Speaker 1: Fucking inside Net for getting you closer to the game
Speaker 1: you love with a Dean Wilson, Hannah Stanley and Jenny
Speaker 1: wood so By News Talks.
Speaker 2: That'd be Jett Koteau and welcome to it insay people,
Speaker 2: the full team prison and account for today to review
Speaker 2: round seven and chat with Mainland tactic shooter to Pious
Speaker 2: selby Rickett. But first World News, there's a bit floating
Speaker 2: around this week, Jen, you wanted more women supporting women?
Speaker 2: How about would be Goldberg's or Women's Sports Network agreeing
Speaker 2: to broadcast super NETFAK to more than sixty five countries
Speaker 2: over the next three years. I mean, she's answering you call.
Speaker 3: Well, that's right, she is. But then when I thought
Speaker 3: about it, I thought, okay, what was it? Sixty five countries?
Speaker 3: So do you really think that the women in those
Speaker 3: countries are going?
Speaker 4: I just wanted a bit more, a bit more detail.
Speaker 2: How do you want?
Speaker 3: You ask a lot a start? It is a start,
Speaker 3: It is a start, but I want to know more.
Speaker 2: That's fair more. You heard a little bit more while
Speaker 2: you were in Australia over the weekend. Yes, I had
Speaker 2: a little weekend in Sydney. No I watched the news,
Speaker 2: and I think it was so Sophia Thorn said, if
Speaker 2: you can't see it, you can't be it. So you've
Speaker 2: got to get more of our competition out in that
Speaker 2: global reaction. And as Liz Alla said, yes, our sport
Speaker 2: is a global sport because fifty country is paying it
Speaker 2: for But this opens the global reach out to so
Speaker 2: many more nine hundred million households, you know, sixty five countries.
Speaker 2: That's got to help obviously the sun Court. But we've
Speaker 2: surely got a benefit from it as well our sport.
Speaker 4: But how do we latch onto it?
Speaker 2: That is the next question.
Speaker 4: That's the next question.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, how how I mean, I think good
Speaker 3: on her, you know, go sister, act more people.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is this is the first global media
Speaker 2: channel dedicated exclusively to showcasing women's sports, So that itself
Speaker 2: is a pretty cool achievement from Willy Goldberg. Yeah, well,
Speaker 2: things that can come from it a commercial sponsorship. You know,
Speaker 2: the more we see it, the more people want to
Speaker 2: invest in our sport, and that's what we need. And
Speaker 2: didn't you hear as well that it was actually Whippy
Speaker 2: that saw neckball like approach neckball. She reached out through
Speaker 2: social media channel. She saw some little social post, approached
Speaker 2: Australian Netball and the rest is history. So I just
Speaker 2: think that's so cool, right.
Speaker 3: Well, I want to be excited about it. I just
Speaker 3: will be excited when I see the next step and
Speaker 3: when I know how.
Speaker 4: To watch it.
Speaker 2: Well, they're trying to get her over for the sun
Speaker 2: Caught Netball Grand Final, So I imagine seeing Whopopy Goldberg
Speaker 2: sitting in the in the final between between the who,
Speaker 2: the Swifts and the Giants. Casey. Casey and Grace were
Speaker 2: on each other on the weekend cheap as.
Speaker 4: That was a good game, wasn't it.
Speaker 2: The Star versus the Icon, That's what it was.
Speaker 3: And I thought honors were pretty shared by the end
Speaker 3: of the game because the Giants just went straight out
Speaker 3: and they got that massive lead and then the Swifts
Speaker 3: and you know then Grace sort of shook us out
Speaker 3: down and.
Speaker 4: They, I mean they won.
Speaker 2: It was I thought it was fab They're learning how
Speaker 2: to feed her now as how'sbee seed? You turn and
Speaker 2: you can see this great physique in this presence in
Speaker 2: the circle. Just let it go. I mean, Casey had
Speaker 2: her own four games, but yeah.
Speaker 4: Yep, absolutely, I thought honest shed as.
Speaker 2: We spoke about. She was a high jumper. She knows
Speaker 2: how to jump, she's strong. Give her the ball, she's
Speaker 2: the dream. Goalshoot if you're a wing attack. More news
Speaker 2: out from around the world. Any world Netble announcing a
Speaker 2: Netble World Cup every two years. The next World Cup
Speaker 2: is in Sydney twenty twenty seven, or future World Cups
Speaker 2: will be in November, so we know a definite month
Speaker 2: of the year, so the next one after that would
Speaker 2: be November twenty twenty nine. A good decision, yeah, I
Speaker 2: think so, given that we don't know about the longevity
Speaker 2: of the Commonwealth Games. We're not an Olympic sport yet. Yes, yes,
Speaker 2: you know, the more visible, the more visible our sport
Speaker 2: is out there, then it's it's got to be a
Speaker 2: great thing. So a lot of people are saying it
Speaker 2: might dumb down the competition because you know, when it's
Speaker 2: every four years, it's a bit more of a prestige.
Speaker 4: But I think I think two years is fantastic, you know,
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 3: I mean I think it is too and I think
Speaker 3: you know, rowing has a World Cup every year. I mean,
Speaker 3: you just just keep it coming. I just think, you know,
Speaker 3: push it push it. We do need to pin down
Speaker 3: twenty twenty nine where that World Cup will be. I
Speaker 3: mean I guess, well, who knows where it'll be.
