My statement of "Club wants your time and money" means Club is going year round (or they want you involved year round) thus, if this occurs, they have to be getting more of your time and money.
They can't be doing all this for free.
We taxpayers aren't subsidizing Club soccer, are we?
There has to be a cost.
Correct me if I am wrong (and I'm sure someone will), and I am not looking at any figures, but if memory serves me correctly, when there was a St. Giles and GFC, participating in Club soccer cost much less.
Maybe if Harry is in the know, he can provide correct data.
1) Did you just say that you're making statements about costs and yet you aren't looking at any figures? Do you have anything factul to back up what you're saying?
2) I'm sure that soccer costs less when it was St. Giles and GFC. Mainly because it was 8 years ago! Remember what a gallon of gas cost 8 years ago? (that's a weak argument that I just made, but I won't erase it) I'm going to imagine that St. Giles and GFC offered a whole lot less than what is offered now at CESA.
3) I've stated in another response some of the examples where I think the club could/should be charging a whole lot more for what they are offering if they were money driven. The camp this past summer was the big one. I've paid $500 for 4 days worth of summer camp involving sessions run by club coaches, hs coaches and college players. Last summer, I paid $100 for 3.5 days of training by college coaches. And we saw the Korean women's national team.
And I think the most important thing that you said in your post was "if Harry is in the know". Why would anybody ask questions of someone who isn't in the know? Why would anybody listen to someone speak on a subject that they didn't have factual knowledge of? Yet on here, there are people spewing statements of a club they know very little about. And the haters chime right in.