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Equipment => Your Kit => Topic started by: FattusCattus on September 06, 2015, 09:58:23 AM
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I found out last night that our embroidered club shirts are £30 each!!!
This means members pay £120 annual subs and £8 per game match fees. ON top of that, the shirt is an extra £30.
Now I love my club and I proud to wear the Chertsey blue - but these are tough times for some people, and I think that's a bit rich. I'm well aware of the cost of embroidered clothing, and I can see a huge mark-up here. In addition to this, I'm constantly being told the club is comfortably well off. I'm sure I read somewhere that some clubs give you a shirt as part of your membership fees.
What does playing cost other people - or am I out of touch with what other clubs do?
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When I sponsored our club I subsidised the cost of the shirts for members, we added £20 onto our annual subs to make it £50 a season which once members had paid they got a shirt given to them in return. Match subs £8 for adults and £5 for students, £3 junior members.
It made it easy to see who had coughed up their subs then too.
This season we have a new sponsor and have a club shop set up using GN kit, a short sleeve adult shirt is £19. Which is reasonable as it included sponsors logo on the chest and club badge embroidery too.
It's a tricky one as our new sponsor is frustrated at the amount of players that have bought the new shirts with their logo on them but if people already have kit that doesn't need replacing its tricky to get them to spend £19 on another.
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Branded shirts are more expensive, I imagine one of our forum sponsors could sort one out for around the £20 mark depending on spec.
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The sponsor issue is an interesting one. When the main shirt sponsor changes we, as players, are faced with one of two options either the purchase the new shirt with new sponsor or else gaffer tape over the previous one. This year, one chap had so much tape on him he looked like he must of had a puncture. I sympathise with the sponsor who is paying for his brand to be seen but at the same time I feel for the part-time amateur who is asked to pay an additional 23 quid on top of a 240 membership, match fees, petrol costs, kit costs etc.
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We pay $130 aud for our subs and 10$ for ball fees on game day. With that we get a playing shirt, trousers, cap and a training shirt. Our tops aren't embroidered they are sublimated graphics (I think it's called that)
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we charge top quality bespoke shirt with club logo embroided around £17.50
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We pay 50 subs or what players can afford club kit is an optional extra caps 5.00 shirts with printed club logo 12 . 00 but nobody has brought one for years.
That said I know many of the bigger WCL league clubs for season 2015 put the annual subs up then added anything from a further 20.00 upwards for a compulsory club shirt.
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£30 annual club fee plus £5 per game. For £30, as a new player you get;
Adidas playing shirt, fully embroided
Adidas trousers, fully embroided
Baggy green cap, embroided with your nickname and club number
training shirt
training shorts
Any self-bought pullovers, sun hats, etc. embroided for free
Existing players still pay £30 annual membership, but a great incentive for new players to get their playing and training kit at that price...
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£20 for shirt
£10 per game to play
dont pay subs
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40 quid membership
21 quid short
10 quid a match.
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We pay £30 subs which included a shirt this year & £5 per match, we all bring something for teas on home games
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I paid:
£60 subs, £25 a shirt
£15 match fee for 1s, £10 for 2s
North Oxford tax...
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£10 subs, £4 match fee, deal of playing top and playing trousers £30. All other kit was extra, its Masuri kit, very nice stuff
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£80 subs
£10 match fee for away games
£7 match fee for home games (We each supply something for the cricket tea up to the value of £3)
Kit is extra and is via Romida. http://www.romida.co.uk/hurst-cc.html (http://www.romida.co.uk/hurst-cc.html)
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Big sale on club kit this year,£25 for shirt and trousers,most of us have jumpers from the last lot we had done.
Quality of the kit is not great,most wear it in ones and twos but not in threes and fours.mine accidentally got covered in oil ftom my car and got ruined(!).
Subs wise..tricky one.im on the committee and very involved in setting fees,weve had to raise money in the past so i put them up,now we are ok on finances im thinking of a slight reduction
Currently £11 per game,£95 per year.