Speaker 2: Often might just in at southern northern hemisphere. I suppose
Speaker 2: it's whoever's got the money, But I think too smart
Speaker 2: from World nit Well, that's how they make their money
Speaker 2: as a World Cup. So if you're you're basically doubling
Speaker 2: your money, I mean you're doubling your expenses, but you're
Speaker 2: giving yourself another opportunity to fund nitball as a global reach.
Speaker 2: They are Jenny to your point earlier when we were
Speaker 2: spoking off here, no one has picked up Fast five though,
Speaker 2: so you are sacrificing that. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was interested to read that because I thought, oh, okay,
Speaker 3: it was always quite popular.
Speaker 4: I thought it was almost and always.
Speaker 2: Was it run its core. So you know how sometimes
Speaker 2: you have this it's like this big thing and then
Speaker 2: it's I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's a great party for particularly for a woman of
Speaker 3: a certain age.
Speaker 4: I felt very much at home there.
Speaker 2: And a men's World Cup, so they've not only gone,
Speaker 2: you know, every two years the Men's Will Cup. I'm
Speaker 2: a little bit dubious about the men's World Cup given
Speaker 2: Australia are just so much better than everyone else, right,
Speaker 2: they thrash the Kiwi's. You know, they've just had a
Speaker 2: big win over the English. So I think this is
Speaker 2: a good step for men's netble, but I think the
Speaker 2: first World Cup could be a bit of a whitewash,
Speaker 2: is it again?
Speaker 5: Though?
Speaker 2: With that wider goal of Olympics, it's not to have
Speaker 2: men and women equivalent to you know, really get a
Speaker 2: look at it, Olympic. See.
Speaker 3: It's interesting because I always thought that that was going
Speaker 3: to be as an Olympic sport. I thought it would
Speaker 3: be playing fast five. So clearly they're ditching that idea.
Speaker 2: Isn't that because we're now seeing the two point shot
Speaker 2: in the normal than the traditional game. I suppose to
Speaker 2: your student sent maybe they're saying that's which the way
Speaker 2: it's going to do now because that was the big difference.
Speaker 2: I mean, obviously five is a seven players, but he
Speaker 2: knows so a lot of news, a lot of world
Speaker 2: news and positive news, I think, really absolute news for
Speaker 2: our sport, which we so dearly need. Absolutely right, our
Speaker 2: guest today is having a stellar season with the Mainland Tactics.
Speaker 2: She debuted for New Zealand in twenty sixteen, winning World
Speaker 2: Cup gold in twenty nineteen. She spent nine seasons with
Speaker 2: the Southern Steel, helping them win the Anzi Premiership in
Speaker 2: twenty eighteen, before joining the Tactics in twenty twenty. She
Speaker 2: has sixty four Test caps for the Silver Ferns, with
Speaker 2: her most recent appearance during the twenty twenty three Networ
Speaker 2: World Cup. Since then, however, she's been unavailable for selection.
Speaker 2: Will her form this year inspire a change of heart?
Speaker 2: Welcome to PI us so great that you can join
Speaker 2: us from what it looks like a very sunny day
Speaker 2: in christ Church everyone, Yeah, thanks for having me. What
Speaker 2: a season the Tactics have been having you yourself, look
Speaker 2: as so you've got a whole new lease of life.
Speaker 2: You're just enjoy your net. Well what is it that's
Speaker 2: bringing this brilliant form in twenty twenty five?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think we've got a really good mix of
Speaker 5: a few of us older girls sort of over thirty,
Speaker 5: and then we've kind of like half of us are
Speaker 5: like over thirty, like me, Ka Ali, Jane Cudden, and
Speaker 5: then we've got a bit of a gap and then
Speaker 5: we've got these really young talented girls coming through that
Speaker 5: sort of keep us on our toes. Yeah, they keep
Speaker 5: things sort of nice and fresh for us, and I
Speaker 5: think it's really it's a really good mix. We learn
Speaker 5: off them, they learn off us. So yeah, I think
Speaker 5: for the last couple of years, we've been there and thereabouts,
Speaker 5: and it's been really disappointing, especially last year not to
Speaker 5: make that final because we've got enough experience to be
Speaker 5: able to do that. And I think this year, yeah,
Speaker 5: we've got a new coach. She's brings up different like
Speaker 5: I said, young players, old players, and I think it's
Speaker 5: just coming together really nicely for us.
Speaker 2: So let's talk about that new coach because Donna, I guess,
Speaker 2: is from a Dean and Our kind of vintage. What
Speaker 2: would be her strength you think that she brings to
Speaker 2: this tactics environment.
Speaker 5: I think she's, as you guys know, she's really direct.
Speaker 5: She doesn't fluff around anything. If there's something that you
Speaker 5: need to work on, she will let you know and
Speaker 5: she will work at it with you, so you're you're
Speaker 5: never left kissing like, oh what do I need to do?
Speaker 5: And she's really she keeps it really simple as well.
