The Netty Life

The Australian Men’s Netball Team will be back in action next week, facing New Zealand for the first time since 2018. The side have had limited opportunities to play international netball during the pandemic, but there has been a lot of interest and momentum building in the domestic men’s space this year. We catch up with captain Dylan Nexhip to hear his thoughts ahead of their return to court and...

Young Ash Ervin has had an unbelievable year and has topped it off with a 2023 Sport Australia Hall of Fame scholarship! The up-and-coming defender scored herself her first Super Netball training partnership, represented Queensland at the U19s National Championships in Tasmania and at the Australian Netball Championships in Traralgon, where she topped the stats for deflections. Before she was pick...

At the end of the 2020 Super Netball season, Chelsea Pitman found herself in a vulnerable position with no plans locked in for 2021, after surviving a miscarriage, an ectopic pregnancy, a tough season away from home in the COVID hub and the disappointment of being dumped by the club she had captained through it all at the Adelaide Thunderbirds. Aged 32, others may have thrown the towel in, but not...

After 10 days of hotly contested netball, the gold medal was decided in an epic 60 minute showdown that will live on in netball history. It was Jamaica’s first appearance in a gold medal match and they were up against an Australian side who were desperate to win back the gold they lost in 2018. Despite a first class performance by the Sunshine Girls, it was the Diamonds who were victorious, claimi...

Australia have suffered their first loss of the Commonwealth Games against an extremely dangerous Jamaican side to finish second in Group A. But despite being battered and bruised the Diamonds will need to regroup quickly ahead of their semifinal match against England. Kate and Britt discuss how the Diamonds lost a 6 goal advantage and what changes the may have made when Jamaica hit back in the fo...

While the Aussie Diamonds sit on four wins from four games, their real test of character will be in their upcoming match against Jamaica, who many believe have what is takes to win gold at these Commonwealth Games. Kate and Britt discuss how the Aussies have faired in their first four games; the combinations that have stood out and the best individual performances for the Diamonds. They also ponde...

Can the Aussie Diamonds win back the gold medal status they lost four years ago? Kate and Britt analyse their chances of winning the Birmingham Commonwealth Games event and take a look at the other top four ranked team’s chances: New Zealand, England, Jamaica and South Africa. We’ll bring you more Games analysis during the group stages of the tournament. Good luck Diamonds!

The West Coast Fever are 2022 Super Netball Champions! After a 25-year wait, the club have finally won their maiden national netball league title with a dominant performance in the grand final over the Melbourne Vixens. In their final podcast for the season, Kate and Britt unpack all the talking points from the biggest game of the year and start to think about what lies ahead for the Diamonds at t...

There's just one more game to come for the 2022 Super Netball season and it's the biggest game of the year! On this week's podcast Kate and Britt analysis the crazy finish in the Preliminary Final — including THAT Emily Mannix intercept. Give their predictions for the upcoming Grand Final this weekend between the West Coast Fever and Melbourne Vixens. Hear from the head coaches of the last two tea...

On this bonus episode we catch up with former Diamond and AFLW star Sharni Norder to hear more about the Super Netball Grand Final breakfast she's hosting in Melbourne. We also took the opportunity to get Sharni's thoughts on Netball Australia's decision to sell off the grand final and the broader discourse happening around the sport's dire financial status now it has come to light. Sharni has som...

The major-semi final saw the West Coast Fever steam-roll the Melbourne Vixens to be the first team through to the 2022 Super Netball Grand Final. Meanwhile, Giants Netball made a huge statement in their minor-semi final win over the brave Collingwood Magpies, who were sent packing from the competition on Sunday afternoon. We analyse the results from both games, looking at how the Fever were able t...

What a way to end the 2022 regular season! It was an incredible RD14 of Super Netball where the Top 4 was determined by for-and-against percentage with the very last shot of the final match, a former legend made a shock return to the sport to help out a COVID-stricken team, and we had some drama surrounding the Diamonds Commonwealth Games team announcement for Birmingham. Kate and Britt give their...

Netball Australia made headlines for all the wrong reasons last week after announcing the sport was more than $4million dollars in debt as they tried to defend their their decision to sell the 2022 Super Netball Grand Final to the highest bidder; the winner, the Western Australian Government. Thankfully, the announcement was not enough to sour the tremendous netball played by the athletes in round...

