Netball
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Ex-Silver Ferns selector claims seven players complained about coach Taurua
Taurua has been sidelined for the rest of the year after failed talks with Netball NZ.
And we thought rugby was bad
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was at the first test on Saturday, watched Sunday and yesterday, its lovely to see the consistency that NZ manages to have across different sports, Nweke seems to be as invisible to umpires as McCaw was to referees. Not sure i saw her get called more than once or twice for contact. Great events though, really enjoyed being in the stand, although my drunken Twickenham style 'Come on England' shouts were not perhaps as welcome at the Copper Box
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was at the first test on Saturday, watched Sunday and yesterday, its lovely to see the consistency that NZ manages to have across different sports, Nweke seems to be as invisible to umpires as McCaw was to referees. Not sure i saw her get called more than once or twice for contact. Great events though, really enjoyed being in the stand, although my drunken Twickenham style 'Come on England' shouts were not perhaps as welcome at the Copper Box
Nweke is an amazing athlete. Great hands, outstanding body control and greater mobility than Irene Van Dyk. I don't know the stats but she looks taller than her opposing defender in a game where height really matters
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yep, she was incredible, plus creates so much space for her goal attack. She definitely likes to put herself about a bit though, some of the contact calls against the England GK / GD should defo have gone the other way! Not complaining though. Also have to credit the accuracy of balls into the circle to her.
England were better than I expected them to be, particularly through centre court, just couldn't get it done in the last 15 mins of the 3rd match - they looked exhausted tbh.
Oh and since i'm a man posting on a rugby forum about netball, i think its only fair that I mention that Housby is still hot af
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was at the first test on Saturday, watched Sunday and yesterday, its lovely to see the consistency that NZ manages to have across different sports, Nweke seems to be as invisible to umpires as McCaw was to referees. Not sure i saw her get called more than once or twice for contact. Great events though, really enjoyed being in the stand, although my drunken Twickenham style 'Come on England' shouts were not perhaps as welcome at the Copper Box
I keep waiting for Nweke to get pinged out of a game. She does give out a fair bit of contact, especially with an arm as she goes up for the ball.
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@Crazy-Horse said in Netball:
was at the first test on Saturday, watched Sunday and yesterday, its lovely to see the consistency that NZ manages to have across different sports, Nweke seems to be as invisible to umpires as McCaw was to referees. Not sure i saw her get called more than once or twice for contact. Great events though, really enjoyed being in the stand, although my drunken Twickenham style 'Come on England' shouts were not perhaps as welcome at the Copper Box
I keep waiting for Nweke to get pinged out of a game. She does give out a fair bit of contact, especially with an arm as she goes up for the ball.
Other girls seem to go flying when she's around.... Having said that, contrary to its image netball is a low contact sport and the biggest and the strongest have an advantage. She seems to have a neck I'm not making her physicality obvious. Until the others are falling over at least...
