BSA have a lot of other things - i. Maybe we need to accept the fact that - if we don't have the money it will all be local players and we will not keep up with the Dandenongs of the world. FYI Years ago. If the Lightning was successful in the early days they wouldn't have gone broke with BSA and the 36ers.
Adelaide have always had high budget teams, yes. They'll have to live a little more realistically now, assuming they do get to live on. Welcome to financial reality. BSA could have a development office at every club promoting girls sport and girls only competition in a regional competition.
And for those that argue that where do our elite players go Hodges, Landford and Marino will all go and play somewhere else next year and play.
The rest of the team are interstate players anyway. Before you add salaries. I know it ain't cheap. The obvious start is Adelaide Arena. Do a handful of spectators really need an 8, seat stadium? Seems nuts to be paying that much. And btw there is no shame in not keeping up with "the Dandenongs of the world".
They're blessed with an owner with way too much cash to throw around. Unless your club has that same luxury, trying to keep up with it is suicide. Something in the league rules probably needs to be done about that situation. It's great to have the Taylors and Pondexters of the world But if it gets to the stage where only one team can afford to have them, and even that one team can only do so by non sustainable means, then is it healthy? Dan No other court in Adelaide can seat more than about and cant be used for televised games.
Thw WNBL is really a great womens competition with some of the absolute best in the world playing here every season. It has ,more world class players than the NBL. But it is womens sport and attracts very small following and so even less financial backing.
We really do need to appreciate the money put in by the likes of Vince Marino who has his faults but has blown millions of his hard earnt money to keep a WNBL licence in SA. Obviously the players are paid too much.
Not because the don't work hard enough and not because their product in not good. Its just that the public are not buying it. But pay them less and the good ones won't be here.
How does a national womesn soccer league run? How did that ever get on TV? Only air conditioned stadium outside of the Adelaide Arena is at Gawler which is about an hour North of Adelaide and you'd be luckt to get 20 people turn up on a weekly basis. Getting some more people in the door is a priority. A good start would be getting the players with a bigger community profile i.
Wonder what the pandas are costing us nowadays? Lightning are playing in WHyalla in a few weeks. Whyala basketball association paying the cost of relocating everyone players and officials from Adelaide to Whyalla and return. Then the association tries to cover its costs with local sponsorship etc becasue its a one off special event. Whyalla's stadium had the floor replaced 2 years ago and has brand new air conditioning installed this month.
This concept can work where double headers not available. Regional centers don't have access to elete sport and the communities lap it up.
But like all businesses the WNBL clubs need to reduce costs. Only pay what they can afford. Live within their means. Why would the 36ers subsidize the lightning when they are struggling themselves financially? The costs would still be similar. Most of the players have daytime jobs because they don't get enough money to live off and the ones that do have international commitments and are only in town for 6 months. Join the conversation, you are commenting as Logout.
Chris Goulding has received numerous chances to make the NBA, so it was a no-brainer when the Golden State Warriors came calling to participate in a pre-season mini-camp. See the incredible numbers. Read Today's Paper Tributes. Website Twitter Facebook Instagram. Please contact me. Opinions on the straight-shooting year-old vary wildly, but without his support, huge financial commitment and love for the Lightning, Adelaide would long ago have ceased to boast a WNBL presence.
To me, Marino was a sharp contrast of personality traits, a no BS guy who shot from the hip - which is something I've always personally appreciated in my dealings with occasionally disingenuous sportspeople - but also one who hid his deep emotional attachment to his WNBL club. It may have been an emotional attachment which started as a desire to keep a semi-pro women's basketball team in Adelaide, then morphed into a conduit for his daughter Angela's career but in the sometimes bitter end, he came to fully understand what Lightning meant to South Australia.
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