Speaker 5: There might be only one or two things that she
Speaker 5: really want you to focus on, but she wants you
Speaker 5: to do it really well. So yeah, I've really enjoyed
Speaker 5: having her. And we're lucky enough. She's not entirely new
Speaker 5: to us. She's been around our environment for a while.
Speaker 5: She's done a bit of stuff with Ferns over the
Speaker 5: last couple of years, so it's not like she's coming
Speaker 5: into Super Green. She's got lots of experience. She knows
Speaker 5: the players. Yeah, and I've actually loved having her as
Speaker 5: like I said, it's not many specialist shooter coaches around
Speaker 5: these days, and so we're really lucky to have it. Also,
Speaker 5: her basketball background is really good. I played a bit
Speaker 5: of basketball too growing up, so I understand some of
Speaker 5: the stuff that she's trying to do with us. You know,
Speaker 5: she's big on like boxing out and screens and things
Speaker 5: like that, which I really enjoy.
Speaker 3: And of course standing next to her to part is
Speaker 3: your sister, now, how does that work?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's weird. A lot of people ask that question,
Speaker 5: but I don't see her as my sister. When we
Speaker 5: were at neckball, It's not like we're we argue and
Speaker 5: stuff at training or always hanging out together. She's just
Speaker 5: to me, she's just another When I played with her,
Speaker 5: she was just another player. I treat her as another
Speaker 5: player at training, and now she's just another coach to me.
Speaker 5: She does things We're very different. She does things that
Speaker 5: I'm not good at, like defence. That's something that that's
Speaker 5: her area, and so I never question or disagree with her.
Speaker 5: And I'm more of an attacker. So it works quite well.
Speaker 5: I guess it's great for mum and dad because they
Speaker 5: don't have to support two different teams. But yeah, I
Speaker 5: don't even the girls say they don't even really, if
Speaker 5: you didn't know that we were sisters, you would never
Speaker 5: guess because we're so different and we have our own
Speaker 5: strengths and we sort of just sort of stick to that.
Speaker 2: We Your strengths this year have been many. You have
Speaker 2: been shooting beautifully, your court work. Last year, you made
Speaker 2: yourself unavailable for selection for the Ferns. Are you tempted
Speaker 2: to throw your name back in there for selection because
Speaker 2: you certainly have got the form for it.
Speaker 5: Nah, I haven't really considered doing that. I've really enjoyed
Speaker 5: the balance that I've had the last couple of years,
Speaker 5: just focusing on ain' Z. My body's really good. I
Speaker 5: have zero injuries. I'm actually the only one. I like
Speaker 5: to try this. I'm the only one in our team
Speaker 5: that hasn't had a physio appointment this year.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 5: So I like saying that because I'm one of the oldest. Yeah,
Speaker 5: since I used to have lots of playing netball for
Speaker 5: the whole year round would take quite a toll on
Speaker 5: the body. I as have really bad achilles and that's
Speaker 5: all gone. Now I'm able to spend more time with family,
Speaker 5: do a bit of study, and so I really enjoyed
Speaker 5: that balance. So it's kind of hard being like, oh,
Speaker 5: do I go back into that sort of full time
Speaker 5: netball all year round type thing at the moment. The
Speaker 5: answer is no, but yeah, you never know. But yeah,
Speaker 5: like I said, I'm enjoying the balance at the moment.
Speaker 2: So long term, you'll just be happy to be an
Speaker 2: A and Z player for the next Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm actually quite old now. I don't know if
Speaker 5: you guys realize.
Speaker 2: You're still not us.
Speaker 4: We do, we do, And.
Speaker 5: I struggle to keep up with some of these young
Speaker 5: girls these days. They're so fit and fast and full
Speaker 5: of energy, And yeah, I think it's I've spent eight
Speaker 5: years in the ferns environment, and as much as I
Speaker 5: loved it, I think it's time probably just to let
Speaker 5: those new girls come through. There's so much talent coming through,
Speaker 5: especially in the goal attack position at the moment, so
Speaker 5: I think it's, yeah, it's their time to shine.
Speaker 3: So you say, you, you know, you haven't had many
Speaker 3: injuries or anything like that, So what's the key? What's
Speaker 3: what are you doing? Are you training more, are you working?
Speaker 3: What are you doing studying?
Speaker 5: I did study last year. I've just been doing a
Speaker 5: bit of part time work at for tomining old Okoua
Speaker 5: as well outside of netball, which I really enjoyed working
Speaker 5: on projects there. And yeah, with the injuries, I don't know.
Speaker 5: I just feel like my body is at the point
Speaker 5: where I know what I need to do. I know
Speaker 5: what I do best to recover.
Speaker 2: Training smarter, training smarter.
Speaker 5: Smarter exactly. Yeah, which is for probably the last three years,
Speaker 5: I haven't had a single injury or any type of niggle.
Speaker 5: So it's been really good because, yeah, the niggles, injuries
Speaker 5: take a toll mentally, so it's just been really nice
Speaker 5: to just be healthy and injury free.
Speaker 2: It's awesome that you can just see that you're enjoying it,
Speaker 2: which is and great to emphasize that balance. I think
Speaker 2: that's such an important message to have. Look next year,
Speaker 2: when New Zealand have confirmed there is going to be
Speaker 2: a competition, what that looks like. No one really knows.
