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MING · Ultimate Poster (2-0 up in a best of 7)

RILEY'S CHARGING TEAMS £10

Manse · Senior Poster (Pots off the break)

MING wrote:

Was informed last night that Riley's are gonna charge teams £10 for every home match, thats gonna stir up a hornets nest..

Marcus was "thrashing" out a deal at the Oracle last night - Think he'll be confirming our venue later today with Jules.

Joe Thomas · Regular Poster (Wins the toss)

Nice work from Rileys. They managed to lose three thursday night teams within 5 mins. Nice one.

Are they charging for county matches too?

-- Edited by Joe Thomas on Friday 15th of May 2009 04:32:35 PM

the apprentice · Veteran Poster (Potting like a demon)

Only days after boasting that they are officially the second best Rileys in the country (profits are up etc...) they go and do this and pi55 alot of members off!

Joe Thomas · Regular Poster (Wins the toss)

Rileys Gay boys can no longer play there, think we will have to change name to A1 anals.

dishwasher · Occasional Poster (Racking up the balls)

obviously u lot dont give terry the time to explain. yes rileys are charging £10 a game but u get the table an hour before your match and u have it alnite. also all players will recieve a discount card which gives u 50% off all tables all day every day and also 25% off all drinks and food all the time. not to bad afterall. and joe u keep slating rileys im sure we won the premier u aint even worthy to carry our cues

MING · Ultimate Poster (2-0 up in a best of 7)

just checkin wit Fees Office to see if i can claim on my expenses..

Crown House Monkey · Occasional Poster (Racking up the balls)

IT MATTERS CUZ ITS GOOD IN THERE ANYWAY!!!!!!!!!

AND THE BEER IS GREAT .................................

the apprentice · Veteran Poster (Potting like a demon)

Sounds a good deal when you say it like that...

But...£10 a game..bit steep mate..how many games we playin? A fair few..its all adds up...

Joe Thomas · Regular Poster (Wins the toss)

Do you not think it would have been a good idea to tell us that at the same time as saying we are charging £10 a game and could of also considered telling us that when we asked about playing from there. And what you on about matty, you keep slating rileys you aint worthy to carry our cues? Didnt really understand it mate. Would be much appreciated if you could make it a little clearer for me. Thanks. xxx

The Pool Shark · Ultimate Poster (Breaks off in decider)

dishwasher wrote:

obviously u lot dont give terry the time to explain. yes rileys are charging £10 a game but u get the table an hour before your match and u have it alnite. also all players will recieve a discount card which gives u 50% off all tables all day every day and also 25% off all drinks and food all the time. not to bad afterall.

Well, if Matty's right and you do the maths (Beefy will no doubt be working on a profit/loss spreadsheet as we speak if you want more detail... wink

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£10 = £2 per team member, per match.

You get roughly 5 hours of free pool on the match night (including the average of 2.5 hours for the actual match).

You get 25% off of your drink and food, so even if you only ever go in there on match nights, and buy three pints at £3 - which you'd only pay £2.25 for, so you'd make the money back on that alone.

You then get 50% off of table play whenever you like.

Seems like a pretty good deal to me? You can't blame Riley's for wanting to introduce a system that guarantees them revenue - remember the Student team of about 5 years ago that used to order a coke with 5 straws for the evening, but were happy to eat all the free food and play on free tables all night? 'Nuff said.

jamesyboy · Veteran Poster (Pots the first red)

IMHO i dont think its the money thats the problem, its the principles. If a team is playing for a club then they should get free play on tables for matches, fair enough the club ae paying the teams entry fee into the league but their going to get at least ten times the amount back over the course of the season.

MOO · Veteran Poster (Potting like a demon)

Charging £10 per team, it's no different from a pub/club saying you have to do a football cards. I'd say most people would rather not have to do a football card to much hassle.

Barney · Ultimate Poster (Breaks off in decider)

If what Matty wrote is true then it's not all that bad really. If someone plays every home match (for the Summer League that'd be seven) they need to spend £14 for the season. If for this we get a table from 7pm to 11pm plus discounts on food and drink plus 50% off all other pool and snooker on other days then it's ok by me.

I think a fairly large failing on behalf of Rileys was how and when the teams were informed of this i.e. only one week before the start of the season and without notification of the benefits the £10 fee would give.

I suggest the Rileys teams' captains contact Terry asap to confirm exactly what the deal is to avoid heresay comments being misinterpretted.

nature boy colzy · Senior Poster (Pots off the break)

Barney wrote:
If what Matty wrote is true then it's not all that bad really. If someone plays every home match (for the Summer League that'd be seven) they need to spend £14 for the season. If for this we get a table from 7pm to 11pm plus discounts on food and drink plus 50% off all other pool and snooker on other days then it's ok by me.

I think a fairly large failing on behalf of Rileys was how and when the teams were informed of this i.e. only one week before the start of the season and without notification of the benefits the £10 fee would give.

I suggest the Rileys teams' captains contact Terry asap to confirm exactly what the deal is to avoid heresay comments being misinterpretted.

agree wiv sheeba