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The club website
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Da Man Clay
T'Blades
- Dec 16, 2004
- 16,279
It's basically unusable on a mobile as well. Just a touch annoying in this day and age.
smeariestbat
New member
- May 5, 2012
- 1,731
its so slow to load, got nothing to do with my connection speed, website is just dire!
nomoremithras4me
Active member
- Apr 7, 2011
- 2,348
Is still shit even after a 1-0 away defeat
weststanduppercheerleader
New member
- Nov 10, 2011
- 131
standard football league club website isn't it. There must be a company out there creaming it for providing this template.
terryberry1
Well-known member
Its shite. Looks like a non league page
From the Chief Exec's programme notes on Saturday:
NEW WEBSITE
Since our last home game we have launched the Albion version of the Football League’s next generation website – which has had a mixed reaction from supporters – some positive, some negative, some ambivalent.
The Football League, via their FLi offshoot, currently owns the digital rights to 86 Football League, Premier League and Conference clubs. This agreement has been in place since 2001 and runs through until 2017. In commercial terms, it has been a great success generating considerable and valuable revenue.
It is the clubs' collective strength that has helped to generate those revenues and in return we have all had to adhere to the same site framework. As a club we have been and will remain responsible for the provision of the majority of the content within the site, in terms of words and pictures, with FLi responsible for the framework, and other areas such as stats, fixtures and results.
While the deal has worked very well from the commercial side, the flexibility for clubs in terms of what can be offered to supporters has not always met expectations. However, with a new management team in place at FLi, working under the Football League’s new head of commercial operations Richard Heaselgrave, I hope we will see that change in the coming months and‘years.
As a club, we were the last to switch over to the new platform, as we had our own reservations, but having worked with service providers Sapient Nitro and Richard and his team to overcome the most pressing of those issues, we felt it was the right time to move across. There is still room for improvement, and we are working with FLi to improve the service and will be encouraging them to embrace new technologies to give our supporters, and those of other clubs, a cutting-edge service.
NEW WEBSITE
Since our last home game we have launched the Albion version of the Football League’s next generation website – which has had a mixed reaction from supporters – some positive, some negative, some ambivalent.
The Football League, via their FLi offshoot, currently owns the digital rights to 86 Football League, Premier League and Conference clubs. This agreement has been in place since 2001 and runs through until 2017. In commercial terms, it has been a great success generating considerable and valuable revenue.
It is the clubs' collective strength that has helped to generate those revenues and in return we have all had to adhere to the same site framework. As a club we have been and will remain responsible for the provision of the majority of the content within the site, in terms of words and pictures, with FLi responsible for the framework, and other areas such as stats, fixtures and results.
While the deal has worked very well from the commercial side, the flexibility for clubs in terms of what can be offered to supporters has not always met expectations. However, with a new management team in place at FLi, working under the Football League’s new head of commercial operations Richard Heaselgrave, I hope we will see that change in the coming months and‘years.
As a club, we were the last to switch over to the new platform, as we had our own reservations, but having worked with service providers Sapient Nitro and Richard and his team to overcome the most pressing of those issues, we felt it was the right time to move across. There is still room for improvement, and we are working with FLi to improve the service and will be encouraging them to embrace new technologies to give our supporters, and those of other clubs, a cutting-edge service.
smeariestbat
New member
- May 5, 2012
- 1,731
the statement reads 'dear fans, we know the website is shite, but the football league get more money this way, so tough'
Wozza
Shite Supporter
Why even go there?
I go direct to Ticket site if needed. Official site doesn't offer much else to me.
I go direct to Ticket site if needed. Official site doesn't offer much else to me.
This. I go to the BBC for the fixture list and direct to the ticketing site if needed. That only leaves getting club contact details as a reason to go there at all.
As well as Wozza and Simster's suggestions you can get the news here Brighton & Hove Albion News courtesy of Superphil
The Fifth Column
Lazy mug
After the launch I tried to use it 2 or 3 times and found it totally unusable, it was all over the place, links didn't work or just sent you round in circles and it was impossible to navigate.
I thought I'd try again today and discovered that my computer appears to have taken a huge steaming technological shit and deposited it on my screen!
If anything it is now worse than when it launched, quite an achievement considering it was one of the worst websites I have ever visited. The links are still pot luck if they work or not and many just send me back to the home screen, that is if you can catch the links as they randomly fly across the screen! It is clear from the Chief Execs notes above that the club think it is a pile of cack too but surely if it is not fit for purpose, which it clearly is not, then there ought to be some get out clauses or breach of contract they can invoke to escape this dreadful f***-up of a website.
I thought I'd try again today and discovered that my computer appears to have taken a huge steaming technological shit and deposited it on my screen!
If anything it is now worse than when it launched, quite an achievement considering it was one of the worst websites I have ever visited. The links are still pot luck if they work or not and many just send me back to the home screen, that is if you can catch the links as they randomly fly across the screen! It is clear from the Chief Execs notes above that the club think it is a pile of cack too but surely if it is not fit for purpose, which it clearly is not, then there ought to be some get out clauses or breach of contract they can invoke to escape this dreadful f***-up of a website.
Tony Meolas Loan Spell
Slut Faced Whores
Spot on there.
Fourteenth Eye
Face for Radio
It really is unusable!!
matt_32510
Member
I just use the android app now.
Seagulls Downunder
Active member
Totally agree but as nothing seems to have been done about it so far even though the club are aware of it don't expect any different this side of Christmas. It's all very well saying you don't use it but for those that have paid good money for Seagull Player in order to listen to the matches it's a farce, I wonder what would happen if we all asked for our money back.