals from a previous internal match that a bystander told me but Naughton apparently tore one of the previous intra clubs apart with a bag of goals. I couldn’t see him anywhere on the ground when I arrived but consensus was that he has been dominant.
The bolded part almost gave me a heart attack!
Good to see Raak is still training with us because for some reason he dropped off the official AFL training list who have only been listing Macpherson, Scott and Preston.
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Happy Days
That rules. If you’re allowed to wear a headband in season I see no reason why he can’t do that every week.
Can't wait until someone chucks it into the crowd a la Bruce Doull.
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GVGjr
I think he kicked 7 last week in a practice game
Hopefully this speaks more to Naughts and not our defence.
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GVGjr
Both teams defending quite high which made it scrappy in the wind. Wasn’t much space until a team broke through that press and then it was a foot race.
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bulldogsthru&thru
Hopefully this speaks more to Naughts and not our defence.
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comrade
Appreciate you posting this GVG. While other clubs post extended highlight videos and official match sim reports to give their supporters some insights, we rely on these tidbits to get excited.
It's so frustrating. The best bit of pre-seasons used to be overly detailed training reports from posters here.
We must be the worst club in the competition at engaging our supporters with non match stuff:
-No one is allowed to watch us train
-No one is allowed to watch our intraclubs
-We give nothing more than the briefest of articles and a highlights video consistig of 2-3 second clips when we do release something
-We provided minimal information about our reserves performances last season
-We provided no information about anybody other than the four players who were ok in the reserves last season. For example Khamis may as well as not existed last year.
-We provide no insight into what we can expect this year, aside from the same few articles about the same few players who speak well (Dunkley, Wallis, Bont).
For comparism Carlton released comprehensive match reports after every scratch match last year covering every listed player, they have also had a series of articles where they talk about a handful of players in each position and how their pre-season is going (ie. Their defenders article covered Petrevski-Seton, Plowman, Newman, Parks, Williamson and Saad) plus a ten minute interview with the coach. Essendon has fairly in depth articles with the respective line coaches about their area (Gia does a good one about their Defence), and they also have a great 10 minute video with proper highlights from their intraclub not just artistic shots of players kicking it.
I appreciate that we post a lot of videos of things happening to players (like the announcement of Wallis as Vice Captain) but man we give our supporters absolutely nothing on field apart from the briefest of match reports.
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GVGjr
I've really noticed the efforts to reduce supporter access to match simulations and training sessions under Bevo.
From the cancellation of the East meets West day, which was a terrific training session for fans, to reduced access to practice games
I think if you're a fan who liked to get to those events and sessions there has been a significant reduction in opportunities of being able to watch the players outside of the seasons games.
The website has improved a lot but 2 or 3 minute edited highlights of training or practice games just isn't the same for me and I think many others.
Perhaps this is right across the competition but I do miss going to training sessions this time of the year and being able to see the players running around
After 15 years of being a player sponsor I'm starting to reconsider if it's worth it because I'm losing ground on what I previously enjoyed. Covid doesn't help but it's getting harder to stay connected to the club as someone living in Melbourne and willing to go to training sessions, practice and preseason games. Outside of the season there isn't as much between seasons as I have previously enjoyed
Under the McCartney era (not a reflection of his coaching) I actually went along to vastly more club functions and felt a greater level of connection with the club.
I really hope someone at the club is reading this stuff. If that is reflective of the overall member experience, the club really needs to reflect and adjust their approach.