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Cricket => Official Q&A => Topic started by: IlfordEagle on May 12, 2014, 07:11:33 PM
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I saw the message on the Website & thought I would vote for the April POTM but it then says you can only do so on Facebook or Twitter, neither of which I am on or have any desire to be on!!
Why can't it just be available to everyone like it used to be as not all of us are on either or both of the aforementioned?
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I saw the message on the Website & thought I would vote for the April POTM but it then says you can only do so on Facebook or Twitter, neither of which I am on or have any desire to be on!!
Why can't it just be available to everyone like it used to be as not all of us are on either or both of the aforementioned?
Agreed. Another whizz from our teenage marketing dept.
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Ditto ::)
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I saw the message on the Website & thought I would vote for the April POTM but it then says you can only do so on Facebook or Twitter, neither of which I am on or have any desire to be on!!
Why can't it just be available to everyone like it used to be as not all of us are on either or both of the aforementioned?
Agreed. Another whizz from our teenage marketing dept.
Who apart from teenagers would want to take part in a POTM vote.
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Who apart from teenagers would want to take part in a POTM vote.
I suppose it is a pretty moot exercise.
Going by last year Napier & Masters would share it on alternative months.
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I always voted for POTM, yet this year I am frozen out because I won't have facebook or twitter. It is now obvious that the club is run by idiots for their friends.
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Not on Twitter or Facebook? Then it's pretty much game over for you! ;D
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Some people on here seem to think that because something doesn't appeal to themselves or their lifestyle personally that it is somehow wrong and shouldn't be done.
I know that POTM awards have been around since the glory days (Lay & Wheeler sponsored it) and it is only natural that the club wants to generate some interest by continuing it by expanding to take in the new forms of unsocieable media.
Maybe they should introduce a manager/coach of the month award just for Larry. Although he may not win it every month once certain people get a facebook account. ;)
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I noticed the nominations float past on the old twitter feed. The choice seemed to be Cook, Foster or Masters. I thought Foakes might've been given a nod too. Couldn't decide who of the three deserved it, so gave the voting a miss this time.
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I saw the message on the Website & thought I would vote for the April POTM but it then says you can only do so on Facebook or Twitter, neither of which I am on or have any desire to be on!!
Why can't it just be available to everyone like it used to be as not all of us are on either or both of the aforementioned?
Agreed. Another whizz from our teenage marketing dept.
Who apart from teenagers would want to take part in a POTM vote.
In which case it should be re-branded as the 'Young Eagles' POTM!......Why can't we vote on line, by phone or by text? Also, the first notification on the official website was on the 12th May & the deadline for voting the 13th. Yet another example of poor planning & incompetence by our Marketing Department!
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Andy - I'm not allowed to have a Facebook or Twitter account because of my job - so don't judge people as 'out of date' when you have no idea about their lives.
I do want to participate and agree that a one day deadline is crazy -
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Andy - I'm not allowed to have a Facebook or Twitter account because of my job - so don't judge people as 'out of date' when you have no idea about their lives.
I do want to participate and agree that a one day deadline is crazy -
Your point is irrelevant. You specifically supported the idea that this POTM award is pointless and only by/for kids: who are the future of the club.
I do agree over the timing issue, sadly the marketing dept is seemingly going the way of all depts at ECCC, which is unfortunate.
I am however interested in your job. I'm guessing either MoD or MI5.
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Andy, surely doesn't matter what our friends job is, or who with. The fact that they're not allowed to have a Facebook or Twitter account is something which the marketing dept ought to bear in mind.
It's totally understandable that one should be able to vote by these means, but it shouldn't be the only means.
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Andy - read my original post again - I was objecting to the fact that you could only vote by Facebook or Twitter.
Obviously whoever decided this does not understand that not everyone can vote in this way.
Essex need supporters of all ages - my son was less than a year when I first brought him to Chelmsford and he has watched matches all around the country ever since.
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Andy - read my original post again - I was objecting to the fact that you could only vote by Facebook or Twitter.
Obviously whoever decided this does not understand that not everyone can vote in this way.
Essex need supporters of all ages - my son was less than a year when I first brought him to Chelmsford and he has watched matches all around the country ever since.
