No need for the comment about Vastman, and in terms of his comment, I thought things went pretty smoothly today which I'm sure took a lot of work.

However, marketing should always be ringfenced resource in a business. Saying everyone is concentrating on something else is a case of bad prioritisation.
On match day, of course safety and organising the crowd is priority but the other 6 days need someone marketing. Social media is low hanging fruit.

Totally out of order, is there a hint of the pimp there.

Back to the game. I left feeling a bit underwhelmed by the shoreline but thought it was solid enough.

The whole first half we didn’t look troubled and for most of it looked in to not get out of second gear.

The second half despite having some younger and fringe lads on I was a little didsapointed with ball control. It will have been a good experience for the young lads.

I don’t know whether discipline is an issue but the penalty count was heavy against us. That coupled with a few poor turnovers from short kick offs or knock ons out us under undue pressure especially that second half.

Thought Proctor went well.

Atoni showed he can put in some good minutes and made plenty of yardage. I think I prefer him off the bench but like the look of him.

All 3 halves contributed well and Mash had a tough choice there. Smith for me looks like a real find. Good hands, good short kicking game and the lad can score some try’s.

Thought Lineham went well and was good of him to pass a try to Lyne.

Looking forward to seeing Tanginoa and Hall hopefully vs Fev.

Oh, thought Battye looked good again. 2 good games from him and he’s running some great lines. That line he ran for his try was a beauty.

They're called plebs

No I don’t need to use multiple forum names like some. If I post I do so under my one login, I know that some struggle with those that have a different opinion but the forum is not yet the sole domain of one specific point of view despite what some try to make it.

And the comment supported by his sidekick, Little Wayne!

Would those be football clubs whose budgets run into hundreds of millions of pounds a year?

Would it be football teams whose revenue even three divisions down generally dwarfs Trinity’s?

Let’s be realistic here, we are a club who currently at a guess turnover less than 3 million a year. I know for a fact that the Kingfisher Chippie at Durkar has a similar turnover.

So yes we are stretched even before we take the rebuild into account.

As I say the club are aware of the shortfalls but surely you can see now is not the ideal time to tinker.

Social media done on an industrial level is not as easy as some suggest. It needs doing properly and have a plan. That’s my point. At the moment there simply isn’t the time to sit down and do that.

Surely it’s better to wait a while longer until all the modern facility are in place and do it properly?

Yes you can run social media from a bedroom for some products, but not imho for one as diverse as a RL club.

It’s a shame as we were doing well up until a year ago but sometimes events overwhelm. Just remember though how hard people worked during Covid on social media to keep you all in the loop. There is no lack of effort it’s just plain difficult at the moment.

Might be easier now the players are back at BV, we shall see.

The game is already on Trinity TV now

I can see why away fans call BV the worst ground in the league. What a miserable existence it was stood there yesterday. Never again. If I go to the Fev game I will be trying to get in the seats in front of the flats.

And when Hull come, well good luck. They travel well, even for friendlies.

I'd even consider paying for a feed with all the posh folk but even that is sold out for the Fev game.

Morgan Smith will stand out this year. He will get a lot of MoS points I believe. I for one am quite excited about watching him every week.

Hate to say this, but agree with this, awful experience. I just hadn't realised how bad it is.

I stood on the west terrace for years until moving to the North Stand and it never seemed that bad tbh. However yesterday I have to agree it felt pretty dire. Maybe it was the general state of the ground, everywhere you looked was a mess and this just added to it.

Nobody and I mean nobody at the club would argue about the viewing angles on the West stand. You only have to look over at the new terracing on the North to realise how unacceptable they are to modern standards.

I know it's the first thing the club will do on phase two when the cash becomes available, however fans have to accept that what goes on the ground directly affects the player budget, there is simply no way around that unless somebody gives us the cash to do it.

I was stood beneath the TV Gantry and just seeing the original portakabins rotting and falling apart was saddening. I remember when they craned them in back in the day!

This was the worst thing for me - I'm not the tallest bloke in the world, and I must admit I felt about 10 years old again, plus my kids constantly wanted to get on the barrier and then we still couldn't see.

Looking forward to getting back in the North Stand. Thoughts and prayers with away fans...

They weren't great then but now they are tragic, but the good thing is that the main reason they now look so bad is because whats opposite will look so darn good. Bit like when you buy a new carpet and you suddenly realise how crap your suit is