WEBVTT - Mystics assistant coach Rob Wright on the aggressive 'niggle' appearing in the game 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:04.080 Inside, therefore getting you closer to the game you love. 0:00:04.200 --> 0:00:07.640 With Adean Wilson, Anna Stanley and Jenny Woods sowed by 0:00:07.680 --> 0:00:08.280 News Talk. 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:11.240 Zeb talk about Blink and You'll miss it. We are 0:00:11.400 --> 0:00:14.680 approaching the final round of this year's A and Z Premiership. 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:18.720 The magazine stars Anna and Adean thereof chasing down every 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:21.360 last copy. I think Anna was last seen in Balley 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:26.079 a dean scene chasing around the streets of Wellington. But 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:31.080 I am here along with super sub again evonn Willering, 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:34.040 and we're going to pick apart what has been a 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:38.959 very interesting well penultiple round of the A and Z Premiership. 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:40.919 Really and I think we should not. Oh and I'll 0:00:40.960 --> 0:00:44.400 tell what. Will also be talking to Mystic's assistant coach, 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:47.880 Rob Wright to see how the season is going for him. 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:51.400 We'll talk a little bit of National League Grand Final, 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:54.720 and we might just pay a small tribute to a 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:59.960 fabulous English player who has announced her retirement. So without 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:03.360 further ado, let's get going. 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:05.800 Inside Bedball on iHeart. 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:10.160 Radio, season number five for Rob Wright as assistant coach 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:13.160 with the Mystics. You must love it, otherwise you wouldn't 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:17.120 keep coming back. How do you find it? Yeah? 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:20.120 I do. I do love it and I can't believe 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:23.400 it's this is the fair season i've been here. But yeah, 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:27.959 it's a great environment, it's a great place to coach. 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:31.600 I've just really it was like the best decision I've 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:35.520 ever made. So yeah, real thrilled to be here and 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:37.560 hoping to be here more. 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:41.800 Yeah. Now, Rather, it's been interesting. 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:44.680 I mean we've obviously is in the past, all good ones, 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:48.400 all good ones, but I find it interesting what you 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:50.840 bring to the Mystics. I initially thought you were going 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:53.560 to be their defensive coach, but I believe you're doing 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:55.600 both ends now, Is that correct for a start off? 0:01:56.800 --> 0:01:59.400 Yeah, I am doing. I am doing both ends. Like 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:03.000 we we coach both ends during training and we coach 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:07.040 both ends across the season, just so just so it 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:11.840 doesn't get too stale, like I think, even though we're 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:15.520 coaching slightly differently but with the same theme. So I 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:17.240 just think it keeps everyone fresh and. 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:21.040 That's what you want absolutely. 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:24.640 And the other thing adding to that, like, initially coming 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:28.120 from Australia, it was basically one on one defense, but 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:31.280 I have noticed that, you know, it is a little 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:33.840 bit more about I wouldn't say total space marking, but 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:36.200 certainly looking for a ball and flight. And I hear 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:38.880 you often saying ball and flight, And it was interesting 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:41.520 in the last game played right at the end to 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:44.440 your saying get off the body. You know, we want 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:47.880 no penalties right now, and I do believe we are 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:50.320 getting too many penalties in the game. How do you 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:54.200 see the defensive structures without obviously going to secrets. 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:57.360 Yeah, I don't have any secrets, but you know I 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:00.880 have spent a lot of time into you and work 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:04.880 and spending time with you learning, and to me, we 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:08.800 do player as you notice, a hybrid type of defense, 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:12.919 because I think there's room for how the one on 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:17.320 one and some of that more space marking type styles 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:20.760 to actually combine, and there's room and room for both 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:23.679 of them. But I do agree I think that there's two. 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:28.560 There is too many penalties. We really look at penalties 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:31.560 every week as a real to see how we're going. 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:34.160 And we feel like, in particular the last couple of 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:36.400 weeks we've been way too high. So we want to 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:38.440 get off the body. We want it to be clean. 