PREVIEW | 2025 NSL: Loughborough Lightning
THE 2025 Netball Super League season is a mere fortnight away, and in the lead up to the competition Rookie Me Central will be previewing each of the teams and taking a look at how they might go in this new era of English netball. In today’s preview, it is time to take a look […]
FIRST LOOK | Birmingham Panthers & Nottingham Forest – NSL Super Cup 2025
OVER the weekend the first ever Netball Super League Super Cup was run, which gave fans a first look at how the eight Netball Super League clubs are looking ahead of Round 1 this coming weekend. Although each of the matches was no longer than a quarter of normal netball, it still gave those watching […]
PREVIEW | 2025 NSL: London Pulse
THE 2025 Netball Super League season is a mere fortnight away, and in the lead up to the competition Rookie Me Central will be previewing each of the teams and taking a look at how they might go in this new era of English netball. In this preview it is time to take a look […]
ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW | NSL Super Cup 2025
THIS weekend sees the running of the first ever Netball Super Cup, the Netball Super League’s answer to the Team Girls Cup in Australia. Across one massive day this Saturday up in Sheffield, all the Super League clubs will be in action in a massive day of preseason action ahead of Round One the following […]
PREVIEW | 2025 NSL: London Mavericks
THE 2025 Netball Super League season is a mere fortnight away, and in the lead up to the competition Rookie Me Central will be previewing each of the teams and taking a look at how they might go in this new era of English netball. Next up, it is time to take a look at […]
PREVIEW | 2025 NSL: Leeds Rhinos
THE 2025 Netball Super League season is a mere fortnight away, and in the lead up to the competition, Rookie Me Central will be previewing each of the teams and taking a look at how they might go in this new era of English netball. Next up, it is time to take a look at […]
PREVIEW | 2025 NSL: Cardiff Dragons
THE 2025 Netball Super League season is a mere fortnight away, and in the lead-up to the competition, Rookie Me Central will be previewing each of the teams’ campaigns by analysing how they may fare in this new era of English netball. Next up are the Cardiff Dragons. Cardiff Dragons 2025 Netball Super League Squad […]
PREVIEW | 2025 NSL: Birmingham Panthers
THE 2025 Netball Super League season is a mere fortnight away, and in the lead up to the competition Rookie Me Central will be previewing each of the teams and taking a look at how they might go in this new era of English netball. First cab off the rank is one of the competition’s […]
Around The Courts | NSL NXT Gen Round 4
LAST weekend’s action in the NSL NXT GEN competition saw both ends of the margin scale, with some thrashings combined with some absolute nail biters. ROUND 4 RESULTS Nottingham Forest vs Leeds Rhinos Nottingham Forest are off the mark this season after a 62-56 win over the Leeds Rhinos. It was a tight match right […]
SSN PRESEASON SCOUTING NOTES: Melbourne Mavericks vs West Coast Fever
LAST night the Melbourne Mavericks and West Coast Fever took an important step in their preparations for the upcoming Suncorp Super Netball season by playing out a practice match at Waverley Netball Centre. Although it was ultimately a narrow four goal win to the Fever, the scoreboard was not front of mind as plenty of […]
Player Analysis: Jamie van Wyk (South Africa)
JUST like England got a chance to look to the future during the Nations Cup, South Africa is perhaps going through a similar process of its own at the moment. With the 2023 retirement of Phumza Maweni, the seeming but yet to be confirmed retirement of Karla Pretorious and the injury to Nicola Smith, South […]
Historic series between old enemies set for mid year
THERE was an exciting announcement in the world of men’s netball yesterday, with the announcing of a three match series between England and Australia for mid this year. This is a big jump for the men’s game, as these two do not get to play international series very often. The Thorns themselves only hosted their […]
Is it time for England to think about it’s future shooter health?
THE 2025 edition of the Netball Nations Cup got underway over the weekend, which saw South Africa win both of its matches, England win one match and Malawi win one match. For the English Roses at the moment, it is a time of discovery and of unearthing the future. When the team toured Australia and […]
Defenders shine again as Jamaica clean sweeps series
JAMAICA has clean swept the Margaret Beckford Sunshine Series after beating South Africa 58-47 in the final match of the series. The defensive work from the Jamaicans was the backbone of them getting the win, with skipper Shamera Sterling-Humphrey putting in a captain’s performance. Jamaica’s stellar defensive end was on show again early. An intercept […]
Jamaica shows class to take Sunshine Series
JAMAICA has won the Margaret Beckford Sunshine Series, after taking the second match of the series 59-47. A second quarter burst ultimately proved the difference for the Jamaicans, as the South Africans proved to be quite late to react to on court issues that needed to be fixed. Although both sides went goal for goal […]
No Fowler-Nembhard, no problem as Jamaica take early series lead
ANOTHER home game thriller for Jamaica saw them take out game one of the Margaret Beckford Sunshine Series against South Africa 55 goals to 47. The crowd was another vocal one, loud enough where none of the players could hear the umpires whistle to complete the game so all players on the court kept going. […]
Jamaica’s shooting conundrum – which combo will they choose?
JAMAICA’s international netball season is far from over, as the Sunshine Girls are gearing up for an intriguing series with South Africa later this month. They announced their squad for the upcoming series, with a few interesting names included and not included in it. The most interesting part of the court is their shooting contingent. […]
Jamaica announces Sunshine Series squad
JAMAICA’S squad for next month’s Margaret Beckford Sunshine Series against South Africa was released today with 15 players named for the competition. While the Jamaicans will be minus star shooter Jhaniele Fowler-Nembhard after she recently announced her pregnancy, there is still plenty of quality on the list. Among those players set to step up in […]
England January/February Squads Revealed
ENGLAND Netball have revealed their first two squads for 2025, with the squads for both the Netball Nations Cup and the England A Series released. 12 members of the squad that battled Jamaica last month will feature in the Netball Nations Cup, alongside three of the Fast5 members in Zara Everitt, Paige Reed and Alicia […]
Sophie Garbin shines bright winning Liz Ellis Diamond
MELBOURNE Vixens goaler Sophie Garbin had a night to remember at the Australian Netball Awards, taking home the top Australian netball honour of the Liz Ellis award as well as International Player of the Year. Garbin becomes the 12th individual to win the award which focuses across both the international and domestic seasons, and the […]
