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Club Secretary Thread

  • 11-11-2020 10:13pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,303 ✭✭✭


    Anyone interested in setting up a thread specifically for club secretaries to ask questions and ping ideas around? We were considering moving to Clubforce but this new Foireann looks ok. I dont have anyone to talk about these things to!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 230 ✭✭Blue Magic


    Just curious, how are lads' clubs running their AGMs this year?

    Personally, I think it should be doable over Zoom. Have all your nominees ready on Polls from your Exec committee meetings, etc. Let people read the minutes of the previous AGM themselves and all that...

    What do people think?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,303 ✭✭✭webpal


    I think we are going to have to wait until restrictions are lifted. We are a rural club and half the parish doesn’t have broadband. We’ve tried a committee meeting on zoom and it was a disaster.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭Uncle Pierre


    Not currently a club secretary myself, but have been in the past, and still involved in admin, so hope it's okay to join in here. :)

    We're a rural club too and are waiting and hoping for the opportunity to hold a "regular" type of AGM as well. Zoom (or similar) might be fine in theory, but wouldn't work well for many of the people who'd have to be involved here.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,004 ✭✭✭thefa


    Rural club again.

    Club starting using clubforce and have definitely seen benefits in terms of slight membership increases, decreased cash handling and less admin for the GAA registration. On the flip side, we lost about 4.5% on fees per transaction as well as having to pay for the initial setup and there is an annual fee of €200. Also, it’s likely that some members will be unable to sign up so you may need to still hold a registration night.

    Will be looking to see is the GAA alternative better but straight away, the transaction fees will be lower and think there is no subscription so you could immediately be looking at savings.


    Say a good number of clubs will struggle to get traction for a virtual AGM. Have seen numerous suggestions to hold off until it’s possible to hold a standard meeting but nobody could tell you when that will be.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,907 ✭✭✭kala85


    thefa wrote: »
    Rural club again.

    Club starting using clubforce and have definitely seen benefits in terms of slight membership increases, decreased cash handling and less admin for the GAA registration. On the flip side, we lost about 4.5% on fees per transaction as well as having to pay for the initial setup and there is an annual fee of €200. Also, it’s likely that some members will be unable to sign up so you may need to still hold a registration night.

    Will be looking to see is the GAA alternative better but straight away, the transaction fees will be lower and think there is no subscription so you could immediately be looking at savings.


    Say a good number of clubs will struggle to get traction for a virtual AGM. Have seen numerous suggestions to hold off until it’s possible to hold a standard meeting but nobody could tell you when that will be.
    Club force must be making a fortune. The covid worked out well for them


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  • Registered Users Posts: 780 ✭✭✭Kirk Van Houten


    Rural club. Using incorporeal. Emailing all members with reports and asking for submissions in advance. Zoom meeting then just for the executive committee.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,647 ✭✭✭beggars_bush


    Rural club. Using incorporeal. Emailing all members with reports and asking for submissions in advance. Zoom meeting then just for the executive committee.

    Should you be sharing reports like that?


  • Registered Users Posts: 780 ✭✭✭Kirk Van Houten


    Should you be sharing reports like that?

    We have an email distribution list for all adult members entitled to be at the AGM. Sent to them prior to meeting and they have two weeks to raise any agenda items. All approved by county and Croke Park.

    Broadband not great in the area and the idea of trying to run a Zoom meeting with circa 100 people would be just a nightmare.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭Uncle Pierre


    thefa wrote: »
    Rural club again.

    Club starting using clubforce and have definitely seen benefits in terms of slight membership increases, decreased cash handling and less admin for the GAA registration. On the flip side, we lost about 4.5% on fees per transaction as well as having to pay for the initial setup and there is an annual fee of €200. Also, it’s likely that some members will be unable to sign up so you may need to still hold a registration night.

    Will be looking to see is the GAA alternative better but straight away, the transaction fees will be lower and think there is no subscription so you could immediately be looking at savings.

    We looked at Clubforce earlier in the year, but the transaction fees and annual payments put us off the idea of using it. We've already got online membership payments on our club website anyway, and no more than 15 or 20 people use it any year. Of the rest, about half pay the old-fashioned way by cash or cheque, and the about half pay by monthly direct debits, following a big push we put on a few years ago to get people to do things that way.