Speaker 2: In the next few years. If you were to stay
Speaker 2: in that ain z environment, what would you want the
Speaker 2: competition to look like? I mean, how have you felt
Speaker 2: about two rounds versus three? You know, if you had
Speaker 2: your wishless, what would it be?
Speaker 5: I reckon it'd been pretty cool to see. I know
Speaker 5: it's a pretty tough space when it bought the moment,
Speaker 5: but to see another team potentially come into the competition,
Speaker 5: I don't know where, but I think if we can
Speaker 5: have more opportunities for players in New Zealand, it can
Speaker 5: only do good things for us. But I have actually
Speaker 5: really enjoyed the two the two rounds, yeah, I feel
Speaker 5: like it keeps players fresh. I think playing that third game,
Speaker 5: it was always a little bit like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 5: this is the third time. Sometimes you would have played
Speaker 5: them in pre season as well, and you might even
Speaker 5: play them again in final was it kind of gets
Speaker 5: a bit boring after the fourth time that you're playing
Speaker 5: a team, so I think, yeah, just the two rounds
Speaker 5: keeps it more exciting. But yeah, I don't know. Good question. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I think it'll be cool in the future to see
Speaker 5: another team.
Speaker 2: Would you consider going overseas yourself, because I mean you're
Speaker 2: saying you're unavailable for the food, so that actually opens
Speaker 2: the door for you don't have to worry about this
Speaker 2: eligibility chat.
Speaker 5: Yeah. True, I haven't actually thought about that. I think
Speaker 5: I don't know. It could be an option, but it's
Speaker 5: not really something I've thought about. I'm just I've just
Speaker 5: been focusing on our competition. Oh are you there?
Speaker 2: Yep? Still got us?
Speaker 5: Oh my screen just cut out there? All right. I've
Speaker 5: just been focusing on our team and our comp this year.
Speaker 5: But yeah, overseas could be an option. Like, I'm not
Speaker 5: restricted or anything like that, but like I said earlier,
Speaker 5: I am getting older.
Speaker 2: So what they like when you're a players? Look, okay,
Speaker 2: got more over the moment.
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly, true. Yeah, it's really exciting. I do watch
Speaker 5: the Gussie comps most of the games, and it's yeah,
Speaker 5: it's a really it's a really good competition and it's
Speaker 5: really exciting, very different to ours. I think that man
Speaker 5: that man on the style that they play would be
Speaker 5: tough every week. But yeah, I don't know. I haven't
Speaker 5: really considered going over there the techtics.
Speaker 2: You've only lost one game this year, and it happens
Speaker 2: to be against the Stars, so we're sitting at the
Speaker 2: bottom of the table. Crazy. Do you feel like you
Speaker 2: guys have got the winning culture now you've been sitting
Speaker 2: at the top of the letter along with the mistics.
Speaker 2: Do you feel like you can go all the way
Speaker 2: this year?
Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely, one hundred percent. I will. I felt like
Speaker 5: that other years as well, and it hasn't happened. But
Speaker 5: I think that there's more of it with Donna brings
Speaker 5: that ruthless mentality. She Yeah, she's just got She's just
Speaker 5: such a winner. She hates losing. We're never ever complacent
Speaker 5: in our team, even though we'd, like you said, we've
Speaker 5: had a few wins. We're never sitting there thinking that
Speaker 5: there's always things to work on, there's always things to
Speaker 5: improve on. And she's really ruthless in that respect and
Speaker 5: making sure that we're practicing things that we need to
Speaker 5: or like at the last few games, we haven't really
Speaker 5: really been good on the fourth quarter So that's been
Speaker 5: our for focus this week or the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 5: is to make sure that we're finishing quarters, we're closing
Speaker 5: out the game, because it hasn't been too much of
Speaker 5: an issue in the last couple of games because we've
Speaker 5: been had a bit of a margin, But in those
Speaker 5: tight games and the finals, it's going to cost us.
Speaker 5: So that's something that we're really going to be working
Speaker 5: on and hopefully you'll see against the Pulse this weekend
Speaker 5: that we're going to close out the game really nicely.
Speaker 3: I was going to ask you about the Pulse game
Speaker 3: because I think Donna had a season or two for
Speaker 3: the Pulse with Robbie Broughton, didn't she. So I wonder
Speaker 3: if you know this is a particularly big game for her.
Speaker 3: Have you been, you know, any tactics for her for
Speaker 3: your game at the weekend.
Speaker 5: Well, we've just talked about that they're hurting at the moment.
Speaker 5: They've lost three in a row now, and that they're
Speaker 5: not used to, you know, that sort of they're winning.
Speaker 5: They come from a winning culture and we really want
Speaker 5: to punish them and make it a fourth. But in
Speaker 5: saying that, having lost three games, they're going to really
Speaker 5: want to win this one, so they're going to come
Speaker 5: out really strong, they'll be really physical, and they'll be
Speaker 5: going for everything. So we're just we're prepared for that
Speaker 5: and I'm actually looking forward to it. It was a really
Speaker 5: good game against them last time. I thought we played
Speaker 5: really well at home, but it's different when you're playing
Speaker 5: away from you know, playing away and playing at TESP,
Speaker 5: they always get really good crowds. Their crowd gets behind them,
Speaker 5: so you can never ever be complacent complacent against players.
