WGTN Club nursery grades

WGTN Club nursery grades

Should CF/NZF be slapping a levy on nursery grades (5 yr olds) that clubs run themselves?

 

Is it acceptable that these nippers (parents) contribute to the National body � or is it just unjustified revenue gathering?

 

This debate is currently taking place. Thoughts?

If they arent playing in a capital football orgainsed competition then I wouldnt expect them to be paying any money to Capital Football/NZF. They are just trying to inflate their registered playing numbers to boost their own ego's.

Interestingly in the UK now if you play 5 a side you have to pay an FA Affiliation fee even for private competitons run at health clubs

Justified how JD?

I dunno, it's on the bill, it's �10, you pay or they won't let you play, what are you gonna do??

Greenie, the question you'd have to ask is what would NZF do if you refused to pay? They can't stop you running what are essentially training sessionsjames dean2010-02-02 23:41:00

Possible to just claim it as a casual kickaround? Where do they draw the line there? Seems a bit off. 10 guys organise a kickaround game at the park,5v5...some official comes along "10 pound each lads". Obviously its not like that...but yeah.

It's on the bill from the competition when you sign up

Nothing happens. I had a "Little Dribblers" conversation with Capital Football before they brought it in and asked what we would get for our $5, how much we would get paid for collecting it and what happens when we run 4 per year. Do they pay $20 then if they play at every program?
That was the last the Little Dribblers heard of it.
We hire our own grounds, organise our own programs and pay all our own expenses.
The purpose of registering and getting the numbers up would be to get more funding from Sparc which is all good. But I know there wouldn't be any benefit to the Little Dribblers in NZF getting more money because of our own initiative.

Surely Sportzone there is a way that they could call you guys say a "registered provider", you pay some levy (make it $50 a year - unimportant), you can then say in your advertising blah blah "affiliated to NZF", which might help I don't know, you can use their branding or something, and then NZF can count the no's as NZ affiliated without trying to get money out of people?

I'd say NZF want the money. They are going to try charging Joe Bloggs kicking a ball on the beach soon.

You would think so but you only have to remember what happened to Wyners when they came along. Pretty much told to PO I think as it didn't fit in the NZSoccer manual at the time. When I started Twilight there was a comment of "we are going to do that and we'll take you over"
There are people who think they own and want to control football but in reality there is far more football going on in the country than NZF can bothered with or know about. You only have to check the indoor venues, futsal, ethnic tournaments, beach soccer, street soccer, kids coaching and nursery grades to realise this.
SportZone2010-02-04 13:03:28

Totally agree Smithy.