    We haven't looked a whole lot at Foireann yet. There'll be a change in Secretary whenever our AGM goes ahead, and there's a strong chance that the new one will be either myself or my wife (we've both done the job before). We'll have a look at it then anyway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭Uncle Pierre


    Should you be sharing reports like that?

    Don't know how it operates in other places, but here in Wexford, even the County Board circulates all reports in advance of convention (which is basically the county AGM), including the financial reports.

    Honestly don't think this is an issue.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,004 ✭✭✭thefa


    We looked at Clubforce earlier in the year, but the transaction fees and annual payments put us off the idea of using it. We've already got online membership payments on our club website anyway, and no more than 15 or 20 people use it any year. Of the rest, about half pay the old-fashioned way by cash or cheque, and the about half pay by monthly direct debits, following a big push we put on a few years ago to get people to do things that way.

    We haven't looked a whole lot at Foireann yet. There'll be a change in Secretary whenever our AGM goes ahead, and there's a strong chance that the new one will be either myself or my wife (we've both done the job before). We'll have a look at it then anyway.

    I feel like if your club goes down the route of online registrations, you’ll have to push as much of the non-direct debit members down the route of registering online while setting up the DD members on the system and marking off as paid each year. We were 100% cash/cheques and there were some memberships lost but the flexibility signing up online gave led to a slight overall increase which we’d hope to improve on as people get more familiar with it and renewing becomes easier.

    One thing to bear in mind when looking at the transaction fees is that cash and cheque receipts may not be free of fees if you’ll be lodging them into a club bank account from my experience. BOI currently have 0.6% charge which was increasing to 0.8% before the pandemic hit.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,303 ✭✭✭webpal


    Anyone further along with their AGMs yet? Looks like we won’t be able to meet for a while so we are going to do it over the phone.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,004 ✭✭✭thefa


    webpal wrote: »
    Anyone further along with their AGMs yet? Looks like we won’t be able to meet for a while so we are going to do it over the phone.

    Had it online. Fair bit of organizing required. Definitely served the purpose of giving some continuity for the timebeing as well as getting information out to members.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 556 ✭✭✭Fine Cheers


    Yes we had ours online before Christmas and went well. Around 30 attendees on Microsoft Teams. HQ have issued guidelines to help.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,781 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    Good idea for a thread.
    Not a secretary but involved in a few things.
    We started using Clubforce a few years ago to:
    1. Make it easier for people to register 24/07
    2. Reduce the amount of paper/manual data input.
    3. Reduce the amount of cash handling in the club.
    4. Better promote membership.
    5. Reduce the workload on the coaches who would have had to handle/manage a lot of the paper bits and pieces.
    6. Improve member communications and member compliance.
    While there is a fair overhead involved we believe it has been a great system for us and improved communication, compliance and increased our membership income.

    Foireann is going to be a major change in how things can be done and the headline figures involved in the registration process are making us look at it from a registration perspective but maybe not this year as I foresee a few problems.

    Are there any clubs here looking at using it for taking memberships directly this year?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 556 ✭✭✭Fine Cheers


    Yes we are with Clubforce for all the reasons you listed plus the main one - online lotto. So Foireann is the GAA's own app ? Don't know anything about it yet.
    Clubforce also bringing out a one stop shop website / smart phone app to compete with Clubify's Clubzap.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,781 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    DIY KING wrote: »
    Yes we are with Clubforce for all the reasons you listed plus the main one - online lotto. So Foireann is the GAA's own app ? Don't know anything about it yet.
    Clubforce also bringing out a one stop shop website / smart phone app to compete with Clubify's Clubzap.

    There's a lot of companies with similiar/alternative offerings - each offering various bits and pieces.

    Yep Foireann is the replacement for ServaSport and they are trying hard to push it as the defacto registration platfrom for clubs. It is going that way anyway I'd say with a bit of pain required the first year you make the move I'd say.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,303 ✭✭✭webpal


    Anyone have issues setting up membership packages on Foireann? We are not using it to collect membership but an option needs to be there to bulk register. No matter what parameters I use, I get a message saying not suitable for bulk registration. All members have been verified.

    Unfortunately faqs nor YouTube videos show this problem. I’ve raised a ticket but I know they are very busy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,781 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    webpal wrote: »
    Anyone have issues setting up membership packages on Foireann? We are not using it to collect membership but an option needs to be there to bulk register. No matter what parameters I use, I get a message saying not suitable for bulk registration. All members have been verified.

