In fairness, when reading this post, it also wasn't clear that this was an ad for something for which you had a self-interest. It's perfectly reasonable for people to suggest alternatives to a random suggested club, whereas if this as labeled something like "AD for my club...", then it's clearly a bit more confrontational to suggest there are better options (still perfectly reasonable as a forum comment, but intent might be different in that case).
To be clear, I don't have a horse in the race (I know nothing about any of these clubs in that area); just commenting on the reasonableness of the initial response, imho.