by The Bedge » Wed Jun 14, 2017 3:58 pm
There are so many reasons why it's difficult to have a hard and fast rule around no-pay, no-play.
Different financial situations - paid monthly, paid fortnightly, paid weekly, some unemployed and may have trouble with budget or have unexpected expenses pop up.
Players - some players just seem to think they're above paying, those are guys who generally play A grade or have played A grade and traditionally in the past been sponsored or what not, so paying is foreign to them. This is particularly hard at our club when an A grader gets dropped for a week. Also the players who turn up with one of a million excuses why they haven't got the cash on them and you're not in a position to suddenly tell them bad luck you're not playing.
Success - Need to weigh up whether setting an example and dropping a dozen blokes until they've paid is worth the risk of losing games, and everything heading south internally. Example: If you have a policy say owe $30 or more you cant play, and your genuine gun midfielder who wins games off his own boot owes $30 or $40 and you need to win to play finals, are you going to not play him?
I've found over the years, clubs/sides tend to focus on filling sides and having success over setting a good culture around paying etc... and cultures are hard to change, habits are hard to break and you'll always have a small group that fail to do the right things.
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