    Unfortunately faqs nor YouTube videos show this problem. I’ve raised a ticket but I know they are very busy.

    Where are you uploading the bulk verfied members from?
    I haven't seen any documentation from any of the "third party" oganisations that have platfroms for membership on how to "sync" the registration data.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 101 ✭✭mooz


    webpal wrote: »
    Anyone have issues setting up membership packages on Foireann? We are not using it to collect membership but an option needs to be there to bulk register. No matter what parameters I use, I get a message saying not suitable for bulk registration. All members have been verified.

    Unfortunately faqs nor YouTube videos show this problem. I’ve raised a ticket but I know they are very busy.

    My club has just recently started using Foireann. As a coach, I've registered Monday and have been trying to familiarise myself with it since. I paid my membership and my son's last night no problem, just had to 'create family' or was it 'add family member'. Straightforward and will definitely take alot of work out of registration, form filling, communication etc


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,303 ✭✭✭webpal


    kippy wrote: »
    Where are you uploading the bulk verfied members from?
    I haven't seen any documentation from any of the "third party" oganisations that have platfroms for membership on how to "sync" the registration data.
    If you are manually registering someone (who may have paid cash) or if you are using an outside party for membership (e.g. clubzap), you still have to register people on Foireann using the bulk register option similar to servasport, even if only one person. I understand you need to verify these people first which I've done, then create a membership option and then bulk register. If successful, once you hit bulk register you will be asked which membership option but all of the ones I set up are saying unsuitable for bulk registration.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,303 ✭✭✭webpal


    webpal wrote: »
    Anyone have issues setting up membership packages on Foireann? We are not using it to collect membership but an option needs to be there to bulk register. No matter what parameters I use, I get a message saying not suitable for bulk registration. All members have been verified.

    Unfortunately faqs nor YouTube videos show this problem. I’ve raised a ticket but I know they are very busy.

    Just looked at this again this evening and there appears to have been a few updates, different layout etc. I tried again and all memberships are now coming ok, problem solved somehow


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 528 ✭✭✭fitzcoff


    Is there a date yet that all members need to be registered by?

    I've set up foireann but so far very few have registered,


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,303 ✭✭✭webpal


    fitzcoff wrote: »
    Is there a date yet that all members need to be registered by?

    I've set up foireann but so far very few have registered,

    Members need to be registered by 31 March to be eligible to vote at agm.


  • Registered Users Posts: 922 ✭✭✭DiscoStew


    webpal wrote: »
    Members need to be registered by 31 March to be eligible to vote at agm.

    That date is being pushed back for this year. They haven’t given the new date as yet but there will be an extension.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,303 ✭✭✭webpal


    :P
    DiscoStew wrote: »
    That date is being pushed back for this year. They haven’t given the new date as yet but there will be an extension.

    Where do see that? I thought they had already pushed it from last October


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,781 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    webpal wrote: »
    :P

    Where do see that? I thought they had already pushed it from last October

    31 March has been the GAA date as far as I know for ages, but it will have to be pushed out this year with zero chance of club activity before then.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 528 ✭✭✭fitzcoff


    Thanks for the replies, I would be hoping it'll be pushed out as its very hard to get people to register when they aren't training / playing.


  • Registered Users Posts: 922 ✭✭✭DiscoStew


    kippy wrote: »
    31 March has been the GAA date as far as I know for ages, but it will have to be pushed out this year with zero chance of club activity before then.

    I think it was on the Role of the Club Secretary webinar from Connaught GAA it was mentioned.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 922 ✭✭✭DiscoStew


    Membership deadline has been extended, confirmed at meeting of Ard Chomhairle today. New date has not yet been confirmed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,303 ✭✭✭webpal


    Are we to print teamsheets from Foireann now? I dont think you can add players to servasport anymore.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,839 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    Hi all

    Are Club/County Secretary's any use when wanting to discuss sales proposals to Clubs/Countys?

    Secretarys are generally the only contact available for Teams online and I find it very hard to garner a response from them (and they wouldn't be my target end customer anyway).

