Saintscentrals here :)

saintbrat · Post: # 534252Post **saintbrat** » Thu 20 Mar 2008 6:22pm

http://www.saintscentral.com.au/

this will fill my evening well

it is bigpond generated though

Otiman · Post: # 534253Post **Otiman** » Thu 20 Mar 2008 6:25pm

Someone should tell them there is no such thing as Saint Kilda Football Club, at least not in the AFL. The St. is pretty important.

Still a lot of tweaking to do, the site is basically useless in Firefox.

I wish they (bigpond) would make their streaming video work a lot better, it needs to be able to be buffered for slower, international, or non-bigpond ADSL1 connections. I guess they sell more broadband that way.

gO.SainTs · Post: # 534254Post **gO.SainTs** » Thu 20 Mar 2008 6:30pm

http://www.saintscentral.com.au/Detail.aspx?id=145

Funny stuff..

saintbrat · Post: # 534259Post **saintbrat** » Thu 20 Mar 2008 6:47pm

I'm checking for the contact section Otiman- polite suggestions will no doubt be welcome as they iron out the wrinkles and endeavour to provide info to sainters everywhere

Love Rixy's take on a game - no wonder he has joined Bakes at saintly entertainment

Disclaimer:
All words written here remain the property of Michael Rix and may not be reprinted without his express permission.

ausfatcat · Post: # 534278Post **ausfatcat** » Thu 20 Mar 2008 8:01pm

nothing loads for me, pics don't load when selected videos don't load when selected.

Disappointed with this website even if it did work. It's more a addon site for bigpond rather than a replacement site and has stuff all info on there. Doesn't even have player info or MEMBERSHIP info on it. All it is, is a video and pic addon site and whats with bigpond's involvment everything bigpond touches go to s***.

The saints origonal website from 97? to bigpond was by far the most superior that we have had.

ausfatcat · Post: # 534279Post **ausfatcat** » Thu 20 Mar 2008 8:03pm

Otiman wrote:Someone should tell them there is no such thing as Saint Kilda Football Club, at least not in the AFL. The St. is pretty important.

Still a lot of tweaking to do, the site is basically useless in Firefox.

I wish they (bigpond) would make their streaming video work a lot better, it needs to be able to be buffered for slower, international, or non-bigpond ADSL1 connections. I guess they sell more broadband that way.

I have 15meg connection and it takes a long..... time to load. it stuffed very disappointed. The worst people to do streaimng video is bigpond why the hell the saints got bigpong to do the video and pics for a video and pics site is beyond me.

saintbrat · Post: # 534283Post **saintbrat** » Thu 20 Mar 2008 8:09pm

difficulty just right now austfatcat is that many of the 100 people who have checked this link have tried to log onto Rooo's speach-- much easier to get into some of the less likely videos,

there are some written pages that have insights into player and coach thinking- Interview with Ross and Rixy's page

But everyone tries to open the highlight videos at once- which I guess when your on top notch broadband isn't too bad but for those of us with a little slower its harder.-but thats bigpond >??>?>?>.

I'm still searching for the contacts page for feedback-- maybe the website contact under staff list on saints.com.au

The site has been created in a multi-staged development process, with phase one currently completed. This provides Saints fans with an interactive vehicle of breaking news, blogs, announcements and forum for supporters to load up their own user generated content. Saints Central will also cover a library of extended video and audio coverage â€“ showcasing classic historic moments, the most current news and press conferences in full length.

Saints Central will be an ever-evolving platform, with phase two providing an opportunity for fans to interact with other supporters, as well as Saints players and staff, through the Saints Central Social Network

.

ps worth the effort to watch the Harvey and Barker highlights from the B& F and Harves tribute night.

GreatNo9s · Post: # 534289Post **GreatNo9s** » Thu 20 Mar 2008 8:14pm

mine works fine - although I've got cable broadband
I guess dial up would be pretty ordinary

Some of the vids don;t load but most do
The Harvs / Ball one is funny and thre Harvey tribute is gold. I think its from his testimonial last year...

given the Saints are part of the AFL Telstra site not sure they could have gone anywhere but Bigpond

Also i don;t think was supposed to replace the saints.com site but provide somehting different that the main site can't do

i like it - at least the Club is doing something different

GreatNo9s · Post: # 534291Post **GreatNo9s** » Thu 20 Mar 2008 8:16pm

sorry SaintBrat - didn't read your post on the Harvey stuff !
Good isn't it !

ausfatcat · Post: # 534292Post **ausfatcat** » Thu 20 Mar 2008 8:17pm

and no right hand click open anther window

that and video stuff are my two hated things on websites.

