dude thats hell bad if they do that, the sumemr season is short enough as it is.

9 games with no finals, start 2nd or 3rd week back next year in term 1.

9 week season starting around October the 17th...Finishes up before end of year (mid to late December I believe, around the 19th of December).

Grades with more than 10 will be split into 2 groups. With cross overs.

Just got my invoice from my son's club.... that works out to $20/game! Plus $15.00/week admission for me, the missus and him every week. Which means it will cost more per game for him to play than it would cost for me and the boy to get Gold tickets to watch the Sixers!!!!

I wonder if this has any impact on the movement through age groups ? I understood that as the summer season previously carried over into the new calendar year this meant top age players moved into the next age group.

Mantis - perhaps you are new to basketball but your fees are mainly for the cost to your club of hiring training venues and other overheads associated with runnng a club - I am assuming your son trains twice per week. And, BSA get the money at the door at games not your club.

Some clubs set a fee for the year and expect it to be paid upfront, before the season commences. So if your son changed clubs at then end of summer you would have forked out for the whole amount. Consider yourself lucky that your club doesn't do that.

Interested - interesting point, but the summer season will be used to grade teams and rotate kids for the upcoming winter season - so even though what you are suggesting would be justifiable, it then defeats the purpose of having a summer season.

206189,
Yes, good point and makes sense. My inability to think laterally caused me to make my initial post !!

I'm not new to basketball or the associated expenses, and I am aware of the costs of playing other sports as my son has also played soccer, I'm just suffering sticker shock now I've done the maths, which to be honest I've never done before, although I'm confident that $20/game is a new high.

In response to Anon, club expenses will actually be reduced by the shorter season - there will be less trainings due to the shorter season, for example. Shouldn't fees move proportionately?

As for #191 and $1M stadiums, I'm not sure they even had "dollars" back when the club's stadium was built, let alone 1M of them ;).

Trainings won't decrease, unless your club trains through January.

Currently, trainings finish the last week of games, which will be the same.

Trainings for my club begin after the long weekend. Games will start 1 or 2 weeks later giving some flexibility to the schedule. Therefore I would expect trainings to begin back the same time.

Therefore no decrease in costs for the club.

Last year we restarted trainings when we came back in February, so yes, there is a decrease in trainings over the season.

Because the season is a month shorter? I don't really understand why you think there isn't a reduction, although from your post you seem to be including training toward "next season" as part of "this season", where I woudl include that in "next season".

Hmmm, there's a thought - if the Summer season ends before Xmas, when does the next "Winter" season start - February? March? April? And how long will it last?

It is not $20.00 a game - it is $20 for 2 training sessions, overhead costs, JDO, admin costs etc.

Clubs can charge the whole years fees at the beginning to the summer season - eg now. When your kids sign up they are signing up for the whole season (summer and winter) and clubs should charge players that move on for the whole year. (less then would perhpas jump ship) I am assuming your fee was for the summer season only. It may not be a true proportionate figure due to the fact that you would get a gigantic bill in winter if it was a true proportionate figure. But either way you will pay a yearly figure, which wouldnt be too much different thatn what you paid last season.

Winter season will commence in February

Somehow I dont think your childs spot will be held for him/her, if you are willing to risk them not getting a spot in the div they are in at present or being dropped or worse still being told there are no spots left - go ahead - I wish you people would stop your winging and moaning - you knew how expensive district basketball was when you joined your kid up - if you dont like it leave

A good analogy....

Now everyone is used to paying over $1.50 for petrol notice how there is no complaint about dropping the litre price now the barrel price has decreased quite remarkably over the last few weeks...

Joe Tex,

Your fee's go towards TRAININGS, not games. If you train the same amount, you pay the same amount.

But you will save on 2-3 weeks worth of door fees.