I see, well I'll let it pass. ;)
However, the days of sending votes in 'on a postcard or stuck down envelope' have gone the way of the poor old GPO.
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I am however interested in your job. I'm guessing either MoD or MI5.
Well, he's certainly not a policeman, because they spend most of their working lives on Facebook and Twitter, looking in on the idiots boasting of their exploits and grassing each other up.
Then of course there was the somewhat less than intellectually endowed individual who thought it would be a good idea to instigate a riot on Facebook. He must have been really surprised when the police were the only people who turned up, not to mention scratching his head in one of HM's institutions whilst wondering how he managed to end up with a four stretch. Yer afta laff, doncha.
I wonder how many more yrs. it will take before people realise that the mobile phones that are glued to their ears whilst stuffing fast food in their mouths are the ultimate tracking devices, why, one might as well call in at one's local police stn. and provide our finest with a daily log of one's movements. Even Eric Blair, perhaps more affectionately known as George Orwell, couldn't make it up.
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Some might say that if you've nothing to hide, does it matter? I get a little fed up with the Ed Snowden's of this world criticising Western governments. If you spoke to the wife's family, they'd tell you what it's like to live where family members get taken away for disrespecting 'the party'. Sadly, I think the next decades will see a reversing of the freedoms the post war generations benefitted from through the sacrifice of their predecessors.
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Sadly, I think the next decades will see a reversing of the freedoms the post war generations benefitted from through the sacrifice of their predecessors.
I wouldn't have thought there were many freedoms left for tyrannical governments to abuse, Andy, although I suppose mandatory CCTV in one's toilets will be on their agenda in the not too distant future.
If those young British men advancing on the Normandy beaches back in 1944 had an inkling of what the future held in store for their future generations, they'd have turned around, raised their arms and proclaimed, Heil Hitler.
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To be fair, my point was that there has been much more freedom post-1945 than in other parts of the world. We don't appreciate this, hence we are becoming more susceptable to both publically elected governments and (far worse) unelected private sector organisations infringing on our liberties. Ironically, the likes of Snowden et al are actually patsys for private sector and certain non-Western regimes by worrying so much about what our governments ought to be doing and keeping a beady eye on 'nere do wells' of certain political/religious persuasions.
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To be fair, my point was that there has been much more freedom post-1945 than in other parts of the world. We don't appreciate this, hence we are becoming more susceptable to both publically elected governments and (far worse) unelected private sector organisations infringing on our liberties. Ironically, the likes of Snowden et al are actually patsys for private sector and certain non-Western regimes by worrying so much about what our governments ought to be doing and keeping a beady eye on 'nere do wells' of certain political/religious persuasions.
I agree with you in respect to the period 1945 through to the late 1970's, Andy, but the past 35 yrs. has witnessed the greatest erosion of civil liberties to the citizens of this country since the tyrannical reign of the Tudors. The draconian piecemeal erosion of civil liberties throughout the Thatcher, Major, Blair dictats have reduced this country to a virtual police state in all but name.
There are of course other regimes on this planet that are worse with their only saving grace being that they aren't purporting to be democracies. Any state that doesn't have a bill of rights is always going to be vulnerable to capricious politicos, the tabloid press et al and I fear that your prediction of 'things can only get worse' is well founded.
I can only be thankful that I have lived the best part of my life in a more liberal era where political correctness, draconian legislation and intolerance was confined to bureaucratic states such as Japan, Singapore, Burma, Soviet Russia etc. and standards of education weren't confined to tabloidspeak, celebrity deification etc, because I sure as hell wouldn't want to live too long in the Peoples' Republik of Britain of today, or in the future.
I suppose the only freedom left for the proletariat in this septic isle is that they don't require an exit visa to leave, although that privilige may not be available in the not so distant future.
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Never mind. When I am King I won't be putting you up against the wall. Can't necessarily speak for other members of this BB. ;)
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"Well, he's certainly not a policeman"
'He' is not even a he ....
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"Well, he's certainly not a policeman"
'He' is not even a he ....
Ha, ha!
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"Well, he's certainly not a policeman"
'He' is not even a he ....
Ha, ha!
Surely you mean, He, He!, Andy.
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Ha, ha, ha, he, he, he.
I'm (not) a laughing gnome at today's batting, you see. :-[