Soccer talk mag no more

Soccer talk mag no more

Interested to hear your views.

Also, what changes would you see that would make it appeal to you more.

Dosent seem to be much interest. No wonder the guy who puts it together has pulled the plug on it.

What? Are you serious?! I was subscribed

yes - goneski. If you were a paid up subscriber you prob get a refund

It's a bit of a shame. But online media is where it's at nowadays. Perhaps ST and YF could work on an online column, and use the previous mag's sponsors to advertise on the web pages? I'd say that through this site the mag could get more views that it did previously. .  But who knows if it would be financially viable . .

:( Im a self-confessed magazine addict. Anyone thats thinking of making one, I subscribe!

bollox - I only subscribed for a year 3 months ago 

Interesting isn't it - yet another local soccer magazine falls over.   We have the biggest participation sport in the country, which can't sustain a magazine about our game.   Perhaps that's the way we are heading or is this indicative of soccer players - participation only at a certain time and place and then forget all about it until next week.

I don't want to put down Glen's efforts because they were superb, but Soccer Talk didn't actually LOOK like a magazine in the way 4-4-2 does for example.  I know there are printing costs etc involved with a "glossy" mag, but in such a competitive market, it was too easily passed over by both readers and I guess advertisers.

i would read it occasionally, but the layout didnt really do much for me...

I agree it's dissapointing that it's folded but I think the suggestion of maybe joining it online with the Yellow Fever site makes sense.  Although the Phoenix is everyones number one concern you can see in the other forums that people are interested in their local leagues, the NZFC and of course the All Whites.

Less Ruane... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz  Dewhurst and Fallon...

it never inspired me to be honest. Nil Wgtn content (apart from my Wharfies piece a while back)

I reckon this board is evidence against your view that footballers and football fans don't want to keep up with the game in the media. I reckon Aussie 4-4-2 sales will have gone up since the Phoenix has landed.

But even that mag (in its hard copy format) has to compete against the immediacy of the online sources.

To be honest for any football mag to survive in NZ, it would have to have an A -League and British/European focus as well as a NZFC, All Whites  and regional focus even then the market is probably too small when it is up against YF, ESPN , 4-4-2 etc all on the web.

Nah I don't think online is the same as a magazine. A magazine is portable, you can read it anywhere and theres something about being able to hold it and flick through it.

fair enough, but magazines lack immediacy, they need to have a bit of depth (eg 4-4-2) to make the expenditure worthwhile

Brought it the first few times- good regional coverage, good womens coverage
cheap price

Worst thing about it? terrible editing- school boy spelling mistakes made it look like a rush job.


RIP- whats next? Kiwi 4-4-2!!!!

To be fair the guy was running it from his garage!

perhaps he should have spammed everyone and anyone connected with football to drum up subscriptions. For example ads on every club website (we would have happily put one on ours and we had something like 20,000 hits in one month apparently). I would bet 75% of wgtn registered footie players had no idea the mag even existed let alone how to get a copy. Its a real shame because thee was a ton of good stuff in it.

Although I'm not gutted because I didn't know the magazine existed, I do feel for the guy who put some time and effort into promoting the game,good on him for trying to promote the game.   Anyone have any thoughts on amalgamating the Phoenx Program into a weekly magazine covering footbal in general? When the season finishes maybe reverting to a monthly format?  Or maybe a Phoenix suporters mag, separate to the match program but would cover overseas items as well as it's primary focus of the Nix.

Fanzines are a big thing in the uK

I liked soccer talk, and got it every now and again. It's sad to see it go. Respect to Glen for writing it,especially as he never once broke even. Those who read it appreciated your efforts.

I think its time that New Zealand Football puts out a magazine. A slightly more 'glossy' one than soccertalk. One that covers local, national, and international football. If it was advertised on yellowfever it could probably take off I think.

I'd never heard of it, Anyone running a fanzine, let me know and I'll whack an advert on my links page on my own site. Almost every link I get appears, just not you're average spam and viagra ones. Check out my links page and you'll get the drift!

Lone Gunman.   How bout putting a link for your site in your signature, so I dont have to go trolling thru the records to find it. Tahepatitis2007-10-18 19:53:34

i got stacks of time, butg i dont have the contacts to get content othedrwise i would put out a fanzine in some form or another

he just needed to get in touch with a designer who would do it for free or something in their spare time, passion over money. doesn't look the flashiest i must agree

I'm gutted, it was a great read, better then the English fanzine pap like shoot et al.  I brought every magazine since the second edition and when I moved overseas I got my dad to subscribe and through my dad my uncle got into it aswell.  I really like the posters, regional and womens footie aspects of the mag and so do the Brits who I liva and work with. disco_mart2007-10-24 22:15:35

HI HN, do you think that this should have been in a different category as I don't think too many people read the News Discussion section, I certainly don't.

The soccertalk website does say that all paid subscribers will be refunded. Not me though I only had one of those free 12 months subsriptions but was still gutted!