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From the Trust newsletter, I quote the juiciest bits
“We were in League Two when I started here, and we have won two promotions in my time at the club. I’m really the tactical mastermind behind Steve Tilson and Paul Brush!”
“The club have progressed at first team level, and in turn, we have become more professional in our dealings with the press. No-one was dedicated to this role before I arrived, but now we are more proficient on matchdays in looking after everyone. We also provide better communication out of the club.”
“It is the single most frustrating point when I can know for weeks that we are going to be signing someone, and I read about it in the local press but I cannot report on it. Then, you see people putting down the club off for not disclosing it! Until it is official, though, you can’t say a thing – we have to be 100% certain.”
“Fortunately, I’m friends with Matt Hudson, my counterpart at Colchester United.”
“There are good and bad points to the job. It is good to work for a club that I supported as a boy and to see the goings on behind the scenes. But if we have lost, then I am like a bear with a sore head the next morning. You do become unattached from supporting.”
“First and foremost, we do have a responsibility to make sure that Southend United Football Club are seen in a positive light. You have to balance the reporting of the facts with the fantasy of the club and being fair on your work colleagues.”
“The players know when they have had a bad game. We have got to be professional, but when you work for an unofficial site it is much easier to be opinionated. You have to be as honest as you can and admit when Southend are the poorer side, but if the opposition wins easily, it is obvious that they are the better team.”
“It can be a problem to keep things fresh, and Wednesday are a slow news day, so you will often see articles about Tickets or the Community popping up then.”
“You quite often find yourself proof-reading a programme at one in the morning, but you can’t get too annoyed and we remain grateful to our volunteers.”
“I have been offered two other jobs at clubs that were, at the time, above us in the League, but working in football doesn’t appeal to me, even if the press side does. I just enjoy working for this football club.”
W“There will be a re-launching of the website in the summer, although it will still be under the auspices of FLPTV, who we have a contract with for the next ten years. There are sides that the supporter does not see which are positive with them, but I would like more freedom.”
:)
“We were in League Two when I started here, and we have won two promotions in my time at the club. I’m really the tactical mastermind behind Steve Tilson and Paul Brush!”
“The club have progressed at first team level, and in turn, we have become more professional in our dealings with the press. No-one was dedicated to this role before I arrived, but now we are more proficient on matchdays in looking after everyone. We also provide better communication out of the club.”
“It is the single most frustrating point when I can know for weeks that we are going to be signing someone, and I read about it in the local press but I cannot report on it. Then, you see people putting down the club off for not disclosing it! Until it is official, though, you can’t say a thing – we have to be 100% certain.”
“Fortunately, I’m friends with Matt Hudson, my counterpart at Colchester United.”
“There are good and bad points to the job. It is good to work for a club that I supported as a boy and to see the goings on behind the scenes. But if we have lost, then I am like a bear with a sore head the next morning. You do become unattached from supporting.”
“First and foremost, we do have a responsibility to make sure that Southend United Football Club are seen in a positive light. You have to balance the reporting of the facts with the fantasy of the club and being fair on your work colleagues.”
“The players know when they have had a bad game. We have got to be professional, but when you work for an unofficial site it is much easier to be opinionated. You have to be as honest as you can and admit when Southend are the poorer side, but if the opposition wins easily, it is obvious that they are the better team.”
“It can be a problem to keep things fresh, and Wednesday are a slow news day, so you will often see articles about Tickets or the Community popping up then.”
“You quite often find yourself proof-reading a programme at one in the morning, but you can’t get too annoyed and we remain grateful to our volunteers.”
“I have been offered two other jobs at clubs that were, at the time, above us in the League, but working in football doesn’t appeal to me, even if the press side does. I just enjoy working for this football club.”
W“There will be a re-launching of the website in the summer, although it will still be under the auspices of FLPTV, who we have a contract with for the next ten years. There are sides that the supporter does not see which are positive with them, but I would like more freedom.”
:)