I may sound like a stick-up-the-arse scold for this, but one of my principles is that there's no such thing as a free lunch. A free lunch is precisely what the shamateur top-clubs are getting by using trust monies to pay players (and possibly WPFC are doing the same thing with their academy, as Liam Hyslop revealed, but that's outside the current terms of discussion). This is neither honest nor sustainable - especially if, as it appears, there is a lack of top Kiwi players pushing on to real professional football because the shamateur levels are doing very well for them.
I may sound like a stick-up-the-arse scold for this, but one of my principles is that there's no such thing as a free lunch. A free lunch is precisely what the shamateur top-clubs are getting by using trust monies to pay players (and possibly WPFC are doing the same thing with their academic, as Liam Hyslop revealed, but that's outside the current terms of discussion). This is neither honest nor sustainable - especially if, as it appears, there is a lack of top Kiwi players pushing on to real professional football because the shamateur levels are doing very well for them.