Football Programmes

[Fish]

Are footy programmes now outdated?

It would seem the EFL are voting during the close season on whether clubs will be required, as thye are currently, to provide them in the future.

https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/s...ws/coventry-city-matchday-programmes-14600218

 

[Lord Tyrion]

In this day and age why not produce the info and fans can download it from the club website on match day. No print costs, no waste.

 

[Orikoru]

I used to buy one for every game I went to, as I kind of memento. Eventually I realised I was spending between £3.50 and £5 on them each time, to have a quick glance at half time or on the train home and then throw them in a box when I got home - so I stopped. 60% of them are just pages of adverts anyway. You're literally paying for a shiny book of adverts.

 

[Deleted member 18645]

I started my reporting career as programme editor at Leatherhead FC back in the early 1980s. I can understand both sides of this - the collecting, traditional side and the "it loses money for the club" side. And who to be honest takes any notice of the advertising so surely there is a problem with companies spending money on placing these ads in the first place.

 

[richart]

Surely they are a nice little earner for the home club. Probably small fry for premiership teams, but in the lower divisions ? My daughter always get one, and had to get a bookcase to keep them in.

 

[User62651]

Belong with these -




......consigned to history!

 

[Tashyboy]

Pub I go in always does game badges for every game. They sell out, guy says folk just want a memento of the game and badges tick that box.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I see both sides of the argument and use to be a fervent football collector as a youngster and had some decent ones. Always got one from the games I went to home and away and they could definitely evoke a memory. Isn't it a bit like magazine readership though and dropping as social media takes over. Clubs should make them available as an electronic download as I think many are still a good read but I can see how the smaller clubs need to balance the books and the cost of printing these days is massive and so a bit outlay every other week they could do without

 

[richart]

I see both sides of the argument and use to be a fervent football collector as a youngster and had some decent ones. Always got one from the games I went to home and away and they could definitely evoke a memory. Isn't it a bit like magazine readership though and dropping as social media takes over. Clubs should make them available as an electronic download as I think many are still a good read but I can see how the smaller clubs need to balance the books and the cost of printing these days is massive and so a bit outlay every other week they could do without

I am sure clubs make a good profit on programmes. Programmeas are £3 at Reading. My daughter spends well over £60 a year on programmes, and her season ticket is £135 !

 

[Liverbirdie]

Stopped getting them years ago.

For 2-3 years Liverpool did a magazine type instead, glossy, 40 odd pages and done in a style similar to a fanzine in terms of humour, doing an interview with an opposing player/fan etc.

Then they went back to the boring, humdrum rubbish.

Coventry City's one used to do my head in, as it was short and stubby instead of tall, so always stood out a mile - must be a Coventry thing . :rofl:

 

[Fish]

Coventry City's one used to do my head in, as it was short and stubby instead of tall, so always stood out a mile - must be a Coventry thing . :rofl:

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