I think it was always going to be a concern with the signing of a certain player.

Looks like revenge was finnaly had.

Big mistake Mr Marino. You had most of Adelaide behind you.

Better start thinking of moving the lightning to Port Lincoln sooner than later!

You don't reckon two assistants, a former assistant and a since-inception-of-club manager leaving is some form of protest?

Yeah it is but what about the girls in the team how would they feel about in an empty stadium. They have had no say in this and its there fault. If the public want to have a say email the club but support te girls.

Marino owns the team. He isn't going anywhere

Mr Marino, as a supporter who read The Advertiser today I thought this was a terrible way to handle your business and bring the club into disrepute. Surely you have standards and respect for people as individuals to not treat them this way.

You could have handled the manner much better. What you need to remember is that this is a Club not strictly a business and Clubs are built on Friendships, Respect, Loyalty, Hardwork, Passion, Pride and dedication.

Mr Marino, try to fit in with the Club and its culture and not expect everyone to understand and adopt your low standards.

Well no surpise really,when a parent is in charge of a club and his child is brought to the club what did we really think was going to happen?

All parents should bud out and let the coaching staff do there jobs and just be in the background giving support when needed.

The person concerned is not in the best 7 at the lighting so you have to earn what court time you get,the same as any other district team or sport..

Private owners get to make decisions. Whether we agree with them or not, it is not our money that is being spent to run the team.

Coaches get sacked for many reasons. So long as they win and make more money , why does anybody care?

Works, I think the Adelaide public would disagree. Technically owners own the team but sporting teams require the support of the public. They have rocks in their head if they don't make decisions that instill confidence in the program with the public. The public are stakeholders in the lightning as paying customers. It would dissapointing if the Marino's were to destroy our only Adelaide WNBL programs

with all this nepotism,....you would think Sturt are managing the Lighning!

(#153227) Is that you Vince, or perhaps Angela? Move your team all the way to Perth for all I care. While you are in charge of the team my family will never pay money to line your pockets again.

Me thinks it will be hard to even give away tickets next year.

If you boycot we wont have a team, is that better than havin a shitty owner?

l went to the game last week Angela played like a div 2 player no direction and trying to pass over 6'4 people if l was chris she wont have got back on the court after half time.
No way should she start after that last effort l support you Chris good on you standing your ground.

Vince Marino does deserve plaudits for rescuing the Lightning from the abyss. But at the same time, he's employed a coach - coaching is their job, not his. If Vince wishes to coach, he can appoint himself to that job if he wants.

Allow me this hypothetical:

Vince buys a team, keeps the existing people on the payroll, buys in some imports, and assembles an overall organisation that when it clicks will really shake things up and possibly go all the way!

People start to get excited, crowds increase, interest grows.

Now just imagine for a minute that he hadn't bought the Lightning, but had bought our beloved Sixers instead - would you all feel the same way then? I would certainly not be happy with him blowing a great chance at a championship just because he has a disagreement with an otherwise successful coach.

Adelaide would not stand for it!

So why should we now?

Sounds to me that he bought a club for the purpose of promoting his little girl. How else would a player of Angela's calibre get the recognition her father wants for her if he didn't own the club. Obviously hurting people along the way doesn't matter. Its not as simple as not buying his electrical products to hurt him financially. The products of this asset are humans who are the top in their field and have worked hard to get to where they are. They represent a sport at an elite level. A level that juniors aspire to. The players represent a dream for juniors to follow. Who is to say that Marino brought back to life a dying club if he hadn't have bought it. Is everyone certain that there were no other interested parties. He didn't exactly pay a huge price for it. If he bought this team for all the wrong reasons, then it would have been better that he didn't buy it all regardless of the consequences.

Pity he did not own the 6ers particularly after last night

Angela has played olympics, was one of the top point guards there, has also played at canberra with lauren jackson and recently in perth. She already has recognition.

And there were no other buyers, thats it, if someone did want to buy a club making a financial loss, they had plenty of time to do it BEFORE Vince bought the club, it wasnt exactly snatched up quickly was it?

And I would support vince if he thought Phil smyth had to go to, because I think he does. Worst record last year, has a history of signing injured players to the roster and keeping them. It cant go on or the sixers wont be successful. why couldnt he have signed kirk penny? or Pero Vasiljevic who is possibly the best dunker in the league when he played? or get Joe Ingles, Brad Newley, he couldnt keep oscar and jacob, 4 quality players who are stars now and who would have made adelaide a championship contender.

If someone thinks we should boycott link lightning, what an ass. Its a business that employs people who have jobs. not to mention they provide an invaluable service too. Its been two days and you've changed you mind? why would that be? perhaps its just a stupid idea??

Change the team name to Marino Sharks, because he has created a red ocean of blood with everyone.

I love my bball, when was the last time you paid for a ticket to go and see GMH production line workers on the job? Its just a business that employes people who have jobs hey?