Press restrictions.

[Batch]

Can't disagree with "Fanzai is rubbish and the new media ban is ridiculous.". Nor with the sentiment that shutting everyone out automatically makes SOME of us a tad worried.

And for every Irish airline there is a Ratners.
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But the biggest question, given all the negatives in the clubs aproach, is what are the positives and are they worth it.

[Skinny Pete]

Sounds familiar

http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/sport/blackpool-fc/it-s-good-to-talk-blackpool-fc-should-try-it-1-7357230

[tans]

Adver on talksport at 345 talking about the ban

[suttonred]

Statement on O/s



THE club are very disappointed and surprised in the way in which our new media arrangement has been portrayed locally and presented to the national media.

So we are very clear: the football club are looking to start something different this season. Bearing in mind the change in training facility (which is a considerable distance from Swindon), our in-house journalist, Tom Otrebski, will be conducting interviews with players, management and staff during the week as well as producing a lot of behind-the-scenes material that will engage the fans and give them more of an insight into how the team and the club is run. This will be distributed on all the club's official media channels and also on a new and exciting media platform called Fanzai which the club have decided to trial. This was first trialled on Saturday during Town’s pre-season friendly with Everton.
 
Fanzai is a family-friendly app which is free of the profanity and abuse that users may experience on existing social media. Fanzai’s unique approach to social media is something that club decided to align themselves with and launch our media output through.

For the avoidance of doubt, post-match access and the reporting of matches by the media will remain exactly the same as last season. There is not a blanket media ‘ban’ as is being reported. We are trying something fresh which we feel will give supporters a new insight into their football club.

 
Read more at http://www.swindontownfc.co.uk/news/article/club-statement-2546181.aspx#wOH20UFUEycZ8meV.99

[Skinny Pete]

'profanity and abuse'

Do they mean us?

They surely do!

[pauld]

They're really not helping themselves are they? Could someone climb down into the hole and confiscate their spade before they make it any worse?

[Batch]

bullshit excuse for forcing official news through the fanzai app.

you can do both for a start.

 won't someone think of the children

[pauld]

won't someone think of the children

Except 60s pop stars. The less they think of the children, the better.

[Batch]

good point. and some catholic priests too

[Nemo]

Imagine profanity and abuse associated with a football club. Imagine it.

[Sussex]

TEF - perfecting 'profanity and abuse' for 10 years.

[Skinny Pete]

Fucking bollocks!

[Islington Red]

We really are famous we've made the press gazette, journo's trade mag http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/swindon-town-fc-extends-local-press-ban-all-media-it-signs-fanzai-app

[pauld]

good point. and some catholic priests too

And a good chunk of 70s/80s political establishment. Allegedly.

[Samdy Gray]

The defensive tone of that statement is cringeworthy. That's Bob Holt-esque. They would've been better off saying nothing at all.

Saying that Calne is too far for a journo to travel is bullshit.