Development/Youth Squads 2024/2025 Thread - U18/U21

[AjcW]

3 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

I think with the women playing at the KP there won’t be much appetite to have any other games there unless we go deep in a youth cup 

 

the effective lack of respect for the youngsters via no social media stuff is appalling - I think it says everything about what the club has become 

I think I just long for the days of FNF  

[Ric Flair]

53 minutes ago, SemperEadem said:

Thanks for the reply. I really hoped it would not be as I thought that they got all mardy over some negative replies to tweets or Rudkin outs to it.

 

It is disappointing on many levels like you listed but a big one for me is any sort of knowledge, excitement or buzz on a future player is now almost never going to be there.

Cuts line would be absolute bollocks if spouted. I spoke with one of the media team at Sheff Wed a while back and he said it was almost embarrassing us turning up in the Championship with the shear numbers of content team and broadly social media staff.

 

Just gets on your wick even more right now when we are seeing Danny Simpson scoff hotdogs over the actual football club.

It's completely at odds with everything we are supposed to stand for. The academy, courtesy of the state of the art training ground should be our crown jewel and in some ways is because of the dedicated work over the last decade or more. But it's not aligned with the lack of coverage because from the outside looking in, it's anything but being promoted and signifying the pride the club have.

 

I'm fascinated to know why, there will be a reason but once again we'll be starved of said reason, because this club is so closed off and insular. This breeds the resentment from fans who can't just blindly clap the ownership and culture anymore.

 

Really winds me up, my priority as a fan of this club is our academy being the best there is.

[harpendenfox]

54 minutes ago, AjcW said:

I cannot tell you as a marketer how frustrating this club is. If I was Marketing Director, there's 10 things I could do in the first week that would completely transform the clubs relationship with the fans, maybe 8 or 9 of them wouldn't cost a penny! 

 

It's a curse at the weekend, I get to be angry about the result and then angry about the way they've told me about the result  

I hear you. My profession is public relations, where one of our many buzzwords is authenticity. Our comms are so plastic. So lacking in authenticity. The lack of attention to the under 21s is baffling. The lack of proper fan engagement is baffling. Look at how Liverpool or Tottenham behave towards kids with disabilities, showing them round the club, introducing them to players and management, genuinely lovely experiences, then using the content, it's proper heart warming stuff. We get pictures of Danny Simpson and Filbert in Chicago. I get we want to be a global brand blah blah blah, but their comms are terrible. It's symptomatic of an organisation that has stopped listening to its stakeholders and rejects any kind of challenge. This in turn suggests deep insecurity at the heart of the Club. 

[AjcW]

7 minutes ago, harpendenfox said:

I hear you. My profession is public relations, where one of our many buzzwords is authenticity. Our comms are so plastic. So lacking in authenticity. The lack of attention to the under 21s is baffling. The lack of proper fan engagement is baffling. Look at how Liverpool or Tottenham behave towards kids with disabilities, showing them round the club, introducing them to players and management, genuinely lovely experiences, then using the content, it's proper heart warming stuff. We get pictures of Danny Simpson and Filbert in Chicago. I get we want to be a global brand blah blah blah, but their comms are terrible. It's symptomatic of an organisation that has stopped listening to its stakeholders and rejects any kind of challenge. This in turn suggests deep insecurity at the heart of the Club. 

Comms Director has been at the club 15 years

Head of Marketing has been at the club 20 years

Head of Brand has been at the club 10 years and is actually a videographer....

 

People DO NOT LEAVE this football club, there is no jeopardy, no challenge, no being held to account. As much as loyalty is great at times, where in that chain is there room for new ideas? What has happened to all of the managers in their team that will have been with them during that time? Left because no chance of promotion or trying out new things?

 

Stinks.

[Ryy]

Yet we don’t start Alves