TW1Bee
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Got to say probably the best ever this season. Quality and worth every penny of £3
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Downbeat Bee
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Seemed to me to be an improvement. However, I am always amazed at how much content is in some other club's programmes e.g. Exeter and Bristol Rovers
Houghton Bee
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Beeky38
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First game of the season and I invest £3 in a new programme. It's a big unit, so much so that it has a glued spine rather than being stapled. This makes reading and handling a little difficult compared to the stapled construction, but it will sit nicely on a shelf. It would be great if future editions had the date and opposition details printed on the spine.
Some of the interviews and features are excellent and credit must go to the interviewers, but I couldn't see who wrote each piece.
The fixture list has disappeared from it's usual place of inside the back cover which was instantly accessible. Now it's somewhere near the middle and hard to find. I hope it is moved back to it's rightful home.
My biggest moan is the format as lots of pages have too much going on with numerous graphics, fonts and colours competing for attention. For me this spoils the content. "Less is more" and I'd like a simpler theme to run through the magazine.
So the content is very good, but it's presentation over egged. Tone this down and it'll be much better.
Lastly, the squad picture insert is brilliant.
Some of the interviews and features are excellent and credit must go to the interviewers, but I couldn't see who wrote each piece.
The fixture list has disappeared from it's usual place of inside the back cover which was instantly accessible. Now it's somewhere near the middle and hard to find. I hope it is moved back to it's rightful home.
My biggest moan is the format as lots of pages have too much going on with numerous graphics, fonts and colours competing for attention. For me this spoils the content. "Less is more" and I'd like a simpler theme to run through the magazine.
So the content is very good, but it's presentation over egged. Tone this down and it'll be much better.
Lastly, the squad picture insert is brilliant.
Match Day Programme
I too thought the matchday programme was excellent and great value for money!! 
It had loads of stories etc that i only finished reading last night, really like the look of the junior bees section too.
only a couple of mistakes I.e. using Swindon town's logo instead of Tranmere's & getting the Yeovil manager's stats mixed up with the guy from Huddersfield.
Keep up the good work , looking forward to the next issue.
It had loads of stories etc that i only finished reading last night, really like the look of the junior bees section too.
only a couple of mistakes I.e. using Swindon town's logo instead of Tranmere's & getting the Yeovil manager's stats mixed up with the guy from Huddersfield.
Keep up the good work , looking forward to the next issue.
Garybaldbee
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Its programme 
Beeky has it spot on in every respect. The paper used for the cover lends it an immediate feeling of quality and durability. Like Beeky I also thought that the spine should carry the match details to enable it to be placed on a shelf. Some of the articles, particularly the interviews, are excellent and I like the fact that the visitors are once more prominently acknowledged on the cover - for too many years its been difficult to immediately identify programmes because the opposition have not been prominently advertised.
But oh dear, the design is truly hideous - its just far too busy. The graphics are awful, too large, too bold. There is too much going on, its too shouty, too tabloidesque. In fact it almost looks more like a children's magazine, something like Match, designed for people with short attention spans. Tone it down - please! I really don't think that I could put up with that on a regular basis and for the first time in my life I wondered whether I'll bother buying it every game.
And on a point of detail, again Beeky has it right - the statistics page needs to be somewhere that it can be immediately located, not hidden away on the inside pages.
Beeky has it spot on in every respect. The paper used for the cover lends it an immediate feeling of quality and durability. Like Beeky I also thought that the spine should carry the match details to enable it to be placed on a shelf. Some of the articles, particularly the interviews, are excellent and I like the fact that the visitors are once more prominently acknowledged on the cover - for too many years its been difficult to immediately identify programmes because the opposition have not been prominently advertised.
But oh dear, the design is truly hideous - its just far too busy. The graphics are awful, too large, too bold. There is too much going on, its too shouty, too tabloidesque. In fact it almost looks more like a children's magazine, something like Match, designed for people with short attention spans. Tone it down - please! I really don't think that I could put up with that on a regular basis and for the first time in my life I wondered whether I'll bother buying it every game.
