Quote Originally Posted by pv4 View Post
would that mean rego for each player is astronomically high?

what relationship does Azzuri have with the juniors? Are the two split up into Senior & Junior clubs or is it one club? Are funds shared between the two? Is it a healthy relationship or an us vs them? When it comes to maintenance of the field and facilities, lodging requests and applications for the club, grants, all that stuff is it a combined effort on all of these things or do the two handle things seperately?

I have to agree with MonkeyK above - all clubs need to have a long hard look at themselves and compare the meteoric rise that Azzuri have been able to achieve in such a small timeframe, and compare it to what they have achieved in a lot longer time. The fact that Azzuri were able to completely bypass the entire Zone League 2 competition basically deems all ZL2 teams as defunct. Hopefully some of those clubs have a graveyard near by, so they can die with minimum amount of fuss.
I believe Azzurri rego would be the cheapest out of all zone league clubs... I know that it is at least $100 cheaper than Suburbs, for example.

Azzurri is very unique in the sense that the "juniors" are essentially 10 or so All Age teams and then only few teams in the U/6 -U/16 range. Our relationship with the juniors, in our unique situation, is awesome. The All Age boys all take a keen interest in our Zone League teams and will often come and support etc and vice versa. We are one club but work independently of one another..it's hard to explain, you have to be in it to see how it works.