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Holiday clinics: the five questions that decide if it's worth the $250.

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Illustration of a holiday football clinic flyer on a kitchen bench beside a school holiday calendar

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The flyer is in the school bag. Three days, nine to three, two hundred and fifty dollars. The photo on the front shows a coach in a club tracksuit with a clipboard, six kids around him, sun on the grass. Looks like coaching.

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