This one's a can o worms and too big to tackle for an organisation like Mainland as it is currently set up. The legal framework for most clubs has been charitable trust status - in order to apply for gaming machine funding. You can't run a (semi) professional league on the basis of that - it's soft money and in decline. If you want to move to semi-pro (with strict - audited- financial and other criteria); clubs need hard cash - and unless you know a philanthropist with a russian or arabic name who is in the oil game, that means corporate $; which i can tell you from personal experience at a much higher level than MPL clubs, is a very hard game in this little old town (and more so since EQ). Are clubs going to be pushing for that? Some might be talking the talk, but they are dreaming.
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Posted April 03, 2011 21:27 · last edited March 18, 2021 06:10
This one's a can o worms and too big to tackle for an organisation like Mainland as it is currently set up. The legal framework for most clubs has been charitable trust status - in order to apply for gaming machine funding. You can't run a (semi) professional league on the basis of that - it's soft money and in decline. If you want to move to semi-pro (with strict - audited- financial and other criteria); clubs need hard cash - and unless you know a philanthropist with a russian or arabic name who is in the oil game, that means corporate $; which i can tell you from personal experience at a much higher level than MPL clubs, is a very hard game in this little old town (and more so since EQ). Are clubs going to be pushing for that? Some might be talking the talk, but they are dreaming.