2023 ANZ Premiership | Round 3 preview: Still so much left to answer
AS fast as Kimiora Poi speeding through midcourt, the 2023 ANZ Premiership season might be quicker, as it is already one quarter of the way through the year. After an entertaining first fortnight of the season, the picture of where teams are sitting is starting to take shape. Following a weekend with one extra game […]
2023 NSL | Round 7 preview: Top four tussles aplenty
ANOTHER weekend, another exciting round of Netball Super League action ahead. After a smaller menu of games last weekend, it is back to the regular schedule of five matches in a weekend this time around. It is going to be a huge weekend for Manchester Thunder in particular, They have two matches on their plate […]
2023 SSN | Round 1 preview: New season, new hope, same ambition
IT is the dawn of a new Suncorp Super Netball season once again. There is plenty of hope and optimism in the air, but as with any new season there is also very little certainty about how things will unfold. Will the West Coast Fever go back-to-back after keeping essentially the same side as last […]
Three Questions With: Super Netball Captains
IT is the eve of yet another huge Suncorp Super Netball Season, and hence time to hear some season predictions from some of the people who know the game best. Earlier today, we revealed the predictions of the league’s commentators, now it is time to hear from arguably the most important people in the sport […]
Three Questions With: Super Netball Commentators
ON the eve of yet another huge Suncorp Super Netball Season, it is time to hear some season predictions from some of the people who know the game best. At the recent league Season Launch, questions were posed to three of the most familiar faces in Australian commentary circles – Bianca Chatfield, Sue Gaudion and […]
NSL Player Focus: Funmi Fadoju (London Pulse)
THE LONDON Pulse continued their winning ways on the weekend, with another solid win this time over the Sirens. One of the stars of that match was Funmi Fadoju, whose athletic ability was on full display, finishing with a whopping 12 deflections alongside two intercepts and a rebound. This Player Focus takes a look at […]
2023 ANZ Premiership Team of the Week – Round 2
IT is time once again for the ANZ Premiership Team of the Week, with plenty of star performances from across the league. It was the shooting end that was the hardest battle this week, with plenty of goal shooters worthy of a spot in the team but not enough spots available for everyone to get […]
VNL 2023 | Round 1 Preview: New season, new opportunities
A NEW season is upon us in the Victorian Netball League (VNL) Championship Division. It has been a long time since last season’s entertaining Grand Final, and finally after what must have felt like a long six month offseason for players and coaches alike, it is finally time to get back into it all over […]
Suncorp Super Netball Season Preview: West Coast Fever
THE 2023 Suncorp Super Netball Season is only a matter of weeks away, and in anticipation of the new season we here at Rookie Me Central are going to take an in depth look at each of the sides and preview what this year may have in store for them. In today’s final team preview, […]
Happy reunions for some, but not everyone
IN A weekend characterised by a number of players playing their old sides for the first time, not everyone came away from those reunions happy. To begin the weekend Surrey Storm earned a big 80 goal to 52 win over Team Bath. Despite Bath matching it with their visitors early, they dropped off as the […]
Suncorp Super Netball Season Preview: Sunshine Coast Lightning
THE 2023 Suncorp Super Netball Season is only a matter of weeks away, and in anticipation of the new season we here at Rookie Me Central are going to take an in depth look at each of the sides and preview what this year may have in store for them. In today’s penultimate preview, it […]
Pecking order starts to settle across the ditch
ROUND TWO of the ANZ Premiership saw the pecking order start to settle a little bit, as the picture of how the season will pan out became that little bit clearer. In the game of the round, the Northern Mystics have gone two from two in 2023 after they downed fellow round one winners the […]