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Posted May 17, 2018 20:15 · last edited March 18, 2021 07:34

It all seems pretty weak to me.

On one hand the club is sooking about journos publishing speculative articles; yet on the other they won't put their balls on the line and front up to them and control the narrative. I'm sorry, but that's the business you're in. And if you can't/won't work the media well then bring in the expertise to do so effectively (which I'd assumed RP's role was).

Using a fan group as an indirect mouthpiece to fans is weak and unprofessional for a supposedly professional organisation - in this/their current climate. There are so many unanswered question - namely, what the actual fudge?

Don't get me wrong; I appreciate the YF team, and what they/you do - but in my opinion the club is failing it's fans and it's seemingly precious sponsors. They need to get on the front foot themselves and suck it up and create/own the message. And if they can't find a journo to give the message "honestly", they can easily share it directly themselves in this day and age. Those of us on here are already all-in... but as we (and they know), we aren't nearly enough - the club needs to be reaching the general sporting public, that other 5k of people in Wellington (and Auckland) that aren't going to games because they get their club news/info from mainstream media. And at the moment, it's a pretty poor picture - so not surprisingly, they're gone.

As an uninformed outer circle fan/member I also find it difficult to believe that it is all just FFA bullshark. And if it is, where are the lawyers? 

And whilst where looking for people, where's NZF in losing their only professional club? (oh of course, they don't give a fudge), where's the OFC in losing their only fully professional club? (oh of course, they're at a creative accounting seminar in Vanuatu prior to the corporate gig in Lautoka on Sunday) 

And wouldn't FIFA be interested in the likelihood of one of their confederations losing their only fully professional club? (oh of course, they're all at a pre-WC communications conference in the Bahamas).

FIIK, it really is a bad joke.

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Unknown editor edited March 18, 2021 07:34

It all seems pretty weak to me.

On one hand the club is sooking about journos publishing speculative articles; yet on the other they won't put their balls on the line and front up to them and control the narrative. I'm sorry, but that's the business you're in. And if you can't/won't work the media well then bring in the expertise to do so effectively (which I'd assumed RP's role was).

Using a fan group as an indirect mouthpiece to fans is weak and unprofessional for a supposedly professional organisation - in this/their current climate. There are so many unanswered question - namely, what the actual fudge?

Don't get me wrong; I appreciate the YF team, and what they/you do - but in my opinion the club is failing it's fans and it's seemingly precious sponsors. They need to get on the front foot themselves and suck it up and create/own the message. And if they can't find a journo to give the message "honestly", they can easily share it directly themselves in this day and age. Those of us on here are already all-in... but as we (and they know), we aren't nearly enough - the club needs to be reaching the general sporting public, that other 5k of people in Wellington (and Auckland) that aren't going to games because they get their club news/info from mainstream media. And at the moment, it's a pretty poor picture - so not surprisingly, they're gone.

As an uninformed outer circle fan/member I also find it difficult to believe that it is all just FFA bullshark. And if it is, where are the lawyers? 

And whilst where looking for people, where's NZF in losing their only professional club? (oh of course, they don't give a fudge), where's the OFC in losing their only fully professional club? (oh of course, they're at a creative accounting seminar in Vanuatu prior to the corporate gig in Lautoka on Sunday) 

And wouldn't FIFA be interested in the likelihood of one of their confederations losing their only fully professional club? (oh of course, they're all at a pre-WC communications conference in the Bahamas).

FIIK, it really is a bad joke.