And on a point of detail, again Beeky has it right - the statistics page needs to be somewhere that it can be immediately located, not hidden away on the inside pages.
bostonhanwell
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Is there any way the club could produce an online version of the programme for us exiled fans who listen on Bees Player every week. Would enhance the virtual matchday experience for me (happy to pay obviously).
GP200
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..........only one minor quibble........ The first home programme of the season has a complete listing of the previous seasons stats, results,attendances,etc............missing from yesterdays.........not to worry........
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HertfordBee
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The only downside to a perfect day was that I left my programme in The Hive bar!! I hadn't even opened it up to have a look.
Disastrous news, only the second home programme I am missing in 42 years!!!!
Disastrous news, only the second home programme I am missing in 42 years!!!!
Brain-dead Bee
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Don't buy them often these days, but normally get at least the first of the season.
Thought it was pretty good overall, but any programme struggles to have news that hasn't already appeared somewhere on the web
Thought it was pretty good overall, but any programme struggles to have news that hasn't already appeared somewhere on the web
Brickie Chap
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Havent purchased one for years, but read one of the ginger chaps ones on Saturday. Most impressive I thought. Good effort people!
SmiffyBee
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Excellent layout and design.
Same old content.
Nick Bruzon's articles are always decent though and Buzz Bee's page is always of interest
Brentford 4 Life
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Yeah strange the Bean, Reeves and Hudson were all born on the same day in 1984.
Also the Brentford Squad stats table on Page 22 made no sense at all. The head 2 Head stats for Terry SKiverton were equally confusing/wrong.
Despite these school boy errors, the content and layout in the Prog was very good and well worth a purchase.
rebus
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I'll speak to Peter G about this - would be a good service for ex-Pats.
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sonofabee
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Excellent programme but please stick the players stats and fixtures inside back pages for easy access please.
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Was really impressed by the look and feel of the programme this year - although the stats page not being on the inside back was quite frustrating. However, have also mailed PG so fingers crossed on that front.
Benno interview was one of the more entertaining I have had the pleasure of conducting - a great player and a top guy to boot
Benno interview was one of the more entertaining I have had the pleasure of conducting - a great player and a top guy to boot
readingbee
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Tried to get one at half timesold out
You can have mine for a tenner + pp:banana:
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Hertford, let me know if u can't get hold of one. I'll send u mine
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Have had it confirmed that match stats page has already been relocated back to their traditional home at the back of the programme
rebus
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Loving the new design - but some of the content is so inaccurate it's untrue. Wrong names with photos, wrong scores with reports, spelling errors - surely the printer offer a proof reading service!
beebopalula
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We should not complain.Anything is better than the 8 sider from the late 50's into the late 60s , the bulk of which was ads. That was bl**dy sh*t as the older supporters will doubtless recall.
Paul O'Brien
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An excellent read and £3 well spent. A few errorsm but nothing like as bad as a few years ago when just about every issue had place-holder text in the captions somewhere.
I think that the stats are particularly confusing because for Bees players who were with us last year it shows the number of Bees appearances and goals; for the new arrivals, the figures are for their total career, or something like that.
A bit too bright, as others have said. It seems as though it's starting to go the way of the Guiness Book of Records. Hope it woesn't go too far as that is now a feast of colour and pictures with little content and incredibly diffficlut to read or find your way around - a real designer's w*nk-fest.
Imho, the only time that sort of design worked was with Oz in the 1970s.
One additional point: in the clear light of day black on red or whatever is okay to read. Come floodlight time, it''s a nightmare.
I think that the stats are particularly confusing because for Bees players who were with us last year it shows the number of Bees appearances and goals; for the new arrivals, the figures are for their total career, or something like that.
A bit too bright, as others have said. It seems as though it's starting to go the way of the Guiness Book of Records. Hope it woesn't go too far as that is now a feast of colour and pictures with little content and incredibly diffficlut to read or find your way around - a real designer's w*nk-fest.
Imho, the only time that sort of design worked was with Oz in the 1970s.
One additional point: in the clear light of day black on red or whatever is okay to read. Come floodlight time, it''s a nightmare.