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:42.080 We want clean lines because one when I reckon your 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:44.240 stuff on a body like and I'm talking to the 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:48.200 converted here, like you just can't contest stuff. You can't 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:50.920 run through stuff, you can't you can't get up in 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:54.040 the air, you can't, you can't hedge as well, et cetera, 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:57.120 et cetera. So to me, it's that we want we 0:03:57.200 --> 0:03:59.080 need to tidy keep tiding up the game. 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:01.839 In my opinion, are you saying that you you think 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:03.720 the game is getting rougher? 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:10.400 Yeah? I do. Yeah, I think the uh and ann. 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:13.840 Don't get me wrong. I love a tough contest like 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:16.120 and and that doesn't mean that there's not going to 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:18.719 be some real big challenges a lot that we need 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:22.000 that in the game. But there's some niggle and stuff 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:24.880 that and some just some stuff that I don't think 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:29.400 accentuates or really highlights how good our game is. They're 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:32.800 really good athletes, they're they're quick there, they can get 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:35.280 in the air, they're good across the ground, and to me, 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:38.440 we want to showcase that. And to may, I think 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:42.520 where the umpires are having to get too involved. 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:45.200 And so how would you start cleaning the game up? 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:49.840 To me, I think it just comes back to, well, 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:53.159 on one, the coaches, it's a priority for the coaches 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:55.280 have to go radio. How do we how do we 0:04:55.320 --> 0:05:00.880 minimize our penalties? Like, because in reality, teams with higher 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:04.480 penalties lose more than they win. There's always going to 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:07.320 be exceptions to the rule. But to me, like you 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:10.000 just go from our success point of view. Do you 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:14.000 know if we lower our penalties, we're gonna we keep 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:16.919 ourselves in play, we can build pressure, we can we 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:19.799 can look for stuff, and you're no good to anyone 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:22.520 if you're standing out of play. So I think it's 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:24.960 sort of a no brainer. But you know, everyone's different 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:27.719 because every coach is going to play a different style, 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:30.479 and some coaches might want to play real tight on 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:32.520 the body and the look. That's their prerogative, et cetera, 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:34.960 et cetera. Even though I do like my one on one, 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:37.760 even though we play a hybrid, our one on one 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:40.800 is not on the body. It's meant to be off 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:43.039 the body because we want to stay in play and 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:46.960 be able to contest and run stuff and not not 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:48.600 bring the umpire into it. 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:50.039 Yeah. 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:53.599 Yeah, and it's interesting, Like I guess, well, you also 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:56.599 know it's close to Silver Fern squad selection as well, 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:59.279 and I know that you know the players must have 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:02.080 that in their minds as well, and one thing I 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:05.960 found interesting last week's game against the steel Haul for 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:09.960 your goalkeeper versus stythe their goalkeeper. And obviously you know, 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:12.680 both these players really well. And when we did sort 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:15.760 of stats, not that I'm into stats, but having said that, 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:19.960 like Hall was penalized seventeen times and Stith was, oh no, 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:24.039 Stith twenty one times. And yeah, and I and I say, 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:27.599 both these players are better than that. They are better 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:31.000 than standing beside their opposition, you know. And I look 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:33.279 at that and I go, yeah, we just it just 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:35.440 needs to be tweaked and tidy up. And that's why 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:37.520 I respect it to you for coming out and saying 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:39.800 get off the body, and you say it all the time. 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:40.960 I hear it all the time. 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:42.680 And I'm with you one hundred percent on that. Like 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:46.000 we think from a penalty count, that's way too high 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:48.480 in my opinion from a keeper, because you're right, like 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:51.840 if you end up just standing out like when when 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:54.000 she's a big menace, and both of them are menaces, 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:55.719 like they don't want to be standing out, like you're 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:59.400 you're giving away some too much free ball or free shots, 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:01.679 and that's what we want to try and limit. 