{"id":13621,"date":"2011-06-14T13:01:53","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T13:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=13621"},"modified":"2011-06-14T13:01:53","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T13:01:53","slug":"review-of-ulster-club-membership-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/review-of-ulster-club-membership-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW OF ULSTER CLUB MEMBERSHIP RATES:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This information was compiled by a local rugby player because their club where discussing the price of subs openly, and what to charge next year.<\/p>\n<p>The results are split into a per League bases. Even though Qualifying 3 is now 3 and 4 it has been kept as one league. Also added are the clubs from Junior and Minor into Q3 league and due to small numbers it would be easy to guess who was who. This is done on a 2010\/2011 league bases so if you got promoted\/relegated this will not be reflected in the results.<\/p>\n<p>What was evident from the replies is that every club is having a problem getting people to pay subs. And nearly every submission came with the tag line \u201cthey don\u2019t pay enough\u201d or \u201ctoo cheap\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Firstly we will look at USL<\/p>\n<p>USL<br \/>\n100%    Comp<br \/>\n\u00a399     Average<br \/>\n\u00a3160    Max<br \/>\n\u00a350     Min<br \/>\nThis is a big spread &#8211; a bigger average and a bigger Min Fee was expected.<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurosportsdirect.com\/index.asp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9533\" title=\"Click Here For Eurosports Direct E-Commerce Website\" src=\"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/rooooon21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"943\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nQualifying 1<br \/>\n73%     Comp<br \/>\n\u00a3107    Average<br \/>\n\u00a3130    Max<br \/>\n\u00a390     Min<\/p>\n<p>Qualifying 2<br \/>\n67%     Comp<br \/>\n\u00a395     Average<br \/>\n\u00a3173    Max<br \/>\n\u00a390     Min<\/p>\n<p>Qualifying 3\/4\/Others<br \/>\n76%     Comp<br \/>\n\u00a393     Average<br \/>\n\u00a3140    Max<br \/>\n\u00a350     Min<\/p>\n<p>(NB Comp is the % of clubs that replied with information)<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the difference between USL and the Q leagues there is no gradual decline in the Average.<\/p>\n<p>Now where do we go from here? The common views are that \u201cthey are so high because not enough pay\u201d it is a bit of a catch 22. If they are low more might pay if they are high less will pay but you will get more per head. <\/p>\n<p>The following are ideas that also came through as to how to get more payments.<\/p>\n<p>Discounts for Students<br \/>\nDiscounts for Unemployed<br \/>\nDiscounts for early payment<br \/>\nDiscounts for Direct Debit payments<br \/>\nDiscounts on club kit<br \/>\nDiscounts at bar and function tickets <\/p>\n<p>Another point seems to be that if you do not pay you do not play. However if pushed on this would a club really not play their best team because of a player not paying.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like them broken down into another way please just ask. Information is also available on where you came in your respective league table, but will not reveal other clubs prices.<\/p>\n<p>We hope this helps and good luck this year getting more subs.<\/p>\n<p>Raw Data Total of 38 out of 49 clubs surveyed<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/ulsterclubs4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/ulsterclubs4.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ulsterclubs4\" width=\"700\" height=\"1778\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13622\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This information was compiled by a local rugby player because their club where discussing the price of subs openly, and what to charge next year. The results are split into a per League bases. Even though Qualifying 3 is now 3 and 4 it has been kept as one league. Also added are the clubs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5634,5632,5633],"class_list":["post-13621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ulster-rugby","tag-membership-rates","tag-review","tag-ulster-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13621"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13625,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13621\/revisions\/13625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}