Fred- you are right, I should have said i know of one gadol. I wrote gedolim because i wasnt really thinking about it that much and it is also obvious to me that this is something any gadol would say is assur. And nobody has contradicted my assertion on that matter.
People are being really childish and sneaky about this. Basically everyone here knows kiddush clubs (again as I define them, which is really the only way) are wrong, and that any gadol knows its wrong, but we are just going to focus on the fact that we do not have firsthand knowledge of a gadol specifically telling us we cant do this, so we will just ignore what we already know ourselves and what everyone knows the gedolim know themselves and focus on a silly issue as to whether or not we heard it from someone else.