Glad to see Bassett in the squad. She definitely didn’t have a good season overall, but I don’t think that was entirely her fault – was very frustrating watching Magic games where she had a good hold and the ball wouldn’t go in to her. She also dominated over Burger and Watson in the Magic’s last game against the Tactix. Plus, I just don’t like the idea of the former captain being dropped without a word. She also has valuable experience as a Diamond, but also as someone playing against NZ defenders all season.
Will be very interested to see who makes the actual team selection, because I agree there are a quite a few players who could have been dropped – Moloney, Anstiss, Charles, Jenner.
Development squad – agree about the omissions of Fraser and Wallam. Not including Wallam is especially baffling – she’s the only strong dominant type goal shooter in development (ie not in the Diamonds squad), and offers a very different option to every other primarily GA shooter in the development squad. She was incredibly impressive in the UK league.
