The Magic's margin for error in the transtasman league is narrowing, with stiffer competition on the home front this season.

The Waikato/Bay of Plenty Magic have broken up the all-Australian party at the top of the transtasman league ladder, returning from their bye week to inflict a heavy loss on the Tactix in Tauranga last night.

After a week in which claims of in-fighting emerged, the Northern Mystics have picked up their first win of the season, causing an extra-time boilover against the Central Pulse.

The Thunderbirds have provided the highly competitive Australian conference with a shake-up, edging out the Melbourne Vixens 39-38 in a bruising clash in Adelaide.

They are not quite on notice but Silver Ferns coach Wai Taumaunu expects her international players in the ailing Mystics to come to the fore in coming weeks.

The number of injury compensation claims accepted from netball players has increased sharply, far outstripping the rise in the number of people playing the sport.

The Northern Mystics, so desperately poor on the court, are close to imploding off it as their season goes from bad to embarrassing.

Netball NZ insists no pressure is on Mt Albert Grammar's Jamie Lee Price to make a decision regarding her long-term international future.

Beaten by the competition easybeats, the Northern Mystics have officially hit rock-bottom.

The Adelaide Thunderbirds built on their dominant record against Perth's West Coast Fever with a 26-point home victory in their ANZ Championship netball clash yesterday.

Joline Henry's return to the netball court came at just the right time for the Central Pulse as they beat the Southern Steel 59-56 in Palmerston North tonight.

As concerns mount over the increasing physicality in netball, transtasman league officials are preparing to introduce a new judicial review system.

ANZ Championship officials decided to let Irene van Dyk off with a warning. If they imagine their response has done netball any good, they are mistaken.

Irene van Dyk won't face any penalties for her outburst as league officials look to draw a line under the debate that has seen netball's image take a battering.

Veteran West Coast Fever coach Norma Plummer has dismissed allegations of dirty play from netball legend Irene van Dyk as "sad" and the words of a frustrated player.

Irene van Dyk is likely to escape with a warning from officials after her controversial outburst over the aggressive approach of the West Coast Fever defence.

The level of physicality in netball's transtasman league is getting out of hand after claims of rough-house tactics marred another round of the competition.

Transtasman league officials will make a decision today over whether Irene van Dyk will face sanctions for her post-match outburst in Perth.

Holding onto fourth-quarter leads hasn't been a hallmark of the Central Pulse in years gone by.

The debate over the increased physicality in the transtasman netball league erupted again as Irene van Dyk hit out at the rough-house tactics of the West Coast Fever defenders.

Irene van Dyk has unleashed a stinging attack on the aggressive defensive tactics employed by the West Coast Fever after her side's loss in Perth.