Right I threw a few words up. Not much in it but it'll keep us going til the cavalry arrives.

I'm expecting a review from Rob, but a View or two would be great. Not sure when exactly I can expect Rob's report.

Anyone want to write a match review/look head to Edinburgh type of thing?
I might try and get the "View from the Clan Terrace" going again to keep us ticking over.

salmson wrote: Done.

honconnacht.wordpress.com/2014/09/04/con...our-wants-and-needs/

Hope I haven't jinxed Mighty Mick Kearney.

I posted the first three parts as a season preview last night before you added part 4. It links back to your page anyway.

Done.

honconnacht.wordpress.com/2014/09/04/con...our-wants-and-needs/

Hope I haven't jinxed Mighty Mick Kearney.

3rd part of preview finished tonight:
honconnacht.wordpress.com/2014/09/03/con...-be-concerned-about/

Last bit tomorrow, use any/all if it's of use.

I might pull together some kind of season preview based on one or two of the above blogs if nobody minds. I'll add credit where it's due, etc. Just to keep the ball rolling after Borders' preview, etc.

Lads, I don't know how you all would feel about it given that you have probably put a good bit of work into your own blogs, but if you wanted I can given you access to the site's back-end and you can publish your articles here directly. I can also turn on article comments etc.. if you want. It might be handier than re-publishing but understand if not.

It would be cool to pull all of that content together into the blogs category.

I'm halfway through a season preview, feel free to republish here if up to scratch.....

honconnacht.wordpress.com/2014/08/19/con...e-the-kiwi-invasion/
honconnacht.wordpress.com/2014/08/21/con...-the-other-new-boys/

I thought the articles we had on the news section gave the app a huge boost in the first half of the year, I had plenty of retweets any time I announced there was a new article available.

As the year dragged on, and as the results went south, fewer and fewer articles happened. The biggest issue will be keeping the momentum in the cold dark months when games aren't going the way we want.

However, if there are plenty of people of bloggers (cloggers? clangers?) who'd be willing to allow their blogs/clogs/clangs to be copied on here then that would get the hits flowing.

Droptheclaw wrote: Thanks Pinky (and Shelflife) for the kind words - much appreciated. I tend to do around 10ish articles a year for the other blog, but will have a think about what kind of ones would work here too - as you and Shelf rightly point out, the more the merrier and the message gets spread to a wider field. Can only be a good thing.

(sorry just reposting Droptheclaw's post as it got sawed in half when I was splitting the articles thread from the Hopes and Fears thread - carry on, nothing to see here.

I put up a preseason post last night as it happens, its pretty scattered, just like me right now. Love the idea of there being a post every day, if it was a 500-1000 word piece it should be easy enough to get a decent sized pool of contributors without putting too much pressure on people.

I'd like to see something written from the point of view of the ref.
Now where would we find one of those ...

Good idea Pinky, there are some excellent bloggers out there, whiff of cordite and demented mole lead the way for me but they view Connacht as an afterthought. Drops article was good and Phat has thrown up some good stuff as well, Connachtman also throws up a good article but not often enough for me (apologies if Connachtman is one of the aforementioned).

The more the merrier and remember,your opinion is as good as the next mans. The more good writers and well informed writers we have the more that the articles can be retweeted and shared which will spread the word.

Pinky wouldn't mind seeing you blog a bit, maybe a season in rugby through the eyes of a diehard supporter.

there might also be opportunities to write articles for the programme and perhaps for the new Indo pullout.

Nice one Borders, I was thinking such a thread needed to be started but hadn't got around to it.
I think the factfiles were good last season and since a lot of the info can be re-used, if you went into more detail with previous meetings, etc., it'd be a nice bit of content.

Glad you weighed in there Droptheclaw as I read your article and instantly started negotiating with your agent. If you want to write anything for the Clan website, it'd be most welcome.

Phatguerilla I'm looking your way too.

Also anyone else that wants to try their hand at writing articles, we'd love to have them. If anyone wants to give it a lash but doesn't feel their writing skills are up to it, we'd have a few people willing to proofread stuff and iron out the kinks so don't be shy.

I might be suffering from late-night, pre-season overenthusiasm here but I'd like to see a new article going up nearly every day while the season is on, or every weekday anyway.

Something vaguely like.
Mon - Match Report
Tue - Fans reaction piece
Wed - Analysis of prev game
Thu - Factfile
Fri - Match preview

That's quite a bit so the more writers we have the better.
Sign up, it could be your passport to fame and fortune (in another publication that pays you money).

Great idea, BN2 and Diom - should we just pop our thoughts about hopes/fears, etc on here?

FWIW, I did a short preview of the season, just a 900 word jaunt on another blog I frequent; thanks to the Connacht Clan for sharing it on FBook.

www.artofdomination.co.uk/whats-what-out-wesht/