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Would you miss buying a programme at NYS? [11 vote(s)]

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BradtheMiller
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The 72 EFL Clubs are voting in the summer if they would like to remove the mandatory rule that clubs have to produce a matchday programme for all EFL games. Most clubs make a loss on programme sales & some clubs have expressed a preference for matchday news etc to be done online via the clubs website.

Would you miss buying a programme if RUFC were to finish publishing one? I know I would but our lass would be delighted as I've got thousands kept in drawers etc



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I haven't bought one for years Brad.

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Stopped buying them years ago - only bought a handful recently and have to say the quality is lightyears better than they used to be.

£3.50 over a season to get basically same news - collectors only now really.

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Todays Millers website "EFL Statement" shows which way our management is thinking especially as no other local clubs website has published the statement.


www.themillers.co.uk/


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Thanks for that Brad.

I get a programme when me and my daughter go to an away game. Then it is a souvenir.

At home games I don't really see the value in it. As Bornamiller says (and I find myself agreeing with him on this one) it tends to be a regurgitation of stuff you've seen before. Plus a lot of adverts and stuff that you wouldn't normally be interested in. Like a lot of printed material, it is so much easier to place/access the same information online for nothing.

It will come down to a financial decision. If we make money out of producing programmes we will carry on. If not, we won't. I can't think of a single good reason why it should be mandatory.

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i dont buy it anymore my dad always did think mums still got boxes of the things

i look at twitter for the team news and news now for all things rotherham

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I haven't bought them for myself for years, but do buy them for my lad who likes to read them especially travelling from away games etc.

For them to be compulsory is out-dated and should be left to clubs whether it is profitable for them. Using an online members area where such un public content contained in programmes is available for a small annual sub probably makes more sense?

Plus there's no danger of it being lifted from your back pocket which then takes the return train ticket with it - like what happened at the charity shield!

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It looks like the end of the matchday programme for some clubs at least as the EFL has voted to remove the rule forcing clubs to produce a programme for every EFL game;

MATCH PROGRAMMES
A number of Clubs had previously asked the EFL if the mandatory publication of a match programme could be addressed as a result of an overall decline in sales and the proliferation of digital and social media, which has the ability to deliver the same content in a more cost effective manner. Mandatory publication of a programme was required due to a number of the EFL’s partnership, sponsorship and opt-in agreements.
EFL Clubs approved an amendment which allows Clubs to opt out of providing advertising in match programmes on the basis it is replaced with other inventory. This amendment will mean that the requirement to deliver programme advertising in the EFL Regulations will only apply if a match programme is produced. The amended regulation provides each Club with the option to determine whether or not they publish a match programme.

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But how will you know which matches the scores on the wall down by the Railway End are?

Is that on Twitter too?

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Cheers Top Cat, that comment alone brought back wonderful memories.

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ian
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Who liked the broadsheet under Anton Johnston. Despite his under the bed shenanigans I loved it, and it would be cheap as chip paper to produce

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