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It’s that time of the year when I ask you to take a few minutes to take our WHTID readers survey. This year it’s really important that I get as much feedback from you as possible. I feel the site is at a bit of a crossroads. Should I emulate KUMB and Claret & Hugh and try to turn it into something bigger, and actually make a business out of it, or carry on as usual? I’ve always made a virtue of not taking adverts (and I turn down approaches virtually every day, believe me) and funding the costs of hosting the site myself. But taking advertising would mean that I could take on a full or part time sports journalist to provide much more news content. I ask your views about this in the first section of the survey.
I should take this opportunity to tell you that Sean Whetstone, who has been a brilliant contributor to the site in recent years, will now be taking a step back from providing his normal new stories, as he is now the major contributor to Claret & Hugh, which for those not familar, is probably the best West Ham blog at providing minute by minute news content. I am very pleased, though, that Sean will remain a weekly contributor to the site and the day before each match post an Opposition Fans Q&A. S J Chandos will also be back with a regular column, and I have also made a few new signings who have also committed to providing weekly columns, including Iron Liddy, Benjamin Cronin, Jo Phillips, Tony McNulty and Hamburg Hammer. David Hautzig will continue with his brilliant match reports and Dan Coker will also be providing his all encompassing match previews. Brian Williams has decided that he won’t be able to commit to a weekly column but I hope he will appear from time to time. I think we’ve all enjoyed his writing over the last year.
The other bone of contention is whether to run the Predictor League again. I am in two minds. It had a difficult beginning as the scoring system didn’t seem to work. I’m thinking of simplifying it a bit, but there’s only any point in running it if enough people want to take part, so I shall be viewing the results of the questions of that in the survey with some interest.
I’m still open to taking on more, regular writers, so if you have any ideas, do let me know. In essence, the way I see the site working is that we have two regular columns each day – one posted at 8am, and the other at 5pm, with the odd news piece thrown in by me in between. I think two or three blogposts a day is about right.
Oh, and there should be a revamped banner on the site a bit later, or maybe tomorrow! About time, I hear you say…
Take the survey HERE