JD's about to get very excited

[God is an Englishman]

http://www.theroar.com.au/2017/11/03/co ... -football/
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[Sacred Noodle]

Personally cant see the issue with juniors funding seniors if that happens to any extent .. yeah clubs should be about developing players but at the end of the day it is the senior first team that the club is about and where the kids would be aspiring to be ... assume it takes a lot of $$ to keep successful top league clubs afloat .. its the nature of the beast world wide players are paid a lot more than in the past so really it all becomes relative.

Also wouldn't of had all the liabilities, insurances FFA FFSA requirements in the past that are part of the system in place today.

How many kids at clubs regularly go and support the first team?? not many!! if more got behind the club in that way maybe fees wouldn't need to be as high .. kids want to be at relatively elite level clubs and so that would come at a necessary cost as it would cost a lot more to run an elite level cub in comparison to an lower level club that may have juniors.

Also have seen so many times players both at junior and those coming into the senior levels ie U18s etc who are stereotyped as being from lower socio-economic back grounds and cant or don't pay fees .. yet rock up in football boots that cost $400+ !!

[Tzon]

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They should have listened to me years ago?

[Sacred Noodle]

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They should have listened to me years ago?

Agree .. then we wouldn't have had to listen to you for years !

[BeNatural]

Welcome to the next 26 pages on this topic.

[Tzon]

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My first pair of boots bought in 1968 were Adidas leather.
Bought from a Sports Store in the city of Adelaide on the corner of King William Street and Grenfell St.
CIBO is there now.
My second pair were from Kmart at Kurralta Park.
After that I use to buy my boots from Bailletti from saved up lunch money.
As my first Adidas blue Track Suit, from Bailletti.

[BeNatural]

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My first pair of boots bought in 1968 were Adidas leather.
Bought from a Sports Store in the city of Adelaide on the corner of King William Street and Grenfell St.
CIBO is there now.
My second pair were from Kmart at Kurralta Park.
After that I use to buy my boots from Bailletti from saved up lunch money.
As my first Adidas blue Track Suit, from Bailletti.

Wow you could afford Adidas boots back in the 70s.

I was lucky to have $10 boots back then.

[fsn1926]

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My first pair of boots bought in 1968 were Adidas leather.
Bought from a Sports Store in the city of Adelaide on the corner of King William Street and Grenfell St.
CIBO is there now.
My second pair were from Kmart at Kurralta Park.
After that I use to buy my boots from Bailletti from saved up lunch money.
As my first Adidas blue Track Suit, from Bailletti.

How much was your Track Suit nowadays that would be included in your fees

[Sacred Noodle]

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My first pair of boots bought in 1968 were Adidas leather.
Bought from a Sports Store in the city of Adelaide on the corner of King William Street and Grenfell St.
CIBO is there now.
My second pair were from Kmart at Kurralta Park.
After that I use to buy my boots from Bailletti from saved up lunch money.
As my first Adidas blue Track Suit, from Bailletti.

Wow you could afford Adidas boots back in the 70s.

I was lucky to have $10 boots back then.

$10 !!! Elitist!! .. I had to put up with studs screwed directly into my feet !!

[legga]

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My first pair of boots bought in 1968 were Adidas leather.
Bought from a Sports Store in the city of Adelaide on the corner of King William Street and Grenfell St.
CIBO is there now.
My second pair were from Kmart at Kurralta Park.
After that I use to buy my boots from Bailletti from saved up lunch money.
As my first Adidas blue Track Suit, from Bailletti.

J.D. used to cruise around his mum and dads shop in all his splendour with the best track suits known on the market, his finely groomed permed afro and of course trying not to spill soft serve ice cream on his brand new adidas track suit.....

[Tzon]

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Gee
That Californian Poppy hair oil use to do wonders.
Kalla.

[predrag]

Something definitely has to change with the fees,i had a lot of friends over the years whose children chose to play AFL,or girls netball over football(soccer) because of the massive fees.Basketball is in the same position also,if you want to play in a higher div team,you have to fork our for at least 2 interstate tournaments a year which will set you back around $2000!

[Tzon]

Something definitely has to change with the fees,i had a lot of friends over the years whose children chose to play AFL,or girls netball over football(soccer) because of the massive fees.Basketball is in the same position also,if you want to play in a higher div team,you have to fork our for at least 2 interstate tournaments a year which will set you back around $2000!

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Bravo for the post.
What are the Politicians doing about it???

[Tzon]

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Suggestion make children sports fees 200% tax deductible or free for concession card holder parents?

[Bomber]

Something definitely has to change with the fees,i had a lot of friends over the years whose children chose to play AFL,or girls netball over football(soccer) because of the massive fees.Basketball is in the same position also,if you want to play in a higher div team,you have to fork our for at least 2 interstate tournaments a year which will set you back around $2000!

