Very well said.. Is it time that clubs got together to remove the CEO? seriously enough is enough.. and not just over the lightning

There's plenty of stickers advising to join the lightning surge to help power up the lightning. How that's helping I don't know. Can't envisage it happening. Most other rosters would be well under way to filling and even a cheap development team of those left development would still lose plenty $.

bleating?

He's actually making a lot of sense.

BSA's track record is far from enviable, the CEO's even less so.

All avenues need to be explored and discussed, BSA's involvement may well be poison.

If an alternate plan ensures the survival of an Adelaide team, to hell with the current setup.

I think Boti's emphasis is on the overusing imperative need for a team however achieved. While some commercial decisions seemed clearly dubious and costly (staging games at Arena, Whyalla, paying overs for dud imports), they provided a profile and a path and achieved SA's desires. Better choices may reduce the expenses but it appears B SA remains reluctant to risk potential I going losses no matter what the public wants. Hence something more radical should be thrown up for attention and contemplation.

Overriding not overusing

funny how the govt crucified BSA because they had put a few $ in to support some of our states national sporting teams. yet the same mob threw hundreds of millions into an oval that we didn't need and we all had to think it was wonderful.

Agree. And govermmemt money went into the Entertainment Centre and Netball centre after their dithering had forced commitment to the Arena, millions into Football Park and > $10M to developing buses & route servicing it. And in the Adelaide Oval bailout $85M SACA debt wiped yet SACA still reaps major benefit. Do we need a basketballing politician?

So there's no official news then on whether a team will happen....just a few rumours???

Someone asks for a basketball politican, another complains about a basketball journalist (with an especial interest via children who play). We want more of both.

Jeremy Moule mentioned at the Braves game over an impromptu interview with the court announcer that he was in the process of moving to Melbourne.

Right.......so he is obviously not coaching then. I wish there was some news. I signed up to the Lightning Surge thing, but apart from one email asking people if they knew anyone who wanted to sponsor the team, there's been nothing. They've known since July that they needed to do something, it's crazy!!!

It is official there will be no Adelaide Lightning team in the 2015/16 as the haven't came up with a sponsor and haven't came up with the money. It was in the Advertiser this morning.

Saw that this morning to, they where never going to get a sponsor when they finished on the bottom of the ladder for the last two season and no one will watched them. This is very disappointing for the Adelaide Lighting, but saw this coming a while ago.

Is the article online anywhere???

I wish they would just sort it out - one way or the other!

We all know that they won't have team in the wnbl. By now there would be some news what is going on by the club, that means they haven't find anyone to help them out. They started Lightning Surge to get them out of trouble and to find a sponsor from July and it hasn't observably work out. Adelaide Lighting just tell you won't have team, don't be SCARED.

Email just out - they need further combinations of support of $20,000 or more totalling another $150,000 by 15th May.

Yes I saw that email....it's not looking good.

Alex Bunton signed with the Rangers.

abctvnews ran the story..150k needed by 15may...hubbard thinks a Uni partner is the way to go.....stirling thinks there will be a twam with an import.some u18s and a good coach.....................................borrego is an aussie

first thing we need to stop thinking about is big $ / big name imports.

hopefully hodges and marino will be available.

we have some fantastic junior talent coming through.

It will have to get back to playing for the singlet / love of the sport - not just show me the money because clearly there isn't any.

Alright - so they won't keep up with the Townsville and SE Q teams - but so be it - get back to basics if we are to have a national league.

Doubt Marino will stick around now. Also, would Lightning want her??

just rebuilding - not dying

Wow, so sad that no-one is prepared to invest in women's sport. And very sad that Basketball SA have left it so late to organise anything that all the players have left (and who can blame them?). It's looking more and more like there will not be a team at all.

Nobody really knows - if you are dinkum talk it up and not down so any potential investors can see involvement in something that the community wants and identifies with.

after a loss, lucas and ninnis decided to change the starting line up and start sam...marino was upset ,thinking they were blaming her for the loss.........been hard to market lightning since then...

good growth at sixers last 2 years...decline at lightning

has anyone taken it to the minister for sport in SA ? even just for comment ?

what about advocates for womens sport ?

the womens sport network page ?

at least we know the pandas got several million.....

but the future basketball options for our girls..... ?

