f**king ridiculous... for amateur football... imagine if that money was spent on facilities or for the developement of the game instead of filling the pockets of 'amateur' players.
Just stupid.
My current bug bear, I don't think any player should be paid purely to play football. Make them coach or paint the club rooms or something but purely to turn up on Tuesday and Thursday and play games in front of 50 people on a saturday, ridiculous. In fact, I think that should be a rule...not that Capital Football would ever get involved pro-actively. I would be very interested to see some investigating done by the gaming trusts that effectively fund this league seeing as they are not supposed to contribute to professional sport.
The short termism is truly astonishing, especially when you look at how poor the training facilities at most clubs are.
Is G coaching Miramar?
wake up and smell the roses son
Just because it's happening now doesn't mean it should happen in the future, especially when the majority of the money is coming from gaming trusts. Fact is people are being paid to do something they already do, if the money was taken away, who would stop playing? The money should be earnt, it's absolutely ridiculous. And even though turkeys don't vote for christmas, I bet if you ran a straw poll of players very few would say that getting $40 -50 for winning a game has anything to do with them playing or not playing.
Everyone thinks it's stupid but no-one is prepared to take a stand. That's where someone has to show some leadership, whether it's an individual club or capital football. Spend the money on decent facilities and trainign pitches and you'll get players wanting to come to your club.
For example, why not buy team training kit and have it washed after each session. I guarantee you'd get more guys at training every week if they didn't have to wash their gear, you've then got a training strip you can use for 3 years for the price of one win bonus per player. SPend the money on good footballs, or showers at the training facilities.
I can't think of any justification for paying people at any level below Central League (where I think the travel commitments mean some compensation is probably fair enough).
