Quote Originally Posted by hawk View Post
for sure. need to spread the $ around

Not sure about the highest juniors. New Lambton has over a 1000. id like to see numbers from both. Its disappointing that junior clubs become that big when others close by struggle for numbers
The biggest issue I see is that as these "super clubs" attract more and more kids, the smaller clubs continue to get smaller.

In a small club like ours, you lose one or two kids from a particular age group to an A grade squad elsewhere or to an NPL type set up and often we cant attract replacement players and an entire team is lost. Some kids find new clubs with our help, others just cease to play football.

The long term result of this will be at some point small clubs won't be viable and there will be other sports lining up to take over the facilities.

Maybe there is too many junior clubs in too compressed an area, but there will be a downside to the bigger clubs cannibalising the smaller ones.