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David Leggat: Taumaunu's risk-taking all part of being coach
Top coaches would relate to Wai Taumaunu's dilemma when it came to choosing her world championship Silver Ferns squad this month, David Leggat.
Top coaches would relate to Wai Taumaunu's dilemma when it came to choosing her world championship Silver Ferns squad this month, David Leggat.
The Silver Ferns' first pre-World Cup hit-out against Fiji on Thursday night provided a strong indicator of the lines Taumaunu will run during the tournament in Sydney in just under two weeks.
Cathrine Latu has recommitted to the Northern Mystics next season, ending speculation over her future.
The spotlight shone on the new kid and the comeback kid in the Silver Ferns dominant win over Fiji in the first of three pre-World Cup hit-outs in Porirua tonight.
The Silver Ferns are satisfied with the competition they will get from Fiji and South Africa in their only test hit-outs before next month's World Cup.
The Northern Mystics' 2016 roster is beginning to take shape, but question marks over the future of some of the franchise's biggest names remain.
Silver Fern midcourter Camilla Lees is quitting netball for good as she says it is no longer possible to combine her medical work with the demands of playing at the top level.
It is possibly the biggest gamble of Waimarama Taumaunu's career. A calculated gamble, but a gamble no less.
The new-look Silver Ferns attack line are an unknown quantity even to themselves just over three weeks out from the start of the World Cup.
Whatever happens to the Silver Ferns at the World Cup, one irrefutable truth remains - the performance of Maria Tutaia is still the critical success factor.
"I need to just step away and reassess where I want to go. I need to find the spark and I guess get the love for the game back in my heart again so I can carry on."
It wasn't long before the excitement in the room gave way to shock when Silver Ferns coach Waimarama Taumaunu gathered the team she had selected for the World Cup.
Coach Waimarama Taumaunu will today name her side for the Netball World Cup in Sydney, ending weeks of speculation over the 12 for the tournament.
Before the Netball World Cup story becomes one of selection delight and dejection, we should note the stories of sacrifice just to make it to this week's trials, writes Dana Johannsen.
Mystics’ defender Temalisi Fakahokotau has undergone surgery for a deep cut in her hand after the glass jug of her blender smashed.
It is hard to remember a period when there has been more pessimism about Kiwi netball, writes Dana Johannsen.
Several long-standing Silver Ferns are in danger of missing out on the World Cup if they don't perform strongly at trials this week.
Netball New Zealand have blocked the Mainland Tactix bid to field a second import player in next year’s ANZ Championship.
It may not be surprising to New Zealand netball fans how many Kiwis have been named in the ANZ Championship All-Star team.
If the conference system is here to stay in the ANZ Netball Championship, as we have been told it is, then bosses need to rethink the finals format.