Other clubs have leagues clubs we do not. You can’t say it’s not that different to Souths juniors as the two are the same business at say Penrith or Canterbury, ours is a different entity.
Leagues clubs aren’t just an organisation to funnel funds into the rugby league, like I said, they are just like Souths Juniors club, as a community asset they benefit through tax breaks & prosper accordingly on the proviso that they make funds available for any number of community groups & sport
Cronulla leagues club has a whole range of “sub clubs” fishing, golf, darts, snooker, toastmasters etc etc as well as a netball club
Souths juniors have to do the exact same thing & make funds available across the board
Quite a few leagues clubs aren’t all that profitable & can only give a grant to the football club if finances allow that, whilst most can give a grant to the football club that doesn’t always mean they can heap even more money towards juniors, most junior organisations have to find their own sponsorship & rely on the goodwill of the community, parents etc to run things
With Souths juniors running our junior rep teams that was a part of their original charter, they exist for that very reason, like I said, that existence turned them into the richest licensed premise possibly in Australia, where certain people became very rich on the back of a community asset
You really have to understand how & why all these clubs exist & the traditional way they have been allowed to be licensed