The vast majority pay ok but this year im thinking its getting pricey to play cricket
Most of us play sat and sun may till september-add it up its quite a lot
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£75 subs, £12 a game, 2nd game in the same weekend £6. Shirt is £30 and trousers £22.
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£12.50 subs £2 match fee £20 Kukri shirt. We're just a lowly midweek T20 club at the moment though.
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Last year shirts came included with subs as they had been sponsored. Match fee £6
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Wow, real eye opener, I'm from the sticks and we get a lot from our club by the looks of it.
Membership £35 per season
Subs £3 per match
Kit £25 per player (shirt, trousers, sweater, cap)
We do well with sponsorship and fundraising which helps.
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£75 membership
£10 per game
£30 for a club shirt (which is likely to change every 2-3 years due to sponsorship)
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150 all in for subs, no match fees etc after that, or 60 and then 8 quid a game I think. Kit is done separately via our local sports kit, is all Canterbury though so is bloody expensive.
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Hat = 20aud = 9gbp
T20 shirt = 30aud = 13gbp
Normal game shirt = 30 aud = 13gbp
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I found out last night that our embroidered club shirts are £30 each!!!
This means members pay £120 annual subs and £8 per game match fees. ON top of that, the shirt is an extra £30.
Now I love my club and I proud to wear the Chertsey blue - but these are tough times for some people, and I think that's a bit rich. I'm well aware of the cost of embroidered clothing, and I can see a huge mark-up here. In addition to this, I'm constantly being told the club is comfortably well off. I'm sure I read somewhere that some clubs give you a shirt as part of your membership fees.
What does playing cost other people - or am I out of touch with what other clubs do?
Thought i'd put in an Australian point of view.
Season Costs
I'm in Brisbane. It's difficult to find an organised club with fees under 500 (dollars) for a summer season (higher quality cricket is closer to 700 dollars). I think the conversion rate is about half at the moment, so around the 230 - 240 pounds at a minimum. This is total included registration and game fees.
Clothing Costs
I'm currently negotiating with a new supplier. We are looking at sub laminated clothing (unlimited club and sponsor logos) for 27 dollars a shirt.
I've not had sub laminated before, but most reports are pretty good. This is with a supplier that provides to professional cricket, NRL (rugby league), AFL (Aussie Rules) and netball teams here in Australia and internationally.
Mark Up
I'm just won the agreement of my clubs executive that clothing should have a 0% mark up i.e. should not be a revenue source for the club.
Putting it this way, a $5 mark up on a shirt taking it from $30 to $35 is enough to make most guys at our club not invest in one. At this mark up you have to sell 100 shirts to the same as get one extra player (my club regularly fields 3-4 Saturday teams each summer, so 35-50 players).
By having the whole club in 'club shirts' does two things, 1. makes you look like a semi professional cricket team/club and 2. greatly improves your chances of attracting new players to your club.
My view, keep your club clothing prices at or below cost (if your club can afford it) and you attract more players which is a much higher revenue source for the club.
Old club shirts - new sponsors
Unfortunately this comes with the territory. One of my old clubs combated this in a few ways:
1. New players to the club had a club playing shirt included/absorbed in their initial registration. This at least got the new players in the most current playing shirt.
2. They negotiated longer term sponsorship deals. This made the club shirt 'valid' for a longer period. While new sponsors means a change in club shirts, the sponsor could agree to invest more upfront, to outfit the club in one hit (or the top grades for example), knowing they wouldn't need to do so in years 2 & 3.
3. Utilised club merchandise as 'rewards'. If a player hit an individual milestone, say 300 wickets for example, and this was you guys running around with more tape on him than shirt to cover logos, his recognition prize would be a new playing shirt. If another guy didn't have, or had a really, really old club cap, this would be their 'reward'.
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Ours was £100 per person subs plus £10 per game.
Match fees were collected before the game, and if you didn't pay, we played with 9 or 10 men.
Shirts were £15 each.
