Liz Ellis: Netball risks destroying itself from the inside
The huge gains made by netball in recent years are under threat, and it's painful to watch.
The huge gains made by netball in recent years are under threat, and it's painful to watch.
Here are some key things you need to know about as you settle in with a beverage of your choice on Saturday nights to watch some of the best athletes in the world battle it out.
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.
To borrow from Dickens – It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness.
If the 2017 ANZ Championship season had a theme song surely it would be Bob Dylan's The times they are a-changin'.
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.
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 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.
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.
Eight days into the Netball World Cup and something is wrong. Very, very wrong.
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