    How would I go about finding contact details for Coaches/Management teams of Countys and Clubs?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 556 ✭✭✭Fine Cheers


    What are you selling ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,152 ✭✭✭Lost Ormond


    callaway92 wrote: »
    Hi all

    Are Club/County Secretary's any use when wanting to discuss sales proposals to Clubs/Countys?

    Secretarys are generally the only contact available for Teams online and I find it very hard to garner a response from them (and they wouldn't be my target end customer anyway).

    How would I go about finding contact details for Coaches/Management teams of Countys and Clubs?
    Use combination of local papers, club websites to find coaches info or county boards.
    Do any county boards put up a handbook like rugby provinces do with info of all officers of the club?
    https://d2cx26qpfwuhvu.cloudfront.net/munster/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/26104714/Red-Book-20.21-revised.pdf


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,839 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    What are you selling ?

    Data/Analysis solutions for Team Performance


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭Uncle Pierre


    callaway92 wrote: »
    Hi all

    Are Club/County Secretary's any use when wanting to discuss sales proposals to Clubs/Countys?

    Secretarys are generally the only contact available for Teams online and I find it very hard to garner a response from them (and they wouldn't be my target end customer anyway).

    How would I go about finding contact details for Coaches/Management teams of Countys and Clubs?

    Simple answer is it all depends what you're selling.

    Lack of response from a club or county secretary would indicate to me that they're either not interested in whatever product or service you're offering, or else that they've already got a suppliers that they're happy with.

    By the way, even if what you're offering is ultimately aimed at coaches/managers, you'll still have to go through officialdom such as secretaries & chairpersons anyway. Also, would be surprised if coaches/managers took any more kindly to cold calling or on-spec emails than secretaries do.

    Still curious about what it is you're selling, though. If you told us, we might be able to better advise.

    P.S. - I see you answered that last question while I was still typing it!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 556 ✭✭✭Fine Cheers


    Good stuff. I guess it's the team manager(s) you need access to which is never straight forward.
    I generally message the PRO via their social media channels when looking for manager's details for challenge games etc.
    Big task though but probably worth it if you aren't getting any joy via the Runai.
    It probably varies from county to county as to what they publish online re club contact details.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭Uncle Pierre


    callaway92 wrote: »
    Data/Analysis solutions for Team Performance

    There we go. :)

    To be honest, it's probably way above the level of 90% or more of "ordinary" grassroots GAA clubs. We get the odd email about it ourselves (maybe even from you!), but it's not something we've ever seriously considered.

    You might have more hope at inter-county level, but obviously there's only a limited number of potential customers there, and many of them might already have this looked after already.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,839 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    Yeh, in regards to what's on offer, there's nothing at this scale anyway.

    A lot of 'live' stats stuff which are useless to be honest. Post-match reports etc are far more important (just from my own exp. for Soccer and Rugby Team Performance and analysis for Media)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,839 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    There we go. :)

    To be honest, it's probably way above the level of 90% or more of "ordinary" grassroots GAA clubs. We get the odd email about it ourselves (maybe even from you!), but it's not something we've ever seriously considered.

    You might have more hope at inter-county level, but obviously there's only a limited number of potential customers there, and many of them might already have this looked after already.

    There is definitely a market there for Clubs though.

    I'd obviously worry about the money they can spend but minimal analysis is still up for grabs and would be beneficial in my eyes anyway to what they do themselves.

    Any club that takes themselves seriously should have it for their own analysis. Bigger clubs/Counties should have it then for player scouting/opposition analysis, insights etc.

    In regards to Teams having it anyway. There's nothing at a decent level (from my knowledge).


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,152 ✭✭✭Lost Ormond


    There we go. :)

    To be honest, it's probably way above the level of 90% or more of "ordinary" grassroots GAA clubs. We get the odd email about it ourselves (maybe even from you!), but it's not something we've ever seriously considered.

    You might have more hope at inter-county level, but obviously there's only a limited number of potential customers there, and many of them might already have this looked after already.

    I dont see how it would be way above level of that many clubs and what are "ordinary" clubs btw?

    A huge percentage of clubs senior sides as well as top intermediate sides would use video analysis if they can get it. Plenty of junior sides may think about it as well depending on the club, interest from coaches, players etc.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭Uncle Pierre


    I dont see how it would be way above level of that many clubs and what are "ordinary" clubs btw?

