The Netty Life

English import Eleanor Cardwell, nicknamed ‘The Claw’, has been the biggest buy of Super Netball in 2023 and her presence at the Adelaide Thunderbirds has already made a huge difference in just five rounds. Britt caught up one-on-one with the Roses shooter early in the season to learn more about her netball story. Including Cardwell’s plans for her upcoming match against her old rival, West Coast...

The reigning premiers are sitting pretty on top of the ladder and Giants have their first win for 2023. Through their Easter induced chocolate comas, Kate and Britt discuss the big topics from round four. Do the Lightning have the bench to win grinding battles? Do the Thunderbirds believe they are a grand-final team? Did the timing of Bec Bulley’s Fox Netball interview cost the Firebirds the game?...

Two investigations with vastly different findings and outcomes from Super Netball on the controversies surrounding last week. The Fever and Thunderbirds continue to stamp their undefeated dominance on the competition, while the Giants and Firebirds flounder in search of their first win. We’ve got an update for you regarding concussion and plenty of nice things to say about Fever shooter Sasha Glas...

Unsafe decals, power outages, extra centre passes and concussion policies were all under the spotlight in Super Netball’s Round 2. It makes us wonder if our sport is doing enough to keep up with the professional standard of its athletes? And whether this season’s campaign ‘We Are Here’ is totally accurate? This week we discuss the two big controversies that rocked the weekend gone and speak with n...

The opening weekend of the 2023 Super Netball season saw the Jamaican imports star, cleaning up all four match MVP awards available. Other than that, we saw an upset in the first game, some impressive debuts and the defending champions the West Coast Fever make a strong statement. Our guest this week is South African and Sunshine Coast Lightning star Karla Pretorius who shares her experience retur...

Nat Butler (nee Medhurst) is an Australian netball legend that needs so introduction. She’s a three-time World Cup champion and a Commonwealth Games gold and silver medallist. After a couple of years in retirement, watching from the sidelines, the goal attack has decided to make a return and extend her elite netball career by signing as a training partner with the West Coast Fever. So how is Nat d...

The seventh season of the Super Netball league is upon us and we are beyond excited to be back with you for what is our fourth season of The Netty Life podcast! As per usual, we love chat and a chinwag, so this consider this a mega preview with every team’s biggest narrative heading into the competition and as a warning for length -- you may need to settle in with more than one cup of tea. We also...

The Diamonds have dazzled in 2022, winning all the silverware that’s been on offer in a dominant display. In the last pod for the year, Kate and Britt analyse their final international series against the English Roses. - Can the Diamonds win the Netball World Cup without Beuta? - Can Ash Brazill get back the WD bib after a classy international debut by Amy Parmenter? - Have the Roses lost their ki...

With the Constellation Cup on the line, the Australian Diamonds displayed great resilience despite external pressure to win the decider, claim the series and reclaim bragging rights over their rivals, the Silver Ferns. In a tumultuous week for the sport, we discuss the events that lead to Hancock Prospecting pulling their $15 million dollar sponsorship deal.

The Kiwis have a 2-0 advantage in the Constellation Cup series. As the Diamonds struggle to get a win without Gretel Bueta, four debutants have taken the court to prove their worth. Meanwhile, more drama is in the papers surrounding Netball Australia, with their new life-saving $15 million dollar partnership under fire. It has caused another rift between the playing group and the sporting body in...

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...