The common situation of people wanting the cake and eating it.
If you maintain a sugar daddy to keep yourself in existence then your very much only a club. If you have aspirations of being self sufficient unreliant on charity, then your a club within a business.
As for this statement "As do those who feel the rugby side of things needs to create an improved culture to help player retention." Our 'retention issues' have been players going elsewhere for wads of cash, love lives or our decision. Given the amount of signs and resigns, to call this an issue is just a soundbite ignoring the facts.