By your calculations? Croydon almost folded?It's obvious you don't know what goes on behind the scenes as your next lot of examples have let you with egg on your face once again. Croydon tried and spent $$$$ to keep up with the likes of NP, Balwyn and Vermont and the nearly folded. They have done really well but once again are spending money they saved and are building up again and that is what Croydon do. Doncaster has one major person inputting huge dollars, when he gets bored pumping the dollars what then? Don't know enough about Doncaster East but they aint paying peanuts, they have a lot of sponsors but my calculations is the sponsors would not be bringing in that much money to cover their player payments. No club without an income stream can sustain current player payments.
You're just making up events and facts to suit your argument. Maybe we should worry about clubs like Carlton who survived recently on rich benefactors, just like Melbourne or half the A-League. You take what revenue you can get in a year and spend it on the team/club.
The fact is that if East Burwood are struggling so much, it's their own fault for promising more pay than they could cover. Their pride prevents them going into a season saying 'we're not going to compete with the top end, but we'll keep the club sustainable and perhaps get relegated' like most other clubs do in the same situation.
Blaming the league, the players, trying to change the rules etc. It's all nonsense and will never work. Sure the points system might be enforceable more than a salary cap, but it will just create another layer of complexity, the overall payments will remain the same. Those sides that have good revenue streams (and it doesn't matter if it's a rich benefactor, pokies or lots of supporters) will still have coin to spend on good players and EB will still be competing against them.
Renegging on player payments mid-season will make it a lot harder to recruit players than being relegated to third division