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The clubs website has gone steadily down hill this season .
Does anyone else agree ?
Not much content on upcoming county games and second X1 cricket has been completely forgotten .
Pen pics of players are out of date .
Although reports on first team games are ok it still lacks a bit of content .
All the good things the club are doing commercially I think they are missing a trick here .
Email to club to be sent ,hopefully with good results .

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The academy section is well out of date too

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Very true. Amazingly, the club didn't even post a preview of the Somerset game today. No squad news, no publicity, nothing! Ah, just remembered, it was a County Championship game - I think they consider that something like a Second team Friendly!


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you are, of course, all aware that the club is currently recruiting for a new head of the media deartment, so they are, possibly, inderstaffed and falling behind with the current workload.

Hopefully whoever is appointed is selected for their ability and experience in a sports media role and not for DEI reasons.

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Well I know FOUR worthy candidates to fill the role head of media !!!

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The media output from the club has been absolutely dreadful for a few years now. They only seem interested in social media "bantz" these days.
We want decent previews and engaging content, not inane post match interviews and half hearted quotes. Many counties are offering so much more.
Brian Halford was excellent when he was at the club and his podcast is a great listen. The personnel in more recent times have gone through the motions.

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KingofSpain wrote:

The media output from the club has been absolutely dreadful for a few years now. They only seem interested in social media "bantz" these days.
We want decent previews and engaging content, not inane post match interviews and half hearted quotes. Many counties are offering so much more.

Well said. Couldn't agree more. I think some of the media output has been childish.

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No mention of today’s game v Essex ,shocking .

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The club is still recruiting a new "media manager", however the job description was prioritising the unwanted competition and political correctness, when what is needed is an experienced sports Journo.
Sadly since Tom Rawlins moved on the media output has been behind that of other counties. Have a looka t our neighbours for an example of good media output.

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The last bloke, Someone Ford, was totally useless. Anyone would be an improvement on the poor quality or non existent content served up over the past 2 or 3 years.

You only have to look at other counties, Kent for example, on how to do a proper preview. It is comprehensive and has detailed availability/injury news: https://www.kentcricket.co.uk/news/match-preview-kent-vs-leicestershire/

We still don't know what happened to Moeen Ali. It has never been mentioned by the club!