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:06.000 Is there a team that you that your team considers 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:08.040 a dirty team rougher than the others. 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:14.040 Oh no, no, I don't. I just think there's probably 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:16.559 just the nature there's some teams because of the nature 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:18.600 of how they defend, they're obviously going to be much 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:22.120 more low penalty count than some others. But in reality, 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:26.640 I just think across all teams, including ours, sometimes we 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:28.200 just got to go, We've just got to tidy that up. 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:30.480 We've got to be a little bit more disciplined. Sometimes 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:32.480 it's just a discipline thing. We've got to go. You know, 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:35.000 you don't need to go for that. You pull pull 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:37.120 out of that one because you're just gonna you're not 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:39.680 gonna win it. You're gonna you're gonna get ourselves out 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:42.680 of play, and then the pressure comes off. So to me, 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:45.600 it's just about going from a coaching point of view, 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:48.720 how do we tidy up, how do we keep building 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:52.239 that discipline, stay and play and win the ball clean. 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:56.400 Now we see you on the sideline of the Jamaican team, 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:58.240 and we've seen that for the last couple of you know, 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:01.040 big tournaments. Are you still doing work with them? 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:04.840 Well, that's a good question. It's sort of been. It's 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:08.520 a year by year thing. So at the moment, I 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:12.480 haven't had any contact with Jamaica this season around what's 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:17.320 what moving forward will look like? So who knows it 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:20.760 currently at the moment, I don't. I don't know. 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:24.400 May be a country, wouldn't they that you know this 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:28.440 thing where the World Cup is going to every two years, 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:30.520 Well they have the money for that. I mean they 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:33.200 you know, they let us down badly a few years back, 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:36.079 not not being able to get organized. What was your 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:36.600 take on that? 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:43.360 I was. I was furious because I thought nep On 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:46.959 New Zealand were, let's be honest, we're funding a lot 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:49.880 of that, and I felt like we did the wrong thing. 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:55.160 We I think they're expecting obviously that our very best 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:59.679 team that wasn't was never gonna happen, but I don't 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:03.800 think we were maybe upfront and up around what was that? 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:08.160 And so I think we let down ourselves because then 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:10.400 I feel like Netborne New Zealand's going to be very 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:15.040 gunshy to get us back because of that, and they 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:16.839 probably lost a lot of money over that. And I 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:22.720 think they're very diplomatic around how they spoke after that, 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:26.600 but I think it was an absolute shambles from our 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:28.720 point of view from Jamaica's porn of view. 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:32.600 Just with regards to the World Champs and Genny alluded 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:34.320 to it going every two years. 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:35.480 How do you feel about that? 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:40.760 Because I think it's a good idea, because my gut 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:45.880 feel is I'm wondering whether World Netbune is thinking does 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:49.000 that mean that comm Games, the Comwealth Games is under 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:52.480 threat and maybe it's not going to exist anymore, and 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:55.560 so we're looking to make sure that there's something in 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:59.000 that other to that other period. So and if it 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:01.959 goes to every two years and say COMM Games vanishes, 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:06.080 it will probably be a better sequencing of the four 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:08.680 year cycle because clearly at the moment we've got Conwealth 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:11.960 Games one year and then World Champs the very next year. 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:16.520 But I also worry about it. Do World Netball not 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:19.280 think we're going to get in the Olympics, and so 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:22.600 they're trying to also put in a thing to go, oh, well, 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:24.800 we're not. We haven't got any Olympics, but we're going 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:28.679 to go to Worlds every two years. So I don't know. 