PREVIEW: Netball Super League Fast Five All Stars 2023
TONIGHT sees the return of the Netball Super League Fast Five All-Stars, after the tournament did not run in 2022. Eight of the Super League’s teams – Team Bath, Leeds Rhinos, London Pulse, Saracens Mavericks, Surrey Storm, Strathclyde Sirens, Severn Stars and Manchester Thunder – will battle it out at London’s Copper Box Arena tonight […]
2023 NSL | Round 20 preview: Last hurrah for some, last chance to gear up for others
AFTER a long season full of twists and turns, it has finally arrived – the final round of the 2023 Netball Super League season. For some, it is the end of the road for 2023. One last match before either a break or thinking ahead to the World Cup. For others, it is one last […]
2023 NSL | Round 17 preview: The race to the finish begins
LAST weekend was a big one for the Netball Super League. The margins may not have been big, but it was in the context of the season. Last weekend saw the finalists confirmed for 2023 because with the Stars losing, it means that no one else can catch the Pulse, Storm, Lightning and Thunder. However, […]
2023 NSL | Round 15 preview: More fun on the long weekend
ROUND 14 of the Netball Super League (NSL) may have been jam packed, but that was not the end of the action this weekend. This weekend is a double header weekend, with four more games set to come over the last two days of the Bank Holiday long weekend. The Rhinos and Storm get the […]
2023 NSL | Round 14 preview: Compact yet tantalising fixture
ROUND 14’s offering of fixtures in the Netball Super League may be small in number, but is certainly not small in potential entertainment value. Instead of the normal five or six matches, there is only the four. They are all return fixtures of match ups from back in Round 5, but with the Severn Stars […]
NSL Player Focus: Rachel Dunn (Celtic Dragons)
IT was a bumper weekend for most teams in the Netball Super League over the weekend, with most of the competition having to front up for multiple matches across the weekend. One of those sides was the Celtic Dragons, who had less than 24 hours between their match in London against the Pulse and their […]
2022 VNSL team review: Wasps Netball
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 ninth placed Wasps Netball who marginally missed out on a Fast5 Championship spot by goal difference against Strathclyde Sirens. KEY NUMBERS Position: 9thWins: 7Losses: 13Goals […]
Wasps sting early to silence Sirens
THOUGH it might have seemed like a dead rubber in many ways, Wasps Netball‘s victory over Strathclyde Sirens might have booked them a place in the Vitality Netball Superleague (VNSL) Fast5 Championship. The Wasps’ Round 20 win saw them move a full win clear with a 7-13 record from 20 games, leading the Sirens in […]
VNSL Round 19 wrap: Final four locked in
ALL four teams are locked into the Final Four spots, with the ladder positions and semi-finals of the Vitality Netball Superleague (VNSL) all decided. Top of the table Manchester Thunder have too much of a goal difference gap on Loughborough Lightning and will finish top to take on Team Bath, while the reigning premiers Lightning […]
Loughborough proves Lightning does strike twice
SEVERN Stars won their second game of the season in Round 16, as Loughborough Lightning went 2-0 across the weekend in the Vitality Netball Superleague (VNSL). All the rescheduled games were completed, meaning teams will be back on track heading in Round 17 next weekend.
