2024 NPL Women's

[Bremsstrahlung]

I was browsing reddit the other day and came across somebody from Sydney posting.

Their daughter was 17, had aspirations of playing ALW.

They had an agent approach them and asked for $10K to help manage her career.

The girl played community. Not in ALW academy. Not even NPL. They were genuinely interested if that was a good investment in their daughter’s football career.


That is the state that football is in and how poorly educated some parents are about the whole thing.
While parents pay, clubs can charge whatever they like.

[Taffy]

You mean like magic who charge their NPL girls $1400 PLUS CLOTHING (around $300), plus costs for wet weather training on top for two nights of training for an hour at a time?

No they don't mean like Magic who are charging $1,700 fow WNPL, they are talking about charging for a community competition.

BTW Adamstown are charging $1000 for players to train with the squad in each age groups only for a season when they missed out on selection - no playing time at all.

Another rort.

You can take it out on lakes all you want but at least they are trying to keep girls in the game

This would be more believable, if it is for those age groups that do struggle to get in like U14s and U16s but it isn't. Would also be a bit more believable if they weren't charging nearly $2,000 for it.

It's not about trying to keep girls in the game at all, it is about making money.

[WOW2.0]

I was browsing reddit the other day and came across somebody from Sydney posting.

Their daughter was 17, had aspirations of playing ALW.

They had an agent approach them and asked for $10K to help manage her career.

You see so many of these agent scams on FB too...my favourite is the one where they claim they have taken kids overseas and into European academies through their agency

I keep asking how they get passed FIFA Article 19 (that prevents u18s joining football systems in foreign countries) I keep getting blocked though. :-P

(3 exceptions do exist, i.e. the distance between the two national borders, distance between their residence and the academy they will train at, and if your parents move to that country for unrelated work purposes)

[Meggsy]

BTW Adamstown are charging $1000 for players to train with the squad in each age groups only for a season when they missed out on selection - no playing time at all.

Another rort.


Buds are on a serious money grab! My daughter is in their 13s this season having come up through the JDL ranks. There are 20 registered players in that age group alone plus the "train on" players mentioned above. It is a rort.

[Not4theluv]

but you are happy to be involved in a so called rort, haha

[sideline88]

but you are happy to be involved in a so called rort, haha

you'd think if parents felt so strongly about it they just take the kids out and move them onto another club in another program...... surely all the programs offered in the girls space are of a similar quality?

[I know nothing]

BTW Adamstown are charging $1000 for players to train with the squad in each age groups only for a season when they missed out on selection - no playing time at all.

Another rort.


Buds are on a serious money grab! My daughter is in their 13s this season having come up through the JDL ranks. There are 20 registered players in that age group alone plus the "train on" players mentioned above. It is a rort.

Would much prefer $1000 to $1700.
Parents want to give their kids the best opportunity they can to be good at the sport they love. To a certain extent there is nothing wrong with that, but the money is absolutely ridiculous!!
if you don?t like it pull your daughter out and move on so someone else can get picked.
I don?t agree with any of it but that?s all you can do.

[Addios]

Would much prefer $1000 to $1700.
Parents want to give their kids the best opportunity they can to be good at the sport they love. To a certain extent there is nothing wrong with that, but the money is absolutely ridiculous!!
if you don?t like it pull your daughter out and move on so someone else can get picked.
I don?t agree with any of it but that?s all you can do.

Depending on what the training is like and how many. a $1000 for the year might be ok, eg 40 weeks, 3 times a week gives 120 sessions is 8.50 asession.

Wonder how Maitland does it for free?