Jack Dyer Medal 2011 (live coverage) - Trent Cotchin wins B&F!!!

[RFC_Official]

Is back in 2011

Full details

http://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/6301/newsid/120994/default.aspx

[10 FLAGS]

Cotchin and Rance quinella for mine and wouldnt be surprised to see Rance win it because he's been quite good most weeks.

[Fruity Morgan]

hey RFCO, i was wondering why Shane Edwards won most improved last year.  Sure he did improve, but the most startling improvement at the Tigs, and maybe in the entire competition, was clearly Jacky R.  Went from nuthin to the Coleman Medallist.

[WilliamPowell]

Now I know it's not your fault Mr RFC_O

But seriously a Tuesday night? 

Why the Club persists with putting these functions on in the middle of the week is staggering.. for memory this is probably the 6th year in a row it's been on mid-week

Also, is there any way we can guarantee that the paying customer will actually be the first ones to know the winner.

Rather than what happened last year with it being on the internet (HUN website for memory) before we had sat down for our main meal and me receiving a TXT meassage asking if the HUN's website was right?  Sort of ruined the evening to be honest

[Jackstar is back again]

Function cheaper to be held on a week night .Monday to Thursday you will find.yes the media knew about the winner during the afternoon

[RFC_Official]

Rather than what happened last year with it being on the internet (HUN website for memory) before we had sat down for our main meal and me receiving a TXT meassage asking if the HUN's website was right?  Sort of ruined the evening to be honest

That was a Herald Sun journo jumping the gun, nothing we could do about that.

[Damo]

Nothing that can be done about a journo jumping the gun?

How about keeping the result quiet till its actually won?????????

As in, dont tell anyone.

Pretty sure that would be one way of preventing a journo "jumping the gun".

Personally i think the club jumped the gun in telling outsiders.

[RFC_Official]

Nothing that can be done about a journo jumping the gun?

How about keeping the result quiet till its actually won?????????

As in, dont tell anyone.

Pretty sure that would be one way of preventing a journo "jumping the gun".

Personally i think the club jumped the gun in telling outsiders.

To someone who doesnt work with-in a football club I understand your thinking, but every football club or news outlet or company that has a breaking story all have embargoed news articles, it's standard practice.

We'd set an embargo time, as in "don't post until 10pm" and we sent it to multiple outlets, but the HS published it at like 7.30 by accident. You do embargoed stories so the story can break as the news happens, to get ahead of the game.

[WilliamPowell]

That was a Herald Sun journo jumping the gun, nothing we could do about that.

Have to disagree - the Club gave the journo the info who granted stuffed up but they still gave it out

But if the HUN can't follow pretty simple instructions then don't give out the info. As I said it wasn't fair on those who paid to be there...

It's just like the year before the winners were up on the RFC web-site while the votes from the final rounds were still  being read out at the function.....

Sorry but having paid $180+ to be there I don't think it is too much to expect the people in attendance on the night  to be the first oces to know who the winner is

Function cheaper to be held on a week night .Monday to Thursday you will find.

Well aware of the pricing structure at Crown Jack. I know exactly how it works  

But IMHO that is still not a good enough reason for having it on a Tueday night and then charging folks $195 to attend. When other Clubs who do have theirs on a Friday or Saturday night don't even charge $195 a head

I appreciate you can't please everyone also understand they are trying to make a $$$ but a struth you can't have it both ways. $195 for a Tuesday night is a bit step IMHO

[RFC_Official]

That was a Herald Sun journo jumping the gun, nothing we could do about that.

Have to disagree - the Club gave the journo the info who granted stuffed up but they still gave it out

But if the HUN can't follow pretty simple instructions then don't give out the info. As I said it wasn't fair on those who paid to be there...

It's just like the year before the winners were up on the RFC web-site while the votes from the final rounds were still  being read out at the function.....

Sorry but having paid $180+ to be there I don't think it is too much to expect the people in attendance on the night  to be the first oces to know who the winner is

Function cheaper to be held on a week night .Monday to Thursday you will find.

Well aware of the pricing structure at Crown Jack. I know exactly how it works  

But IMHO that is still not a good enough reason for having it on a Tueday night and then charging folks $195 to attend. When other Clubs who do have theirs on a Friday or Saturday night don't even charge $195 a head

I appreciate you can't please everyone also understand they are trying to make a $$$ but a struth you can't have it both ways. $195 for a Tuesday night is a bit step IMHO

I'm not sure how we could have changed that, it's normal practice, every club does it, it just happened to be that they stuffed ours up. If we don't give them an embargoed article, it won't make the news/websites till maybe midnight if not later, people miss out on finding the result and it may not even make the papers the next day then our media department looks like they missed the boat. We just got unlucky.

We get really limited availability with dates. We didnt know if we were going to play finals or not so we couldn't book tentative dates until early July, its also the finals are being played on Friday night and we host events during those games too so our event calendar is pretty fully, Crown's is jam packed, we just get very few dates to choose from.

How they decide on the $195 I don't know, but I'm assuming it's to make sure we cover costs, they're not cheap obviously.

[yellowandback]

I would be great if on a Thursday night, then we only need a day to recover before the weekend.
If the Hun apologized and recognized it was an eff up then fair enough. If not, I'd say eff 'em......

[Damo]

Nothing that can be done about a journo jumping the gun?

How about keeping the result quiet till its actually won?????????

As in, dont tell anyone.

Pretty sure that would be one way of preventing a journo "jumping the gun".

Personally i think the club jumped the gun in telling outsiders.

To someone who doesnt work with-in a football club I understand your thinking, but every football club or news outlet or company that has a breaking story all have embargoed news articles, it's standard practice.

We'd set an embargo time, as in "don't post until 10pm" and we sent it to multiple outlets, but the HS published it at like 7.30 by accident. You do embargoed stories so the story can break as the news happens, to get ahead of the game.

Thanks very much for the reply RFCO.

Interesting

[bojangles17]

Box this trifecta

Houli
Rance
Cotcha

[Hellenic Tiger]

1. Cotchin
2. Deledio
3. Nahas
4. Rance
5. Houli

Best first year player Batchelor.

[WilliamPowell]

We get really limited availability with dates. We didnt know if we were going to play finals or not so we couldn't book tentative dates until early July, its also the finals are being played on Friday night and we host events during those games too so our event calendar is pretty fully, Crown's is jam packed, we just get very few dates to choose from.

How they decide on the $195 I don't know, but I'm assuming it's to make sure we cover costs, they're not cheap obviously.

Can I also say that it doesn't need to be at Crown - there are other venues. We never pack the place out partly because of the price we charged so why does it need to be at Crown