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See that blue banner at the bottom of my post?Oh dear.
Hahaha. I'll never be able to show my username around here again!Leave it mate, you're embarrassing yourself.
I liked your post. I know how important it is to you.Leave it mate, you're embarrassing yourself.
Good point. I have fb and any updates comments or anything from a page I'm following has a hit , I get a notification and check it out. So probably a much more effective tool . Come to think of it i never go on the NRL site because I have liked any relevant pages rl and get regular updates minute by minute without sourcing anything.I personally don't use Facebook but I do have a Twitter account. I've noticed that Boston are now playng at a new venue. This information is not available on their website but it is on their Facebook page along with a photograph of the stadium. NOVA Eagles tweets contain lots of links to their Facebook page too. The question now is are websites losing their relevance? Do most people under a certain age get their news from Facebook rather than a website whereas older users (like myself ) tend to turn to a website first?
I personally don't use Facebook but I do have a Twitter account. I've noticed that Boston are now playng at a new venue. This information is not available on their website but it is on their Facebook page along with a photograph of the stadium. NOVA Eagles tweets contain lots of links to their Facebook page too. The question now is are websites losing their relevance? Do most people under a certain age get their news from Facebook rather than a website whereas older users (like myself ) tend to turn to a website first?
Well Ryan, I've literally just checked all of the USARL team's websites and not much has changed since I started this thread. Only a handful of websites have anything less than a fortnight old on them. The Knight's website only has a schedule update, Boston is trapped in 2016 as are the Black Foxes and the Wombats. There are two days left before the season kicks off. Not impressive at all. If you want to attract people to get involved in the game over there then you have to give them something that is current and will catch their eye not something that looks like it was last updated in the year dot.
Thanks for the response Ryan. It's just frustration and ignorance of the problems you have that initiated my OP. I'm far from a millennial and don't really use social media and the website is what I (rightly or wrongly) use to form my impression of the progress, or otherwise, of the game in the USA. It's difficult to appreciate the distances involved when you live in a country where the vast majority of rugby league towns and cities are a couple of hours away at the most. Sorry if I came across as overly critical. As I said earlier it's just frustration.
Omg! I had no idea the effort that you go to. Good work! Good thing you got the southern conference going!DP,
I didn't take it that way at all. It's been a long time since I was on here to answer any questions for everyone, so it just spewed out. Ask away.
Just to give you an idea on distances of where we have teams and where there is interest, and I will use Philadelphia as the hub:
Phila to DC- 3 hours
Phila to NOVA- 3 1/2 hours
Phila to NYC-2 hours
Phila to RIR- 5 1/2 hours
Phila to Boston- 6 1/2 hours
Phila to Jax-12 1/2 hours
Phila to Central FLA-14 1/2 hours
Phila to Atlanta, GA-12 1/2 hours
Phila to Chicago, IL- 12 1/4 hours
Phila to Dallas, TX-22 1/2 hours
Phila to Charlotte, NC-8 1/2 hours
So you can see why things can be very hard to get started when you have to fly everywhere and those costs are considerably more than driving. That's why the only way for us to make things work is smaller conferences and 5-6 hour trips in a van at most. DC to Boston is almost 10 hours so that is brutal on the boys up and back.
The Fight's trip to Jax every year cost us in Excess of $12,000 on avg with flights, hotels, vans, and meals. Not easy to come up with once, let alone a bunch of times per year when you are getting $500 sponsorship's at a time and not $10,000 or $15,000 Title sponsors. I only ever got one for that kind of money and it only lasted 1 year because they couldn't see the return on investment.
It's an uphill road that we will keep climbing mate.
Ryan, are you still involved with the fight? Is Peter Ilfield?
Thanks for the update and all your hard work. Until the rlif funds an USARL development manager, things probably won't progress. You need gov and corpororate money - and thats a full time job. Then you can hire more dev officers to build your conferences and support that volunteer run clubs