Princes Park Touch

From early 2026 we are going to be requiring anyone who wishes to play regularly in 2026 to have gone through the process of explicitly becoming a member of our association.

Therefore if you’ve not done so already please start the onboarding process here.

https://princesparktouch.com/register/

The whole process end to end takes 4-6 minutes and only need to be done once ever. All captains have already done this so most bugs should be ironed out. But it is by no means a finished product. So any feedback psychologically for our association and technically for my startup is much appreciated.

Who needs to do this?

Every regular player in our mixed and men’s competitions.

Please parents should onboard their children. We suggest the use of plus emails for children so that all communications are directed to the parent, more info here.

Is this new?

Only in an administrative sense. The purpose of our association has not changed nor have the principles and processes listed in the FAQ. Previously captains would undertake to ensure the whole team were familiar with them. We are now making that agreement explicit

Why are we doing this?

There are two main reasons (and many other minor ones) namely:

1. To be legally compliant with the law and our constitution. Whilst most clubs don’t do this properly that is no excuse we aimt to be (and believe we are) the best social sporting organisation in Australia. Part of that is proper compliance
2. To ensure every player is actually aware of and supports our aims and processes. Whilst most captains did a reasonable job on ensuring this, it has not been 100% and that was not ideal.

How are we going to enforce this?

This will be hard as we will need to onboard another 500 odd regular players to the 120 who have already done so. This will require the assistance of our captains. To enforce and incentivise this there will be a number of approaches.

• Once I’ve done the final grading split in the new year any team with at least 8 players will get a bonus point every week until finals
• All fixtures and some other content will require the user to be logged in and a member.
• We will periodically check games and any team with more than two players who are not members are have not previously flagged this with the committee will not be able to win the game.
• Only teams that have at least 8 PPT members will be allowed to play finals and only PPT members will be allowed to play finals.

I actually hate having to use a carrot and stick approach as my general view is that everyone at PPT should always do what is asked of them/the right thing but this is an important step for us and it can’t drag out.