Western Bulldogs Website

[Ghost Dog]

Seems our Graphics dept is busy at work with the photoshop filters..

How about Matthew Boyd, The Messiah of the West....aaaaaammmen.
hmmm or maybe this his version of the Zoolander 'Magnum' stare?





Anyway, regarding our website, what changes do you all suggest??
Personally, I'd like to see a bit better writing than the same dry as-a-bulldogs balls press releases. they should head hunt some woof.net posters.
Any other changes you would like to see?

[Bornadog]

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More news and information on players. There has been no talk on delistings, rookies etc.

I still feel the club keeps the members in the dark a bit.

[soupman]

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I think they could do a bit more to bring members into the club a bit more.

There's the obvious first step that should have already happened with keeping us in the know about delistings and whatnot, but then there are the things that get members to feel like part of the club. These are things about players personalities, quick insights into the workings behind the scenes, stuff beyond just player highlights and mundane sponsored press releases.

The Kennels video series was ok in this respect, and they do release random videos occasionally (recently a soccer shootout one), but just having articles about individuals and their backgrounds, or what a typical week is like for a random player, just stuff like that that is easy to organise and boring to some, but to those who want to really feel like they know the people involved with the club it gives them that chance.

[LostDoggy]

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^^^ This.

I love finding out about the personalities of the players and the other people behind the scenes. Rather then this cardboard cut-out no individuals crap that you normally get. It's why I enjoy Twitter so much, you get a unique little insight into their personalities. Hopefully the launch of a Bulldogs YouTube Channel will mean we will get more of this sort of thing.

I thought it odd that they obviously filmed the soccer shoot-out to put on the website (with Easton commentating and all that) but then didn't put it up straight away. Makes me wonder at what point during the season it was and that maybe they didn't want to be seen as mucking around.

[Topdog]

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All the websites are getting a big revamp before next season. Hopefully they listened to all the workshops they held. Melbourne in the media was highly praised and I suspect most clubs will adopt something like it.

http://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/7415/newsid/125756/default.aspx

CTV was also spoken highly of.

http://www.collingwoodfc.com.au/ctv/tabid/9238/default.aspx

And of course integration with more social media.

[GVGjr]

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More news and information on players. There has been no talk on delistings, rookies etc.

I still feel the club keeps the members in the dark a bit.

Agree i want them to do more .The Pies and the Bombers do it the best you can pay $5 dollars to watch the clubs B&F live online if you can,t afford to go or can,t make it not highlights drip feed up to a week later. The pies also do an awesome coverage of there preseason showing games and practice highlights so you get a sense how the old and new players are shaping up. Why can,t they have a weekly show online Bob Murphy would be a great talk show host with inside info on players lives and training behind the scenes footage no secrets just fun stuff. I would watch.

[Bornadog]

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Bob Murphy would be a great talk show host with inside info on players lives and training behind the scenes footage no secrets just fun stuff. I would watch.

He use to do club corner on the old fox footy channel and was very good and entertaining.

[GVGjr]

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He use to do club corner on the old fox footy channel and was very good and entertaining.

Did not know that Bornadog thanks for that info.

[ledge]

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The Bulldoze fund isnt done well either they want us to donate but I cant find a figure anywhere of how its doing, at least put the amount up if we are donating.

[Ghost Dog]

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When it all comes down to it, its about Money right?
But, I have a design degree in Multimedia not using much these days and I'm dead sure there are others who are pretty savvy with computers on here. If every fan chipped in I'm sure there could be a way to boost contributions to WB digital media efforts.
They should tender for a bunch of volunteer positions on govolunteer.com.au

Otherwise, Other players have Blogs ( Harry O'Brien etc ) why can't some of our guys put up a blog of some kind?
Will or Bob would be up for it.

they had one thing on Mangrook once about what players ate, down at western Oval. It was really fascinating. I'd like to see a bit more of that.

Other ideas - small things really
Anything that can put up that is not hard to vet
Kids colouring competition ( just scan and put them up , not hard )
Where are they now? - A la Coon dog interviews.
Old photos section - come on there must be hundereds of old club photos we can put on to the site. The site does not have
any sense of history of culture about it. That's what we love about the club.

[LostDoggy]

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When you go to the player list the games/goals heading is stuck at 2010, but the info is from 2011.

Some players debut years aren't included.

It shouldn't be hard for Gods' sake.

http://www.westernbulldogs.com.au/players/tabid/8976/category/senior/season/2010/default.aspx

[GVGjr]

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I'd love to see fans' stories.
Why I'm a bulldog.
My favorite memory.
Fans of the week. ( whatever happened to the two wonderful women from the 'year of the dogs' documentary?)

A player's blog is a great idea.

I just think the site could be more quirky ( not sure that's exactly the right word, but I mean something which captures our unique club) A cartoon from First dog on the moon occasionally. A sense of our history.
A sense of humor. An insight into our players that isn't just robotic. What it's like to be a trainer. Families of players..who didn't love reading about Murf and his family?

There is so much that could be done!

[AndrewP6]

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I just think the site could be more quirky ( not sure that's exactly the right word, but I mean something which captures our unique club) A cartoon from First dog on the moon occasionally.

Or "less generic"

[soupman]

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Exactly. Having a bit of uniqueness about it and bringing people past the basic would be brilliant. I don't have high hopes of this happening however because the club seems incapable of telling us anything through the site. The only way you know who's been cut so far is by piecing together various random mostly unrelated articles from a variety of sources.

How hard would it be from the club to release a statement saying:

"Further to our earlier list changes Brennan Stack has been delisted for personal reasons. Luke Dahlhaus and Matthew Panos have been promoted from the rookie list to the senior list while Ed Barlow and Eddie Prato have both been cut. Jason Johannissen will be given another year on the rookie list. We wish all former players the best of luck with their futures".

How hard would that article be?

[EasternWest]

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How hard would that article be?

Not hard at all. They could just cut and paste exactly what you wrote, because it's got all the required information.

I don't even visit the club site anymore.