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in reply to: Silver Ferns squad 2022/23 #1349960
I agree KwKiwi.
Dunn would be in my team, along with Meels, Tiana and Grace.
Time to blood these young ones and give them the experience with Meels so that they can take over the reigns once she departs.
Wilson is too inconsistent for my liking and whilst TPSR had a great Comm Games I believe it’s time to look to the future.in reply to: 2021 ANZP ROUND 12 #1327883Watching Magic v Steel and anyone who thinks the Magic feed Bassett well are kidding themselves.
The amount of times Bassett is free on the 1st and 2nd second and yet there is no vision into her at all is soooo frustrating to watch. Sinclair in particular is so tunnel visioned on only looking to the front GA for a close pass fails to see the hold Bassett has on for an easy lob to the post!
Kara is much better but even still at times her vision into that circle is not what it should be.
Surely Metcalf should be able to coach this vision into the players considering she was a middie herself? hmmmmDon’t get me wrong, Bassetts hands aren’t always the safest but until she starts fumbling the ball at least put it into her at the post! B-)
in reply to: 2021 ANZP ROUND 10 #1326862CBass can still dominte…. the issue is feeders don’t give her the ball soon enough.
She is open for the feed all the time but the vision and quality of feed going into her is sub par.
I expected Grace to be great at this but have even found at times that she doesn’t look in and give it to CBass.This was the same issue CBass faced at Giants. She was often free but the ball wasn’t given to her….Perhaps coz Giants don’t have a natural WA.
She also needs a play making GA out in front of her who would set her up…. like a Steph Wood or a Georgie Horjus.
There os a reason why CBass dominated with Medhurst out in front.in reply to: 2021 SSN ROUND 2 #1323359In response to your comment al_ex regarding Honey over Mundy….. as a WA specialist myself I would take Mundy every day of the week. She has much better timing and vision and finesse on the feeds than Honey. Honey is a great athlete but doesn’t appear to have the court craft and netball brain that Mundy has. Honey has also been in the Vixens’ environment for a number of years and hasn’t set the world on fire so I fully support Simone’s decision to develop Mundy.
Mundy has a lot more upside :good: :yahoo:in reply to: 2021 SSN ROUND 2 #1323357Just wanted to touch on your comment about Mundy only having 7 GAs for the game. You have to remember that if the shooter is contacted or offloads to the other shooter, then even though the player fed the ball to the shooter they don’t get credited with a GA. The stats show that Mundy and Moloney shared the feeding (Mundy 22, Moloney 24) and the shooters also did a lot of shooter to shooter passes in this game (Mweai 7, Ruby 12, Stanton 3).
in reply to: 2021 SSN ROUND 1 #1322996Exactly my point Alex. They are trying to save money by not keeping the more experienced players they let go.
in reply to: 2021 SSN ROUND 1 #1322990My gut tells me the TBirds recruitment decisions have been based on money rather than playing ability.
Such a shame coz they were headed in the right direction last season đThere are growing concerns about instability at netballâs highest levels ahead of a crucial series of negotiations that will define the sportâs future.
Netball Australia chief executive Marne Fechner and Super Netball chief executive Chris Symington both resigned in the space of seven days earlier in November.
The Weekend Australian understands that Symingtonâs role will not be filled, with Netball Australia bringing leadership of the league back in-house. There are also hard questions being asked about the future of Super Netballâs independent commission, chaired by Marina Go. That commission is barely a year old.Administrators, players and coaches are all extremely concerned about the sense that the sport is going backwards at the worst possible time.
Multiple senior figures described the current situation as a fire sale. There are more significant staffing cuts expected at Netball Australia in December.
When asked, Netball Australia insisted the Super Netball commission had a rock-solid future, and that other staffing changes were simply a reflection of the same constraints hitting all sports this year.
Netball Australia has no major commercial, broadcast, or player deals struck beyond 2021, and had hoped to pin down much of that framework over the coming summer. But delays forced by COVID make it unlikely that any new agreements will be struck before the start of the next Super Netball season.
The process of negotiating those new deals will be led by interim Netball Australia chief executive Ron Steiner, until a new boss is hired later in 2021.