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:31.760 I think it's a good idea because I don't think 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:39.200 there's enough competition in terms of teams being able to 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:42.040 get exposed enough. I think if you can only get 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:45.280 exposed once every four years, I think we're seeing the 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:50.120 top say eight teams getting further and further away from 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:53.960 maybe the rest of the team. So I'm not quite 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:57.360 sure what the answer to that is, but at the moment, 0:10:57.400 --> 0:10:59.319 I think it's a good idea. Money is going to 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:02.520 clearly been should open. Yeah, a number of countries. 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:04.320 Yeah, And that's where I look at it, and I'm going, 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:07.000 is it just going to be an elitist competition and 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:10.679 where teams that can afford to participate will participate? 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:11.640 Because already there. 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:14.199 Are some countries and Tonga is an example of that 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:16.480 where they're saying, you know, we're having trouble getting a 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:19.240 team together every four years, how are we. 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:21.640 Going to do it every two years? Yeah? 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:24.160 And that's a really good it's a really good point, 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:27.160 and that we wouldn't want that to occur because otherwise 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:30.160 and I think it defeats the purpose ye completely. But 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:33.040 do you alwish I knew an answer to that? 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:35.720 Do you think that we should be in the Olympics? 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:41.160 I do. I think I think we really need to 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:45.199 keep exposing our game to a wider and wider audience. 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:48.120 And I think it that might just be a nice 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:54.559 leverage to audiences that currently don't see it. And my 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:57.360 my thing, my gut feel though, is if it is 0:11:57.400 --> 0:12:01.280 in the Olympics, I am imagine it might be more 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:06.040 the fast five game because of numbers, they might want 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:08.640 to keep it down, but I'd prefer it to be 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:12.120 the seven A side game. I even though fast, you know, 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:14.920 fast fives, fast five, but I do love the seven 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:17.640 a side game, and I think that would showcase our 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:22.640 athletes in the very best light. And the thing about it, 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:26.280 it's such a such a great game. My only thing 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:30.120 about netball sometimes I don't think television does it justice. 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:34.839 I always think that the speed of the athleticism sometimes 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:37.120 doesn't come through on the television. When you're there live, 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:38.679 all of a sudden, you go, wow, I look at 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:41.679 these it's flying about it. It's amazing. 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:44.079 I don't know how often I've been when I've been 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:47.839 commentating that various things around the world, and people were 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:51.320 working on it say I had no idea it was 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:54.480 so fast, And I think that's the wake up call. 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:57.160 You know. I agree with you. But one thing I 0:12:57.160 --> 0:12:59.679 do want to ask you is would you like to 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:01.880 see more men coaching. I mean, I think you're the 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:06.160 only bloke coaching on this in the elite you know area. 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:08.800 Would you like to see more men in the game. 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:13.319 I've always been I've always been gun shy around the 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:18.120 men versus women thing, only because I always think you you, 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:21.480 if you're good enough, you should get opportunity. But we 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:24.800 shouldn't just just because I'm a blow it doesn't mean 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:27.400 I should get a gig. I think I have to 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:29.760 prove that I'm good enough and show that I'm good 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:33.040 enough because and if you and if you do that, well, 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:39.280 I don't care if you're a man woman, whatever the opportunity, 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:43.040 if it arises, you should have So Yep, I think 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:45.160 you should earn. I think everything should be earned. 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:48.800 Oh, I am so with you on that one. 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:51.520 Now you were head coach, I think a few years 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:54.000 ago at the Magpies. Would you ever go back to 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:56.480 being a head coach or those days done? 0:13:56.880 --> 0:14:02.280 Oh no, I just if the if the right opportunity came. Yeah. Absolutely. 