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Just remember, this is the first one they have shown unexpectedly without comment. There will be 3 or 4 more different ones before releasing the actual one which will be different again.

Can't wait for the 'MYSTERY WEBSITE? – EXCITING NEWS!' new article:

"It’s been one of the most-talked about items in our recent Club history and it gives us great pleasure to announce that the brand new Greenock Morton FC WEBSITE... "

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6 minutes ago, EanieMeany said:

It looks rotten, the "shop" is particularly farcical having as it does two different versions of a strip to advertise a "crowdie" (whatever the fuck that is) without, as far as I can see, even containing a link anywhere on the entire site  to where you can buy one.

The option is there to buy one by clicking on it on that very page.

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I clicked yon big Morton Club Together banner on the site, got sent to this beauty:

https://new.gmfc.net/sponsors

I'm working on some sites right now that don't have a proper staging environment, so I know how hard a smooth transfer can be. All this stuff looks easy on the surface but it can be surprisingly challenging.

But that's exactly why, as ToM says, you have a staged migration, with concrete deliverables, little checkpoints, go/no-go dates to ensure the disruption visible to the public is kept to a bare minimum. 

What you don't do is... in the build-up to your active season, when your core products (in our case, season tickets, match streaming, replica kits) are at their most sought-after and need to be pushed the hardest, when all eyes are on you ahead of the launch of your next big campaign (in our case, the competitive football season), when you've promised a new website... is half-assedly throw something online for hours, if not days at a time, full of incorrect information, placeholders, inconsistent information, with anything useful and more importantly profitable either hidden, outdated, or completely memory-holed.

As I say, I know these things aren't necessarily easy. I know there are limitations that mean they might have to operate on the patient while he's awake, to use everyone's favorite migration metaphor. But that's exactly why you go in with a plan. If you don't want to have your customer-facing site looking like a dog's dinner, you need to be able to strip it down and rebuild it like an infantryman his rifle.

If on the other hand you're poor wee Morton and you just don't really care if people buy match tickets, you put this online:

https://www.gmfc.net/tickets-membership/

Which links to this:

https://www.gmfctickets.co.uk/

And in case anyone wants to console themselves at being unable to buy tickets by instead getting a replica kit, they can follow the link to this:

https://gmfc.net/shop/

And get themselves a fucking Crowdie.

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11 hours ago, EanieMeany said:

Kinda reminds me of Lionel Hutz' business card: "New Website? No, problems!"

It looks rotten, the "shop" is particularly farcical having as it does two different versions of a strip to advertise a "crowdie" (whatever the fuck that is) without, as far as I can see, even containing a link anywhere on the entire site  to where you can buy an actual strip.

The less said about those t-shirts the better.

There is an actual 2nd shop page - https://www.gmfc.net/shop-gmfc/

Problem is, it's not linked to from anywhere on the site as the shop link goes to https://www.gmfc.net/shop/.

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Good grief.  They appear to be wanting to fix these "Crowdies" to the seats at the front of the Cowshed to give the appearance of a crowd.  Apparently in a position where a camera in the Cowshed wouldn't even be able to see them.  That looks like a terrible idea.  Then there's the damages for using the name "Crowdie" which I think may belong to a cheese manufacturer on Arran.

"Any nation given the opportunity to regain its national sovereignty and which then rejects it is so far beneath contempt that it is hard to put words to it."

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1 hour ago, Alibi said:

Good grief.  They appear to be wanting to fix these "Crowdies" to the seats at the front of the Cowshed to give the appearance of a crowd.  Apparently in a position where a camera in the Cowshed wouldn't even be able to see them.  That looks like a terrible idea.  Then there's the damages for using the name "Crowdie" which I think may belong to a cheese manufacturer on Arran.

What camera in the cowshed?

And the cheesemongers will have to sue every club the length of Britain that has sold 'crowdies'. We are actually late to that particular party and probably haven't sold any anyway.

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15 hours ago, steveoath said:

Pretty sure cardboard mutants don't impinge on the intellectual property of a fucking cheese.

FFS. You don’t get the concept of humour obviously.

"Any nation given the opportunity to regain its national sovereignty and which then rejects it is so far beneath contempt that it is hard to put words to it."

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