The most crucial piece of the puzzle is a new broadcast agreement, with clubs hoping for a substantial improvement on the current deal that has been in place since 2017.
That deal, struck with the Nine Network and Telstra, provides netball with no guaranteed cash flow. Instead, profits from sponsorship and advertising revenue are split between the broadcasters and the sport.
This structure was viewed as revolutionary when announced. It has delivered substantial commercial growth and a long-coveted place on a free-to-air networkâs main channel, but that has come at a heavy cost.
While Netball Australia has handed every club an annual grant to cover a substantial portion of player wages, teams are still required to cover much of the remaining overheads, including stadium hire fees.
No Super Netball team is turning a profit. Some have lost close to $1m a season, with most bleeding at least half that rate.
While some supporters of the Super Netball structure insist that it was never going to be profitable after a handful of years, there is now a broad acknowledgment that the leagueâs commercial trajectory has fallen short of expectations.
âThis is new. Suncorp Super Netball and moving away from the ANZ Championship, there was lots that we learned from that experience in terms of expectations of growth, and where we pitch this,â Fechner said.
Netball Victoria chief executive Rosie King described the targets set for broadcast audiences as aspirational.
âThis joint venture (with Nine) was considered to be very innovative at the time, with the profit share piece. We said at the time that, look, itâs really only going to be innovative if it works. And thereâs been no money back to the teams.â
Six of the leagueâs eight teams are run by state netball organisations, underpinned by a large pool of association fees and money collected from the sportâs grassroots.
That has created a dynamic whereby the losses of netballâs elite competition, developed as a commercial product, are being propped up by money drawn from local clubs.
âAs a member organisation, when we look at our grassroots community, weâve effectively taken out $1m a year from investing back into the community. And you can bet your bottom dollar that there would be some in the community who would say, âI would much rather that money come back into our developmentâ,â said King.
Super Netball is now stuck in an awkward phase. It has grown far beyond the footprint that the previous ANZ Championship held in Australiaâs sporting landscape, but has not reached a scale required to attract the kind of sponsorship and commercial revenue that could balance the books.
The multitude of decisions facing the league now largely boil down to one big call: having fallen short of ambitious aspirations, is it time to recalibrate and pursue a more conservative approach? Or is it time to back in the model with the confidence that a better-resourced Super Netball could break through to a new level?
âSuper Netball hit with a blast, itâs plateaued, and now we need to go again,â outgoing Netball NSW boss Carolyn Campbell said.
Campbell said she was hopeful a restructured deal could deliver positive growth, but it was vital to turn Super Netball into a stronger commercial asset.
Netball Australia is also clearly committed to a continued push for growth.
âWeâre not going to want to go backwards,â Symington says. âSo thereâs obviously a commitment from Netball Australia and Suncorp Super Netball to make sure that this remains the best competition in the world. We need to be smart about how we do that.â
There is a deeper fight in the background of these discussions, around the scope for ambition in a cash-strapped game. Leaders at the national and state level have pushed hard to keep netball at the forefront of an increasingly competitive womenâs sporting landscape. Their stated aim is for Super Netball to be the worldâs best womenâs competition, and for netballers to be the best-paid female athletes in Australia.
Rosie King emphasised the importance of those high-profile players for the sportâs future.
âThe next (collective playerâs agreement) has been held off until we get the broadcast deal done. So we need the broadcast deal to be better, so that we can pay the players more.
âOtherwise what will happen is that the profile of the netball athlete being well remunerated will be a thing of the past, we will be an also-ran.â
But others inside the sport say this is exactly the kind of wishful thinking that has left the league bleeding money, and netball needs to come to terms with the fact that it canât compete financially with larger Australian sports.
One possible circuit breaker in this debate is privatisation, a major topic of conversation this year. Private investment in teams, or the league itself, could deliver a much-needed shot in the arm and remove that financial burden currently placed on the sportâs grassroots.
Symington and Fechner said it was too early to know if privatisation was a good fit for netball, but would not rule it out.
Any pitch to private equity could be complicated by Collingwoodâs calamitous entry into netball. The financial losses suffered by the Magpies are among the highest in the league, and the team has constantly struggled for success on the court despite a cavalcade of high-profile signings.