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:07.080 But currently at the moment, like the organization, I'm in 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:10.440 the environment, I'm in the players i'm working with, and 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:13.959 it allows me currently to do the international stuff because 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:16.840 I really did want to get into international netball, and 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:21.000 I felt because I do spend well so far, I've 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:24.360 often been spending say three or four months in Jamaica 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:28.000 a year, and I felt like, if you're a head coach, 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:31.560 I wouldn't be able to do that justice and do 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:35.840 both roles. So that's why I hadn't put my hand 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:38.640 up for any of the head coach role. Because I did. 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:43.480 I want to maintain that. Whether that continues, we'll see. 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:47.760 Well now I've got to get back on track. Big game. No, 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:50.400 but well no, because I steered you off track. Big 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:56.000 game this Sunday against the Tactics. You're after the three peete. 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:59.680 Can you do it? Can you get the home final? Oh? 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:06.560 Look, if we play really well, yes we can. But 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:10.240 I'm sure Tactics would say exactly the same thing. And 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:14.000 from our point of view, we we haven't been as 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:16.480 consistent as we're like often we you know, we'd get 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:18.760 out to a lead and then we'll let teams back 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:21.480 in rather than going right, we've got a nice lead 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:24.760 and put your foot down and keep extending it, so 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:27.920 we keep letting people back in. So that inconsistency is 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:31.640 the bit that we need to tidy up because if 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:35.840 we're inconsistent against tactics, they'll beat us inconsistent. 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:39.160 That's what you know to me, that this whole year's 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:42.280 competition has been inconsistent. The scores have been up and 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:44.400 down and all over the place. What would be your 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:44.920 take on that? 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:49.760 Yeah, I agree with that, and I'm wondering whether certainly 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:54.000 it was a compressed season. Certainly pre season has been 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:58.320 shorter than normal, but it also appears to have been 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:03.720 a significant rise in injuries, and I think that's affected 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:07.720 teams being able to get all their players either training 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:11.240 or playing together, and that time together clearly is going 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:14.080 to help around that consistency piece. That's a bit that 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:17.840 I'm really interested what what's causing that, because I feel 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:21.080 like across this season there's been a number of times 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:23.960 a number of teams have been out, had a number 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:26.000 of their main line out, And I was thinking, well, 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:29.040 that's interesting, what's what's what's that? What's that about? 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:31.480 Well, look at the Pulse, look at the Stars. You 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:35.120 know they've had a terrible season. Yes, well not the Pulse, 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:36.000 but certainly you. 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:36.480 Know you've got to. 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:41.200 You know, Timmy Potter Bailey and her first season as 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:42.680 a head coach, nightmare. 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:47.280 Oh so unlucky, like they've just had these injuries that 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:49.600 and sometimes you just you need a bit of luck. 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:51.880 I always think you need a bit of luck during 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:55.480 the season and sometimes those injuries can just they can 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:56.440 affect your big time. 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:58.640 At the end of all our little interviews, we do 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:04.480 a thing called the fast Fire. 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:04.800 Inside Netball's Fast five. 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:08.400 What would be your go to postgame snack? 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:13.560 A coke? Well, certainly would be a certainly'd be a 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:18.600 coke on the time. I know it's a drink, but 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:19.760 that would still be my snack. 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:23.600 Now, if you could compete in any other sport other 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:25.760 than netball, what would it be? 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:29.240 And why I was rubbish and everything? But what I 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:31.480 would love to have been. I would love to have 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:36.960 been like an international cricket umpire. Oh I would love 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:40.520 to have done that. But you know, I went down 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:44.399 a different path like netball took me, which was fantastic. 