But I am probably being a tad hard (bad day at work).

saintbrat · Post: # 534293Post **saintbrat** » Thu 20 Mar 2008 8:17pm

I can''t get into the harv's Ball one and only got half way through Nick's speach \ but the fishing trip is fun- BJ can't catch a cold

although the fishing trip appears as Family day too>

GreatNo9s · Post: # 534302Post **GreatNo9s** » Thu 20 Mar 2008 8:26pm

I found the contact us at the bottom of the page
it's the same as the main site but none of the links work
might try marketing@saints

saintbrat · Post: # 534305Post **saintbrat** » Thu 20 Mar 2008 8:31pm

I'm thinking communications
Matt schmidt
matts@saints.com.au

or
new media co-ordinator
Neil Bolitho
neilb@saints.com.au

the lure of the modern technologies and our wish to see everything in visual mode austfatcat when good old written/ typed info can be just as interesting

saint-stu · Post: # 534325Post **saint-stu** » Thu 20 Mar 2008 9:07pm

I can't access any of the videos

Don't they realise not everyone uses Windows

matrix · Post: # 534326Post **matrix** » Thu 20 Mar 2008 9:10pm

ausfatcat wrote:I have 15meg connection and it takes a long..... time to load.

i wont even bother with an 8mb connection then.
from what u guys are saying......it sounds kinda average anyway

saintbrat · Post: # 534333Post **saintbrat** » Thu 20 Mar 2008 9:24pm

matrixcutter wrote:
ausfatcat wrote:I have 15meg connection and it takes a long..... time to load.
i wont even bother with an 8mb connection then.
from what u guys are saying......it sounds kinda average anyway

there is and will be plenty apart from the videos matrixcutter- initally rooey , ross and rixy have pieces up which don't have vision attached.

GreatNo9s · Post: # 534334Post **GreatNo9s** » Thu 20 Mar 2008 9:26pm

it's better than average - it's pretty bloody good

sorry you can;t view it with slower speeds but there is some great stuff in here

the round by round highlights from 07 are great especially when we won in the west for Harvs - although kinda spooky to hear Clinton Grybas commentary. Gees he was a good caller of the game...

I've been playing around in it for a few hours now
Sorry to rub it in but there is some gold on SCentral...

matrix · Post: # 534335Post **matrix** » Thu 20 Mar 2008 9:29pm

ill have a look saintbrat...after i watch the cats beat the power

ace · Post: # 534349Post **ace** » Thu 20 Mar 2008 10:01pm

Telstra always overloads the amount of content in each page
Tat makes for slower loading and plenty of buffering.
They seem more intent on increasing the megabytes downloaded rather than providing a good service to their clients.

bigred · Post: # 534385Post **bigred** » Thu 20 Mar 2008 11:34pm

barker montage made me cry....

ttufc7 · Post: # 534436Post **ttufc7** » Fri 21 Mar 2008 9:57am

Great site.....Have had a few problems but I am willing to overlook that as the site is only in its infancy and these problems will hopefully be rectified. To those complaining about it give it a chance as time goes by more and more content will be added and I think the site has the potential to be an excellent way to gain a better understanding of the inner workings of the footy club.

As the info section says the current content available is only stage one in a three stage process.

Oh When the Saints · Fri 21 Mar 2008 10:37am

Bloody sensational.

A heap of stuff on there already and it's quality, candid and not just crap written to please.

Great work by the club.

Love it!

Oh When the Saints · Fri 21 Mar 2008 10:54am

Sensational video montage of Harvey.

He's not a quarter of the player he used to be .... and he's still a standout at AFL level.

Clearly better than Judd at his best.

saintbrat · Post: # 534593Post **saintbrat** » Fri 21 Mar 2008 8:18pm

some interesting photos under the player galleries

http://www.saintscentral.com.au/Detail.aspx?id=155

saintbrat · Post: # 537794Post **saintbrat** » Thu 27 Mar 2008 4:40pm

one week in what are we thinking?

I like the membership total appearing seemingly each couple of days

there is something new most days

supporters/fans are starting to post

the web guys appear to be reading comments- the non opening Introduction video has been taken off and one that was miss headed has been repaired.