So the EFL will vote on the future of match programmes at this summers meeting. Despite being someone who owns 2 big boxes of programmes I have wondered for a while what the point of them are these days. Technology has made them obsolete.

I still buy a programme at every County game but I am not sure I would miss them that much.

Would others miss the programme?

Does the club make a profit on programmes?

BTW this is not a shot at the people who create each County program. I am sure that they do a lot of hard work for each edition and that is appreciated

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/ ... -in-summer

I’d be gutted if they dissapeared! Couldn’t tell you why though lol

What the **** has it got to do with theEFL ?
If a club wants to sell programmes surely it is up to them.

Be a real shame if they disappered.

Its currently an EFL rule that clubs MUST produce a printed programme.

The proposal will remove the MUST from the published rules of the EFL and leave the decision of whether to print a programme or not entirely with the club

Snowman wrote:Its currently an EFL rule that clubs MUST produce a printed programme.

The proposal will remove the MUST from the published rules of the EFL and leave the decision of weather to print a program or not entirely with the club

Believe it or not but all Gwent County Clubs have to produce a programme for every game the ref has to report if none is offered

Have got a programme from every game I have attended since the County v Southampton FA cup replay in 68 close on 1,500 only one I am missing is the pre season friendly against Halifax in 73/74 would be gutted if they were no longer produced.

Trying to get rid of mine lol

Comeonthecounty wrote:Trying to get rid of mine lol

Do you have the one for the pre season friendly against Halifax in 73/74 that I could sell to a fanatical collector?

I have a complete set of home and aways following our demise from L3 86/87, L4 87/88, Conference 88/88 and our rebirth in the Hellenic 89/90.
Shame if history like that could not be collected in the future.

It's a disgrace big time

I stopped bothering to buy them when "programmes" morphed into "matchday magazines" with a corresponding increase in cover price.

TBH, all I want is a column from the manager, maybe a column from the captain or chairman if they've something worth saying, and a team sheet. Putting that together, even in glossy full colour, shouldn't cost more than £1.50 if you've got a few adverts to flesh it out and cover the overheads. No idea what we charge now, but it's far more than the product is worth.

I know this'll be anathema to the saddoes who collect every single programme and have them all beautifully filed in the spare room of the house they share with their mum (only joking, chaps!), but I suspect it's how most fans feel these days. #AgainstModernFootball

whoareya wrote:

Comeonthecounty wrote:Trying to get rid of mine lol

Do you have the one for the pre season friendly against Halifax in 73/74 that I could sell to a fanatical collector?

There up in attic at mo when I get time i'l have a look,sometime this week

Are they really needed anymore? Wouldn't it be more cost effective having a fanzine online? those that write for the programme could still write articles but they would be on a website. I used to enjoy reading about the opposition when I used to buy them but if theres a player on the opposition I think I remember I just get my phone out at the game and google him.

As a big Newport fan and collector of programmes I still want them and of course I would miss talking to Duncan and Neil in the programme shop. Every time I come down to a home game I buy back issues.

Bush wrote:Are they really needed anymore? Wouldn't it be more cost effective having a fanzine online? those that write for the programme could still write articles but they would be on a website. I used to enjoy reading about the opposition when I used to buy them but if theres a player on the opposition I think I remember I just get my phone out at the game and google him.

One thing to bear in mind is even if the EFL did make publishing a programme voluntary, they would very likely still insist on a measure of control over anything published by a club as opposed to published about it. So a fanzine, online or otherwise, could only ever play a much different role.