Well said.

As Thane says we are literally talking about the picture of the back of a guys shirt because he has the squad number 3.

Sal, disappointed in your post a bit, I like your stuff generally, but think you are way off here. Have you seen the picture?

If its the picture of his missus with two black eyes which was doing the rounds on social media, that was taken after she was involved in a car crash a while back.

I appreciate that it might not seem like a big deal just putting a picture of Gelling up to highlight the shirt number countdown thing, but when it comes to promotion or branding, it's less about being right or wrong in a moral argument and more about what kind of response it gets from the audience you're trying to reach.

All the interactions and mentions from that twitter post were around Gelling and his court case. Not about the Warrington v Hull KR game. So it was counterproductive - the goal with promotional work is to generate excitement and focus on the game. People are talking about something negative about the club when they should be talking about something positive, which hurts the brand.

Now you might say, well its all being stirred up by fans of other clubs who want to have a pop at the club over something minor. Sure - but we knew that was going to happen - the effect is to distract from the message you want to create with the promotion.

It's like if we were putting a player up to do a media interview with the goal of promoting a derby game, and he wore a cap that said Free Palestine or Extinction Rebellion or something. I have no problem with those causes but wouldn't want a player wearing that cap when the goal was to promote a game, because all the interactions and discussion you'd get would be political arguments, and nobody would be talking about the game!

I would have just skipped over the day 3 in the shirt countdown and picked it up with day 2.

But also I should note that although I've had a moan about some of the club's social media activity in terms of individual posts, I do think they are generally good, they produce plenty of material, it looks far more professionally produced these days than it used to, their video content is excellent and fans who follow the club on social media get a view inside the club that we never used to get before. I do think they are a good team.

I wonder how many people refused to watch last night's game on the basis of the club using Gelling's image as part of the pre match publicity?

It's purely a guess, but I reckon it's probably zero, so it makes all the bedwetting over it, on social media and by the few on here, pretty irrelevent.

Did any season ticket holders receive information on how to watch the game on-line? I opted to gift money to the club for the games I missed during lockdown, but never got any details from the club regarding how I could watch the game.

I didn't receive my link directly. My Dad did but it got caught in his SPAM filter. I spotted this on the club's website

rlhttps://warringtonwolves.com/news/2020/august/Members-Livestream-Codes/rl

I emailed the club with my membership number and received my code, I think, with 24 hours. The link worked fine and I was able to watch the match. The code only works for Wire games, the rest are locked.

Thanks for the heads up, but there is nothing in my SPAM folder from the club.
I will use the link you provided to contact the club.
Cheers

Anthony Gelling banned for two matches

Ratchford to Centre and Ashton in at Full Back. Preferable to either Brand or Mamo at Centre based on their showings pre-lockdown.

I understand the eagerness to get Ashton in to the 13, but is moving our best player from Saturday the right option?

The 2 games ban, takes him past the date of his court appearance in Liverpool.

It's tough one isn't it, who would be a coach ?

Ashton didn't seem to get an awful lot of game time against HKR. After such a serious injury I wonder if Price is intending to gradually reintroduce him ? I think I would prefer to see him come off the bench again against Hudds. That would mean keeping Ratchford at FB where he seems to be the most at home and it is of course a pretty specialised role anyway, particularly with the defensive positioning. As you say that would mean Mamo or Brand at centre and I guess a lot would depend on who has shown best in pre-season. On balance I would think Brand would get the shout as he is the next specialist centre. I know a few people didn't think he showed well against Leeds and Hull but I thought he actually did ok, particularly in the tough Leeds gig.

Ratchford is a very very good centre. Ashton looks the bees knees at fullback. Stop even debating about ... what a waste of Ratchford!!
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