Only answer is - install a salary cap for all seniors - no more than $50k a year but actually enforce it (good luck with that) and all juniors to wear hand-me-down strips on match day only and buy own shorts, socks, trackies etc like we had in the "good old JD days" - train once a week wherever you can find a patch of grass and do a lot of ground sharing.
Has merit, but I thought we have moved on a bit in society and given the sport a bit more cred. The key is now to keep a lid on it before it spirals out of control. The "big" clubs are the most likely to let this happen, so until attitudes change across the board and as a whole, it will keep going like it is.

[BeNatural]

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Suggestion make children sports fees 200% tax deductible or free for concession card holder parents?

You know what JD, there are club volunteers who basically run their health down, spend 30 hours a week volunteering at their club because only a handful of people want to help out, and you now want free playing fees.

How is the bloody volunteer going to cover all the costs to put a player on the park.

Are Referees going to do it for free?

Is the council going to pay for all the electricity, water, waste costs?

Who is going to pay for uniforms?

How does a volunteer who has a full time job, go out and find $300,000 is sponsorship to cover all costs?

There are volunteers bleeding at clubs because no one else wants to help. they are first to criticise, and last to put up their hand to help. I have seen volunteers end up in hospital because they are run down stressed from running soccer clubs.

I cant believe you still live in lala land JD!

[alwaysoffside]

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Suggestion make children sports fees 200% tax deductible or free for concession card holder parents?

You know what JD, there are club volunteers who basically run their health down, spend 30 hours a week volunteering at their club because only a handful of people want to help out, and you now want free playing fees.

How is the bloody volunteer going to cover all the costs to put a player on the park.

Are Referees going to do it for free?

Is the council going to pay for all the electricity, water, waste costs?

Who is going to pay for uniforms?

How does a volunteer who has a full time job, go out and find $300,000 is sponsorship to cover all costs?

There are volunteers bleeding at clubs because no one else wants to help. they are first to criticise, and last to put up their hand to help. I have seen volunteers end up in hospital because they are run down stressed from running soccer clubs.

I cant believe you still live in lala land JD!

BRAVO!!!

[eagleboy]

I don't know the answer but to those out there in club land, how are the junior fees for migrant eg African, Asian paid? There are many out there and some with real quality. Do clubs forgo fees and the slack made up by paying juniors.

[BeNatural]

I don't know the answer but to those out there in club land, how are the junior fees for migrant eg African, Asian paid? There are many out there and some with real quality. Do clubs forgo fees and the slack made up by paying juniors.

There are government concessions to support these types of players, along with grants by local councils and government.

But a club cant get 200 concessions for all their players so they can cover the whole 200 players.

Show me evidence that a kid has missed out on playing our game?

There is club football, local district football and even school football.

No kid out there has ever missed out on playing our game. Its a cop out people use.

[Tzon]

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Fact.
The junior fees situation is already out of control.
Up and up every new year.

Blame two bodies .
FFSA
And
Govt

[Nice One Cyril]

....situation is already out of control.
Up and up every new year.

Sounds like most of my bills.

[Magic Mail]

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[GaylyColouredStumps]

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We appreciate it.

Not enough thought put into it imo

I propose a 1 week ban

[Nice One Cyril]

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We appreciate it.

Not enough thought put into it imo

I propose a 1 week ban

I think his limited intellect needs to be taken into account, definitely a mitigating factor.

[Wraith]

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Fact.
The junior fees situation is already out of control.
Up and up every new year.

Blame two bodies .
FFSA
And
Govt

Charge more. Parents will pay.

Creates jobs & growth.

Don't like it?

Leave.

[Sacred Noodle]

I don't know the answer but to those out there in club land, how are the junior fees for migrant eg African, Asian paid? There are many out there and some with real quality. Do clubs forgo fees and the slack made up by paying juniors.

Mate they should pay their fees like everyone else and most of them do - there is plenty of money provided them and as I mentioned have seen boys that haven't paid fees but still have $400+ Boots

[God is an Englishman]

Volunteers were mentioned earlier.

I have refereed, run the line (which saw me physically abused by an opposition coach) assisted the coach on match day and training. I will do whatever my son's coach needs me to do.

However, with the fees charged I do begrudge helping out the club and not the team.

[Tzon]

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I am glad I played JPL when it was free.

[God is an Englishman]

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I am glad I played JPL when it was free.

I thought JPL was only a few years old

[GaylyColouredStumps]

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Fact.
The junior fees situation is already out of control.
Up and up every new year.

Blame two bodies .
FFSA
And
Govt

Charge more. Parents will pay.

Creates jobs & growth.

Don't like it?

Leave.