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Nice one Jamie. You're right - £30 an hour is quite a lot.
But what would we be getting for our dollar? A lit, dry court over the winter would be frickin amazing! We'd also be able to start the much discussed but never actioned Recruitment Drive. Charging for sessions would obviously help cover our costs. I realise it would also mean less games for all of us, but if it proved popular we could always start hiring the second court for the newbies...?
Local business sponsorship: I'm not being funny, but what is any local business going to gain from paying for us to play polo? We're not exactly high profile, either in the local or tourney arenas. Not sure I'd want 'Donatellos' across my back/on a wheeldisc/along my down tube either. Maybe you could get it tattoed on your forhead, Rich?
Does anybody have particularly good haggling skills? I'm happy to call and give it a go. I'm also happy to split the rent of the courts if enough of us keep going regularly. I work, so I'm also prepared to pay slightly more if it helps to subsidise those of us that don't.