The ladder-leading Giants have showcased their Super Netball title credentials with a four-point victory over back-to-back champions Queensland Firebirds at the Gold Coast Exhibition Centre.

The Magpies are still not in positive territory after following a loss with a win for a fourth consecutive time, but Friday's 56-43 defeat of the West Coast Fever at Hisense Arena means that, for now at least, the pre-season favourites are in Super Netball's top four.

The Canberra Giants are one win away from an Australian Netball League grand final berth.

Lisa Alexander suggests Collingwood's big-name roster only has one "world-class experienced player".

Swifts youngster Sarah Klau has the unenviable task of lining up on Sunshine Coast shooter Caitlin Bassett on Sunday.

Newly-confirmed Netball Australia chief executive officer Marne Fechner says the key battleground for the popular participant sport in the new age of national women's leagues headlined by the successful launch of AFLW is not athlete numbers but audience share.

The new league is doing what it set out to do, but netball needs some improvement off-court.

Tegan Philip was not inundated with offers before this season, but nor did she seek them. Having missed the year with a torn ACL, Philip was content to return to the club that had supported her rehabilitation, and now could not be more pleased that she did.

The second round of a Melbourne netball rivalry short on history but big in intensity ended with bragging rights to the veterans.

The Giants are still the queens of Sydney after overcoming a six-goal deficit in the fourth quarter to defeat the NSW Swifts 59-56 on Saturday evening.

The Giants derby clash with the Swifts on Saturday will be their first game in Sydney in five weeks.

Sharni Layton struggles to think of herself as a former Vixen, having failed to play a single minute in her sole year on the club's list. But that frustrating 2008 experience inspired the netballer who now ranks among the world's finest, even as it came perilously close to driving her permanently from the game.

The NSW Swifts are ready to turn the tables on the ladder-leading Giants in Saturday's Sydney derby.

When the sporting Honey family finally sat down to watch some old footage of one of the elite netballers in its midst, eldest daughter Tayla, an aspiring Australian midcourter and Melbourne Vixens training partner, saw for the first time the player her mother Di had been.

All bar one of the winning teams last weekend had a goal shooter who moved more than she held.

The Swifts have fallen agonisingly short of a huge upset win over the Magpies.

Melbourne Vixens have interrupted the Giants' perfect start to the inaugural Super Netball season, retaining second place on the ladder with an outstanding performance at Hisense Arena and a 59-51 scoreline that was as much a statement as a result.

Sharni Layton returns to play her old club on Sunday when the Magpies take on the NSW Swifts.

Dual NSW Swifts grand final coach Rob Wright is very concerned about the potential ramifications for Sunday's round six encounter against the Collingwood Magpies at Hisense Arena.