I gotta say that one reason I haven't been to Stoke in a while is the price increase. £7.50 for non-members, rumours of some people paying £10 per meet, I simply can't justify that for a club meet.
I still say the Stoke club can be a great club again. The people are all friendly enough, but I got to say that there are some lazy feckers who won't help setup, won't help put away, and it's the usual suspects who end up doing that. I helped when I could, but I have to careful what I do with my diabetes.
If the club joins the badmintion or tennis association, they could instantly get a third off the price of the courts. Then I think you'd just have to have a token match once a year, an open club championship let's say, and you've saved how much per year? I don't know for certain how much membership is, but I think it's either £15 per club or per member, something like that.
Ian, I understand your feelings, and you've told me about some of them, but we need to support all the clubs we can, as we're in real danger of losing them all. I thought Stoke would pick up again after the Macctrack went, but that didn't happen.
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