That's the trouble with being a club beginning with 'Y' - down the bottom of lists. In its January edition Programme Monthly has at last gotten around to reviewing the Yeovil Town programme for 2005-06.
This site was very critical of last season's programme. We wanted to be constructive as well, so in response to the request for suggestions, made on the Official Site, forwarded a fairly lengthy document in March 2005 with our suggestions for improvements. Easy to suggest of course, harder to implement. Coincidentally or not, we noticed quite a number of those suggestions had been adopted for this season. A number had not. That's fine; it's the editor's job to take those decisions.
So what does Programme Monthly have to say?
"YEOVIL TOWN - 72 B5 pages (up 8), £2.50, 32 advert pages (up 1).
The Glovers programme was the subject of a great deal of scrutiny in the local media last season, so it is interesting to see what improvements, if any, have been made. The programme is certainly generously proportioned, which is just as well given the huge number of advertising and commercial pages. However the statistics show that there is a net gain of 7 non-advertising pages from last season. The basics are executed well, and there are several opinion-pieces from local commentators. Historical coverage is limited to a two page, unillustrated article (not on facing pages either) and there is a lack of profiles and articles on current players. There are several pages of photographs. It is by no means a bad programme, but it could be a lot better with 72 pages to play with - room for improvement therefore.
(+) No quibbles about value for money.
(-) There are a lot of adverts and photos.
Edited by A. Hopper, printed by Wincanton Print."
For what its worth our opinion is that there has been significant improvement to the programme this season, for which congratulations to all concerned. As Programme Monthly suggests there is room for further development. It won't win any awards, just a quick glance at a number of our rivals productions will confirm that, but it is moving in the right direction. We hope for further improvements in 2006-07.
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