NZFC Website

 

hard news and i have been trawling for information in order to get some other NZFC related work done out there, but there just isn't much available.  in the end, we had to contact the franchises directly and had very favourable responses from mark cleaver at manawatu, mark chote at team wellington, rex dawkins at waitakere and eddie cropley from canterbury.  we didn't need to contact ivan vuksich at auckland city because their info was readily available.  for waikato information, we were able to rely on the ever willing and very well informed bruce holloway.

 

there are many of us who believe that the success of this competition (or whatever fronts as our national league) is of paramount importance to the game in new zealand.  i would like to see more of an effort made to promote the competition and give it a higher profile.  this means that players have to be familiar to at least the footballing public and that off season activity needs coverage.

 

we're trying to do our bit here at yellow fever, but we would like to be on the receiving end of more information, gossip, opinions, etc either from the club or other sources.  whatever info we have will always be posted as news on the front page.  i just wish we didn't have to search so damn hard for it.

This time last year we were getting advised about pre season games so we could watch them. This year the only way to find out when and were they are is to ask the players as the club is telling us nothing.

 

Reg I believe there is due a release of info on the nzfc site today.

Yeah, everything we do here is voluntary, but we're passionate about it and we want to help out.  Basically what we're offering is free publicity for the sport, direct to the target market.  I'd like to see the franchises exploit that.

 

I guess it comes down to a number of things:

- $$$ - not every franchise has a full time employee

- possibly the perception of this site not being a credible avenue of promotion

- maybe footy folk assume that the public isn't interested; of course we know that this is not the case

 

I must stress that the people we have dealt with (mentioned above) have gone to a lot of effort and have been excellent to deal with.  I just think that publicity doesn't seem to be high on the agenda within the comp; whether this is a franchise or nzf issue, i'm not sure.

 

That's from nzfc.co.nz, however it seems a little too late don't you think?  Goes live the day before kickoff, with little to no publicity one week from kick off.  Ho hum...