my kids play footy - fees $50 for the season. Interesting though that the council pays all watering and maintenance costs for the oval because it is a 'community facility' ...... why is it then fenced off on weekends and we pay at the gate? Do any basketball clubs get their maintenance costs (ie court hire etc) paid?

I also couldn't believe that KG and Cornsey were surprised at the cost of junior sport. What are comparable costs for tennis, cricket, swimming, cycling ???? I would suspect that most sport apart from footy and netball are quite expensive but I will be interested to see.

My son played footy a few years ago it was $110.00 then with one training. Lacrosse the same amount with one training. Swimmming worked out to $15.00 a lesson or a couple of hundred a month to swim as part of the Club which included up to 4 trainings a week plus Club membership/registration on top of which at the club they were at was about $250.00 per year. Soccer (for one season) I think is around $400.00 or so at the more well known clubs.

District training you are getting approximately 3 hours training a week, so in my opinion it is not overpriced but around the mark compared with the other sports and getting 2 trainings (which adds to the fees in court hire costs)I am sure if they only had one training per week though that fees would drop because court hire costs would drop. What you may not realise is that your district club pays for court hire at every court including Pasadena.

I agree with the above poster that the over and above costs over the fees for carnivals/uniforms can be quite expensive, but all the other sports incur costs of a similar nature -they all have uniforms, and if your child is at any where near the top of their chosen sport there will be carnivals interstate country etc. Swim meets, everytime you enter a pool there are charges for swimmer and spectator and entry fees to compete. It is not unique to basketball only.

I did think however that the original poster was talking about fees only by asking what was paid at other Clubs in the way of fees.

what are we really paying for...
what happens to the teams who dont have a training at all with their team... do they pay full fees...
what goes on there and why should they have to pay full fees for no trainings

I paid $243 for my son to play U16 district basketball this summer. They train 2 nights a week and fitness Sunday morning.
I think once a week would be enough,as he plays and trains school basketball as well.
That's a commitment six times a week,which we may struggle with (work and things).

Registration is for BSA and BA charges not for Sturt basketball club. Also take of the GST as that goes to the government, then tells us what it is.

Parents wouldn't care where the money's going, just what's coming out of their wallet and what they get for it, IMO.

Ok so I played football when I was U16 and Basketball

We are talking 9 years ago.

Football = $22 Per Season
Included Registration to the club and Guernsey
Not included Footy Boots and Shorts (Extra $100)

Basketball = $170 Per Season
Included Registration to the Club
Not included basketball, basketball singlet and shorts, shoes (Extra $250)

I know this was 9 years ago but the cost are still relative.

(#155811) in that case cut out the school B/ball. You are paying for your district trainings.

If you have over committed, then something has to give way.

I wonder whether one night a week training with reduced fees is an option for u16s.
Helps the wallet and the time.

The problem is that the money made from the competitions does not go back to ther clubs. BSA makes about $100 per game after paying umpires and the door person. With about 250 games per week including seniors they are makig about $25k per week. Over 30 weeks that makes about $750K per year.

And if you add in the social basketball they would be making more than this again.

Why can't some of this money come back to clubs so that they can reduce fee's?

It's not like we have 10 people employed to run just the district comeptition.

Basketball will not become larger until BSA starts using this money to decrease costs and help out the clubs who don't have any employed staff, but are generating all the money to BSA.

But if BSA were to give the clubs back some of the money it takes at the gate, club would be able to reduce the fee's. They would be able to administer better, and clubs would be able to employ people.

And if they were to put this money into a development officer at each club, rather than the current waste of money baby sitting program they have, it would improve 2 fold.

155861, how much do you reckon thos big tin sheds that the games are played in cost. Whoever puts this money in, be it councils, investors, schools, BSA are going to need the cash to service their capital debt.