SWINDON Town chairman Lee Power believes a move to distributing the club’s news through a mobile application would ‘engage the supporters a lot more’.

Despite a lack of communication between the club and the local media at present, Power has explained his decision to use Fanzai to national newspaper The Guardian.

In the interview, Power revealed that they were approached by the people behind the app, which is available for smart phones, and despite there being no financial deal currently in place, a monetary benefit to the club could come about further down the line..

“We got approached by Fanzai to come in and they sat down and explained the app,” Power told The Guardian.

“It just made sense to me. We decided, as a football club, that it would be something we would launch our media through.

“We decided to move away from the traditional press conference, where the same person comes and asks questions.

“We are the first club, and we thought it was something we wanted to align ourselves with and distribute our media from.

“We thought it would engage the supporters a lot more and be more use to them than the Thursday press conference.”

While the Adver were permitted to attend matches at the County Ground last season, a ban on attending any press conferences was put in place back in January.

Despite several verbal and written requests from the newspaper for a reason behind the ban, none was forthcoming.

However Power is reported as saying ‘that he was angered by its treatment of stories and said it “chose the wrong horse” during his high court battle for ownership of the club.’

“Their stance all the time is negative,” he added.

“We are charged by the league for an illegal approach to a non-league player. That is top of the list; we sign a player from Liverpool, that is three down.

“It is not about [saying] how good-looking we are and how well we are playing – they are to the detriment of the football club.”