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Bulldogs website is crap - 2021 edition
Let's start here.
https://www.westernbulldogs.com.au/teams/afl
With the start of the 2021 season a few weeks away, then perhaps by now months after the draft, we might actually have some info and **** me some photos of the new recruits?
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I don't see what the problem is.
Can't speak to how efficiently they're managed but aren't all the club websites outsourced to the same mob that runs AFEL.com? ... which explains plenty.
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Re: Bulldogs website is crap - 2021 edition
Originally Posted by
Rocket Science
Can't speak to how efficiently they're managed but aren't all the club websites outsourced to the same mob that runs AFEL.com? ... which explains plenty.
If you look at the other websites, they are all set out the same
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I randomly checked 4 other club websites. 2 seemed to have all the player photos up and be complete and 2 looked like ours with missing photos. All the websites certainly look the same so it may well be something out of our control.
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Originally Posted by
bornadog
If you look at the other websites, they are all set out the same
And the email messages we get from Bulldog central are almost exactly the same as my daughter gets from Dockers. Similar days/times etc
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Re: Bulldogs website is crap - 2021 edition
Originally Posted by
Axe Man
I randomly checked 4 other club websites. 2 seemed to have all the player photos up and be complete and 2 looked like ours with missing photos. All the websites certainly look the same so it may well be something out of our control.
Sooo.
Does this mean we are off the hook then? Everyone else is crap so it's ok if we are as well?
I know that isn't what you meant but if we are paying an external company to do it then...DONT PAY THEM until it is fixed. There is responsibility here to put up a good product...it's not like we can actually go to the club.
What should I tell her? She's going to ask.
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Well, maybe this internet thing won't take off...
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Re: Bulldogs website is crap - 2021 edition
Originally Posted by
mjp
Sooo.
Does this mean we are off the hook then? Everyone else is crap so it's ok if we are as well?
I know that isn't what you meant but if we are paying an external company to do it then...DONT PAY THEM until it is fixed. There is responsibility here to put up a good product...it's not like we can actually go to the club.
Don't get me wrong, I think it is very poor that they haven't updated something as simple as the draftees photos. I certainly have also been a vocal critic of the lack of engagement and information coming forth from the club at times.
However I get believe that the websites across the league are run by AFL HQ (or a company engaged by them). Obviously the clubs play a major role in providing content, but I am unsure how it all works. I don't know who is to blame, but it may well not be the club on this occasion.
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I think it is also a matter of timing. If you want the latest breaking news, there is no doubt: ignore the club website and go to WOOF. I am not sure if news has to be vetted first on the club site, but WOOF is always first with the news, or rumours too. :-)
The truth will set you free,
but first it will piss you off. ... Gloria Steinem.
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Re: Bulldogs website is crap - 2021 edition
Originally Posted by
Axe Man
Don't get me wrong, I think it is very poor that they haven't updated something as simple as the draftees photos. I certainly have also been a vocal critic of the lack of engagement and information coming forth from the club at times.
However I get believe that the websites across the league are run by AFL HQ (or a company engaged by them). Obviously the clubs play a major role in providing content, but I am unsure how it all works. I don't know who is to blame, but it may well not be the club on this occasion.
Correct. Basically the AFL control the content/running of the clubs' websites through a company called AFLMedia.com which is more or less run by Telstra. It uses Telstra media content and the clubs can take it (use Telstra/AFLMedia.com) or leave it(not have anything)
Essendon used to be the outlier and run their own club website but from what I can see the AFL run all 18 clubs websites now. I'm not sure when it changed.
They say Burt Lancaster has one, but I don't believe them.
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Re: Bulldogs website is crap - 2021 edition
Originally Posted by
Twodogs
Correct. Basically the AFL control the content/running of the clubs' websites through a company called AFLMedia.com which is more or less run by Telstra. It uses Telstra media content and the clubs can take it (use Telstra/AFLMedia.com) or leave it(not have anything)
Essendon used to be the outlier and run their own club website but from what I can see the AFL run all 18 clubs websites now. I'm not sure when it changed.
Same with memberships and buying tickets you get redirected to Ticketmaster but a bulldog type homepage.
More of an In Bruges guy?
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I tried to contact the Bulldogs using the phone no. on the website yesterday (when my link to the streaming of the game hadn't arrived) and it was the old 1300 GO DOGS number still, which doesn't work any more. So they can't even get the contact details correct on the Club website!!!
Last edited by LostDoggy; 25-02-2021 at 10:54 PM.
Reason: a mistake
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Pretty sure our photos haven't been updated because we haven't done our 2021 photoshoots yet.
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Re: Bulldogs website is crap - 2021 edition
Originally Posted by
Vred
Pretty sure our photos haven't been updated because we haven't done our 2021 photoshoots yet.
It is the same every year.
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Premierships: AFL 1954, 2016 VFA - 1898,99,1900, 1908, 1913, 1919-20, 1923-24, VFL: 2014, 2016 . Champions of Victoria 1924. AFLW - 2018.
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Re: Bulldogs website is crap - 2021 edition
Originally Posted by
Vred
Pretty sure our photos haven't been updated because we haven't done our 2021 photoshoots yet.
They have the recruits, but not the draftees. Perhaps they just photoshopped our trade ins from their old clubs photos?