1
00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,080
Speaker 1: New Zealand's netball team is about to get a serious upgrade.

2
00:00:03,279 --> 00:00:05,600
Speaker 1: The Netball New Zealand Bord is voted to update its

3
00:00:05,640 --> 00:00:09,400
Speaker 1: eligibility criteria. This is for silver Ferns. It means that

4
00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:13,000
Speaker 1: if you are an overseas based athlete you can still

5
00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:16,120
Speaker 1: play for the national team. This is a text from

6
00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:19,119
Speaker 1: one of our listeners this morning, Ryan. No coincidence that

7
00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:21,560
Speaker 1: Netball New Zealand have changed the goalpost this year since

8
00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:23,640
Speaker 1: they lost their best goal shooting Grace Noiki to the

9
00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:27,840
Speaker 1: Aussie League and won't let her be eligible for selection here.

10
00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:30,120
Speaker 1: She's also not eligible for Australia. It's a no brainer.

11
00:00:30,680 --> 00:00:33,360
Speaker 1: Joining me this morning is Margaret Foster, former Silver Fern

12
00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:35,800
Speaker 1: and former coach of the Canterbury Fames and the Southern

13
00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:39,239
Speaker 1: Steel Margaret, good morning, Good morning. So what do you

14
00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:41,839
Speaker 1: make of this change?

15
00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:47,400
Speaker 2: Well, yay, of course, yeah, without a doubt. I mean,

16
00:00:47,479 --> 00:00:49,559
Speaker 2: you know rips in your country. You need to have

17
00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:53,559
Speaker 2: your best athletes surely, regardless of where they're playing it

18
00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:57,360
Speaker 2: in the world. And yeah, no, I think it's brilliant.

19
00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:01,400
Speaker 1: Is the What was the rationale was to build a

20
00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:05,280
Speaker 1: better depth here in New Zealand. What was it?

21
00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:08,240
Speaker 2: Well, Originally it was I don't know if you remember,

22
00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:12,039
Speaker 2: but back in the day when Laura Langman was over

23
00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:16,760
Speaker 2: in Australia playing and she was not eligible to be

24
00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:19,280
Speaker 2: in the New Zealand team or to make the World

25
00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:21,720
Speaker 2: Cup team, and they kind of had to do an

26
00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:25,360
Speaker 2: exception for her. Back then, I think it was really

27
00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:29,800
Speaker 2: about trying to build our base and ensure that our

28
00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:33,560
Speaker 2: athletes were staying here in the country to play netball.

29
00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:37,759
Speaker 2: But it just look, you need to if you want

30
00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:41,360
Speaker 2: to be playing like top level netboard. The best competition

31
00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:43,640
Speaker 2: is in Australia at the moment.

32
00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:48,760
Speaker 1: Does this potentially make that situation worse in a way

33
00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:53,080
Speaker 1: by making their competition stronger? If you know, if you

34
00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:54,920
Speaker 1: don't need to be in New Zealand to play for

35
00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:57,480
Speaker 1: the Silver Ferns, then I suppose why would you.

36
00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:01,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, at the end of the that that competition

37
00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:05,480
Speaker 2: over in Australia has got all the top athletes, so

38
00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:10,360
Speaker 2: you know, so your week in leak out playing with

39
00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:13,160
Speaker 2: the best and against the best, Like you know, you've

40
00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:17,040
Speaker 2: got the Jamaicans, You've got the English, you've got the

41
00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:20,200
Speaker 2: South Africans, are all all the top athletes are over

42
00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:23,040
Speaker 2: there playing, so you know, it can only actually make

43
00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:25,280
Speaker 2: you a better athletes as well, and then you can

44
00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:28,000
Speaker 2: come back and represent your country and bring in that

45
00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:31,880
Speaker 2: wonderful form that you've got from playing as an a.

46
00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:36,359
Speaker 1: Level the club teams do we have a competition that's

47
00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:37,520
Speaker 1: you know Trans Tasman.

48
00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:42,520
Speaker 2: No, And that's the biggest thing is that we really

49
00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:47,560
Speaker 2: need to get back into that competition over in Australia,

50
00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:50,840
Speaker 2: Like you know, it's that's that's our biggest thing. I think,

51
00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:54,600
Speaker 2: you know, like we've we've trialed, we've gone our separate

52
00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:58,040
Speaker 2: ways and it doesn't really work if you're looking if

53
00:02:58,040 --> 00:03:00,880
Speaker 2: you're looking at the product that we've got in New Zealand.

54
00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:04,280
Speaker 1: I just don't know.

55
00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:09,119
Speaker 2: I just think it's it would be much better if

56
00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:12,560
Speaker 2: we try to get back into that competition.

57
00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:16,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, it sounds like we would all benefit from it.

58
00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:19,679
Speaker 1: Mag Thank you. That's Margaret Foster, a former Silver Fern,

59
00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:22,520
Speaker 1: former Canterbury Fames and Southern Steel coach, talking on the

60
00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:26,840
Speaker 1: change to the eligibility criteria for from Netball end Z

61
00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:28,880
Speaker 1: for the Silver Ferns. So there you go. Be good

62
00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:33,480
Speaker 1: news for any you know hot not hot, I mean

63
00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:39,360
Speaker 1: late impressive netballers who are living overseas in Australia right now,

64
00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:43,160
Speaker 1: including Grace and RICKI. For more from Early Edition with

65
00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:46,280
Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge. Listen live to news talks. It'd be from

66
00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:49,920
Speaker 1: five am weekdays, or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio