Collin Osborne

[martinwatson aka Camera Shake]

In case anyone is wondering what happened to Collin after our "exciting" end to last season......

www.wimbledonrfc.co.uk/news/wimbledon-rfc-announce-collin-osborne-to-join-as-d-2430020.html

Hope someone said thank you to him.......

[grooveavenue]

Yes, I thought Collin made a difference and injected a higher confidence level into the Squad. I had hoped a place would have been found for him in the new set up but hey! onwards and upwards.

Comms let us down considerably by announcing ALL our current signings over a few weeks rather than drip feeding us with a few a week to keep us intrigued towards the new season!!! Mind you, I suppose, it would have been rather difficult to hide all the signings at training.

Can Comms tell us how season tickets are going. Mary commented, at the AGM, I seem to recall, that at that stage of the Summer there had been a good number of applications being dealt with. I hope the incentive of no orice increase,the free tickets and beverage discount will prove beneficial, to all!

[southernmose]

Jul 22, 2019 6:45:18 GMT grooveavenue said:

Comms let us down considerably by announcing ALL our current signings over a few weeks rather than drip feeding us with a few a week to keep us intrigued towards the new season!!! Mind you, I suppose, it would have been rather difficult to hide all the signings at training.

I'm not sure that it's totally fair to say that they "let us down" considerably or otherwise. I know they're all volunteers, but a comms plan for press scheduling over a few months takes literally about 15 mins to do and isn't rocket science. I'm assuming they had one.

The only release that I would personally have changed, completely off the top of my head (if we really have had all the signings now) is the last one which bunged players in with senior academy signings. There is a case IMO for splitting that at least into 2 (1sts and academy), or more (1 for the academy lads, then say 2 for the new signings for the 1st XV). Having said that, all that would have given is maybe another week's worth of copy. 

The B&S players announcement really had to be all in one go - you couldn't have released 2 names and then had all the people seeing photos and saying "what about the others" that they recognised. I think there are some fairly obvious "message management" points around that particular announcement* which frankly were probably better addressed, as they were, by getting them all out at once. To that extent it's pretty obvious that comms do know what they're doing.


The alternative is to do a Chinnor, and stick quite literally all your ins and outs into one release - as they did over the weekend. Including one T Fidler....

But that's much easier to do when you're in a small town, don't get much media coverage, and have got about 100 hardcore fans.



*which I viewed positively here and elsewhere, but as facebook showed, it did kick off a bit with people who hadn't thought through the position.