By Munrubenmuz - 19 Jul 2021 2:34 PM
So it's pretty clear that fees of over $2k a year are a major impediment to getting talented youngsters into the NPL (and to a lesser extent SAP).
With fees that high it's obvious that young guns that can't afford it are missing out to our detriment. (I'm assuming everyone is on board with casting to the widest possibly net).
So clearly fees are a major issue. The question is then how to reduce them because there are costs associated with these teams that are substantial including substantial travel, paid coaches, multiple kits etc etc.
If a club only has X dollars raised from all of the juniors and those under 6's through 11's are paying say $200 a year do you jack those costs up for all those kids to reduce fees for the NPL?
Just exactly what do you do to get the costs down?
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By LFC. - 20 Jul 2021 10:30 AM
thanks for the input fellas....
Yes the underlying costs running the Club period and oh you bet the amount of devoted volunteers.
Arthur re 1st payments, I mentioned that for that "goss" has been doing the rounds for years....
IF true who knows but obviously comes down to how the Treasurer works out the ingoings outgoings.
As PIFA mantions, yes a sponser or sponsers funds can cover the costs the costs of X amount of players depending the outlay.
Some have their own individual sponsers as we see.
Your breakdown works out not that bad at all - States will vary as we know.
Its not cheap being in NPL period for a Club, those without much resource do it damn hard and agree, how can they grow in the current climate and regulations.
Re catching more talented kids, maybe Clubs should be more pro active looking at another way how to register a promising kid/or one they see worth the punt when his/her parents cannot pay $2k +.......
I expect this does occur at times but how many slip through because the Club isn't more open/creative let alone just too damn busy.
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