2022 VNSL team review: Saracens Mavericks
IN the wake of the 2022 Vitality Netball Superleague (VNSL) season finishing, we have taken a look back at how each team fared. We continue the 11-team countdown with the fifth placed Saracens Mavericks, who started the season really strongly, but due to in-continuity with the lineup, were unable to sustain their form in the […]
2022 VNSL team review: Leeds Rhinos
IN the wake of the 2022 Vitality Netball Superleague (VNSL) season finishing, we have taken a look back at how each team fared. We continue the 11-team countdown with the sixth placed Leeds Rhinos, who challenged for a finals spot at different times, but ultimately fell short. KEY NUMBERS Position: 6thWins: 9Losses: 11Goals For: 1019 […]
GIANTS effort ensures season stays alive
AFTER contending with everything the Collingwood Magpies threw at them, the GIANTS took out Sunday’s Super Netball semi-final 55-48, to keep their season alive. It was a contest of seesawing momentum shifts, and despite the seven-goal final margin, the result went down to the wire. The GIANTS were led by some exceptional work from Maddie […]
Dominant Fever defy recent history to book Grand Final berth
THE West Coast Fever are the first team into the 2022 Suncorp Super Netball Grand Final, after they were far too dominant for the Melbourne Vixens, winning 71-62 in last night’s semi. Not a lot went right for the Vixens, as they returned an uncharacteristic performance in the face of the Fever’s out-of-the-bag dominance. The […]
Four teams, two games, one dream
IT is finals time in the Suncorp Super Netball, as the final four teams left are all striving towards the same goal – to become 2022 Premiers. This weekend is the first of this year’s finals series, where we find out one half of the grand final equation, while also saying goodbye to another team. […]
2022 VNSL team review: Surrey Storm
IN the wake of the 2022 Vitality Netball Superleague (VNSL) season finishing, we have taken a look back at how each team fared. We continue the 11-team countdown with the seventh place Surrey Storm, who stood alone on eight wins. KEY NUMBERS Position: 7thWins: 8Losses: 12Goals For: 1088 (4th)Goals Against: 1163 (11th)Goal Difference: -75 (8th)Points: […]
Big margins sees VNL winners head home happy
IN last night’s Victorian Netball League (VNL) action, close results were hard to find as those who emerged victorious did so by quite comfortable margins. That was no different in the match of the round between the Hawks and Boroondara Express, with the Express winning 59 to 49. The first quarter of that clash was […]
2022 VNSL team review: Strathclyde Sirens
IN the wake of the 2022 Vitality Netball Superleague (VNSL) season finishing, we have taken a look back at how each team fared. We continue the 11-team countdown with the eighth placed Strathclyde Sirens, who just squeezed into eighth on goal difference, but were also only two wins off fifth. KEY NUMBERS Position: 8thWins: 7Losses: […]
SSN Player Focus: Liz Watson (Melbourne Vixens)
LIZ Watson is the kind of leader that leads with her actions more then her words. While her fellow co-captain Kate Moloney is the more vocal one in situations like time outs, Watson leads from the front with her actions and the way she plays. Not only is she is a great leader, but she […]
Top of the table clash highlights Round 13 of VNL
TONIGHT’S action in the Victorian Netball League (VNL) includes a potentially mouth-watering top two clash between the Geelong Cougars and the City West Falcons. The Cougars really have been the team to beat all season, and will be looking to maintain that status in the final month and a half of the season. Their only […]
Diamonds squad assembled, now destiny awaits in Birmingham
THE final 12 player Diamonds squad for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham has been released. The original squad of 20 has been whittled down to a squad of 12 plus three travelling reserves. Only four members of the squad from the last Commonwealth Games have made the squad again -Captain Liz Watson, Vice-Captain Steph […]
Epic Melbourne Derby sees both teams go home smiling
IN an epic second Melbourne Derby of 2022, the Melbourne Vixens may have won in a nail biter but the Collingwood Magpies went home smiling too because they will be playing finals in 2022. It was a nail biting affair for much of the afternoon which befitted the occasion and what was at stake, but […]
