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Speaker 1: Netball New Zealand's decision to stand down Dame Noline Toto

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Speaker 1: has sent shockwaves through netball. Silverfern centurion Laura Langman has

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Speaker 1: posted on Facebook that it's gutless and selfish for complaining

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Speaker 1: players not to be upfront with what the issues are.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk to her.

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Speaker 2: Hi, Laura, Hi, how are you going?

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Speaker 1: I'm very well, thank you. Do you have any idea

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Speaker 1: what's going on here?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 2: I don't have any facts.

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Speaker 3: I have just had the information that everyone else has.

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Speaker 3: But it doesn't dull down the shock and disappointment.

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Speaker 2: I think that's been felt worldwide, worldwide. Do you think Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I saw tans and Greenway has commented on it.

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Speaker 2: I just think there's just so many levels to this.

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Speaker 3: For me, besides having been a player under Knowles's leadership

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Speaker 3: for many campaigns, it's just not the way we do things.

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Speaker 2: Kiwis first and foremost.

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Speaker 3: Secondly, I don't think this is a direction where we

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Speaker 3: want sport to be going.

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Speaker 2: You know, Nipple used to be a household.

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Speaker 3: Celebrated sport and at the moment we're just not doing

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Speaker 3: ourselves any favors at all.

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Speaker 1: So apparently this has come down to Dame Nolean's communications style.

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Speaker 1: Any idea what that means?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I found that interesting, to be honest, and it's really

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Speaker 3: interesting the perception of people. I can only comment on

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Speaker 3: what I know, and I know that people VK Noles

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Speaker 3: and I like besties and are each other every week

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Speaker 3: like that is not the case. I have a huge

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Speaker 3: amount of respect for Noles for what she's done for

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Speaker 3: me as a personal or player. Her communication style I

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Speaker 3: think is appropriate for the level that she is coaching.

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Speaker 3: When you make the elite side, a coach's role is

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Speaker 3: a facilitata. You've been in the sport long enough, you

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Speaker 3: know what you're looking for, you know the feel the

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Speaker 3: need to seek feedback, and I think in an environment

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Speaker 3: where you can get it yourself from video through like

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Speaker 3: support staff, you don't need to have the coach petting

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Speaker 3: in you on the back twenty four seven?

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Speaker 2: Did you reckon?

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Speaker 1: That's what it is?

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Speaker 2: Do you reckon?

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Speaker 1: That's There may be a generation of young players here

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Speaker 1: who don't want to have to be told where they

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Speaker 1: need to brush up and be told that harshly.

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Speaker 3: Well, look, yeah, no one goes into a one on

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Speaker 3: one and the expecting to be patted on the back

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Speaker 3: that's for sure. So I don't know if it's around

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Speaker 3: those communications. I have heard whispers that the environment was

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Speaker 3: one people were scared to speak.

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Speaker 2: Up or do anything wrong.

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Speaker 3: And if I'm really being really blunt, I think that's

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Speaker 3: a cop out. Elite sport level you need to be

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Speaker 3: able to have those hard conversations. And under every environment

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Speaker 3: I've been under, Knowles she is one that empowers her

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Speaker 3: athletes to have those conversations.

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Speaker 2: She just like facilitates.

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Speaker 3: She wants it to be driven by the player group

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Speaker 3: because we're the ones that are making the decisions out

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Speaker 3: on court. We can't wait for court a time, halftime

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Speaker 3: to come and get a pat on the back or

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Speaker 3: this needs to be changed. Our game's dynamic, like we

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Speaker 3: as players need to make decisions. So I think for

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Speaker 3: players to be like we didn't have a voice, I

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Speaker 3: think it's a cop out because I blatantly.

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Speaker 1: Know you would of Yeah, Laura, listen, thanks very much

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Speaker 1: for talking us through at Laura Langman silver Fern Legend.

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Speaker 1: I just want to say the support for Dame Knowles,

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Speaker 1: I think is unreal. We even had Gordon Titchens, the

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Speaker 1: legendary Sevens coach, get in touch with us We didn't

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Speaker 1: call him. He called us to tell us he wanted

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Speaker 1: to support Dame Knowles in this. He reckons the players

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Speaker 1: have got too much say. He reckons she isn't old

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Speaker 1: school at all like she's been accused of. In fact,

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Speaker 1: she's elevated and changes with the times and accepts that

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Speaker 1: probably his own style would not be acceptable to these

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Speaker 1: younger players nowadays.

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Speaker 2: So there you go.

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