They're lucky I'm not their DIL. I'd be sending the kid a bus ticket and meeting him at the station lol.
I'm a little the same as you - lets just say it hasn't been an easy ride in the family this year

I have driven all over, put him on trains & picked him up from trains, etc etc... its been a chaotic nightmare - and MIL & I have had a few 'not so good' moments!

My SIL (married into the family same as me) and MIL may as well be joined at the hip, and of course they agree on everything - So I've had a few heated moments with my SIL over the past football season as well (who knows what it has to do with her?)

We set up the spare bedroom as BIL's room for when he is here (as he comes down now most Fri nights on the train, and PIL pick him up from the game Sat & drive him home) - have copped HEAPS off PIL & SIL for setting him up a room, telling me its a little over the top.... whatever!

BIL loves that he has a place here - and loves being here... and I have made a point (because the rest of them have made a point to show how uninterested they are) of making every single game he has played this year - even if his games have clashed with DH's, or if I have had to drive an hour from one game to another on different ends of the Central Coast.

He knows how much we're supporting him in this - and you can see how much he needs the support, and how grateful he is that we give it to him.

All of the mums of the boys in the team went out a few weeks ago for dinner & a movie, and they asked me to go (not MIL) - so our support is obvious to the rest of the team as well, so that makes me happy and confident that we're doing the right thing