Had my birthday on Wednesday. Organised to have Friday off as birthday leave.
Came down with Gastro on Wednesday night. Been bed and toilet ridden ever since. Gotta be the worst bout I’ve ever had.
FML.
Had my birthday on Wednesday. Organised to have Friday off as birthday leave.
Came down with Gastro on Wednesday night. Been bed and toilet ridden ever since. Gotta be the worst bout I’ve ever had.
FML.
That’s got to give you the shits.
Think hes more down in the dumps
There’s gotta be easier ways to lose weight
Yep, it’s given me the shits, gotten me down in the dumps and I’ve easy lost 2-3kgs.
Not a hint of irony there either.
Not sure there is to be honest. Bed, toilet, shower. Repeat for a week!
Official social media channels of teams and media organisations amplifying players’ personal social media. By all means follow the players themselves if you’re interested, but fuck me dead, “team news” never used to extend to who’s getting married, who’s had a baby or who had fucking dinner with Arsene fucking Wenger. Good fucking grief.
Dinner with Wenger was cringe.
Didn’t mind the NT update. This club needs a feel good news story right now. Any distraction from what is going on outside of the football department is definitely needed…
Yeah I don’t mind those things. It also serves a purpose to remind people that the players are regular people too. Allows a greater connection with your regular fans as well as lends a hand to try and decrease some of the hate that gets directed at them.
It also gives you some indication of what’s happening in the back ground. Last year Redder’s started his dip in form and pretty sure it coincided with the birth of his baby
Sure, but there is such a thing as too much information. I mean I was quite content in my knowledge that Katrina Gorry was a gifted midfielder with a big engine and a fantastic range of passing, but now for some reason I also know that she is someone who would subject their nearest and dearest to the horrors of a gender reveal party. One does not simply unlearn such a fact.
Katrina Gorry has a daughter? That is orginal news that definitely wasn’t mentioned a billion times.
I understand what you’re saying, but there’s a point where it just becomes stagnant to post a highlights real of individual players etc. They need to make it a tiny bit more interesting and “fresh”
But do they? Do they really?
Unfortunately they do. They need to post stuff, otherwise people just forget the page even exists and also drops down their relevance in the social media algorithms.
We complain that no one actually knows the players, and that they can’t create any bonds with them. They create those bonds, and then people complain?
You only have to look at Drive to Survive, Welcome to Wrexham, 30 for 30 etc to realise you couldn’t be more wrong if you tried.
If that sort of thing had players doing rack & having groupie orgies then I might actually partake in this ‘social’ media thing.
The truth is that most football players, male or female, are tedious people with mostly tedious lives and they’ve mostly been media coached by their club to provide the most beige opinions imaginable. Yet clubs try to make the most ordinary lives seem interesting, for me at least, it’s not, leave them be.
Welcome to Wrexham has 2 players with character, Ben Foster (now departed) and Elliot Lee, the rest were dull brown paint level personalities.
That’s a very different beast. Primarily that complaint was about players who get elevated into a different class by way of the money they earn, and that clubs are no longer clubs that belong to the community but vanity projects for narcissists, billionaires, and crooks. It’s was less to do about information and more to do with identity. Clubs used to be “of the people” and “for the people”. Not really the case any more in any professional level sport. What you get from official social media feeds is just branding. Even from most players. It only creates parasocial bonds for the most part.
Smaller leagues like the A-League are probably a bit different because the money here is not so insane that it catapults people into a different socioeconomic universe (for most players).
Real bonds really only come from shared experience between players and fans right? This is why I don’t get people who slag previous players (unless they were real dicks). Shared misery through the reign of terror, the highs of Arnold, and the delight of hearing that clank in Melbourne. Fuck the rest that’ll do me.
To be honest if the Sydney FC social posted nothing else other than a weekly clank vid, id be ok with it
Is this directed at me? Re-read what I wrote. I’m not objecting to all efforts to show more of the human side of the players. If anything more of it is needed these days with the decline of traditional media. In the old days this stuff would have come out in TV interviews and magazine features and the like. It’s the crossing of streams by having it infiltrate regular club comms that irks me. There are other avenues for it like the behind-the-scenes docos you mentioned, A-Leagues All Access, the players’ personal socials etc.
Looking back at the tweets that triggered me, I think my issue might even just be the way it looks when clubs try to tweet about something that was only posted to Instagram. Like say Nat Tobin had actually tweeted her engagement photo and the club had just jumped in with a “Congrats Nat!” quote tweet. I think that would have been fine and idiomatic to the platform. Instead, because the original post was only on Instagram (I presume) they had to copy the image and create a whole new tweet. It feels weirdly voyeuristic this way. Like somehow it’s the club that is making the announcement, and in the process trying to leverage the personal life of their employee to further it’s brand? It just looks icky to me.