ANZ Premiership playoff hypotheticals
ALTHOUGH no ANZ Premiership playoffs will be held on Sunday due to COVID-19 precautions, Draft Central poses some hypotheticals taking into account recent form and history to predict the end result of each game, which would have completed the 2020 season. The original setup would have seen the third placed Northern Mystics take on the […]
2020 ANZ & SSN: Five talking points – Rounds 10/4
DESPITE there being no ANZ Premiership over the weekend there was still some big news to come out of New Zealand relating to the upcoming grand final and overall finals series while the Suncorp Super Netball delivered a round of surprises and close contests. No ANZ Premiership finals play-offs A change in restrictions due to […]
ANZ Premiership cancels 2020 finals play-offs
SUNDAY August 23 was set to be an action-packed conclusion to the ANZ Premiership as all six teams were set to face off, finishing with a top two clash to determine the 2020 premiers. However, changed conditions due to the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown a spanner in the works with the ANZ Premiership opting to […]
ANZ/SSN Stats wrap: Round 9/2,3
LAST week’s stats wrap looked a bit different with both the Suncorp Super Netball (SSN) and ANZ Premiership taking the court, and this week is no different with the SSN having an extra round of competition to add to the wrap. The two competitions saw some huge results over the combined 13 games across the […]
2020 ANZ Premiership: Most developed players
WITH Round 10 of the ANZ Premiership season cancelled due to a change in COVID-19 restrictions, Draft Central casts an eye over each side’s most developed players for 2020 ahead of the finals. It has been an unconventional season to say the least with the ANZ Premiership season brought to a halt back March due […]
2020 ANZ Premiership: Round 9 – Player of the Week
EACH week Draft Central will analyse player performances from across the round in the ANZ Premiership and determine a “Player of the Week” based on game day performances. A player can be nominated as many times as deemed necessary given their individual performance across the round. Central Pulse wing defence Karin Burger proved just what she is […]
2020 ANZ Premiership – Team of the Week: Round 9
AFTER not registering a single player last week the Pulse were back amongst the mix having two players featuring in the Draft Central ANZ Premiership Team of the Week. In fact it was an even spread across the board as the Southern Steel, Northern Stars, Mainland Tactix and Northern Mystics also registering two players apiece. […]
2020 ANZ & SSN: Five talking points – Rounds 9/2
WITH the race to finals heating up in the ANZ Premiership and Round 2 of the Suncorp Super Netball done and dusted there were a couple of stellar individual performances that stood out. The Swifts managed a narrow win against the ever improving Fever while across the ditch the Tactix made history securing their first […]
Tactix secure ANZ Premiership Grand Final spot by defeating depleted Pulse
THE Mainland Tactix have defied the odds to earn themselves a spot in the ANZ Premiership Grand Final for the first time with a week to spare, after defeating Central Pulse – their opponents in the fortnight’s decider. Pulse rested two key starting players in Ameliaranne Ekenasio and Maddy Gordon, due to illness and injury respectively, and […]
ANZ Premiership – Round 9: Stars fight back to steal one-goal win over Magic
IN their sole game for the round the contest between the bottom placed Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic and fourth placed Northern Stars went right down to the wire with the Stars coming back from three goals down at three quarter time to snatch a one-goal win (45-46). Both sides went toe-to-toe but were forced […]