It could be difficult to drum up more investment in Super Netball as persistent doubts hang over the future of the competitionâs largest private partner.
As one senior administrator explained, no one has to walk into an Australian boardroom and convince them of the value of cricket, or rugby league. But netball leaders feel like they are constantly having to sell the game to their own partners.
Teams had no say in the previous round of negotiations, and are frustrated that they have no insight into the plan for the upcoming deal.
Netball Australia is currently completing a major state-of-the-game review, led by former Diamond Liz Ellis.in reply to: SSN 2021 signings/rumours #1317610Great to see all signings are locked in!
Don’t know anything about Latanya Wilson but I would think Tania Obst knows a bit about her having coached against her at the WYC. She could be another exciting defender like Jodi-Anne Ward.
As for the young local talent who have missed out (Orr, Allen, Blackman, Honey…the list goes on), at the end of the day this is a professional league and not a league to develop young talent. Some of these young players were given opportunities to train/play in the professional environments this year (and last) and obviously haven’t shown enough yet to warrant a contract for next year. Hopefully they will get TP roles at clubs to continue their development.
NB: I’m a real fan of Nyah Allen and was hoping Vixens would sign her instead of Stanton but obviously Vixens decided they needed experience in that end of the court.
Looking forward to a shorter pre-season and an earlier start to the 2021 season! :yahoo:
in reply to: Caitlin Bassett makes her decision #1314765Thought I would add my two cents worth….
I totally respect that there are 2 sides to every story, however I am strongly inclined to believe the CBass version is closer to the truth.
Anyone who has been around netball in NSW knows that Julie Fitzgerald has a reputation for playing favourites.
I am close with several people who have experienced this first-hand throughout their playing careers. They were treated with a total lack of respect and they are some of the most easy-going, hard-working players you would ever meet (no attitude or expectation of court time).It’s time for NSW to move Julie along and bring in the next Briony :bye:
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in reply to: SSN 2021 signings/rumours #1313045I’m not surprised by this at all. I think Pitman is very overrated and has a very high turnover count and has been like this for a number of years. I will say, she has been better this year, but there has still been several games this year where I have wanted to see her replaced due to her high turnover count.
Just putting it out there but I have a strong feeling that Maddy Proud might be returning home. It would be a very smart move for both parties as it means Maddy wouldn’t be fighting for court time like she does at Swifts, and Thunderbirds get a fantastic player and leader back in the midcourt…… fingers crossed!
in reply to: Thoughts on a possible Australian team #1312473I too think Hadley is overrated at test level.
She is one of those players who is very good at National level but it doesn’t translate on the international stage.Charles could be a smokey for the squad as she has been in great form this year and last and obviously has the connection with the coach.
in reply to: Thoughts on a possible Australian team #1312434Ian, I agree with you re: Proud. She has been getting better and better and is a great attacking C option plus provides great cover at WA
in reply to: Thoughts on a possible Australian team #1312433We must be watching an entirely different Jo Weston’s. The Jo Weston I have watched this year has only had 2 decent games. The rest of the time she has been very ineffective and I am fairly confident that’s the reason Simone has moved Eddy into the circle. Lol …. each to their own
I’d actually have Klau ahead of Weston based on form throughout the season. Klau has just been let down by a lack of defensive assistance from WD and sometimes GD.in reply to: Thoughts on a possible Australian team #1312408Interesting discussion
Gotta say I am quite shocked with Weston being unanimous. I think she has been very average for the majority of the season. Eddy has been far supreme when she has shifted to GD.
Based on form I would have Jenner at GD.
As for the rest of my team if it’s based purely on form this season…GS Koenan (unless Thwaites makes herself available)
GA Austin (Wood very close now that she is coming back into form)
WA Watson
C JLP (I’m a Vixens fan but just get very frustrated with Moloney’s lack of finesse and confidence on the feed) (Maddy Proud is close for me too)
WD Eddy (Parmenter for impact to win the ball)
GD Jenner
GK Bruce (gets in by a whisker ahead of Mannix as I just feel she has more of a presence on court)Subs
Bassett (if thwaites isn’t available)
Wood
Moloney/Proud (depending on how the play in finals)
Parmenter
MannixWeston misses out as Eddy can slide between all 3 defensive positions.
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