Must admit that seems to be the common theme amongst the blokes I know down your way who have kids playing juniors at EDFL clubs. $400 times say 25 kids in one team is $10k, multiply that by the big numbers of junior teams some clubs have and I cant believe it cost's upward of $70-80k a year to run the junior arm of any club
I beleive Abers are around $ 380 per year, Strathmore is $ 450, Douttas are around $ 300 as well,
most of these then charge $ 7 bucks per week to play as well,
I hear that St Bernards is still only $ 200 per year and are getting heaps of enquiries from current EDFL Kids
Seems that as their seniors play in the Ammos maybe they are not funding the seniors as much as EDFL Clubs which is definately happening