Speaker 5: They've got six silver ferns in there, and even though
Speaker 5: they haven't probably been playing as good as they'd like
Speaker 5: the last few games, you just you know that any
Speaker 5: time they can come out and having to play out
Speaker 5: standing and have a really good game with all the
Speaker 5: experience and expected I've got. So yeah, it's going to
Speaker 5: be a good one, I reckon.
Speaker 2: And they're gonna be desperate because they actually need the
Speaker 2: win to keep in the hunt for the elimination finals.
Speaker 2: So no, it's going to be a great match. We
Speaker 2: haven't seen your wing tach yet, Teaps. We had Donner
Speaker 2: on the podcast a few weeks at she said she's
Speaker 2: got that one in the back of her mind.
Speaker 5: Just I know I've tried. I've always said, give me
Speaker 5: a go, give me a please, and like whenever people
Speaker 5: get injured a few times Marianne other years be like, oh,
Speaker 5: just you know, I've got you in the back of
Speaker 5: my mind. And even this year with Eric Khanna with
Speaker 5: her injuries, Donnad was like, I'm gonna put you. We're
Speaker 5: gonna take. But it's never actually happened.
Speaker 2: So three rounds to go.
Speaker 5: It can't be that hard. It can't be that you
Speaker 5: don't have to shoot.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, but you've got to be pinpoint accurate with
Speaker 2: your passes.
Speaker 5: But actually I can just stand at the center pass.
Speaker 2: And hold well, you'll be able to because you're nice
Speaker 2: and tall, exactly, can sight in the circle right before
Speaker 2: we let you go. We every week we do a
Speaker 2: fast five. So we've just got some quick five questions.
Speaker 2: You can give us as much or as little information
Speaker 2: as you like.
Speaker 1: Look past five on inside Netball.
Speaker 2: First one, what is your go to postgame snack.
Speaker 4: Or meal.
Speaker 5: Or burger? I like a burger, Oh, check and beef?
Speaker 2: What kind beef?
Speaker 5: Beef? And cheese?
Speaker 2: Nice and cheese. If you could have played any other
Speaker 2: sport other than netball, what would it have been tennis.
Speaker 4: Interesting.
Speaker 3: You see, tennis is big, okay, So who in your
Speaker 3: team is most likely to A get you into trouble
Speaker 3: and then b get you out of trouble.
Speaker 5: Jane would get me into trouble and Eric Hanna would
Speaker 5: get me out of trouble.
Speaker 2: I think someone said the other way around, and Donna
Speaker 2: say Jane would get you out of trouble because she's
Speaker 2: a good talker.
Speaker 3: Yes, a TP interesting, interesting, interesting strengths.
Speaker 2: If you could take any three athletes in the world,
Speaker 2: dead or alive with you to dinner, who would you take?
Speaker 2: And we've had some very consistent answers on this, so
Speaker 2: it's going to be interesting to see if you've got
Speaker 2: any any that you say the same as other athletes
Speaker 2: have had so far.
Speaker 5: Well, I love basketball, so i'd say Lebron James, we've
Speaker 5: had him, Roger Federer, and who else? Maybe Serena Will.
Speaker 2: Yes, I think there are three most popular actor it
Speaker 2: needs to do a poll. And last one, best advice
Speaker 2: you've ever been given.
Speaker 5: Just to have fun. I think you're not gonna you
Speaker 5: play your best when you're enjoying it, and sometimes you
Speaker 5: just get so caught up and how serious and how
Speaker 5: intense things are. But when you have fun, your vision
Speaker 5: opens up. You see everything clearly. Yeah, so just enjoy
Speaker 5: That's what I like to live.
Speaker 4: By, and that's what it looks like you're having this season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you also, and we really appreciate your time.
Speaker 2: All the best for the match against the Pulse this weekend.
Speaker 2: Thanks guys, Thank you.
Speaker 1: Day talking all things netball, inside netball, inside nedball on
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Speaker 2: You kind of think with all her answers today to
Speaker 2: pie it, you can really get the sense of how
Speaker 2: relaxed she is just enjoying it, and you're seeing that
Speaker 2: translate to performance.
Speaker 5: Chen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well I think so too.
Speaker 3: But what I can't get over is so no TP,
Speaker 3: no Jane, no Eric Khana, no Ellie available for the Ferns,
Speaker 3: and yet look where they are at the top of
Speaker 3: the table, and you just wonder if there's a little
Speaker 3: message there. I mean, Ellie Bird herself has said that's
Speaker 3: what she did. I think while she was away she
Speaker 3: sort of thought, well, you know, this mortal life the netball,
Speaker 3: and she's playing her best netball of all time, so
Speaker 3: you know, message there for everyone ain't and.
Speaker 2: You forget she's played one hundred and seventy five National
Speaker 2: League games. So aside from I think Leana Debray and
Speaker 2: Leani Liota, who they're both coaches now so they're not playing.
Speaker 2: So she is the most kept player across all these teams.