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:47.720 So but that's what I'll do. I'd be hopeless of 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:49.080 it if I was playing anything. 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:53.400 If now number three, who in your team is most 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:56.720 likely to get you into trouble and then most likely 0:17:56.760 --> 0:17:58.040 to get you out of trouble? 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:01.200 Oh besides yourself? 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:06.560 Yeah, I get myself in trouble. What it almost might 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:10.000 be the same person. Oh no, no, I'm going to 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:13.600 separate it. So Katie Tiao would be the most likely 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:18.080 to get me into trouble. She's real cheeky, like she's 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:21.879 every session or every training session, she hides my bag 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:25.679 and can never find it. She's hiding stuff. And the 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:29.119 person will probably get me out of trouble is Petter. 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:34.720 She's real clever, so she'll find a way for me 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:38.879 to get out of trouble. So she's always on speed dial. 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:43.639 Okay, one, two to go. If you could take any 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:46.760 three athletes in the world, current or present, dead or 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:50.200 alive with you to dinner, who would you invite? 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:57.520 Oh? I would go. Lebron James is just I think 0:18:57.560 --> 0:19:02.440 from his longevity in the sport, like obviously just you know, amazing, 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:04.680 certainly up there with Michael Jordan as one of the 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:08.200 very best players in the world, and what he's done 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:12.480 off court as well, his work away from basketball is real, 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:17.879 real cool. So I would go with that. It's not 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:23.560 necessarily an athlete, but I start from Game of Thrones. 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:28.120 She's the one that killed the king. 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:29.440 I've never watched game. 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:33.920 Tell me, yeah, she's yeah, she's cool. 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:36.120 Okay, so you've got one more. 0:19:36.880 --> 0:19:41.960 Well, I have to go with your co host. 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:44.680 Don't go there. 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:50.879 I have to like one like the world's best sense 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:54.280 of humor, like obviously knows the game inside out, but 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:57.400 it's like you can have a conversation and you learn 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:00.760 so much, but you'll also have laughed just self silly 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:05.040 in it, So it would be just an amazing experience. 0:20:05.040 --> 0:20:06.720 So there's my three. 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:09.680 You're on my Christmas card list. 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:13.760 Okay, last one, best piece of advice anyone has ever 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:14.199 given you. 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:19.359 This one's an easy one, So I was the best 0:20:19.359 --> 0:20:21.600 piece of advice I was given is to be myself, 0:20:22.320 --> 0:20:25.880 so not try and and that was from a coaching 0:20:25.920 --> 0:20:28.280 point of view, because when I first started coaching, you 0:20:28.359 --> 0:20:30.679 see what other people are doing and you try and 0:20:30.760 --> 0:20:32.840 mimic them, or you think this is what you should 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:38.040 do rather than you know, be authentic, like if you'll quiet, 0:20:38.160 --> 0:20:42.040 be quiet, if you're a bit crazy, be crazy, etcetera, etcetera. 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:44.680 And so I passed it on to everyone. I think 0:20:44.680 --> 0:20:47.320 it's the best thing you can do because one I 0:20:47.320 --> 0:20:50.440 always think players see through or fraud or if you're 0:20:50.800 --> 0:20:53.439 if you're trying to fake it they'll see through it. 0:20:53.840 --> 0:20:56.879 You might do it, you might get away with it once, 0:20:57.560 --> 0:21:01.800 but it's hard work trying to not belf So that's 0:21:01.880 --> 0:21:04.919 the best piece of ice. And I got that, you know, 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:09.679 more than twenty five years ago. But it's stuck with 0:21:09.720 --> 0:21:10.520 me forever and. 0:21:10.480 --> 0:21:13.080 It's true to it as well, and it's lasted the 0:21:13.119 --> 0:21:15.600 test of time. Well, Rob, thank you so much for 0:21:15.640 --> 0:21:19.320 your time. Best of luck on Sunday. And look, I'm 0:21:19.359 --> 0:21:21.240 sure it'll be a great game. 0:21:21.640 --> 0:21:24.680 I think it'll be a cracker talking all things netball, 0:21:25.040 --> 0:21:29.520 Inside Netball, the Inside Netball Podcast. 0:21:29.720 --> 0:21:34.360 Now round nine pretty much the finalists are set, you've 0:21:34.359 --> 0:21:36.800 got the mystics are there, the tactics are there, but 0:21:36.840 --> 0:21:38.840 it's still a bit of a question mark as to 0:21:38.920 --> 0:21:41.440 who is there with them. First game of the round 0:21:41.520 --> 0:21:45.240 was the Pulse Stars. Now the Pulse are very much 0:21:45.280 --> 0:21:46.040 in it, aren't they. 0:21:46.560 --> 0:21:49.440 Yeah, And this was one round that we probably could 0:21:49.480 --> 0:21:51.840 have predicted who was going to win the game, and 0:21:51.840 --> 0:21:54.600 that's that's how it worked out. And yeah, but it's 0:21:54.680 --> 0:21:57.399 everything is still about the last round because it's not 0:21:57.680 --> 0:22:00.960 top position. That's still up for grabs, and that's tactics, mystics. 0:22:01.000 --> 0:22:04.600 That'll be an interesting one, and certainly the Pulse absolutely 0:22:04.640 --> 0:22:07.760