2025 SUNCORP SUPER NETBALL

maisie resigned

If I was tbirds I would have gone with someone like Annie Miller instead of Graham but I guess they see her as a long term prospect. Interesting they went with her instead of Nyah Allen whose already got ssn experience

I’m very sad for Allen, hopefully when Aiken retires she’ll get her shot!

I think graham works better with Lucy and they are thinking longterm.

I can understand Fever’s strategy- they won the premiership with 4 shooters (2 playing WA/GA), 2 mids, and 4 defenders (2 playing WD/GD). Beckford and ATN would be the WA/GA slides in this case. Only concern is that Sunday is the only real WD out of the defenders, but I suppose Ruth would like to become a 3-position threat. There’s still plenty of cover with Anstiss and Cransberg to cover WD.

Tbirds is a much more confusing case- I can only assume they’re planning to really activate the 11th player. Horjus needs to be playing GA for her Diamonds chances (not that it should be Tbirds priority)- that means at some point there will be 3 shooters on the bench. I don’t want to see her become a one-position player.

Is Romelda going to spend time in GK behind Shamera and Latty? Highly doubt it but I suppose it’s an option?

I think Swifts will be fine- Lambden and Smith are serviceable in C, and Whyte or LGB can come in as the 11th if they need more attack firepower.

NYR1994 I hope Firebirds are better. I think it will depend on whether defence is better. They swapped a dominant shooter for a dominant shooter and will have better mid court options given Rav was out injured or playing limited time for much of the season.

Swifts should be a lot better but I think they still have issues for the next 2 seasons with so many underperforming players signed until after the 2026 season.

It’s hard to know if Fever will be better. I think they have problems if ATN is injured or when she is shut down by WD. GA is still an issue.

Mavs – hard to know. I think letting Sinclair go is a mistake but they do need Jok. I would have liked to see them go with 4 shooters, drop Nankerville and have a young centre court player as their 11th. Could have trained Sinclair as a back up WA as Fraser can play all 3 centre court positions.

I hope having more time together as a team will help Vixens (without so many injuries 🤞🏻).

Lightning should do better next year with the experience gained this year by the younger players.

Giants 👎🏼

Tbirds – who knows. It’s a surprising move to have so many shooters when Horjus is the go to back up GA. Hard to doubt Tania Obst though.

@StatsNerd21 I highly doubt they’d be wanting to use RAG at GK. They have the best GK in the world. Tbirds NEED Romelda at GS, if they are to have a shot at the title next year. She’s the main reason they won it this year. You take her out, I would have them at the bottom 3.

Re Fever: I think having Ruth there, it’s almost like they’ll have a Sunday in both positions (WD/GD). I do feel Kelsey Browne will be missed. She’s the change up in attack they needed. I don’t know if they have a player that can offer that same uniqueness?

It took me a moment to process reading “Maisie resigned” on this thread. Then I remembered the purpose of this thread and realised that she had re-signed. Ah the English language.

It is really disappointing that Wallam, Palavi and Sinclair don’t have contracts. I guess this is the downside of having so many players on multi year deals and sides of 10.

While Nweke is a massive pick up for the Swifts, I think they have a very strange roster. Light in the midcourt and a defence end that hasn’t performed recently. Perhaps the international season might be a good circuit breaker for some of the team?

Like everyone, I’m absolutely gobsmacked by the Giants.