Speaker 2: And I think she's playing great netball. She's you know,
Speaker 2: putting in some good ball. We love the fact that
Speaker 2: she's a third feeder as a goal attack, so something
Speaker 2: to be said for just having no pressure on you
Speaker 2: and just performing. I love the fact that she's taking
Speaker 2: a lot more shots this season than we've seen in
Speaker 2: the past, or it feels that way. I think if
Speaker 2: I look at the game in the weekend, the Tech
Speaker 2: they beat the Stars sixty one fifty three to Paya,
Speaker 2: where is it on my sheet? Here she sixteen from
Speaker 2: sixteen from twenty, so you know, sometimes she would only
Speaker 2: be in single digits. So she's really taking that load
Speaker 2: on in that shedting role. But if we talk about
Speaker 2: that Star's tactics game, the big thing to come out
Speaker 2: of that, what about the young Marie Hanson made her
Speaker 2: debut for the Stars shot seven from eight. But the
Speaker 2: key of those seven from eight it was in that
Speaker 2: last quarter five US six super shots gen which was little.
Speaker 4: One point seven meters. I had to look it up.
Speaker 4: She's not that young. She's twenty seven.
Speaker 2: She's played for Tom for Tom twenties. That's young.
Speaker 3: Well yes, yes, but she was only on court for
Speaker 3: eight minutes. But you know you've got a hand at Timmy,
Speaker 3: Para Bailey and Leanna to Braid. I mean I was
Speaker 3: talking to Leslie Murdoch who commentated that game, and she
Speaker 3: was saying she and Mary and Laney Hoshik went through
Speaker 3: this that they've had twenty players on their their sheet.
Speaker 3: Wow this season. So man, they've been you know, going
Speaker 3: through them. But I thought there were a couple of
Speaker 3: things from that. I mean, Simon Nathan I thought made
Speaker 3: a huge difference in that game. She was just I've
Speaker 3: always been a bit of a fan of Simon's and
Speaker 3: look she just you know, was clinical in the mid court.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean they were never going to win,
Speaker 3: but it was you know, they fought well.
Speaker 2: They won the second half. Sars won the second half
Speaker 2: by eight, They won the last quarter twenty to twelve,
Speaker 2: and as you heard from TP before, the Tectics won't
Speaker 2: be happy with that. Leading into finals netball, they've got
Speaker 2: three rounds to go they will want to be, you know,
Speaker 2: finishing off games. We're seeing other teams not finishing off.
Speaker 2: Pulse comes to mind, So there are we something that
Speaker 2: the Tectics will want to want affects. But what a
Speaker 2: baptism of fire for poor old Bubby and Leanna in
Speaker 2: their first year of coaching. Ups to Kayla Johnson. She
Speaker 2: comes in off the back of your team a Dane
Speaker 2: and plays sixty minutes now at gold defense not defense, seriously,
Speaker 2: but they have They have had possibly the worst start
Speaker 2: you could hope for as a coach. It can only
Speaker 2: get better, It can only get better. We skipped over
Speaker 2: the first game of the round. It was the Mystics
Speaker 2: against the Magic again. Again the Mystics won. That won easy,
Speaker 2: sixty three fifty one. Just when we think the Magic
Speaker 2: are looking good, they lose every quarter in that game.
Speaker 2: Our picks and eat. They're looking a bit dubious. We
Speaker 2: had them in our top three.
Speaker 4: In the competition.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're still in the hunt, but they it's getting
Speaker 2: tougher and tougher every week with three rounds to go.
Speaker 2: What I did like is that Echinacio put up quite
Speaker 2: quite a few more balls than we've used to seeing
Speaker 2: her put up nineteen from twenty to two e twenty
Speaker 2: three from twenty seven, so they are really sharing that
Speaker 2: that shooting load. Mistics haven't lost since round four and
Speaker 2: that was against the Tactics, So you know, mistakes are
Speaker 2: looking good.
Speaker 3: What are they going to do when Danelle Wallom's back
Speaker 3: from injury because this Sophia love Lee is good.
Speaker 2: Two percent another good game and the volume forty eight
Speaker 2: for fifty two. Yeah, I mean you'd think Walom would
Speaker 2: be on limited minutes anyway, so they're both probably going
Speaker 2: to get I mean, what a good the opposite problem
Speaker 2: to Jimmy Parta and Leana. What a good problem to have.
Speaker 2: And again I think that defensive trio. I like how
Speaker 2: they're using Holly Ray and Kayla Circles and Catherine Hall
Speaker 2: again she is leading deflections or intercept sorry for the
Speaker 2: whole competition and second in deflections every week. She's been
Speaker 2: playing well. And then we get to the Pole Steel
Speaker 2: whole game around, the game of around leading into the
Speaker 2: last quarter, the Pulse were up by was eight eight
Speaker 2: goals leading into the last quarter, even though where is
Speaker 2: my notes? And then nine points they were leading at
Speaker 2: three quarter time by nine points. They got pipped by one.
Speaker 2: What happened? Jed, well, I.
Speaker 4: Mean I couldn't leave it.
Speaker 3: And it was funny because after the game, Georgi Georgia
Speaker 3: Heaven player of the match, and she just said, she said,
Speaker 3: I knew, I knew we were always going to win,
Speaker 3: and I thought, wow, gee.
