Old Polo Thread

who said the face book page had been closed? its still there

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1349933548#!/group.php?gid=126046497415361&ref=ts

Tuesday polo:

1. Yoav
   
2. Chan
   
3. Paul
   
4. Ben
   
5. Emma
   
6. Neil - back from TdF...
   

Tuesday polo:

1. Yoav
   
2. Chan
   
3. Paul
   
4. Ben
   
5. Emma
   
6. Neil - back from TdF...
   7.ste!
   

make your mind up ste!

i know, was ment to be seeing my mum but not anymore so im in!

i'm gonna have to give it a miss today, my knee appears to be buggered from brum, delayed reaction i guess... will be right for thursday though if anyone fancies playin then too.

Ok I'm making this a sticky thread. Can everyone please try and voice your thoughts/opinions on all of this. I was taking to ben/yoav about web identity. When you type in "manchester bike polo" to google the first hit is to the polo page on the I bike mcr site.

this: http://www.ibikemcr.org.uk/?q=bike-polo

An old picture of people playing with wooden mallets and no currents players. Then the info claims:

***We play every Monday, Thursday at 6.30pm at the 5-a-side court in Manley Park
and Sunday at 3pm

***Then it says check out the blog for more detail and there is a link to this blog:

http://ibikepolomcr.wordpress.com/

Now i like the look of this blog, nice lay out and some good pics, and more importantly relatively up to date information. But again some of the logistical info is pretty vague and conflicting with the "i bike mcr" page:

"When we play:

Every Tuesday and Thursday from 6pm and Sunday from 2pm usually at Whitworth Park opp MRI, but check the Twitter before setting off"

Now the twitter has been a bit of a dead duck, it's not really updated and not really much use IMO.

The second google hit is this:

http://www.mancubist.co.uk/2007/04/24/manchester-dropouts-bicycle-polo-team

Again, old and incorrect news. The article claims: "Bicycle polo breaks out twice weekly – Wednesdays at 6pm and Saturdays at 2pm". We can contact Mancubist and either get them to remove it or amend it with new information.

3rd hit on google is ste's site, perfect domain address but the site needs some work.

http://www.manchesterbikepolo.com

What i reckon we should do is totally scrap that old info from the i bike mcr website, and get ride of that word press blog. Then start a new blog under the name "manchester bike polo" and transfer all the info from nes's old blog on to that. Because i do think Nes has done a good job on that blog, the right ups are great, so we dont want to lose all that. But i do think we seriously need to disassociate ourselves from "i bike mcr"and just be "manchester bike polo"

Everyone with me so far? :)

So to reiterate i say we just have a main website, we can use the one ste's done but it'll need re-worked. This can have basic info like times/player profiles/pics etc...

And also have a blog with the same identity i.e logos, web address. The blog can be more general. Kinda like the Milwaukee bike polo blog.

http://www.mkebikepolo.com/wordpress/

Also, we need to one central group on facebook. I believe pineapple has already set this up. But we should get rid of the MCR Dropouts one as this comes up in google search too and it's all just too confused with conflicting information. The drop outs are a team that don't exist anymore, time to move on. If we don't start doing all this soon we'll get left behind by other UK polo communities that are more organised. We don't want to miss out on anything that could lead to funding or sponsorship for the sake of not have a collective identity.

Food for thought then, we can talk about this in the meeting but what does everyone think about this? I reckon we task one person to sort all the web stuff out, like Ste. Perhaps ste and adam could work together on this?

i agree, id be happy to help with the website maybe adam could do some of the design for the layout?

I disagree about the twitter, i update it before each practice, i keep telling everyone else to update it but no one does, it is the perfect way to instantly tell everyone with the time and place, we have 75 followers, all the other polo organisations use twitter, we just need to update it more. makes me pretty pissed off that iv been doing it for the last year when no one else CBA and your saying its no use

i'm gonna have to give it a miss today, my knee appears to be buggered from brum, delayed reaction i guess... will be right for thursday though if anyone fancies playin then too.

yeh those delayed injuries are a bastard,
did anyone see this:http://mplsbikepolo.com/news/ramons-foot/

ouch!

when I was a wee 'un I stepped on a plug once and it was the most painful thing I've been through - worse than breaking my knee... that fella's going t'be hurting plenty today!

ok fair enough about the twitter then, i'm not on there so dont really know.

its really easy

http://twitter.com/MCRbikepolo

sound, i do remember you sent everyone the log in details actually. Ok, i'll make more of an effort to use it

can we just use that unicorn logo that's on twitter for our main logo? It's so funny, and would make a great t-shirt. Purple tie dye FTW!

when I was a wee 'un I stepped on a plug once and it was the most painful thing I've been through - worse than breaking my knee... that fella's going t'be hurting plenty today!
haha, fuck off rory! my knee was a bit sore yesterday after brum but seems to have got worse overnight, can hardly walk now. actually, where were you in brum? oh wait, forgot, you're too scared to play polo...;)

that was aimed at Ste's story not your little turbo tears malarkey!

good polo tonight, really enjoyed the games

Me too, and just wanted to say thanks to everyone for helping me and making me feel so welcome!

Thursday list:

Chan

Thursday:

1. Chan
   
2. Yoav
   

Thursday:

1. Chan
   
2. Yoav
   
3. Mirek
   

Thursday:

1. Chan
   
2. Yoav
   
3. M'ike
   
4. Pineapple
   

Just a reminder to all those interested in the future of MCR Polo - please post up the topics/subjects/issues that you want discussed at the first meeting - which will be late July/early August. We won't be able to cover new topics at that time - so get thinking and bullet point them on this sticky as soon as.

Also - it would be useful to know who is going to attend this meeting - I'll start a names list in a new 'reply'.

Thx.

Will be attending the 'Future of MCR Polo' planning meeting:

1. Neil
   

Thursday:

1. Chan
   
2. Yoav
   
3. M'ike
   
4. Pineapple
   
5. Emma