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Topic: Club Membership?
Sound Auld Skin
(142 Posts)
Posted: 09-Mar-2010 14:21
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Would be interested to find out what other players pay for your club membership?

Ours is €100 but that includes the GAA insurance which our club tells us is about €50 of €100 you pay. That seems steep considering my understanding is if you have health insurance like VHI you cant claim from it.
Hidalgo
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Posted: 09-Mar-2010 14:38
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Our`s is 60.
20 for students.
Not too steep
ballygowan
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Posted: 09-Mar-2010 14:58
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£120
centreforward
(589 Posts)
Posted: 09-Mar-2010 15:23
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Ours is €100 and an extra €30 for hurleys.
hurler100
(461 Posts)
Posted: 09-Mar-2010 15:26
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30 euros for players, 20 for all other adult members
Finty
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Posted: 09-Mar-2010 17:57
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50 Euro
KKCatExile
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Posted: 09-Mar-2010 18:20
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Ours is over 100, it seems to be much higher if your team doesn`t have pitches. Ours is also high because we have to buy a set of jerseys. The 50 for insurance sounds right, it costs 1000 to enter a team into the Player Injury Scheme and you aren`t allowed field a team unless you do that, so whether you can claim or not, the club`s hands are tied. Throw in refs fees, competition fees, jersey cleaning, pitch rental for matches and an even more expensive pitch rental  (in our case )  for a floodlit one to train on, and the fee starts to look reasonable. Beats joining a gym, and its much cheaper. Would love if our club had its own place though, it`s nice to just know that you can show up and there`ll be a pitch and all that, and no booking and paying and finding and locating on google maps and lads showing up late and the non-payment of fees becoming a hoor of a thing etc.
jugalugs
(181 Posts)
Posted: 09-Mar-2010 18:26
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120
Originally posted by Sound Auld Skin:
Club Membership?
tones67
(612 Posts)
Posted: 09-Mar-2010 21:20
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Full Adult €40
U21 €10
Juvenile €10
Unemployed/OAP/Students/ €10
Social €10
Family €70

even as I type I realise OMG, what a bloody give away for what we have!
joe bloggs
(1,069 Posts)
Posted: 09-Mar-2010 23:19
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Originally posted by Sound Auld Skin:
Would be interested to find out what other players pay for your club membership?

Ours is €100 but that includes the GAA insurance which our club tells us is about €50 of €100 you pay. That seems steep considering my understanding is if you have health insurance like VHI you cant claim from it.

You have to pay €1000 to register each adult team for the year and this will insure the players. So if you have an average of 24 players per team i.e. Senior, Junior A etc it will hardly cover it as your club probably charges less for students.
I know in my club they charge €50 for full adult players,€25 for students and €10 for minors, and as there are a lot of students and minors on our three adult teams the membership collected would not even cover registration, let alone balls, hurls, physio,medical, esb, ground maintenance, mileage, referees etc.
I really think a lot of lads playing don`t understand the finances involved in running a hurling club
The Black Sow
(500 Posts)
Posted: 09-Mar-2010 23:34
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Up to 2 years ago lads wouldn`t mind paying a grand for membership for a golf club but would whinge at paying E70 for a GAA club
theskull1
(244 Posts)
Posted: 09-Mar-2010 23:53
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£10 Adults & working minors
£ 5 Juveniles

We do many other other fund raising activities to bolster the finance requirements. Seems to work well I think. Low income families get their kids into the club who very possibly would never be able to afford the amounts which I see above for each of their children. Makes playing GAA a quite middle class pastime in those premium priced clubs I would guess

Families who can afford to give more will do in other ways.
Memphis04
(779 Posts)
Posted: 10-Mar-2010 02:21
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150 euro for players!
shamboy14
(223 Posts)
Posted: 10-Mar-2010 08:14
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Originally posted by Sound Auld Skin:
Club Membership?

€30 for adults
€20 for students
includes signing all players up to the new injury scheme...
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