Eastside Urchin Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 Just reading on the Slough Town Forum that their play off win last week resulted in 6 pages of coverage in the Slough observer,including a front page spead!!!! Can you remember if we got similar coverage from the Romford Recorder,which would be a similar size paper I would assume??? I seem to only remember a page or two,although I guess this could have something to do with West ham being in the play offs at the same time. Perhaps this is something the club shod be looking at to jump more into bed with the Recorder. I know it has been tried before but their marketing chap 3/4 years ago seemed to want to go way overboard with marketing themselves rather than both if I remember rightly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missunderstood Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 Just reading on the Slough Town Forum that their play off win last week resulted in 6 pages of coverage in the Slough observer,including a front page spead!!!! Can you remember if we got similar coverage from the Romford Recorder,which would be a similar size paper I would assume??? I seem to only remember a page or two,although I guess this could have something to do with West ham being in the play offs at the same time. Perhaps this is something the club shod be looking at to jump more into bed with the Recorder. I know it has been tried before but their marketing chap 3/4 years ago seemed to want to go way overboard with marketing themselves rather than both if I remember rightly. There's far more people in Havering that support West Ham than watch Hornchurch, so all the Recorder is doing is publishing what they believe their readers are interested in.The advantage Slough have is there's not so much competition football wise in their area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eastside Urchin Posted May 8, 2014 Author Share Posted May 8, 2014 That obviously does make a difference,but Dagenham get more spread than us,despite probably no more than 100 people from havering going to the home games,the majority of Dagenhams support is from Dagenham & barking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burdy Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 Rob the papers in Lowestoft were talking about a parade through the streets by the team on a bus because their local team had gained promotion. Nothing like that was done for Urchins. Lowestoft have the one team we on the other hand battle for fans from West Ham and Dagenham and Redbridge. There seemed to be no civic pride for our atchievement from the council because we are indeed a small pub side from essex in their eyes. As a club we need to get even more involved with the local events in Hornchurch and get the clubs name known by more local people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eastside Urchin Posted May 8, 2014 Author Share Posted May 8, 2014 It was evident on Monday that although Lowestoft is a town on it's own,that many people supported other clubs,but just how many of them went to those clubs games is unclear,my guess not many. They have an average gate of around 7-800 the last 4 years and next season you would expect that to increase to around 900-1000. I saw a lot of Norwich,Ipswich shirts and a few others so would guess some do go but having a pro club 40 miles away is better than having 8 prem clubs within 15 miles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missunderstood Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 That obviously does make a difference,but Dagenham get more spread than us,despite probably no more than 100 people from havering going to the home games,the majority of Dagenhams support is from Dagenham & barking I often watch D&R and the amount of supporters travelling east on the district line suggest its far more than 100. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dagger03 Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 Rob - at Lowestoft the local paper has its own newsstand inside the ground, and there was a special edition of the paper (I did not get one so don't know just how extensive the coverage was). Our own Recorder is pathetic - since Christmas they have not had a report of a Hornchurch match in the paper - all they have is a précis of a conversation with Jim / Colin / Elliot and more recently Frankie Curley. I have commented on this for some time but no one seemed to be interested. I also wrote to the editor, who, needless to say, never replied. The Recorder seems to have completely ignored Hornchurch, and they simply do not understand that Hornchurch are the only senior team who play in the borough. Everyone should write to the editor of the Recorder and ask them to explain why they have no interest at all in local football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obis Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 I thought the coverage had improved and was quite fair. The paper has a number of clubs to cover and effectively we only have 500 or so potential readers?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obis Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 Perhaps placing a regular advert about upcoming matches might help. (Similar to D & R) Nothing for nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dagger03 Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 Obis - the coverage has not improved - they stopped printing reports of Hornchurch matches at Christmas time - all they now have is a précis of a conversation with Jim / Colin / Elliot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obis Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 Whatever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eastside Urchin Posted May 9, 2014 Author Share Posted May 9, 2014 I often watch D&R and the amount of supporters travelling east on the district line suggest its far more than 100. There is nowhere near as many people from Havering who travel to Dagenham home games as there is who watch Hornchurch home games,that simply wouldn't add up. I went to a Saturday Dagenham game earlier this season when I couldn't get to our away game,I went on the tube and before and after the game I must of counted 3 people who had clearly been to the game each way. I very much doubt that anywhere near 100 fans living In havering,even the upminster daggers only go every now and then. I would suggest though that you have fallen into the trap which the recorder and Dagenham have set by their publicity,you actually seem to be more interested in Dagenham than Romford as you do go quite often,I know romford play away but let's face it,your only in the Ryman one north,surely you could go to more Romford games Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missunderstood Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 There is nowhere near as many people from Havering who travel to Dagenham home games as there is who watch Hornchurch home games,that simply wouldn't add up. I went to a Saturday Dagenham game earlier this season when I couldn't get to our away game,I went on the tube and before and after the game I must of counted 3 people who had clearly been to the game each way. I very much doubt that anywhere near 100 fans living In havering,even the upminster daggers only go every now and then. I would suggest though that you have fallen into the trap which the recorder and Dagenham have set by their publicity,you actually seem to be more interested in Dagenham than Romford as you do go quite often,I know romford play away but let's face it,your only in the Ryman one north,surely you could go to more Romford games I prefer to watch a half decent standard of football, in a ground with a bit of an atmosphere these days so I go to D&R, and watch Romford if D&R are away. There's also quite a few ex supporters from both our clubs whom I meet there, which partly explains the drop in support that both clubs have suffered the past few years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffin Ender Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 In the web era is there much point having match reports in a weekly paper? You play on the Saturday, the paper comes out the following Friday. By then fans might have read the report on the web, seen the goals on the web. What can a match report add that they don't already know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eastside Urchin Posted May 9, 2014 Author Share Posted May 9, 2014 It is a minimal amount that we have lost due to Dagenham,Dagenhams crowds haven't really gone up in the last 8/9 years though,they were still averaging around 14-1500 In the conference and they've been a league club since 2007 and their average is around 16-1800 nowadays and that will probably start falling again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wivenhoe Urchin Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 I prefer to watch one team home and away when I can, and then watch another game occasionally. It makes you feel like you are following your team rather than just turning up to watch a game of football. I understand Dagenham will get good crowds due to the league they are in, but that is never certain. They could easily get relegated back into non-league within the next few years and then away games start to get closer, and do you decide then to watch Dagenham home and away? I just can't understand why someone would practically give up on their local team when they could easily get promoted within a few years and enjoy a higher standard of football themselves. Is it not the challenge to follow your team and be part of the experience that leads them to greater things? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrimper Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 i dont see why west ham would need that much coverage in a local weekly newspaper surely with all the coverage teams like west ham get in thr national press and radio it would all be long since already known about come the recorder on thursday ...we did have the same in the evening echo but over the last 2 season the west ham news has be greatly reduced thankfully !!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss.A.F.C.Hornchurch Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 i agree with that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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