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Post by Headless Chicken on Jul 20, 2019 13:25:01 GMT 1
This thread is what especially worries me about the PR stunt - there are Town fans now baiting each other because of this campaign and it's unneeded division. The fanbase unity has been the only positive in the last year, we need to be united again next season in the stands when the action starts. If we get off a bad start (and we have a hard start) we need to stick together or the wheels could really come off with a young team For my worth I felt (hoped!) on balance the kit was likely to be a hoax but there were two nagging doubts - it went on too long as the national negativity amplified and also I couldn't fully rule out that Town would make such a misjudgement given the series Boardroom level errors in the last year; Rebbe, Winkler thinking Sobhi is worth £5.7m and so on. As a PR stunt it got huge coverage - we got a hell of a lot of bad publicity and ridicule midweek followed by positive PR on Friday. However for example I don't yet see Friday's real kit release getting the same national syndication as Wednesday's fake release. e.g we were on BBC Breakfast on Thursday getting criticism as a feature but I'm yet to see a segment on BBC Breakfast covering the real launch. Regardless when SJ is talking about it being universally positive to the Examiner "one step back two forward" he needs to watching fans forums and threads like this. Many take it as a light hearted joke but some don't The obvious positives is the new kit looks great and the fake kit will raise money for charity but I doubt we'll see a more controversial HTFC marketing campaign again in our lifetimes Funny enough I sent a msg to someone saying it's gone on too long and it turned out only five mins before they'd announced the new kit! I was also a bit iffy about them actually wearing it. It was a risk, but at the same time a lot of this is because of stubborn people who just have to keep fighting their corner. You can't avoid doing anything contraversial to appease everyone. For me, the end result justifies the means, and some people need to just move on. |
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