Lawrie on twitter

[Mr Cleansheets]

Just received the following message from LMcK:

Just letting you know if you want to know whats happening with myself and the Mariners on a daily basis click onto the link below. I have set up a Twitter page and will be  very active in updating you with whats going on in the dressing rooms. Forward it on to any of your friends who you think will be interested. Enjoy. You can also just put Lawrie McKinna into twitter and my page will come up


Lawrie

http://twitter.com/LawrieMcKinna

 

[Jaza_SFC]

Following.

Wonder how long he'll keep this ratio? Looks good so far.

 

[soundsdifferent]

Yeeeeee this is so good!!!!!!!!!!

 

[soundsdifferent]

i think its funny how he is predicting the other teams tactics on twitter!!!

 

[fedelta]

Yeeeeee this is so good!!!!!!!!!!

keep it in your pants mate

 

[FFC Mariner]

Brilliant stuff KUTGW boss

 

[Ben]

lawrie on twitter is awesome, he is quite hilarious

 

[fedelta]

and cannot type

 

[FFC Mariner]

Got a fair old serve from Slater after the Bris/Adelaide game for using Twitter.

Even Bozza thought it unprofessional.

Why?

 

[krusty]

he should be more concern about our play than twitter he is there to do a job not play with his phone if i play with my phone at work i would be sacked.

 

[Arabmariner]

he should be more concern about our play than twitter he is there to do a job not play with his phone if i play with my phone at work i would be sacked.

+1

He's making himself out to be a bit of a prat (even though he's not)........it's one thing 'tweeting' but being seen on live TV doing it during a match that we go on to lose 3-0 ?

Well he's leaving himself wide open imo.

Enter Foster later on today.

Take a tip Lawrie......'tweeting' is for the under 15's.

 

[marinermick]

People are totally overreacting here. The three tweets on gameday would have taken no more than one minute for the whole day. In no way would it have detracted from Lawrie's gameday performance and Lawrie would be the first guy to give it away if it did.

People are just clutching at straws because we lost 3-0 and trying to blame the loss on something. If we won the twittering would have hardly been mentioned.

Funny that the fuss is coming from all the old bastards.

Even though an old bastard myself, I think it is refreshing and a great way to connect with our target market.

With the new Mariners Facebook page it is apparent that this is something the club is trying to push. With all the criticism of the marketing department and the loss of connection by going to Canberra I think this is a new and innovative way of connecting, especially the younger kids.

 

[marinermick]

he should be more concern about our play than twitter he is there to do a job not play with his phone if i play with my phone at work i would be sacked.

"Playing on the phone" was part of his job so comment totally irrelevant

 

[Arabmariner]

Who are you calling an old bastard ? 

I don't think it's got anything to do with why we lost 3-0.

But I do think he's setting himself up for a huge amount of bad publicity.........i.e. Slater and Bozza last night and the usual Foster attack today (probably).

I understand what he's trying to do..........I just think it'll backfire in a big way.

Guess I'm just an old bastard ! 

 

[Arabmariner]

Actually LM being seen 'tweeting' in the dressing room brings me to another gripe of mine.

I have no desire to look at teams in the dressing room.Why the f**k do Fox deem it neccesary to have a camera in there anyway and why do the clubs allow it ?

They should do what that LA Galaxy player did when they played Sydney and hang a towel over the camera.

If LM hadn't been filmed 'tweeting' this wouldn't be getting discussed now.

 

[Empty]

he should be more concern about our play than twitter he is there to do a job not play with his phone if i play with my phone at work i would be sacked.

There seems to have been a rush on getting Twitter accounts from the Mariners staff etc. Have you seen who is following Lawrie? Lyall Gorman, Peter Turnbull and Glen Lauder all of which (including Lawrie) have joined Twitter in the last few days. I have a feeling someone in the marketing department has been watching Oprah and realised it is a powerful marketing tool.

I enjoy Lawrie's tweets and find it interesting what he is doing and thinking even if he is Tweeting in the dressing room during a match. I was watching the Twitter feed during the match on my phone and I thought it was great. I agree with marinermick, the old bastards are the ones who have the problems.

Why do those in the media try to diminish new technologies calling it unprofessional? Because they know their jobs in archaic media are threatened by new media. These days people expect real-time reporting and by Lawrie Tweeting his thoughts, it takes away from the Fox Sports dinosaurs from discussing what Lawrie "is probably thinking".

I welcome anything to do with real-time new media. I believe Lawrie is simply a pioneer for using a technology that is a very powerful marketing tool by giving the illusion of transparency in to the club.

Whoever came up with this idea deserves a pay rise.

 

[Jaza_SFC]

Social media is a hugely powerful marketing tool. In terms of traffic generation and ensuring constant communication with your customers. Twitter is especially powerful at both. Lawrie so far has made a great start, providing relevant content on a regular basis. All HAL fans will be following him, not just CCM ones.

Maybe with it on TV it's a bit overkill, but that's not Lawrie's fault. I thought the tweet at half-time was good value, and can imagine reading it myself in the stadium as the second half starts.

Social media should be embraced. It should be a requirement of virtually every player / coach to contribute in some way (even if it's not quite Lawrie's 3-4 tweets per day so far - which is a hard ration to keep up).

[/social media geek]

 

[Empty]

Social media is a hugely powerful marketing tool. In terms of traffic generation and ensuring constant communication with your customers. Twitter is especially powerful at both. Lawrie so far has made a great start, providing relevant content on a regular basis. All HAL fans will be following him, not just CCM ones.

Maybe with it on TV it's a bit overkill, but that's not Lawrie's fault. I thought the tweet at half-time was good value, and can imagine reading it myself in the stadium as the second half starts.

Social media should be embraced. It should be a requirement of virtually every player / coach to contribute in some way (even if it's not quite Lawrie's 3-4 tweets per day so far - which is a hard ration to keep up).

[/social media geek]

Couldn't have said it better myself.  I hope Lawrie keeps up the 4-5 posts per day (which I agree is tough to keep up). My fear is he'll get bored with it OR he will be flooded with hate tweets from opposition fans or even worse still CCM fans.

 

[FFC Mariner]

Talk up for Jaza.

I like it, it takes no time at all to do and gives us a link to how he is thinking what his game day experience is like etc.

Miron's tweets would be awesome. Someone get him on it.

Slater admitted that his daughter is getting him going on FB and came across as thick as pig shit technology luddite.

 

[Sean]

Agree with Jaza n co, but seeing him Tweeting at Half time was not a good sight in comparison to Aurelio hammering the whiteboard. Adelaide won, we lost... I dunno but good marketing i guess.