by WHEELS&DEALS » Sat Jan 29, 2011 5:48 pm
Hope this post doesn’t turn into a novel but some people have no idea. Hopefully they still take time to read this
Senior footy, I’m not going to blow wind up your butt and say Morphy Parks don’t spend money on players; of course we do as does every club. Do we have a budget that we can spend on players? Yes we do. If we as a club can afford to spend money on players we will do so. Some of our decision on what money goes to what players may have been wrong, but that is the reason why those players are no longer with us. As a club you try to get the right people for the right job for the right money. Sometimes that person might not work out so you have to find someone else. You need to spend money to make money and that is a fact of life, if you don’t believe that you have got your head up your arse. We don’t just spend money on players and hope for the best. We try and make the club a good social club not just a football club. We spend money on the club and make it a place where you want to go. To have a successful club you need to be competitive in the A grade and B grade and when you don’t have juniors coming through you need to recruit senior players from other clubs otherwise you won’t have a team and you will no longer have a club. a few years back we got a bad rap about a few incidents that involved other clubs not just ours, it has taken a lot of hard work to have that stigma left behind and turn the club around to where we want to be and that is a competitive, successful club that has all grades from A grade down to under 8’s
Junior footy. This is where I get a bit pissed off by wankers saying that we don’t work hard enough on getting kids into our footy club. Give me a break; we work just as hard if not harder on trying to get kids to our club. 2 years ago we only had and under 8 and 10 team, last year we had 8’s, 10’s, 12’s and 14’s. The under 14’s even played finals in their first year. This year we will have under 16’s to add to that list. From what I have read in the last few pages people out there think we only spend money on our senior players and give nothing to our juniors. They could not be any more wrong. People say give them cheap subs or even free, funny we did that last year. This year I would say we have the cheapest subs in the SFL and we will keep trying to get kids to our club any way we can. If this means chucking in free shorts and socks and anything else we can think of then we will do it, if some of our sponsors want to pay for some of the kids subs well we will let them. There aren’t too many kids out there that play footy and aren’t involved in a club in some way, so if that’s where we have to get them from we will try our best. What we can offer kids is a game every week, not missing out every 2nd week or sitting on the bench for a half a game because that club has too many kids. All the clubs with dual teams good luck to you but if clubs like us, Marion, OSB,Aldinga and any other struggling club folds it may be a bit boring playing the same 4 teams all the time for a whole season.
It will be a few years before our juniors step up and play senior footy, what are we supposed to do in the mean time? Not field a team. One thing we have learnt it is easier to attract kids when you have successful senior teams, so in a few years time hopefully we won’t need any extra points. Some other club might by then and it could be yours, so think of the big picture not just this year. I’m sure I have probably left something out so feel free to comment. Go you ROOS