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Our shirts cost £15 I think as we got the sponsor to cover the cost of the embroidery
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£120 membership, £10 match fee, club shirts £16 (plus £4 sponsors logo paid out of sponsorship money). Players buy all club kit, current provider is warsop.
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Last year subs were £100 and that included a playing shirt with the club sponsor's guff on it.
This year, new members pay £100 and existing members pay £75. The new members get a shirt with theirs and the existing members already have their shirt in theory. Obviously, if you want a new one, you've got to pay for it! Think they're £30 inc postage charges.
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So basically, apart from Stuey, I'm on a sh*t deal really!!!
I wouldn't mind so much except that the club seems to be doing pretty well financially. Friday night is the big night, with 120 kids out on the field and up to 100 parents getting royally plastered at the bar - apparently we have to curb our turnover as we are hitting the VAT threshold.
You'd think the club would either chuck in the shirt, or at the very least supply it to members subsidised or at cost.
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Sounds like a trip to the AGM is on the cards FC...
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you can just picture it Fattus the substantial unit breaks thru the wall at Chertsey's AGM holding a shirt and megaphone is hand ''RIGHT YOU BUNCH OF OLD FARTS WE WANT FREE CLUB SHIRTS FOR THOSE THAT SWEAT BUCKETS FOR THE CLUB OVER THE YEARS'
cue massive applause, motion carried and the members carry Bruce to the bar on their shoulders and it's a lock in
:)
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Subs - £30 a season, £10 a game.
Playing / Training kit had to come out of my pocket, no help with that from sponsors etc. :(
It is Adidas kit via All Rounder at a cost of £28 - shirt, £30 - short sleeve jumper, £37 - long sleeve jumper, £20 - Training shirt, £35 - Hoodie. The turnaround time for kit at the start of the year went from good to really bad (5+ weeks to get my LS jumper) with AR, something to do with them changing the company that do the embroidery. Ended up finding a local company that can do it within a week and bought some training shirts from SD (2 for £22) and getting it done for a fiver with them, got a baggy blue done by them too otherwise might still be waiting for all my kit ;)
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Two clubs for me and the contrast is massive:
Shanghai - China - (when i am teaching) 250 pounds for subs & 0 a game - there is no home ground so all the clubs have to hire the pitches - this includes an awesome cap and a dreadful playing shirt (bloody indian sizes!!!! & my fat belly!!!) and in reality i only play about 8 games - if you pay per game it is 50pounds membership and 30 a game!!
Back home in the UK - 500 life membership - paid upfront (normally 50 a year) never have to pay subs again!!! 7 a game, shirt is 20 and all other kit etc is all under 20 - so good value and good turn round time with a local intersport shop
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Sounds like a trip to the AGM is on the cards FC...
Yeah - but I'm not gonna be grumpy or nuffink!
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I found out last night that our embroidered club shirts are £30 each!!!
This means members pay £120 annual subs and £8 per game match fees. ON top of that, the shirt is an extra £30.
Now I love my club and I proud to wear the Chertsey blue - but these are tough times for some people, and I think that's a bit rich. I'm well aware of the cost of embroidered clothing, and I can see a huge mark-up here. In addition to this, I'm constantly being told the club is comfortably well off. I'm sure I read somewhere that some clubs give you a shirt as part of your membership fees.
What does playing cost other people - or am I out of touch with what other clubs do?
The club are being too transparent - they should have charged £150 shirt included, extra shirts £30 - that's how clubs give you a shirt as part of the membership fee.
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Yeah - but I'm not gonna be grumpy or nuffink!
Joie de vivre is overrated.
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£35 seasons student membership, £29 for embroidered shirt, £27 for embroidered trousers and £3.50 per match fees. Seems very reasonable to what I have been reading here.
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If you're looking for a new suppliers who will be able to beat your current prices please take a look at the following link....
http://issuu.com/b3cricket/docs/b3_cricket_range_2014_ebrochure (http://issuu.com/b3cricket/docs/b3_cricket_range_2014_ebrochure)