    A huge percentage of clubs senior sides as well as top intermediate sides would use video analysis if they can get it. Plenty of junior sides may think about it as well depending on the club, interest from coaches, players etc.

    Jaysus. Out of everything I wrote above, I didn't think I'd be called on define what I mean by "ordinary club". But I'll let that one go, unless you really want to get into it. :)

    For what it's worth, we've had just about all matches videoed ourselves for a good few years now, and team management and a couple of others review them all closely. I know many other "ordinary" (!) clubs do the same. But we've never considered engaging and paying for a professional third party to do the review and analysis.

    Maybe we're just guilty of a misperception that it would be too expensive. Wonder if the poster here might be able to give a ballpark figure of what typical fees might be? And if that brings into the scope of what an "ordinary" ;) club might consider affordable after all, then that might change things....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,152 ✭✭✭Lost Ormond


    Jaysus. Out of everything I wrote above, I didn't think I'd be called on define what I mean by "ordinary club". But I'll let that one go, unless you really want to get into it. :)

    For what it's worth, we've had just about all matches videoed ourselves for a good few years now, and team management and a couple of others review them all closely. I know many other "ordinary" (!) clubs do the same. But we've never considered engaging and paying for a professional third party to do the review and analysis.

    Maybe we're just guilty of a misperception that it would be too expensive. Wonder if the poster here might be able to give a ballpark figure of what typical fees might be? And if that brings into the scope of what an "ordinary" ;) club might consider affordable after all, then that might change things....

    Having someone else beyond the regular coaching team review the tapes etc can bring something very different. different set of eyes and all that
    Doing video yourself can be done but do you break down the video like the third party can do?
    And you keep saying ordinary clubs. what is that and what makes a club be more than an ordinary club?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭Uncle Pierre


    All right then, let's talk about what I mean by an "ordinary" club.

    To me, an "ordinary" club is one like ourselves. Rural area. Membership fees €80 per adult player, €50 for non-player, and €20 underage. Operating at senior in one code, and intermediate in the other. Fairly competitive in both, but unfortunately, not actually successful. Last adult county title was back in 2008.

    Total income for the year from all sources in the region of €80k to €90k, and every cent of it needed. Some years we might have a grand or two left over....other years, we spend more than we take in.

    Finding maybe an extra €5,000 a year for professional analysis of eight or ten matches would be a tall order, if that's what it would cost. But again, maybe I'm way off with my guess as to the cost. That's why I'm wondering if we might get a ballpark figure here.

    Now, while we're at it....an "extraordinary" club might be one of the larger clubs in Dublin, for example, where there could be 2,000 or more members, membership fees up to €300 per person, and total income from membership alone running into hundreds of thousands of euro each year. That's before you consider other income, from maybe a bar or function room, as well as all sorts of other stuff.

    Finding say €5,000 in their annual budget of €500,000 or more wouldn't be as tall a task as finding €5,000 in our budget of €80,000.

    I'm not saying in any way that professional analysis wouldn't have its uses. My point is that for many clubs, it probably seems unaffordable.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,839 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    But ‘Video’ analysis is absolute bottom of the barrel stuff and kinda embarrassing to hear in 2021.

    Again, even having worked with Amateur Rugby teams in the past (based in South Africa), video analysis is the absolute minimum that should be done.

    Insights from a data provider, opposition analysis, pre/post match insights and scouting all are what is needed these days.

    Teams not wishing to use it will simply fall behind. There’s no need to hire a million analysts for your own team then as a provider would be doing it for you.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭Uncle Pierre


    callaway92 wrote: »
    But ‘Video’ analysis is absolute bottom of the barrel stuff and kinda embarrassing to hear in 2021.

    Again, even having worked with Amateur Rugby teams in the past (based in South Africa), video analysis is the absolute minimum that should be done.

    Insights from a data provider, opposition analysis, pre/post match insights and scouting all are what is needed these days.

    Teams not wishing to use it will simply fall behind. There’s no need to hire a million analysts for your own team then as a provider would be doing it for you.

    Hi again. :)

    Look, realistic bottom line is that it would be a money thing.

    I can obviously and immediately see the benefits that a service like yours could bring to our club. Could give us a significant advantage over our rivals and put us in a much better position to challenge for a senior county title.

