New official City website

The site we have now isnt as bad as some around in the premiership. The new one sounds fantastic but you just know it's going to go tits up and crash when the new shirt sales go through the roof on wednesday ! LOL.
 
ultimateharold said:
Quality, like the MLB sites i reckon then, which are great for keeping in the background while the game is on.
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That was my first thought as well. Hopefully City are looking into the idea I posted a few weeks ago re: broadcasting our own games independent of the current collective Premier League deal.

MLB is starting to screen in-market games over the internet now [previously you could not watch your local team due to 'blackout' rules to ensure fans go to the game!] and I long for the day when City become the PL pioneer in this important venture. Padres to stream in-market games online.
 
I was always ok to watch mets games living in manchester anyway. I doubt that the FA and SKY will ever give up the rights to individual clubs without a fight, tho I reckon they'd make more subsriptions from a tv season ticket or something. I dont have Sky, but as I cant make it to every game, would happily pay just to watch city matches.
 
Damn, I would poop a brick if I was garunteed every city game since we get about 2 games (4 teams) a week. So it's just luck if I get to see city every week.
 
Good stuff.

On a side note, all those that say the current one is "shite" really should go and have a look round other clubs sites. Ours may not be brilliant, but it's still one of the better ones.

Stioll, it's all gonna be irrelevent soon ;-P
 
Ric said:
Just got back from the preview of the new site at Eastlands, and it's very impressive. It pisses all over the previous site (which goes without saying, as the old one was rubbish) and is much, much better than any other team's site.

Where to start. There's a lot of quality video content on there - MCFCTV.com is being scrapped and all the content you get on there will be available on the new site, free of charge. All advertising has been removed (apart from the logos of official sponsors Umbro and Etihad) giving it a much cleaner feel.

The most impressive feature though will be the match day section. Obviously they are unable to show live footage (although they are planning to stream the first South Africa friendly free), but match highlights will be made available the day after games. What impressed most about this section was the live stats you will get during the game. Powered by Opta you'll be able to see a plethora of live data about possession and all that malarky. Also live text commentary - similar to the BBC one, but obviously concentrating solely on our game.

The online shop and ticketing system weren't live at the preview, but apparently they are going to be excellent.

Lot of integration with existing fans sites like Bluemoon too - prominent link on their site, and a bit on the homepage where there is a link to pertinent discussions going on on the forms (at the demo it was a post someone on here had made about taking Wednesday off work, can't remember who it was though).

There was a real emphasis on how the new site complements the fan sites rather than rivalling them, and they're making most of their content available to us to use which is nice

There's loads of other stuff which I can't remember, but fair play to the club. They've got it right again. The site goes live at 5am Wednesday morning, everyone in the UK should be able to access it by 6am when the domain has propagated. The shop goes live at 9am for people to pre-order shirts and try to bag one of the free Doves tickets.
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same word for word posted on another forum about 10 mins before ;)
 
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