There's just two weeks left of the 2022 Super Netball regular season and the ladder continues to be a hot topic of discussion, as multiple upsets and unpredictable results ensure there are still two finals spots up for grabs. Our talking points from RD12 include: the Firebirds fight to stay in the hunt, the Thunderbirds' decision to bench Lenize Potgieter and Steph Wood's niggling knee injury. If...

Gungarri woman and former international umpire Stacey Campton is one of Australia's key Indigenous figures in netball. During her 14-year career at the top, she umpired at World Championships and Commonwealth Games. Since 2021, Stacey has been working as Netball Australia's high performance umpire coach. Ahead of Super Netball's First Nations Round this weekend, she joins The Netty Life podcast to...

As we steam towards the finals series of Super Netball 2022, we reflect on the big topics that have emerged over the past couple of weeks. Why have the Firebirds hit such a form slump? Is the golden era for the Lightning over? Who has secured their ticket to the Commonwealth Games and who has emerged as potential inclusions? As we celebrate Round 12 as week one of First Nations Round, there are so...

On this bonus episode of The Netty Life, Vixens General Manager Netball Development Angela Banbury joins Britt to chat about some of the Melbourne club's game-day initiatives. Ange was instrumental in setting up the Ingles Family Sensory Room in 2019 and shares the story behind the scenes of how it came to be the space it is today. She also discusses some of the Vixens newer initiatives like Sippi...

We're into the second-half of the 2022 Super Netball season and every game is having a dramatic effect on the ladder. There are four teams that are just one win outside the Top 4, while the West Coast Fever and Vixens are still jostling for the top spot. Talking points include: Dan Ryan's amazing pep talks, the impressive turnaround in Collingwood's form and the Thunderbirds "mature" brand of netb...

We have hit the halfway mark of the 2022 Super Netball competition and as the ladder continues to change, we know the premiership trophy is still up for grabs. The Firebirds looked sharp in round seven and finally gave fans a full 60 minute performance, while GIANTS Netball have hit their defensive stride at the right time of the season. Britt chats to U19's and U17's National winners (and sisters...

We talk to Sharoma Indigenous Corporation founders, Sharon Finnan-White and Aunty Roma Pregarc about The Indigenous Diamonds, who are playing in their inaugural season in the Townsville City Netball Premier League, how they felt when they heard the news about Donnell Wallam being selected for the Diamonds Squad and their dreams to see more Indigenous netball teams around the country.

Stacey Marinkovich has named her 2022 Aussie Diamonds Commonwealth Games squad and there is plenty to talk about. Will Donnell Wallam become the first Indigenous player in 22 years to represent the team? And why didn't in-form centre Kimmy Rav make the cut? There's also plenty of talking points in Super Netball: Did contests involving experienced defenders Courtney Bruce and Kate Walsh against roo...

We have two undefeated leaders at the top of the Super Netball ladder, with the West Coast Fever and Melbourne Vixens certainly looking confident early on in season 2022. We analyse all the action from round three and discuss: - Who can take the game by the 'scruff of the neck' for the Collingwood Magpies? - Why is NSW Swifts coach, Briony Akle tinkering with a premiership winning defensive end? W...

Only two rounds in and COVID has already reared its ugly head to completely disrupt one of the teams! Giants goal keeper Tilly McDonell takes us behind the scenes of the drama-filled week, after the Super Netball league set a tough precedent for the rest of the season by denying the club's request to reschedule the game with six of their players missing. Some of the other talking points on the age...

The 2022 Super Netball season is finally here and after round one we’re buzzing to be back officially talking netty! Fan favourite and head coach of the West Coast Fever Dan Ryan joins the podcast to review his team’s record victory. Meanwhile some of the other talking points on the agenda include: how the NSW Swifts will fare without Sam Wallace, whether Sophie Garbin’s move to the Collingwood Ma...

After 3 days of back-to-back netball we got to see who has come to play in season 2022. There is no doubt the Vixens are back have made their intentions clear, putting the rest of the comp on notice. We ponder why West Coast Fever always seem to fall short of the big wins and how Sophie Garbin now looks in Magpies colours. Donnell Wallam set the court on fire for the Firebirds, but was it enough t...