Bit disappointed

[Littlemissminx]

Great game on Saturday good to be back. Only thing i am disappointed in is that there was no mention of our game in The Rugby Paper on Sunday and also nothing about our game in todays Birmingham Mail.
To get more people at our games there should be write ups in the local paper hope this gets sorted.

[coverdale2]

absolutely agree 100 percent!
I suppose with the football season starting as well we were always going to be pushed to one side. Having said that we dont get much coverage anyway which is really disappointing especially considering we are Brum`s premier rugby club!

[watcher]

Isn't Brian Dick on holiday? Anyway it was only a pre season warm up game which don't normally attract much attention especially a match report!

[Richie B]

Friendly or not I have to concur. Other sides from lower leagues had their friendlies covered. Need to get the message out there, get the Rugby Paper every week and it is an excellent publication. Always firstly scouring for anything on us or the Championship and often disappointed. Think we have a lot to interest the rugby fraternity in with the squad Kevin is putting together!

[vincebrum]

Been away for the weekend. First thing I did on my return was pick up my ordered Rugby Paper. Very disappointed to find no report. Delighted to see the reports on here!

If the Rugby Paper wants to be be seriously considered as the top paper for Rugby it needs to cover all the games played by sides in the Championship & National 1 & 2. Very disappointing this week!

[Littlemissminx]

It doesn't matter if it was only a pre season all the other clubs has write ups about their pre season friendly. If the club want more people through the gates then they have to work on their PR !

[observer]

Don't forget...."we" ARE the club......apart from the the players/playing management everyone are volunteers.....how about volunteering a match report as opposed to expecting someone else to volunteer one?

[Communications Team]

The clubs match report will appear on the website today and in this weeks MM. As was stated elsewhere the Post & Mail were not represented at the game as Brian Dick was away.

On the question of needing to work on our PR the club does produce press releases on matches, important news etc and this is sent to all the local, plus many national, media outlets (Printed, web based, TV & Radio) on a regular basis. Our club newsletter is subscribed to by a number of the local media representatives. Our twitter feed which publicises games is followed by members of the media.

The club will do all it can to invite media interest, and is always welcoming to members of the press, however we cannot control if they send representatives to cover matches or not.

We would always welcome constructive ideas from therapy6645 and others on how we can improve press coverage, but it should be remembered that during the regular season Moseley has always had very good coverage of matches and news via the Post, Mail & Mercury and the Rugby Paper

[watcher]

Bit unfair therapy!

"You can take a horse to water but you cannot make it drink!" I understand that the club circulated the press release about the Aberavon game well before the match itself to its usual 35+ different media sources. (yes 35!!!).

You cannot force a publication to print something when they are not inclined to do so and their regular correspondent may be away.

I think our comms team does an excellent job overall and is far more professional than many other clubs. Communication is much more than getting a few paragraphs in one particular paper. The comments on the game on this Board for example had well over 1,000 hitsand this Board itself is all part of the clubs PR and communications outlet. Also the print media does not have a big readership nowadays anyway.

[Littlemissminx]

I am not critising our comms team i know what a good job they do nobody can fault them afterall they are volunteers. I was meerly pointing out that it was disappointing that nothing was mentioned about our games. Pardon me for expressing my opinion.

[observer]

Therapy....don't take umbrage.......we are all in this together.....direct your disappointment in to something positive for the club.....match reports may not be your forte but suspect something else equally valuable is! Introduce a new sponsor, volunteer for match day car parking, help with coaching, organise a fundraiser.....the options are unlimited and everyone's contribution is valuable

[Communications Team]

Match report and photographs from Saturdays game are now available on the club website

www.moseleyrugby.co.uk/allfixtures12.php?season=t&team_group_id=1

[philhall]

Last year the Mail did report on the Aberavon game at Aberavon. Pam and I went and coincidently the score almost mirrored Saturdays score but in Aberavons favour. I recall the half time score was reasonable but Aberavon made significant changes to their team in the second half and ran rings round us, through us - a ruddy great hole at centre - and did anything they wanted against us.
It was nice to observe the boot on the other foot on Saturday. Mind you when Aberavon came out in "Moseley colours" Pam and I commented that we didn't recognise any of "our team" until Moseley came out in their second strip. We can't make the Northampton game Thursday because of work but will keep an eye open for the score. Come on Mooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooose.