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Speaker 1: All. Most stories need a hero, and Gail Parata might

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Speaker 1: fit the role in this particular netball mess or is

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Speaker 1: it now a scandal? Gail Parat has resigned as a

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Speaker 1: national netball selector, and in doing so has gone out

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Speaker 1: guns blazing. Because of that has given the rest of

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Speaker 1: us a decent insight into what a shambles the Nolding

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Speaker 1: two story really is. This thing is now weeks old,

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Speaker 1: and when we say weeks old, weeks since she got

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Speaker 1: stood down. The story the incidents, the genesis goes back,

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Speaker 1: apparently to a camp in summer. Taru's treatment, writes Parata

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Speaker 1: on social media, sends a chilling message to every coach

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Speaker 1: in the country. The coaching profession's voice has been sidelined.

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Speaker 1: Even the most successful world class coaches are now dispensable.

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Speaker 1: The very essence of coaching relationships, trust and lived experience

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Speaker 1: no longer seems to hold weight with those making decisions.

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Speaker 1: She's on a role at this point. God bless her

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Speaker 1: who she asks would step into a role now knowing

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Speaker 1: that one complaint, one misinterpretation, or one moment taken out

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Speaker 1: of context could end your career. Now, the value of this,

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Speaker 1: quite apart from the fact that It's the first time,

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Speaker 1: as far as I know, that we've heard from maid

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Speaker 1: so called third party is that the so called third

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Speaker 1: party seems to infer what we all suspect. This thing

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Speaker 1: got blown out of all proportion. This thing, whatever it is,

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Speaker 1: seems to involve some sort of upset, moaning, whining, fragile

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Speaker 1: ego related overreaction to an event at camp. In other words,

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Speaker 1: some players got a bit huffy over Nolean's approach. So

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Speaker 1: the big question for all New Zealand is just how

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Speaker 1: many casualties do you want? You've got star players publicly

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Speaker 1: calling you out and wanting their coach back, You've got

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Speaker 1: lawyers and six minute blocks charging god knows what, and

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Speaker 1: now a selector who clearly feels someone has to break

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Speaker 1: the silence and flush a few truths out. The damage

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Speaker 1: is to Nolean, to the sport, to the selection panel,

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Speaker 1: and to coaches generally, because the questions raised by Parata

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Speaker 1: are all excellent and, like all the other questions in

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Speaker 1: the Stinking Mess, require some answers. For more from The

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