    But whether or not we could actually afford it is the key consideration. Any chance of a ballpark figure at all? PM me if you prefer. Would genuinely be interested to find out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,839 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    Hi again. :)

    Look, realistic bottom line is that it would be a money thing.

    I can obviously and immediately see the benefits that a service like yours could bring to our club. Could give us a significant advantage over our rivals and put us in a much better position to challenge for a senior county title.

    But whether or not we could actually afford it is the key consideration. Any chance of a ballpark figure at all? PM me if you prefer. Would genuinely be interested to find out.

    Yeh 100% money is the bottom line. There’s no two ways about that.

    If you were at a club that had the money and don’t want to hear about the ideas though it’s an issue for sure. Same with Secretarys not passing the message on etc.

    Ballpark figures would depend on the level of data required but I could supply numbers anyway just for a quick look.

    Media is where the bigger money is at then.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭Uncle Pierre


    As a former club secretary myself - and as somebody who's married to our current one! - let me say it's not necessarily that such messages aren't passed on. Instead, it's that they're just not replied to, if the club isn't interested enough to start making inquiries.

    As regards a ballpark figure...understand it would depend on level of data/analysis required...can we simplify it by asking for a ballpark figure for the minimum level you'd recommend for a club operating at senior level in their county championship?

    Heading out for a few hours now, for duties including ones linked to return to adult training tonight, but will be back later. And am still curious. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,839 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    As a former club secretary myself - and as somebody who's married to our current one! - let me say it's not necessarily that such messages aren't passed on. Instead, it's that they're just not replied to, if the club isn't interested enough to start making inquiries.

    As regards a ballpark figure...understand it would depend on level of data/analysis required...can we simplify it by asking for a ballpark figure for the minimum level you'd recommend for a club operating at senior level in their county championship?

    Heading out for a few hours now, for duties including ones linked to return to adult training tonight, but will be back later. And am still curious. :)

    That's kinda where my worries were though, as in, are the secretarys actually passing on the brochures etc.

    Minimum level for Senior Hurling club would be:

    - Analysis for their own players/matches only

    - On receipt of video and lineups from the club, data would be available within an agreed contracted length of time, likely 72-96 hours for a lower scale team

    - Lowest level of data points available would be (all offensive): Puckouts, Dead-Balls, Shots, Cards. They would all have XY data too (which is the most important part then given that the Products available allow for some nice in-depth searches then, depending on the data you're permissioned for.

    - Access to Products where Player stats etc are freely available for what the team is permissioned for

    That would likely be in-and-around €1,000 depending on how many matches that team would be expecting.

    If a team required more in-depth data for matches that aren't generally covered (and therefore need more people coding them), it would reach about €4,000-€5,000.

    For counties we do vary from sport-to-sport but we do have Camogie Teams paying €8,000+ and Men's Hurling and Football paying €12,000+, however, they use extra Products that clubs wouldn't have use for anyway (ie club player scouting)

    For the sake of an €800-€1,200 investment, it's a no-brainer for clubs from my opinion and experience anyway.


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    callaway92 wrote: »
    That's kinda where my worries were though, as in, are the secretarys actually passing on the brochures etc.

    Minimum level for Senior Hurling club would be:

    - Analysis for their own players/matches only

    - On receipt of video and lineups from the club, data would be available within an agreed contracted length of time, likely 72-96 hours for a lower scale team

    - Lowest level of data points available would be (all offensive): Puckouts, Dead-Balls, Shots, Cards. They would all have XY data too (which is the most important part then given that the Products available allow for some nice in-depth searches then, depending on the data you're permissioned for.

    - Access to Products where Player stats etc are freely available for what the team is permissioned for

    That would likely be in-and-around €1,000 depending on how many matches that team would be expecting.

    If a team required more in-depth data for matches that aren't generally covered (and therefore need more people coding them), it would reach about €4,000-€5,000.

    For counties we do vary from sport-to-sport but we do have Camogie Teams paying €8,000+ and Men's Hurling and Football paying €12,000+, however, they use extra Products that clubs wouldn't have use for anyway (ie club player scouting)

    For the sake of an €800-€1,200 investment, it's a no-brainer for clubs from my opinion and experience anyway.

    A lot of clubs will try and do that themselves with volunteers. I've helped out a team in both Hurling and Football with it. There's an app that gathers data in match which most managers seem to be happy with at club level.


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