"If You Build It, They Will Come" - Football Version

In My Humble Opinion
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I don’t think you are obligated to create leagues. I just think it will be hard to get enough people to play on your field if all you are offering is a field. Presumably any existing leagues already have fields that they use and may be happy with. However, if you create a community around your field (e.g. leagues, etc.) then I think you would have more luck.

Just my opinion though.

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You wouldn’t be obliged to, but you’d want to.

There’s a reason that ten-pin bowling leagues are organised by the lane owners - most people aren’t going to come along in nice groups of 22 - they’re going to be a guy and two friends who are interested in getting a bit of exercise, and - hey! - here’s this ad for a touch footy comp. Pay your subs, we’ll put you in a team and we’ll turn you where and when to turn up, hand you a bib in place of a uniform and introduce you to a referee.

Hell, paintball fields have to play mix-and-match, and they’re in much smaller teams.

In order to make the business model work, you need to guarantee that there’s a game going on or - if there’s not - that you’re already pre-paid for a game to be going on.

With that said, I think that you’ve seriously underestimated the effects of enough games to be economically viable on a grass pitch - it’s going to degrade much faster than you think, especially if the players are wearing sprigs. I live in Sydney - a place with pretty mild winters - and at the end of a season where a team’s playing four grades of footy one day a week, the ground’s pretty torn up by the end of the season.

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Thanks, Y’all, but I found out today that the Small Business Administration doesn’t provide loans. They’re more of a “clearing house” for private lenders, and since I lost my job and am waiting on my Disabiltity to start (a looooong wait), my credit rating isn’t such that I can pursue it anyway.

Sucks to be me.

It wasn’t that way a year ago.

A year ago, I was flying high, with excellent credit.

Now I’m not worth a shit.

Well, maybe I AM worth a shit, but not much else!:smiley:

Still… Something viable, wadn’t it - and maybe the dream just meant I was still in the running and not giving up?

Or maybe I needed some “come-uppance”?

I tend to grasp at straws these days. It keeps me honest.

Thanks for your replies. I know you care.

Bill