Netball: Colling reckons it's high time the Flames caught fire

Canterbury Flames captain Belinda Colling believes the team have been a long way from showing their best yet in the National Bank Cup.

"We've seen it in spurts, but players aren't even consistently putting 15 minutes together at the moment," she said. "If we don't do that against the Rebels [tonight], we're on our last legs really."

Colling said that the competition had been frustrating for the Flames.

Despite all their potential, they were unable to "string together a game of the standard that you know some of the players can play consistently. And it's trying to find the key to it all really."

Usually a fixture in the shooting circle, Silver Fern Colling has spent six quarters out at wing-attack, including half a game against both the Sting and the Capital Shakers.

Colling said that the new position wasn't unfamiliar. "It's about what's best for the team."

As a shooter, she has been in stunning form, collecting 111 goals from 125 attempts for an 89 per cent average. That puts the 1.78m goal-attack behind only two NBC shooters, Irene van Dyk and Donna Loffhagen.

- NZPA