Dale the Whale and I donated 20 dollars each to Island Bay tonight to help fund their U19s.
Or, rather, to cover 1% of Dauniseka's wages.
I think when you put it in that context - not enough money for U19s, but enough to play some chump - then club administrators should take a hard look at themselves.
By the way this IS NOT a dig at IBU who are only doing what most others are doing. Just a dig at the general "vibe" of the thing.
Agree.
And these are the same club administrators who will happily put the boot into Capital Football over every f**king little thing (some of it deserved, admittedly) but who are collectively perpetrating probably the single biggest issue facing the local game - payments to players and the detrimental effect this diversion of precious funding is having on the development of the game as a whole.
How big is the problem? No one knows because nobody wants to come clean and just admit how much they are paying out.
But we've been through all this before. You can all stick your heads back in the sand now...