basketball fees

[John OByrne 604 - 4526 <John.OByrne@boi.ie>]

In reference to the cost of basketball!!!
   I'm paying about 150 quid to play this year here in Ireland, This figure 
includes referees fees, IBA (Irish Basketball Association) registration, Dublin 
League registration, insurance and the one that really gets my goat gym 
hire!!!!!!!. The majority of my fees goes towards gym hire.....Its so expensive 
nowadays to rent a gym or hall for 2 hours in order to play ball, there was a 
scheme within Dublin a few years ago where the local council or civic authority 
would pay for the gym for a few hours in order to encourage kids to get involved 
in sport and keep them off the street, but all they played was indoor soccer 
(which is very popular over here) other sports such as basketball or volleyball 
had to wait in the wings and take the scraps they were offered towards the end 
of the allotted free time. I don't know haw big basketball is in Australia (I   
imagine its fighting pretty hard with alot of bigger sports for recognition such 
as Rugby Union/league, ausie rules, cricket, soccer and so on) but over here 
Basketball is most definitely a second class sport......playing second (more 
like third) fiddle to soccer, rugby and Gaelic sports(our own indigeonous sport)
Thats one of the reasons that I subscribe to this list...in order to recieve my 
daily intake of basketball talk and discussion. over here (in Ireland) theres 
only a few die-hards that want to play/watch and generally be involved in 
basketball and for this privilege we have to pay quite a lot of cash!!!!!!!
like they say money makes the world go around!!!!!!!!!!

right I'm finished ranting now about a non-celtics topic....please excuse my 
interuption......Celtics and B-Ball forever

Johno
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