Friday, February 22, 2008

What this site can do for you

Hey Hogsters
This is to fill you in on what you can do while you're visiting this site and what it offers, including some new features added by our IT guru Kevan Gilberto Silver (aka Roo) in the past two days. While the blog has a fun/frivolous aspect to it, it also has a functionality that will help you during the season.
If everyone uses it as an information tool in season (and I’m not saying you have to look at it 2-3 times a day!) we can do away with the email traffic.
I’d like to give you a brief tour of what the blog can do for you in practical terms.
Breaking news: In the event of a washout, either for training and/or games, or for news such as rego days and fees, information will come up here FIRST. If you have doubts about training or games because of the weather, check here. If a decision on a washout is pending we’ll use breaking news to let you know what time to check back at the blog for a decision.
The Players: This started as a static list of names. Kevan has done an amazing job of giving us all individual links so that we can update your appearances, goals and some biographical information. Some are already active (Kevan’s, Fergus’s etc). If you feel up to it please email a photograph of yourself to Kev and he’ll replace the dummy ones currently in there.
Stats Centre: Perhaps the most important part of the blog is the When I’m Away link. It is now active and mlive, which means you can go in there and click on the dates you are away and we can all see this. If your name is listed as away for an upcoming game you are skipped in the rostering of games, so please, if you know already that you’re at a wedding in the third week of August, visit the blog and the When I’m Away link. When fixtures, results and tables start coming in they will be in this section. Also, this is where you can easily vote for the 3-2-1s after each match.
The fun stuff will usually appear on the right. To leave a comment click on the 0 comments (etc) field under each blog and it should be fairly easy from there.
At this stage Dave, Kevan and I are the only ones with access to post directly to the blog. If you wish to have access please let me know. If you want something put up, you could also just email me with it and I will.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

That would be Gilberto after the player Spurs just signed? Not the Gooner Gilberto that runs around in a white shirt with tomato ketchup/wine/or some_other_hideous_concoction_I_don't_ want_to_even_think_about spilled all over it?

Didn't know I had posting access to the blog...

TH10 said...

Yeah, you do, I think. Certainly think you'd be able to work it out...
BTW, onya for embracing one nickname if not the other... Is the Spud a Gilberto Silver too? No, didn't think so

Anonymous said...

Hi Hogsters

We will be watching your progress from Belfast. We only support the best! Good luck for the forthcoming season.

Pat & Brian Downing

(David might perhaps know us)!!