$517K of payroll costs between 12 people means they can barely be called paid positions.
Lets say CEO is on 90K (which I don't think is unreasonable) - that means the rest is on an average of 39K for the year. I am sure the FDOs are on much more than that so there is probably about 5-6 full time staff running the whole federation - its clearly tough.
Mainland has payroll costs of $820k between 13 staff..
Money well spent in Christchurch, They're 5-10 years a head of us up there. Id say that's well paid for a few of the mugs they've got working down here. Pay peanuts and you get monkeys. The can't even get a draw out earlier than a couple week before the league starts, the way the refs get assigned their games is a joke, player of the year trophy is a debacle, they couldn't even organize someone to go present Caversham the SPL trophy on the weekend. What chance does this new SU coach have when he's being looked after by a pack of donkeys? Player's are even less likely to want to play under the new regime than the last. The guys being thrown to the sharks..