2021 Cadbury Netball Series – NZ v Eng (Sept)

@ian, that’s an interesting stat thank you

Jinxibo – re defence. If Sulu isn’t fit I’d pull in Burley to play. She can cover GK/GD well. Communication down that defence end is really key but imo it needs to come from GK – Watson and Sulu are both huge at communicating with their partners, Jury not so/so much.

I’d also wondered about England remaining here for the Cadbury series if the Australian games cant go ahead.

Also reading on Stuff that the Ferns have rooms in MIQ hotels booked for the end of January, “should they need to return after travelling overseas to play prior to the ANZ Premiership, which will start in March.”

Re Sulu – I imagine its going to be hard if she is going to play and has to stay down south or out of Auckland. She has two children – 7 or 8 years and her partner has two of the same age which are often under their care.

@McLeod, Kayla is at their property in Maungawhai which I understand is Level 2 so she could fly out of Whangarei and not have to even enter us at Level 3. Tem, I don’t know where she is currently but likely back in Auckland too.
But also the injuries that Crampton and Metaurau are carrying are normally 3-6 week fixes.
Four of the nine development squad are based in Auckland.

This next series is a really good chance for both the Ferns bench and the development squad who are not Auckland based to show their stuff. I hope some of them make the most of it. I’m not sure at this stage how they are going to even field a NZA and U21 team given the numbers who potentially will be stuck in Auckland.

I seriously can’t see us going down to Level 2 within the next two weeks – too many unlinked/unconfessed cases up here still and so many people with no idea as to what is going on and what they should be doing.