Speaker 2: Well it was a steel side that just knew how
Speaker 2: to grind it out. And it was the complete opposite
Speaker 2: to what we've seeing of the pulse. They just can't
Speaker 2: quite finish, you know, George Heiffenin in the last five minutes,
Speaker 2: you know, putting up those two point shots that that
Speaker 2: really got them within the game done. Was just so
Speaker 2: composed under the hope. I do question though, with Kate
Speaker 2: Hefferin and her load. She came on for the first
Speaker 2: quarter fifteen minutes, second quarter was on for twelve minutes,
Speaker 2: and then she goes off, third quarter eleven minutes, goes
Speaker 2: off last quarter when it was so close, when you'd
Speaker 2: think you'd keep Kate Hefferenon on the court, she plays
Speaker 2: ten minutes and then and she pulls her off. What's
Speaker 2: going to be another five minutes a quarter.
Speaker 3: And if you're coming back from a knee injury, you'd
Speaker 3: be on instructions from above.
Speaker 2: I just find that I just I don't know, I
Speaker 2: find that weird. Really as an extra five minutes of
Speaker 2: low We're gonna when they could have really done to
Speaker 2: Wendy to tell her off, you know, you know she
Speaker 2: kept stay saying that you're not taking me off? Like
Speaker 2: it was so close. The hard one though, isn't it,
Speaker 2: Because imagine if you did leave her on and then
Speaker 2: she did get injured, you'd be like, oh, I went
Speaker 2: against all advice. So but yes, you're surprising that Kate
Speaker 2: didn't say believe.
Speaker 3: Me, and also she did if she did say that,
Speaker 3: you couldn't leave her there, good you you'd have to
Speaker 3: take her off.
Speaker 4: Who wins that argument, the coach or the player?
Speaker 2: What the coach would But it's just when she could
Speaker 2: twist the coaches and I'm feeling fine, I'm feeling fine.
Speaker 4: But how at the end of the game, I was
Speaker 4: leaping up and down.
Speaker 2: But if we flip that around, what's going on with Tiana?
Speaker 2: Why is she really struggling? And they didn't use Molly Seller.
Speaker 2: You know, Tiana on the flip side only put up
Speaker 2: what six of seven for the whole game and got
Speaker 2: one of two is that a I know we bring
Speaker 2: this up every now and then about how many shots
Speaker 2: goal attacks taking, but that's what a huge amount of
Speaker 2: emphasis on Wormsley and it means you can double back
Speaker 2: and put two defenders on Warmsley. Is it a problem
Speaker 2: going forward? Is that where they need to fix things.
Speaker 2: I think it's not just Maturda. You know, they've got
Speaker 2: they've got Gordon and Sooness who are silverfer and in
Speaker 2: mid quarters. They they should be supporting those shooters. As
Speaker 2: TP said, they've got six yeah, silver ferns in that team,
Speaker 2: and you'd have to be worried if you're some of
Speaker 2: those silver ferns looking at selection coming up given their results.
Speaker 2: I think given Wormsley is so young, Matuto is still
Speaker 2: fairly young. I know she's the most experience in that
Speaker 2: goal circle. Gordon and Sooner should be doing more to help.
Speaker 2: I think at times Paris Mason's getting found out a
Speaker 2: little bit much down there. I agree she's doing too
Speaker 2: much work out the front, leaving poor old Kelly on
Speaker 2: her own for two on one and she's taken too
Speaker 2: long to get in the circle Mason. So there's a
Speaker 2: couple of things.
Speaker 3: And I wonder too about you know, she's always well
Speaker 3: not always, but she does tend to take off Yuannie
Speaker 3: and put Gabby Simpson on, and I'm thinking, oh, actually
Speaker 3: I'd leave Yuannie on. But look, we'll see because this
Speaker 3: this week is going to be massive against the Tactics
Speaker 3: and as TP said, you know they'll be gunning for
Speaker 3: them absolutely.
Speaker 2: So where we are on the points table is Tactics
Speaker 2: and Mystics are sitting in the top. Tactics only need
Speaker 2: one point in the next three rounds that can come
Speaker 2: from a bonus point, and they have confirmed they're in
Speaker 2: that top three. Mystics only need two points and they're in.
Speaker 2: Where it gets interesting is everyone else is that she's
Speaker 2: still in the mix with three games to go. To
Speaker 2: be fair to the Stars is going to take a
Speaker 2: bit of a mathematical challenge. They need people to lose,
Speaker 2: people to win. But Poles steal in Magic are all
Speaker 2: completely still in it for the chase for the last
Speaker 2: three spots. You don't agree to gen no, no, I do.
Speaker 3: But because I just I wouldn't be are going to
Speaker 3: change my tune totally here.
Speaker 4: I wasn't bank on the Magic. I mean they've been banking.
Speaker 2: I've let up down And because they are on Poles
Speaker 2: are on ten points, Steel are on ten points and
Speaker 2: Magica on eight and you get three points for a win.
Speaker 2: So they I mean, they're all still in it, and
Speaker 2: they're all sort of playing a mixture of each other
Speaker 2: this week, the Steel applying the Magic, and it's at home.
