23-01-2016, 19:37
Yes to your merger proposal from me St Charles.
I can see the point of consistent format if the information is there and presented with some originality, wit and bears some relation to the club itself ......... but the whole point of say the Owls and the Blades is they are different. Their difference and their rivalry excites us, bringing them together should forge the League's identity.
The only reason the League actually needs its identity is the negative process of distinguishing itself from The Premier League. The identity of the Premier League is founded on the rivalry of top clubs with good players ..... not on the money of the latest sponsor etc. The Premier League gets its glamour from the clubs. Unless the Football League allows its clubs to forge identities it can only prolong its own identity crisis. But it can't rival the Premier League by some branding exercise - it couldn't even if it knew what it was doing ...... which it doesn't as its messy websites prove.
All the Football League has done for its clubs is to ensure no-one has an absolutely appalling site, and the cost is no-one's got a good one.
The truth is websites aren't that expensive to develop or to run. All kinds of cash-strapped organisations come up with cool sites.
I can see the point of consistent format if the information is there and presented with some originality, wit and bears some relation to the club itself ......... but the whole point of say the Owls and the Blades is they are different. Their difference and their rivalry excites us, bringing them together should forge the League's identity.
The only reason the League actually needs its identity is the negative process of distinguishing itself from The Premier League. The identity of the Premier League is founded on the rivalry of top clubs with good players ..... not on the money of the latest sponsor etc. The Premier League gets its glamour from the clubs. Unless the Football League allows its clubs to forge identities it can only prolong its own identity crisis. But it can't rival the Premier League by some branding exercise - it couldn't even if it knew what it was doing ...... which it doesn't as its messy websites prove.
All the Football League has done for its clubs is to ensure no-one has an absolutely appalling site, and the cost is no-one's got a good one.
The truth is websites aren't that expensive to develop or to run. All kinds of cash-strapped organisations come up with cool sites.