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Speaker 1: Netball players and fans alike can breathe a sigh of relief.

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Speaker 1: This morning, the an Z Premiership is found a home

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Speaker 1: for the next few next year's season, this time it's

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Speaker 1: going to be free to air TV and Z. Steph

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Speaker 1: Bond is executive manager of the Netball Players Association, joining

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Speaker 1: us this morning. Steph, good morning, Good morning. You must

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Speaker 1: be relieved that there is a deal.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I think we are excited that it's going to

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Speaker 2: be on TV next year and a free to your

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Speaker 2: platform is exciting for the sport.

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Speaker 1: Do you get more people watching on free to air

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Speaker 1: than on Sky?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely? I think especially for a sport like netball, when

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Speaker 2: where there's a huge amount of people playing it at

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Speaker 2: a community level, to have all those all those people

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Speaker 2: over to watch it on free to air will definitely

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Speaker 2: increase the ills on the game.

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Speaker 1: Does it mean that they have settled for a lower

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Speaker 1: paying option with in terms of a broadcast.

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Speaker 2: Partner, Yeah, obviously answer that you'll have to ask net

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Speaker 2: when you're zaland that question that it is just great.

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Speaker 2: I think that we have a deeal for next year

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Speaker 2: in terms of what it looks like.

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Speaker 1: Now, do you know any details yet about what it

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Speaker 1: might mean for players.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're working through that at the moment, so we're

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Speaker 2: embargaining with net when you're done at the moment. So

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Speaker 2: that will now form part of the piece of what

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Speaker 2: it may look like next year in terms of payments

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Speaker 2: for players.

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Speaker 1: What is the worry that players have? Is it that

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Speaker 1: you go with TV ands and you get less money.

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Speaker 1: There's less you know, salary or less pay for netball players.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we are obviously having to look at that right

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Speaker 2: now in terms of how it does fall in terms

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Speaker 2: of player payments. Over the last couple of weeks. Players

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Speaker 2: to have a fairly good idea now of the picture

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Speaker 2: for next year. So it is really sitting down for

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Speaker 2: each individual player and looking at that and actually working

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Speaker 2: out with a playing netwill is the right option for

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Speaker 2: their next year.

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Speaker 1: So it could come down to can I survive doing

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Speaker 1: this or do I actually need to get another job?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that is right. I think players will have to

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Speaker 2: look at it a little bit differently, especially for some players.

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Speaker 2: All of our players do already work at the same time,

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Speaker 2: so it may just been packing up a few extra hours.

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Speaker 2: But I think it will be a little bit different

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Speaker 2: in terms of potentially what it may look like next year,

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Speaker 2: but I think it will still work for the majority

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Speaker 2: of players.

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Speaker 1: All right, Steff, appreciate your trying this morning. STEFH. Bond,

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Speaker 1: executive manager at New Zealand Network Players Association. For more

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