One Club up Southern way asked for their first installmanet of $200 on the 1st of October before the new season had already started!! Is this early compared to other clubs or am I over reacting.

The fee structure for visitors to junior basketball games is too much.
$4.50 to watch junior basketball.

If the fees were lower for spectators, say $2, then you will definately get more spectators.

Every week I go watch my son play, the canteen does well and if on a Friday night, the bar will benefit as well. I spend more at basketball games on the canteen / bar than at the door.

I would like to invite a few of my friends to have a beer with me after I watch my sons game on a Friday night. But to expect them to pay $4.50 each is too much.

I suppose on the other side, the beers are reasonably priced.

I think it should be a clubs goals to get more spectators to the games.
More spectators, means more is spent at the canteen / bar, and the clubs will make more money.

It vary's from Club to Club, but you would probably find that Juniors are more because of training. Juniors tend to train twice a week while some Senior Teams (particularly the lower divisions) don't train at all. Also, some clubs may split the annual fee over 2 seasons as it is easier than 1 annual fee. some clubs do charge less in summer and more in winter where others just split the cost down the middle. The best person to speak to would either be the Club Secretary or Treasurer.

Does any one else see a problem with alcohol being served during junior matches??


Not casting aspersions on anyone at all, and please dont think I am, but surely the clubs should be promoting a healthy and socially responsible attitude, not letting parents liquor up watching little johnny or little suzie play their game, then put little johnny or suzie in the car with a liquored up parent driving home?

Just doesnt sit quite right with me.

And seriously, what does it say about a parent who cant go to a junior game for 2 hours without needing to have a booze on?

I dont think I have ever seen a request for a West End trailer to be set up at my son's Saturday morning football.

yogee you must live under a rock, or your son dosent play club footy because most footy clubs bars are open when junior games are on

C - out of all of that - thats the only response you can come up with?

Maybe I am living under a rock if everyone else thinks alcohol consumption at kids sporting matches is ok, especially when those same people drinking are then getting on the roads with kids in their cars. What sort of message is it sending to the kids?

Also, givien the reported increses in incredibly pack savagery at junior sporting matches lately (even within the last month where a kids head was stomped on by a parent during an all in brawl), do we want to leave the door open to that sort of potential here as well?

I am sure the majority of parents are responsible if they do have a drink, but I just ask why they need to at a kids sporting game???

Sorry for hijacking the thread - Ill go start one of its own....

Well, I tried to start one, but one of the mods for some reason deleted it.....not sure why

New topics just don't show in the index for 30 seconds - pretty sure your topic is intact.