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I dusted off my rompers this week to help launch the ANZ Championship TransTasman Netball League, which passes off (the official netball term for gets cracking) next Saturday.
Netball junkies are in for a real treat - 69 games screened live on SkySport 1, with an all-star commentary team.
I loved netball when I was a kid but it is my great curse to have been born with absolutely no talent for any sport whatsoever.
I got the intensely competitive nature from my athletically gifted parents but none of their skill.
Sacred Heart Girls' College had to invent a team for us, we were all so bad. But man, we had fun. And we had fun yesterday, too.
Stefano Oliveri showed incredible talent as goal keep, and Miriama Smith was a centre as sparkling as the sequins she wears on Dancing with the Stars. Sadly, that gorgeous Temepara George couldn't play.
We might have had a chance had she been able to. I reckon it was all the passion we put into our team chant. Glenn Osborne came up with it and it was stirring and spine tingling and energetic - a bit like the haka. And then we got thrashed by the Mt Albert Grammar girls team 19-2. Still it wasn't about us, it was about the league. And I'm sure the New Zealand teams will do us proud.
