Need a cheaper snooker club

[NorthWestJunior]

The prices are fine when there is a few of you sharing a table but for solo practice it is ridiculously expensive. As Steve said, higher prices doesn't bring in more customers. That is more of a catalyst to closing down to be honest.

[NUMB3R44]

Do you clowns have any idea how much a snooker club needs to take to stay open.While your all moaning about paying 6 or 7 pound a hour does it not enter your heads that the reason clubs are shutting and you have no where decent to play is because people wont pay a fair amount to play.
Next time you go 10 pin bowling or go pay for a round of golf have a think about it,perhaps when the only clubs open are 1 or 2 table social clubs and you cant get a game you might just grasp it..

LOL!! I happen to know the owner of my local club and yes ok he does need to take a decent amount to survive BUT, he gets most of this from drinks, and poker and other stuff. Snooker has gone through the floor as the price is to high......

[cazmac1]

LOL!! I happen to know the owner of my local club and yes ok he does need to take a decent amount to survive BUT, he gets most of this from drinks, and poker and other stuff. Snooker has gone through the floor as the price is to high......

Absolutely agree with you 44, there is a big difference between solo practice and a bunch of lads playing snooker or even two ppl playing on a Friday night. When me and my mate won a years free snooker at Riley's both are games when through the roof. So unless there is affordable practice rates players will not improve. Their starving the game of new talent, so many clubs are run poorly with badly fitted cloth's, 30 to 100 year old rubbers, uneven tables and now with the implementation of low energy lamps **** LIGHTING TOO. I fail to understand how an empty club with with no one playing can make any money yet these clubs would rather keep silly hourly rates in off peak times than have a paying customer. There is so much that can be done if they just think out of the box.

[MasterBreak147]

My local wmc club opens at 2pm and its perfect lovely tables new Strachan cloths yearly and pro lighting, 20p for 12 mins couple hours three days a week does me just fine

Wouldn't swap it for a snooker hall never!!

[NorthWestJunior]

The WMC's around here are often packed to the guns so getting a worthwhile practice session is quite rare in them at the moment.

[Skywalker8]

Need a cheaper snooker club

I even think more clubs should do free snooker times or happy hours to bring people in and get people playing and buying drinks. Even if you have to buy a drink every hour to play. Beats having the place empty as most clubs around me are. First hour free with any drink etc the word would soon spread!!!

[Skywalker8]

Need a cheaper snooker club

Even a loyalty card! Free hour every five played?!

[cazmac1]

I like the idea of yearly memberships. where you pay up front for the whole year and you can play when you like. Like a gym you would have peak and of peak memberships. Of course anyone signing up to a yearly deal would receive heavily discounted tables rates. The assumption being like a gym you wouldn't go all the time lo. Of course you would have to put safe guards in to stop it being abused.

Then there is a 4 table club run with no staff. I would like to see a large club run like this. All food and drink would be from vending machines out sourced of course, security could be by 24 cctv or just employ a security guard on a minimum wage to site in a room for a 12 hour shift. he could also double up as cleaner and table cleaner. Wages in any business are the biggest overheads.
Take all that out of the loop and you have massive potential cost saving. The one thing I'm unsure about is selling alcohol through vending machine's and the licencing laws.
I thing my club had 4 or five part time staff an assistant manager and manager My rough calculations put that as a wage bill of around 60K + just think of the money that could be spent on the tables.