Sportsguard insurance

[PC39MSO]

After one of my players suffered a terrible injury on sat resulting in a leg break and ankle dislocation who feels the basic covered provided is adequate ? 

Off work for potentially 8 weeks and in cast for 6 with a family to feed and a mortgage to pay. 

£50 per week will not cover this and I feel the amateur game is going down hill because of these situations. Players particularly self employed are afraid to get injured and effect their family life and work. 

[scorer]

first off all, dreadful injury to your player so finger crossed he has a speedy and full recovery 

however, i have to ask, does the player have a job where he will be paid while off or is he self employed, in that case does he have his own insurance, im asking as thats the first thing i tell my players ( at all levels) is to get their own insurance.

Professional all the way down the levels each player should be wise enough or even advised to take their own insurance. and i know alot of Pro players, Junior, Semi Pro and Amateur players do have their own for piece of mind

so i dont think this is the Amateur football insurances fault really ( even though i think it should be whole lot more than £50 to help hurt players out in these cases) and in no way am i saying this is the players fault either i just think all players should be advised better either by their own teams or leagues or associations.

 

Fingers crossed for your player, hope he is going to be Ok

 

[eyeswideopen15]

What is the average cost per player to have their own personal insurance ? I didn't know you could do that to be honest ?

[PC39MSO]

12 minutes ago, scorer said:

first off all, dreadful injury to your player so finger crossed he has a speedy and full recovery 

however, i have to ask, does the player have a job where he will be paid while off or is he self employed, in that case does he have his own insurance, im asking as thats the first thing i tell my players ( at all levels) is to get their own insurance.

Professional all the way down the levels each player should be wise enough or even advised to take their own insurance. and i know alot of Pro players, Junior, Semi Pro and Amateur players do have their own for piece of mind

so i dont think this is the Amateur football insurances fault really ( even though i think it should be whole lot more than £50 to help hurt players out in these cases) and in no way am i saying this is the players fault either i just think all players should be advised better either by their own teams or leagues or associations.

 

Fingers crossed for your player, hope he is going to be Ok

100% agree. But surely the safa should put in place better policies. That’s the run of the mill cover.

I will be putting it to my players for the coming 

 

 

[PC39MSO]

Agree players should have something in place but Bog standard cover should be better. 

[PC39MSO]

54 minutes ago, eyeswideopen15 said:

What is the average cost per player to have their own personal insurance ? I didn't know you could do that to be honest ?

There’s all different covers. A decent cover will usually cost between £7-10 per month. 

[Northboy]

Insurance is like everything else - you get what you pay for. You don't tend to get much with the 'basic' option whether it is car, home, travel etc.

[PC39MSO]

100% correct but the association should put something better in place to protect players. 

[sctv]

The basic is what it says, your team always have the option to take the extra cover which would have given him a minimum of £100 per week

The cover we get for the basic money for 25 players a season is reasonable to be honest
Won’t be life changing though