Under the new NPL format does NNSW or anybody else take a share of the $10?
Price is stupidly high.
Are clubs forced to charge these new fees? I assume so.
Was this "voted" in by clubs? Or were they not consulted?
Under the new NPL format does NNSW or anybody else take a share of the $10?
Price is stupidly high.
Are clubs forced to charge these new fees? I assume so.
Was this "voted" in by clubs? Or were they not consulted?
I take it your against it??Originally Posted by ForeverRed
I find it bizarre that prices need to rise.
My mate and his wife have to pay to watch their son play 19s. They are not interested in firsts. So on top of a massive rego cost, they have to fork out $20 x 18 rounds, $360 for the privilege of watching their son play. That's over the top!!
OH NO, guess that means beer and hot chips gunna go up to .
Said mate and his wife if they watched the game from their car because its cold in the morning would have paid $18 this season so not a huge jump... just needs to now walk in the front gate and bring a jacket..... price has been fixed for the past 6-7+ years. Magic has done season passes and you get a few rounds for free. Only an issue if you have a fickle support base, that walks in sits near the gate, watches and walks out.
Lets be honest the increased gate admission is mainly going to benefit those clubs who have Magic attending as their supporters travel well, but im sure concession is still $5 anyways so their pensioners should still travel well. Chatting to a former Westy committee member he said that they used to make on the Magic game the previous 4 games combined.
NNSWF started charging $10 for the final series only 2 years ago and there hasn't been a huge backlash, be interesting how the stats work out for attendance this season.
Wow. Thank God for Magic or we wouldn't have any football fans, no
Christmas, and football in newcastle wouldn't exist.
Good points but considering most First Grade games have 100-300 there is the extra couple of dollars per ticket gonna make that much of a difference??
Thought the idea would be to try and get the crowds up across the league and get crowds pushing 500-1000
Clubs are not made to charge the recommended fee.
Indeed thats the dream scenario, but NNSWF running the marketing off the comp are not really interested in getting more people to the game but to rather increase exposure of the competition in the media dominated by egg ball...
Really, Its up to individual clubs to get people to their own games... i.e how do clubs incorporate NPL Youth in the senior game day experience, what about clubs that have junior community teams, and getting more parents to attend rather than dropping off kids at front gate at 9:30pm... match passes, concessions... sponsor days... etc... if attendance at fixtures was a priority of clubs im sure we wouldn't be talking about this... but the primary priority of most clubs is to increase sponsorship revenue... rather than depend of gate takings and canteen. Ive been to watch nephews play in the U19's and there haven't even been people stationed on the gate... and then they run out of bottled water by reserve grade half time...
Oh yes they are
Your living in the past magician, magic are no where the best travelling fans, few years back maybe yes, besides that they spend most of their time arguing at the gate that their pensioners and had left there pass at home, codes like Union and league charge 5/6 dollars entry and double any crowd the NPL dish up, this is a poor decision from those clubs who voted this in, maybe if clubs stopped paying overs for money hungry overrated players this price change would not be needed, can't wait to see NNSWF marketing strategy on this one, I'm expecting zero
So if I'm a maitland supporter my entry fee has gone from $5(newfm) to $10, hardly an encouraging way to drag people through the gate
FR laying the Smackdown
So true
So who is responsible for this decision Clubs of NNSW Fed ??
I am hearing Olympic instigated the move and it was a close vote finishing 5-4 in favour as the Jets had no say.
Any truth to this??
I am led to believe that all clubs are forced to charge the recommended fee.
Is concession still half price? And are Edgy still not allowing students to be considered concession?
Hamburgler hopefully whichever club your friends kid plays for are approachable and are understanding and will let the parents in either for free or at a reduced rate. From experience of the clubs I've played for, if I introduced my family to the people at the gate and on the committee they are/were usually allowed in for free or at a reduced rate anyway.
As the Member has pointed out, this price increase isn't going to be hugely beneficial to clubs anway. It's going to be bringing in somewhere between $50-300 extra for most clubs (judging from the price increase, and taking into account potentially less people coming in as they will consider it too expensive). Which realistically all it is doing is paying for a weekly wage of one of the first graders anyway. Why not keep the prices lower, and run an extra hundred club or something like that?
Hopefully some clubs are realistic about it and will give a free drink voucher for every entry or something like that, which would end up they pay about the same for entry and a drink as they would have previously anyway. Judging by the amount of people Maitland were getting to their games last year, a lot of which were drinking, I think something like this would benefit them.
Whether it is right or not, I pay something like $7 a game to see the Jets senior team play if I go to all games and with my membership. The fact that I pay the same or more to see NPL is ridiculous.
OK
100% in agreement FR
If I'm a Maitland supporter the jump in quality of games should be enough to get me there. To be honest you get 3 games, over 4 hrs of football for $10. This is the first rise for a while, what it might affect is hundred clubs and raffle tickets at the gate, and you can drink full strength beer.
I kind of see all sides of the debate here. I dont think people shoudl be charged to watch the 19s games as it is mostly parents or guardians and simply supporting the club and or players in the 19s should be payment enough. Problem lies in managing this as once in the ground i would say its difficult to them ask them to leave if they decide to watch the other 2 games.
Regarding comparing it to HAL and average cost to watch jets season . For me you cannot compare the two on a multiple of reasons .
Negative is without doubt you are watching better quality in HAL so value for cash NPL over HAL football reasons is not even worth debating NPL loses every single time.
Positive is that NPL clubs dont charge over $7 for hot chips and over $5 for a soft drink and dont charge $6.50 for a watered down beer so on that basis NPL is better quality than HAL.
There are other examples - If you are taking young children to NPL at most grounds you can relax in the comfort that they are fairly safe to do as they please (within reason) but at Jets you are constantly watching them and aware they dont annoy other spectators , get lost , behave etc
Harsh but agree with the sentiment.
The money paid to go watch the games is only going to line the players pockets. The results are a little lacking for our region with all the money pumped in and disappearing out in wages to First Grade NBN Players. I am happy to contribute to the cause but not happy as to where the money ends up.
Needs fixing
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