Nice cover story.

OK You got me, here's my popeye impression

My thoughts on it areVery slow to load.
Hard to get to actual rhinos content. Domain name points to a selection of Leeds Rhinos & Leeds Carnegie - fair enough from the url, but Cricket, Corporate Opportunities, Retail, Experience & Lodge seem mis-placed. After that there is a splash screen for whatever is being promoted at the time, then after this you are to the main content page. Probably not the best design.
Online shop is woeful, with little range, which is essential for people who live outside of the city. GH has mentioned that the club has a significant level of support from outside the sity. This could be better targetted if merchandise was easily available through the website. The shop section looks amatuerish
Polls that are more often than not out of date
The site is not great from a usability point of view and does look dated with the background image.
Also found it hard to find where to buy tickets online
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DONT THINK you can buy tickets on line now - You could not renew season tickets this year / last year on line either

One of the biggest problems for me is usability - it's very difficult to get the information that I need from it and if I didn't know myself how to get to the ticket order system, I'd be knackered.

For instance, I was looking at ticket prices for last night's game. Now if you look at the rlticket inforl page (it may change today), the details are in there but they are needlessly hidden within the all-too common sales spiel about the tickets for the WCC, season tickets, Headingley Lodge and whatever else the club is trying to flog. As a result, the page has got seven "folds" in it - far too many in my view.
I know why they've done it, but this is where the club appears to be confused as to which parts of the site are sales channels and which parts of the site are information portals.

That's not helped by the navigation - the menu on the left is far too big. Condense it into smaller sections, make it clear which section is which and it will be more efficient.

Graphically, it's poor. White text on a dark blue watermark is not a good combination and there are lots of elementary problems with presentation (such as the ads on the right each being different sizes) which just look amateurish.

I'd probably make a few other points but there's stuff to do. Apologies to Phil whilst I'm at it (I'm sure he'll be reading this). I did get your PM but never got around to responding. Rest assured, I'm not the sort who's happy to slag-off on a public forum without being constructive.

Employ someone who could spell !

No space was required after the word spell.

HTH

More cheerleaders are needed

Is that response after reading JJB's testimonial brochure?
My bugbear is their failure to know the difference between "complement"
& "compliment". Or if they do why do they consistently get it wrong.
Mind you they're not unique in that.

And hopefully someone who doesn't allow the many mistakes that were in the 'Back to Back Champions' book.

If Phil Daly does happen to read this thread, how about employing me to proof read stuff in future?

Definitly not havign the adverts pop up as the gambling ones could in theory get me sacked from work!

Fans section is prety bad from memory, even my local football team show ll the goals from their home games on their website - aerage attenance 600ish!

Surely that's all to do with copyright though?

You're local footy team probably records their own games to get goals / highlights on the web. The club would need, I presume, permission from Sky / RFL to have a highlights section.

I'd say you would be right on reflection, as you'd have to pay to get highlights, suppose there could be some video interviews like on the bbc, but then again, I prefer reading articles as i'm usually a work or watcing something on the tv at the same time!

Are they getting that many week in week out at the Brakes? Good going for that level of football!