Coady Watch

[Punk Blade]

Afternoon Bladesmen and Bladeswomen.

I fully admit this is all coming a bit late, but I've just done my final post to a little blog I've been doing about young Conor and thought you lot might fancy a read:

http://www.weheartfooty.com/coady_watch.php

I'm going to start doing some more blogging about being a football fan through my eyes (or the strange things that go through my head), so while I want to keep it fairly unbiased and interesting to all footy fans it will invariably have a bit of a Blades slant now and then cos that's what I'm focused on every Saturday. I'll most likely be updating through Twitter when I post something new.

The actual intention for the site is to be a fairly big football stats site eventually, something akin to Soccerbase or Soccerway (but ideally better!), which I'm working towards at the moment. Hoping to launch that in time for 2014/15 season so I'll likely be back at some point to get your opinions on what you'd like to see in such a site.

In the meantime, all comments/feedback on the blog welcome

 

[Ted Danson]

Interesting, youl have a lot of work on your hands if you want to do that much detail about every player.

Youve said your updating through twitter, is that through a third party app of sorts? just wondering how youd get around the 250 character limit on tweets.

I have a site thats a kind of soccerbase but very gambling related. We're going to be adding alot of info about teams and such that wont be gambling related so could have a possibility of some kind of linkup in future.

Its taken us 2 seasons so far and the site is now presentable but still finding the odd bugs in it. We intend to have everything sorted and a dedicated mobile version or app by the start of next season. My advise would be to prepair for the long haul to get the site there, youl have so much to update every week once you start doing it for many players, just adding in all the scores twice a week turns out to be much more work than we expected but stick with it because if you can pull it off with that much info about each player it will be a useful resource.

P.S. change your meta title. I dont think the heart symbol will be very good for the search engines and also its not very descriptive. Even though thats the tile of your blog youd be much better writing we heart football or we love football. what would be better is something like. 'Conor Cody Season Review | We love Football'

 

[SotonBlade]

Foxy might be interested in some content for this site if you ask him Punk Blade

 

[Punk Blade]

Interesting, youl have a lot of work on your hands if you want to do that much detail about every player.

Youve said your updating through twitter, is that through a third party app of sorts? just wondering how youd get around the 250 character limit on tweets.

I have a site thats a kind of soccerbase but very gambling related. We're going to be adding alot of info about teams and such that wont be gambling related so could have a possibility of some kind of linkup in future.

Its taken us 2 seasons so far and the site is now presentable but still finding the odd bugs in it. We intend to have everything sorted and a dedicated mobile version or app by the start of next season. My advise would be to prepair for the long haul to get the site there, youl have so much to update every week once you start doing it for many players, just adding in all the scores twice a week turns out to be much more work than we expected but stick with it because if you can pull it off with that much info about each player it will be a useful resource.

P.S. change your meta title. I dont think the heart symbol will be very good for the search engines and also its not very descriptive. Even though thats the tile of your blog youd be much better writing we heart football or we love football. what would be better is something like. 'Conor Cody Season Review | We love Football'

Totally appreciate the input Ted, thank you. However, I think I may have misled you with my first post. The blog that's up for now is just a holding site while I work on the stats site. A way to use the domain in the short term. The stats site will be a completely different beast, mostly focused on numbers and facts rather than anything wordy.

What will follow (hopefully) is fan accounts which would include optional blogs, where my current rambling will eventually reside. I also want to include more fan input, so I might see if I can work something in a similar style to Coady Watch for every player that anyone can contribute to.

As for updates: the Twitter reference was that I'll tweet when I've put up a new post on the blog rather than come and post in here, just in case anyone would be interested in following the Twitter account if they wanted to keep up to date. For the stats I ain't intending to do it manually, I'm intending to buy in live updates or post-match data to feed straight in, so the updating work should (he says nervously) be fairly minimal. I admire your dedication to doing that for 2+ seasons though!

 

[Punk Blade]

Oh, and I meant to say one thing I've learned is if I'm to work with anyone else I need to improve my communication!