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Southern Steel coach Noeline Taurua (right) reacts to a win over the Mystics this year.

Steel bring the irony ... or is it just bad timing?

It's the dying days of the great netball experiment. Next year the groundbreaking trans-Tasman competition will be no more after Australian netball bosses deemed the Kiwi teams not competitive enough and decided to strike out on their own.

Laura Geitz.

Confidence the key as Silver Ferns regroup

Confidence is king, or given that we are talking about netball, queen. Whatever, the Silver Ferns now have some, and the Diamonds may come to regret handing it over last Sunday in the third Constellation Cup match in Melbourne.

Gretel Tippett

New Diamonds show their sparkle

In a week where Anne Sargeant was officially inducted as a legend of the Sport Australian Hall of Fame it was fitting that Australia unveiled a new crop of superstars in the opening two matches of the Constellation Cup.

The Diamonds celebrate their netball World Cup success.

New Zealand out to avenge World Cup loss

The last time Australia and New Zealand faced off, it was the final of the netball World Cup. There were tears – of joy for the Diamonds, despair for the Silver Ferns.

Julie Corletto (right) of the Diamonds celebrates with Natalie Medhurst (left) after the final.

How the Diamonds found World Cup redemption

It was the final we had waited four years for. It was tough, it was emotional and it was played in front of a world record crowd.  And it was, in the end, the Diamonds' day.