The Netty Life

Round nine of the Super Netball season fell on Mother’s Day weekend in Australia and that was extremely fitting as we found out the shock news that NSW Swifts midcourter Paige Hadley would be returning to the court&...

Power Week 1 of the Telkom Netball League has taken place in South Africa and Nicole Pappas from Netball Junkie joins us to talk about the teams and players to beat this 2026 season. We also discuss the dominan...

Round eight has been and gone, the Vixens had a scare against the Giants and the Firebirds didn’t learn from their earlier defeat to the Thunderbirds. A crucial mistake from the Swifts saw them fumble against the Ma...

At the halfway point of the 2026 season, the Melbourne Vixens and Adelaide Thunderbirds continue to impress at the top of the ladder. Meanwhile, the dance for fourth spot is still happening between the Melbourne Mavericks&nbs...

Midcourter Jake Noonan has been a male training partner for a host of Super Netball clubs over the course of his playing career — Collingwood, Fever, Giants and the Vixens. This year he's playing a crucial role ...

Six rounds in and we have a new ladder leader. It was the match we’d all been waiting for and in their first meeting of 2026, the Melbourne Vixens surprised the Adelaide Thunderbirds shooters by injecting Jo Weston&...

Jamaican defender Jodi-Ann Ward is back playing Super Netball, 10 months after rehabbing an ACL injury. Last week her bottom-ranked, winless Giants ALMOST beat the No.1 ranked favourites Adelaide Thunderbirds. In the end, they los...

Netball Australia have confirmed there will be no new teams joining Super Netball next season. Sad face. But we have at least found out the main contenders vying for a licence and eager to be part of the world’...

Silver Ferns defender Karin Burger joins us for the first time ever to chat about her growing combination with new Sunshine Coast Lightning teammate Courtney Bruce and what life has been like since her move to Australia&...

Many hoped that at least one New Zealand team would join Super Netball for 2027. With a new broadcast deal on the horizon the league put out an expression of interest, hoping to expand and add two new sides to the competition. Sadly, reports across the ditch say it is not a financially viable option for the kiwis. We unpack this disappointing news before we analyse the games from round four. There...

Maddie Hay was linked to the Giants for eight years and bled orange before the Super Netball club decided not to re-sign her at the end of the 2025 season. The midcourter felt like it was the end of the road for her in the competition and despite feeling like she had more to give, announced her reluctant retirement. Fast forward to January of this year and she got an interesting call from her form...

It’s been a tough week for the Mavericks who had control of the Melbourne Derby for the majority of the match before they lost Tara Hinchliffe to an ACL injury and fell to the might of the Melbourne Vixens in an extra-time thriller. Elsewhere, the Sunshine Coast Lightning pulled off back-to-back one-goal victories at home, before the Queensland Firebirds and Giants struggled to meet Super Netball...

Emily Mannix and Sharni Layton are two of the most beloved goal keepers in the game. There's been big changes for the both of them this season, as Em returns to the court for the Melbourne Vixens after giving birth to her daughter Mabel and Sharni leaves Victoria behind to take on a new role as the assistant coach of the West Coast Fever. The double header in Sydney was so successful last weekend...

England’s head coach has resigned just four months out from the Commonwealth Games and the news has sent the netball world into a bit of a tizzy. Will the Roses still have a chance to win gold? Who is the right person to replace Jess Thirlby in the top job? We dive into all of that in this week’s episode and hear from those within the inner sanctum about how lonely it can be to be a woman in such...

Following a messy six months for netball in New Zealand, sports journalist Bridget Tunnicliffe joins us to look back on the issues that plagued the Silver Ferns' international season. The ANZ Premiership is due to start in a month. Is there much excitement building in the country for their elite league? After pay cuts for players led nine Kiwi athletes to jump ship and sign with Australian clubs....

Will it be the most unpredictable season of Super Netball yet? Everyone keeps saying so. Maybe that’s because there have been so many roster changes. 11 brand new players got their first taste of Super Netball in round one. Eight more switched clubs and playing colours. Despite there being so many fresh faces and combinations, it was easy to pick a clear standout. In this episode we fan girl over...

In a brand new offering this season, we will now be dropping two podcasts per week. Our main episode focused on Super Netball will continue as normal and be available each Wednesday. The second one will be available later in the week and feature an in-depth, longer form interview with a netball personality. This could be a player or coach from Australia or a chance to go around the world and hear...

The 10th season of Super Netball is here, and we break down all eight teams vying for the premiership and a brand new trophy! There have been major changes to squads during the off-season, and we deep dive into which teams have recruited well and which might face challenges.

International controversies, a nail-biting Super Netball finale and the Constellation Cup back in the Diamonds’ trophy cabinet. It has been an epic year for the sport as we farewell 2025 and look ahead to what’s to come with a new head coach at the Melbourne Mavericks, possible team expansion and a new direction for Australian netball under the guidance of Liz Ellis.

The Diamonds have won back the Constellation Cup but it came at a significant cost, when Australian defender Sunday Aryang ruptured her ACL in the final second of the series. The devastating finish meant the celebrations were quite subdued and felt rather hollow. We discuss the highs and lows of the four games, the players that wowed us from both teams and our thoughts on the new format to determi...

The Diamonds were back to their sensational best against a South African side that failed to capitalise on their chances against the world number one team. This series against the Proteas saw four Diamonds debut on home soil as head coach, Stacey Marinkovich, leaves no stone unturned on the road to the World Cup in 2027. We also discuss the ongoing feud with Netball New Zealand’s board and their H...

All eight Super Netball teams have locked in their 10 full-time contracted players for the 2026 season and it is time for us to unpack the craziest signing period in the history of the league. There has been so much movement it’s been hard to keep track of, including some shock retirements and surprise switches for some of our favourite athletes. Britt and Maddie go through each side with a fine t...

The 2025 Super Netball season concluded with one of the most thrilling grand finals in the sport's history, as we watched the Melbourne Vixens narrowly defeat the West Coast Fever by just one goal. In this episode, we chat with Kate Eddy, who is still flying high after her team’s dramatic win, and we catch up with retiring Adelaide Thunderbirds stalwart, Hannah Petty, who is excited for what’s nex...

Despite being 10 goals down at three quarter time, the Melbourne Vixens cliched a nail biting one goal win over the NSW Swifts to secure their place in the SSN grand final. We analyse what exactly went wrong for the Swifts in their heartbreaking loss and give our predictions for who will be this year’s premiership winners. We go across the ditch to look at the Tactix grand final win against the My...

The West Coast Fever established their dominance in Super Netball’s final campaign with a record-breaking 32-goal win against the NSW Swifts, who now face the Melbourne Vixens for a spot in the grand final. The Adelaide Thunderbirds' dreams of a three-peat were brought to an end in front of a shocked home crowd as they bowed out of the minor semi-final. We discuss the Aussie Diamonds 2025/2026 sel...