I don't really like where this is likely to head up.

There appears to be a real lack of enthusiasm for the Lightning and a sense of urgency surrounding the team.

I know one of the things floated by a former member of the SOS was to have a Basketball SA levy to help fund the Sixers. With BSA having a large pyramid of players in their organisation, what would a $5/season/player levy raise? Could this meet the shortfall?

keep it in perspective - look at the moneys spent / costs involved for everything else in this world.

you would think that $150k could be found somewhere - what about 300 $500 sponsors with privileges / special offers.

Sadly I think the Lightining will go. They dont have a Bendat like figure in SA (who just bought out the WNBL WA teams license from WA and rebranded them the Lynx).

Its a shame yes, and its showing just how hard it is to fund a team nowadays.

I saw this on both the Channel 10 and Channel 9 news in Adelaide tonight.....a reasonably substantial story about the plight of Lightning. While I think it's just a TAD late in getting this kind of publicity, at least it is out there - hopefully someone new saw it and might be interested. The BAsketball SA guy did say they had put a submission forward that would go a long way towards the 150K, be interesting to know what that is.

BSA has shown a fairly obvious indifference to the future of one of the best female sporting franchises ever produced in Australia.

It's a stance that is markedly at odds with BA's objectives for its national women's league. So much so that the latest release has been counter-signed by Anthony Moore. A sure sign that the overdue 're-calibration' of BSA has commenced (so that they are as one with BA and the other State Associations in regard to a truly national women's league).

Boti has recently reiterated that it is well within BSA's financial capacity to meet the deadline and immediately fund the Lightning for the upcoming season. But my hunch is that identifying and then implementing the right management model for a South Australian WNBL team will be the sticking point that prevents an SA team from participating in the 2015-16 season.

Previous negative outcomes from funding elite programs and the need for fiscal responsibility shouldn't be seen as stumbling blocks. No-one seriously believes that BSA should take sole financial responsibility for the program. That cannot work.

Surely however, they do have chief responsibility for devising or endorsing a solution and instituting a management model that can work?

I don't believe for a moment that BSA would be happy with a situation that envisages a player getting all their junior coaching in SA but in order for that player to reach WNBL level they have to play somewhere else in Australia.

I heard on the radio today in a news story that the government are unlikely to put any money into Lightning at all.

Would like to hear the opposition sports ministers thoughts on the matter then. And any ministers for women's empowerment.

Yes it would be interesting.

Lightning has certainly got a lot of air time in the last few days on TV and radio.....more than the entire season last year!

Sport's Minister's quote from Boti's article today

"Mr Bignell said the Government was looking after grassroots and facilities, while corporate SA got behind top-tier sporting clubs."

I needed a laugh today after Port losing yesterday

govt was heavily involved in adel oval redevelopment - whilst we play in 60 year old sheds

How much money did cricket bring to the Adelaide Oval development? Netball to the netball centre?

visiting teams use accommodation and travel - international teams will visit and accommodation / travel.

Media exposure brings fans to finals (i.e. interstate visitors) brings talent into the state.

whatever way you coat it - losing the lightning is a loss to the state - not just basketball.

excellent level of exposure in today's advertiser !

stop typing rubbish.. $200k??

at least base an argument on realistic figures

you'll also find most of the tin sheds are actually NOT owned by the Clubs

they're leased by BSA and sub-let to the Clubs

but then why base hysteria on fact?

hopefully some phone calls / emails have come in after today's advertiser story

don't compare cricket's return for money spent to basketball - look at %s of the community playing basketball and crowds vrs other sports and the moneys they receive in govt / corporate support.

Think you will find a large amount of basketballers across the community.

Adelaide Lighting's WNBL future has been secured after $150,000 shortfall covered

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/basketball/adelaide-lightings-wnbl-future-has-been-secured-after-150000-shortfall-covered/story-fnii09ki-1227364886051