by Wimb »
26 Nov 2012 08:41
Hoop Blah The point was more to highlight the shortcomings of both RFC and STAR in recognising the relevance of HNA opinion.
I've no desire to change STAR or RFCs opinion or address their organistations failings. I will point out how flawed they are though if I can be bothered.
Personally, if I have an issue with the club that effects me directly I call them up and speak to the likes of dappy-boll*cks Boyd Butler or the hopeless whinging Geordie Craig Mortimer. Sometimes that's had an effect, sometimes not, but any organisation with a strong and long lasting relationship with their 'customer base' should be open to dialogue with those stakeholders. If they don't then that's their problem.
I agree social media is changing the landscape a bit but HNA is still the only place I've seen for realitively informed and interesting debate around RFC.
A quick look at the team board right now probably blows that informed and interesting debate argument out of the water
Also all bias aside, I'd like to think we've had a few decent rational articles and discussions up on The Tilehurst End and have grown a lot even in 18 months, while other boards like The Royals Rendezvous are working hard and slowly growing, but yeah HobNob is still the biggest non-official source of Reading debate online today and has a long history behind it as well.
I agree that there's some good debate, but again my point is how many unique users actually contribute to those debates? It's pretty much the same faces in every thread, posters like ourselves, Snowball, Floyd, RL, Ian Royal, Winch, Royal Blue, 2WW, Handbags, LoyalRoyalFan, Libertine, Simon's Church and probably a couple of dozen others that I've forgotten off the top of my head but my point is it's not like there's hundreds of different posters contributing to informed discussion and sharing rational explained viewpoints.
Could HobNob be a great place to gauge opinions and spread awareness? Yes, but the cliques, squabbles, windup merchants and lack of actual faces behind posters means that the effort needed to go through to sift the good from the cr@p is probably on the side of too much hassle right now for STAR or Reading.
Ultimately, as you've admitted you do yourself, if you've really got a beef you'd actually take the time to complain to the club or STAR directly.