News: Local Crew Coverage: The Media Thread

Brianna has been good capturing the human side. I don't think you'll get tactical sickos writing stories for the Dispatch any time soon, and the Dispatch isn't trying to capture those readers because the general public doesn't get that deep. Got to sign up for Soccerwise for that sicko stuff.

 

Go back 20 years ago. The line from the Dispatch was that they weren't in the business of marketing the team and the attention from them would come when the fans started coming.

We'd maybe get 15-17k on a good night (plus a promotion or two) with tons of empty seats at every game and then complain the Dispatch would give us an article on the back page or somewhere in the middle of the section.

Perhaps they were on to something.

 

Shawn Mitchell? Or was Craig Merz really all that bad (he was) and Shawn just seemed halfway competent?

Adam Jardy wasn't terrible, was he?

 

How far back are we going to get real names that were decent?

 

True.

 

All I’m saying is, if you’re gonna put out a product that people want, make it good (or at least decent). If you’re just gonna put out any ol’ junk, that you know is junk, and shovel it at people then that insulting.

Newsletter is great, but it needs to be better than what coverage is currently offered, otherwise it’s just the same shit we’ve been complaining about for years but repackaged to try and fool people.

 

Somewhat of a coincidence, I just saw Pat Murphy running and did not boo him

 

I get all the info I need from here, Reddit, and the MLS insiders, so I’m fine with that. It’s the Dispatch that’s losing out. They could corner this market in two seconds with minimal effort, and they don’t. Their loss.

 

Uh oh…A delay to get more people to sign up doesn’t seem like interest is there

Update on The Dispatch's #Crew96 newsletter: We are pushing back the first edition to give people more time to sign up

If you haven't already, follow the link below to get all your Crew news in one place every week! https://t.co/oJukiuHztv

— Brianna Mac Kay (@brimackay15) October 31, 2024

I would like to say that I did sign up for the newsletter in order to support local journalism. I am also not optimistic that there will be anything exclusive.

 

You can’t put in no effort for years and then promote a subpar product and all of a sudden expect people to come storming back.

 

I'm signed up.

 

I know they are tweeting this out for the link to the live updates page (which Brianna uses instead of Twitter fyi), but you could have had a better scheduled tweet

 

My first thought is that someone forgot about the time change.

 

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