Silver Lake buying a stake in the ABs?
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@Bones said in Silver Lake buying a stake in the ABs?:
@LABCAT said in Silver Lake buying a stake in the ABs?:
@sparky said in Silver Lake buying a stake in the ABs?:
@Bones The All Blacks website is terrible. The design feels ten years old of date.
I work for the design agency that looks after their site, it look's tens years out of date because it's probably that old. They don't like to spend money on the site so don't be expecting a refresh anytime soon.
Sounds pretty bizarre especially taking into account the release of NZR+ too.
Silver Lake's expert input (probably): "No one looks at websites."
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@sparky said in Silver Lake buying a stake in the ABs?:
@Bones The All Blacks website is terrible. The design feels ten years old of date.
Everything they do is out of date. As a spectator and fan they treat you like you don’t matter. Compare that to NRL where they just feed the publicity monster in every way they can - open discussions on refereeing decisions and bunker process, commentators that add something to the game, post match discussions that actually talk about player’s and ref performances, rule changes and advice about how they are being applied, fantastic website that acts as a one stop site for everything including player suspensions and injuries. You would think they would just look at what the NRL do and go we need some of that.
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@antipodean tbf I think that seems across the board in nz rugby, most provinces/super update thier Web content now and again, but they (well the 'better ones' do) seem to engage mainly via FB or IG for stuff we would traditionally have gone to websites for.
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@kev said in Silver Lake buying a stake in the ABs?:
@sparky said in Silver Lake buying a stake in the ABs?:
@Bones The All Blacks website is terrible. The design feels ten years old of date.
Everything they do is out of date. As a spectator and fan they treat you like you don’t matter. Compare that to NRL where they just feed the publicity monster in every way they can - open discussions on refereeing decisions and bunker process, commentators that add something to the game, post match discussions that actually talk about player’s and ref performances, rule changes and advice about how they are being applied, fantastic website that acts as a one stop site for everything including player suspensions and injuries. You would think they would just look at what the NRL do and go we need some of that.
They think they are better than league. Always have. So there's nothing to learn from them
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@taniwharugby said in Silver Lake buying a stake in the ABs?:
@antipodean tbf I think that seems across the board in nz rugby, most provinces/super update thier Web content now and again, but they (well the 'better ones' do) seem to engage mainly via FB or IG for stuff we would traditionally have gone to websites for.
I think they should do it all. FB and IG are good for pushing stuff out. A website allows a fan to search.
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@kev I guess they have all the metrics to see where, how, when fans are engaging and as we moved from paper to email to Web they are moving to social media more and more, supposedly how the consumers want it?
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@taniwharugby said in Silver Lake buying a stake in the ABs?:
@kev I guess they have all the metrics to see where, how, when fans are engaging and as we moved from paper to email to Web they are moving to social media more and more, supposedly how the consumers want it?
Well yeah I guess if you serve up a terrible website you're definitely not going to get much traffic there to make it seem worthwhile.
Hard to guage the value of the engagement on social media too maybe?
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@Bones I have no idea really, but know there is all that crap in the background...but yea a poor website will force people to look elsewhere, then they get some or most of what they want (or they they think we want) via SM, no point going back to the poor website....
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you definitely need the website too, for ticket and merch sales at very least....but more than that the socials arent the best a for actual press statements or articles...and if we're trying to push the unions as these institutions then there should be history etc
relying purely on a social media page is so amateurish...its was a club rugby side would do
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Wow this looks a lot worse than the Silver Lake deal, from the limits in this article
Springboks: 'Several red flags' raised as SA Rugby risk losing crucial rights in $75m private equity deal
SA Rugby will hand over control of the Springboks’ commercial rights to private equity company Ackerley Sports Group (ASG), according to a report.
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Huh. less than a year.
Top NZ Rugby commercial boss leaves after one year in job
New Zealand Rugby has lost one of its biggest names.
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According to today's Herald:
In the meantime, Silver Lake will start taking an annual $20m plus dividend from next year. In perpetuity.
New broadcast deal with Sky is being negotiated now and is expected to be smaller?
Yikes.
Sports Insider: Time to draw a line under Silver Lake shambles
OPINION: 'I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so.'
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in my experience people who say "I hate to say I told you so" invariably want to.
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@nostrildamus said in Silver Lake buying a stake in the ABs?:
in my experience people who say "I hate to say I told you so" invariably want to.
These guys deserve it though.
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@gt12 said in Silver Lake buying a stake in the ABs?:
@nostrildamus said in Silver Lake buying a stake in the ABs?:
in my experience people who say "I hate to say I told you so" invariably want to.
These guys deserve it though.
What an ill conceived idea.Yes I had earlier read the coach's slam dunk of them and thought this sounds like crap (i.e. I instantly believed him) but I don't imagine the bigwigs at NZR will address it directly. Perhaps there is another side to the story (although the facts look damning). If not, those standing again should be named and forced to explain. The story of large chunks of the promised money disappearing to sweeten people over to voting yes sounds all too likely..
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