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Speaker 1: Well, I wonder how those netball players who complained about

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Speaker 1: Dame Nole leanfield today, because what they've done is probably,

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Speaker 1: let's be honest, end her career and also brought out

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Speaker 1: a swell of support that I can't imagine that they foresaw.

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Speaker 1: Silver Fern's legend Laura Langman's gone on social media called

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Speaker 1: this the saddest day in New Zealand netbull history. Gordon Titchens,

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Speaker 1: the sevens rugby legend, called us at News Talk ZB

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Speaker 1: to convey his support for Dame Knowles. Former coach Vonn

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Speaker 1: Willering says Noles is not old school at all and

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Speaker 1: she does listen to her players. Now, the details of

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Speaker 1: what has happened to get to this point are fairly sketchy.

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Speaker 1: Everybody's trying to keep things quiet. But what we know

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Speaker 1: is that two players complained on behalf of a group

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Speaker 1: of players and that sparked a review, and that review

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Speaker 1: has led to her being stood down. And what these

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Speaker 1: players have complained about is her communication style and that

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Speaker 1: they were psychologically unsafe. Now you can probably figure out

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Speaker 1: what's going on here, can't you. We've got a generational problem,

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Speaker 1: don't we. This looks to me like a generation of

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Speaker 1: young players who don't like tough feedback and hard words.

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Speaker 1: For whatever reason that is, I don't know. Maybe because

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Speaker 1: they are the generation raised through gentle parenting techniques where

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Speaker 1: mum and dad didn't want to have to say no

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Speaker 1: to them, so didn't say no to them, didn't want

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Speaker 1: to tell them they've been bad kids and being naughty.

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Speaker 1: And maybe they're the generation that came through the education system,

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Speaker 1: the current one where everyone gets a pass and no

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Speaker 1: one experiences failure. They are the ones who've gone and

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Speaker 1: complained because they're psychologically unsafe, to which I think most

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Speaker 1: of us who've experienced a little bit of life and

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Speaker 1: didn't go through this nonsense with parenting and schooling, would say,

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Speaker 1: do you know what you need to do. You need

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Speaker 1: to grow up, you need to get hard. Life is tough.

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Speaker 1: You're an elite athlete. If your welfare is getting in

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Speaker 1: the way of your excellence, get out of the squad. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: for us, the person who is out of the squad

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Speaker 1: is someone who understands excellence and has actually achieved a

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Speaker 1: hell of a lot of excellence, and unfortunately she will

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Speaker 1: probably stay out of the squad even though she's only

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Speaker 1: been stood down at the moment. I mean, think about it,

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Speaker 1: I can't see her coming back in if they have

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Speaker 1: to pick between one coach and several players, They're going

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Speaker 1: to choose the several players, aren't they. And frankly, I

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Speaker 1: don't think that Dame Knowles should want to come back

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Speaker 1: because if her excellence and her skills aren't appreciated by

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Speaker 1: this generation of players, why bother. For more from Heather

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