"This article runs to the core problem of the pokie clubs I.e. poor management.

This is the case with many NSW based pokie clubs."

"Do we really care if more Poker Machine venues go to the wall?

Look at their employment structures at RSL's many of them only employ friends of management anyhow, they do very little in real terms for the community, updating premises for instance and declaring this as funds given back to the community etc, I will really cry every time I see another RSL Pokie Palace close (Not).

My Father fought for this country and would turn in his grave if he saw the way so called organisations that are supposed to help Returned Servicemen are ripping off the Addicted and yet doing very little to return services to the needy, just lining their coffers and employing their mates."

"The RSL's staff just don't work the same as the staff in Hotels, if this sort of attitude continues in the RSL's they are doomed. management must take the blame for a lot of what is going on, my brother tells me they have so many shortages in the cash and stock it's not funny, and the management just laugh it off........Then again , if you have someone in St Kilda that is prepared to keep bailing you out, why worry....?"