Speaker 2: You get the sense the steal. I mean, we've been
Speaker 2: wrong so often this year, but you get the sense
Speaker 2: of stell. You know, even that win, coming from behind,
Speaker 2: winning that last quarter seventeen to seven, unstoppable now unstoppable, stoppable,
Speaker 2: and they beat the Magic and the last time they
Speaker 2: played them as well forty one sixty nine, So that
Speaker 2: will give them confidence. And as you say, it's at
Speaker 2: home and in Icago and tactics pulse. Should we be
Speaker 2: weary or should the tactics be weary? You heard Tapia
Speaker 2: talk about it of the pulse or attacts is going
Speaker 2: to be too good?
Speaker 4: Well, I can't help but think the tactics are going
Speaker 4: to be too good.
Speaker 3: I mean the pulse, I know, and we've heard all
Speaker 3: that from tp and we've heard you can imagine how
Speaker 3: Anna Andrews Desola. They'll be cooking up plans and all
Speaker 3: that sort of thing. I just can't see them getting
Speaker 3: up and over the Tactics.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the Tactics will win that too. They
Speaker 2: just look like a team that aren't playing together. They
Speaker 2: just don't have that leadership or cohesiveness. I think they'll
Speaker 2: play better than what they did last week. I think
Speaker 2: they'll there'll be some serious questions, you know, being asked
Speaker 2: at training this week. So I think they will be better.
Speaker 2: But as you heard from TP, I think they're just
Speaker 2: running on confidence and tactics. I'll go with that one.
Speaker 2: Talking of confidence, it's going to take something special for
Speaker 2: the Stars to win over the Mystics. Are we talking
Speaker 2: a double figure win for the Mystics.
Speaker 3: Here, Well, we've had a few of those already, haven't we.
Speaker 3: I mean, how many have we had? But yes, I
Speaker 3: think so. Yeah, Mystics Mystics will be too strong. Great
Speaker 3: to see if you know, la Faye Lily gets another
Speaker 3: run out there. I love the fact that Tia win
Speaker 3: Aikid's showing confidence in her young players. Love the fact
Speaker 3: that Bobby Borden, you know, a more youthful player.
Speaker 2: I know she's you said she was older, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well twenty seven.
Speaker 3: So again following the pathway, Crystal, I mean, I like
Speaker 3: the fact that they have been bringing through the players
Speaker 3: from the Inn and l so you know the pathway
Speaker 3: is working.
Speaker 2: And that's what we heard from Nolean, Dave Nolean a
Speaker 2: few weeks ago, how passionate she is about bringing them through.
Speaker 2: The other piece of news we saw this week Kate
Speaker 2: heaven and another player that has spoken about the potential
Speaker 2: of playing over an ss N, and in that same
Speaker 2: article it actually it reiterated that the New Zealand Players
Speaker 2: Association had put a deadline on netbul New Zealand about
Speaker 2: giving the players some confidence on the broadcasting deal for
Speaker 2: next year. We know New Zealand has come out and
Speaker 2: said there will be another competition six teams, but it
Speaker 2: might be run down at Auckland Netball. I was going
Speaker 2: to say, but we need to know who the broadcast
Speaker 2: is going to be. I mean, Addie, you know yourself.
Speaker 2: When it comes to this point of the year, people
Speaker 2: start talking contracts. It is what happens because you're allowed
Speaker 2: to talk to players within your own squad the stage
Speaker 2: about do you want to play next year? So not
Speaker 2: only do you not really know what it looks like
Speaker 2: next year, there's this eligibility question still up in the air.
Speaker 2: We're hearing more and more players come out and say,
Speaker 2: oh I've been approached. I'm really thinking about it. Do
Speaker 2: you get together? I mean this has just come to
Speaker 2: me just now. You know, if we've got if he's
Speaker 2: six or seven silver ferns that are getting approached, do
Speaker 2: you come together and go stuff it? Let's all take
Speaker 2: the punt. Let's go because you're going to have to
Speaker 2: pick us otherwise there's no one left for the Commonwealth
Speaker 2: game save And we've heard Nolane say she wants the
Speaker 2: best team. That's just throwing it out.
Speaker 4: Did you well, yeah, no, that's well good thinking.
Speaker 3: But from what point of a season can you be
Speaker 3: asked about the following the next year?
Speaker 2: It's after the finals, yeah, after the finals, but that's
Speaker 2: coming round very quickly and three games away. And let's
Speaker 2: be honest people, they're not supposed to, but those conversations
Speaker 2: subtly do go on. And if there's no broadcast, players
Speaker 2: aren't getting paid. Players need to look at what they're
Speaker 2: going to do next year for a job. Some of
Speaker 2: them will have mortgages that they need to pay, like
Speaker 2: you know, it's their livelihoods, so well study actually they
Speaker 2: actually I can do more study or whatever.
Speaker 4: It might be, or become maths teachers like Paris Mason.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, we did like that, didn't we thought?
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 2: A lot of news this week for netball, most of
Speaker 2: it other than that last piece we just talked about,
Speaker 2: very very positive. So three rounds to go. Who's going
Speaker 2: to make it? Our money is now? I think our
Speaker 2: safe money is now definitely on the Tactics and the Mystics.
Speaker 2: We're all scratching our heads about who's going to meet
Speaker 2: them in their elimination final. Back, thank you again for
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