If my aunt had bollocks she'd be my uncle mate.
There are many different components to the machine that gets to the top with financing being one of them.
I'd like to believe there is an inter-relationship and one that suggests that if you didn't make it, then something was fundamentally missing from the set up and I'm not just talking about finances.
If you are good enough, or have sufficient potential then you will attract the necessary funds if you have the right mentality on board to capitalize upon that marketability.
When assessing whether or not certain teams make it or not, we ain't just talking about playing ability here tho it is an extremely important factor.
You have to look upon modern day top team development as a business and as such multi-disciplined approaches have to be adopted and if you got people holding your team back thru lack of ambition or expertise then these must be jettisoned if you want to get to the top.
The 'team' necessarily has to be viewed as a sum total of its parts and because of this, the 'team' is therefore responsible for each of its own members and is unable to be distinguished from its own members.
Unless you have all the team (players and coach) on the same page, then trust me, you ain't going nowhere.
You have to have talent, commitment, vision, marketability and then finance will naturally follow .... if it doesn't then one of the previous factors was missing or defective.
Success obviously helps but is just one factor amid a series of others that are considered.
Understand that lot and then perhaps we can understand what it takes to get a team to the top in the modern game.
Bar room philosophies and practices don't cut it no more in pro paintball.
