Do the club's staff have literacy issues?
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Yes, it was a bit silly.boggzy said:
Just looked again on my smartphone which I was using.Henry Irving said:
Yet within 10 seconds I found this "Tickets are priced at £20 adults and £15 over 60s and under 18s, though these will be subject to a £2 increase on the day of the game."boggzy said:I went on the site on Saturday morning to see how much it would be to pay at Walsall.
After three minutes of going round in circles and nothing about the game whatsoever, I gave up.
Read more at http://www.cafc.co.uk/news/article/2016-17/charlton-athletic-match-preview-walsall-bankss-stadium-3259301.aspx#DDeiHLwHPWLe7uxV.99
My mistake - Looking for ticket information I went immediately to 'tickets' rather than news.
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Wasn't her PA's job advertised at about 16k? I'm sure there would be many exec PA's who would be happy to work locally but on a salary that they could afford to live on and support yourself.
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George and Olly both have degrees in Journalism but as you can see there are only two of them when there used to be four or five. Maybe that is the reason things are done in a hurry/under pressure and mistakes creep in.Brendan_O_Connell said:Their website and twitter feed are always littered with mistakes and out of date information.
It's what I'd expect from a poorly managed company who have no pride in anything they do.
That's not a dig at the individuals that maintain them. They are more than likely overstretched and underpaid and I very much doubt they have had any training or have the relevant experience to do that job.
If the club bothered to invest in their careers I'm sure we'd see an improvement.
You can find similar errors in the mainstream media and other, much richer, club's websites and twitter. That doesn't mean that's it's OK for our staff to make mistake but there are reasons beyond their control and nothing to do with no training.
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Fick fookin carnts!!!2
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What's wrong with that ?MountsfieldPark said:
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.Henry Irving said:
George and Olly both have degrees in Journalism but as you can see there are only two of them when there used to be four or five. Maybe that is the reason things are done in a hurry/under pressure and mistakes creep in.Brendan_O_Connell said:Their website and twitter feed are always littered with mistakes and out of date information.
It's what I'd expect from a poorly managed company who have no pride in anything they do.
That's not a dig at the individuals that maintain them. They are more than likely overstretched and underpaid and I very much doubt they have had any training or have the relevant experience to do that job.
If the club bothered to invest in their careers I'm sure we'd see an improvement.
You can find similar errors in the mainstream media and other, much richer, club's websites and twitter. That doesn't mean that's it's OK for our staff to make mistake but there are reasons beyond their control and nothing to do with no training.
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If talking about ONE club then club's is correct. It should be clubs' when talking about more than one club.Covered End said:
What's wrong with that ?MountsfieldPark said:
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.Henry Irving said:
George and Olly both have degrees in Journalism but as you can see there are only two of them when there used to be four or five. Maybe that is the reason things are done in a hurry/under pressure and mistakes creep in.Brendan_O_Connell said:Their website and twitter feed are always littered with mistakes and out of date information.
It's what I'd expect from a poorly managed company who have no pride in anything they do.
That's not a dig at the individuals that maintain them. They are more than likely overstretched and underpaid and I very much doubt they have had any training or have the relevant experience to do that job.
If the club bothered to invest in their careers I'm sure we'd see an improvement.
You can find similar errors in the mainstream media and other, much richer, club's websites and twitter. That doesn't mean that's it's OK for our staff to make mistake but there are reasons beyond their control and nothing to do with no training.
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Good point well made. Ha Mountsfield has deleted it and he was correct
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Meaning unique.ForeverAddickted said:What a weird subject to bring up
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Remember years ago in Curb's column that the team 'equipped' themselves in the previous game.
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you do @Splodge .. DOES the club's staff .. not DO the club's staff ?2
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Yes, I knew I was correct. I just decided I didn't want to add more fuel to the fire.Covered End said:Good point well made. Ha Mountsfield has deleted it and he was correct
It's Katrien I feel sorry for (sic). Every day the Belgium heroine has to struggle to clean out these Augean stables of English plebdom. It's shitty shit. For sure.1 -
No response from the club - all in a meeting working out the definition of literacy.0
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Too busy laying out their stools more likely.charente addick said:No response from the club - all in a meeting working out the definition of literacy.
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I expect any of you lot to get called in to sign your ADC contracts before long.1
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grumpyaddick said:
Too busy laying out their stools more likely.charente addick said:No response from the club - all in a meeting working out the definition of literacy.
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Most problems with using the wrong word is due to the auto-correct function set up on most media devices.2
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Their just all dum.0
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I suggest making all future official club announcements in Flemish.0
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To be fair, I do some copy editing for a website and it is a job that requires a bit of time and attention to detail. The errors on the Charlton website and in the match programme indicate to me (yet again!) how under-resourced the press team at the Valley are. No time, not enough people to do the job properly and poor management oversight (but still micro-managed when it suits Ms Meire's needs).
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It was actually "Wallsall" up until Friday nightCallumcafc said:Certainly must've been a steely display to come away with three points from Walsall.
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That in no way excuses such errors. Any competent organisation gives media releases a second - and possibly a third - eye. It is their public face and so should reflect the professionalism of the organisation.Rizzo said:
Rubbish! It's almost entirely down to user error in most cases.Dansk_Red said:Most problems with using the wrong word is due to the auto-correct function set up on most media devices.
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It really comes down to how the message is interpretated by the reader. In this case I don't have a problem with 'metal' as I can't rule out Ajose was [incorrectly] saying and meaning the word 'metal' and rather than 'mettle'.0
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For the latest example I would generously suggest it is an attempt at being poetic
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The time simply must just fly! Right, back to work.0
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As the club's main organ for communication with the wider world, all content ought to be closely proof read before publication. We are all too aware of the infectious deterioration that results from the delusional penny pinching imposed by the current regime. The additional stress experienced by the website staff must be considerable. This in no way excuses their failings of spelling, grammar, syntax and punctuation. My zeal in this area is usually derided as elitist pedantry but my resolve is undimmed. I will call out shoddy composition when I see it. If I were employed in a writing or publishing role such inadequacy would be humiliating.
The irony of my rant on a tiny forum, from behind a pseudonym, is not lost.1 -
Perhaps the mistakes are done on purpose, it gets readers talking about it, others read the article to see if they can find any more mistakes, and hey presto, more people read the article than would normally, good bit of marketing!0
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Can you cite examples? As far as the Twitter feed having mistakes, if it's on the minute-by-minute (MBM) for matches then keep in mind those are tweets written quickly during a game. Actually, in general, it's Twitter. I think we could spend a lot of time analyzing what is appropriate spelling and syntax etiquette.Brendan_O_Connell said:Their website and twitter feed are always littered with mistakes and out of date information.
It's what I'd expect from a poorly managed company who have no pride in anything they do.
That's not a dig at the individuals that maintain them. They are more than likely overstretched and underpaid and I very much doubt they have had any training or have the relevant experience to do that job.
If the club bothered to invest in their careers I'm sure we'd see an improvement.
I've seen some out-of-date information, but usually when I see it, at least on the club homepage, it's because nothing else is going on with the club. In the few times a year I look at other clubs' sites--ones at a comparative level to us--our media team usually comes out on top.
That said, if you want to see a club site done well go check out Manchester City's. They just changed the layout which is a bit, busy for my taste, but they just have loads and loads of content (presumably because they're a wealthy club with lots of employees and ways to generate content).1
