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'The door's open': Netball Tasmania confirms bid to enter Super Netball league

Netball Tasmania is the latest sporting organisation in the state to seek entry into a national sporting competition, declaring it wants a Tasmanian team to play in the professional Super Netball league from 2023.
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Looks like the Tasmanian money may disappear in the future with them seeking their own team
 
Mkcaptain said:
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'The door's open': Netball Tasmania confirms bid to enter Super Netball league

Netball Tasmania is the latest sporting organisation in the state to seek entry into a national sporting competition, declaring it wants a Tasmanian team to play in the professional Super Netball league from 2023.
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Looks like the Tasmanian money may disappear in the future with them seeking their own team
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A $1 million a year for the first 4 years government outlay for their own side vs 580k sponsorship to have us play 2 matches in Tasmania each year. Pretty easy to justify the additional money to get their own side.
 

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Quicky said:
Who do we play?
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Saturday 18 June, Major semi-final: 1st vs 2nd (Melbourne Vixens v West Coast Fever)
Sunday 19 June, Minor semi-final: 3rd vs 4th (GIANTS vs Collingwood Magpies) 4.00 pm
Saturday 25 June, Preliminary final: Loser of major semi-final vs winner minor semi-final
 
Maggie5 said:
Saturday 18 June, Major semi-final: 1st vs 2nd (Melbourne Vixens v West Coast Fever)
Sunday 19 June, Minor semi-final: 3rd vs 4th (GIANTS vs Collingwood Magpies) 4.00 pm
Saturday 25 June, Preliminary final: Loser of major semi-final vs winner minor semi-final
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Are we any chance?
 
Quicky said:
Are we any chance?
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Don't think so, Giants are good but you never know.

We will have Ash Brazill, star defender Jodi-Ann Ward and mid-courter Maggie Lind back, they missed last week due to Covid protocols.
 

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The netball team is so poor at the moment. Seems to be the same players rolling out each season, for not much success.
Currently we are getting towelled up by the lowly teams on the ladder, as we too are a lowly team, but it looks like the effort by our girls is non existent.
Yesterday's loss to the Lightning, and a comprehensive loss, was just a pure lack of effort, and really poor decision making.
Maybe a complete overhaul of the program is required....
 
From the Herald Sun:

Collingwood’s troubled Super Netball program could be finished after this season, stunned Magpies players and staff have been told in a team meeting.

Sad news for the girls, but the interest just wasn't there. The club can focus solely on football now, with strong AFL, AFLW , VFL and VFLW programs.
 
Collingwood’s netball program is officially on the sporting death row known as “under review’’. Whether it can avoid a beheading seems doubtful, with seven years of underperformance and financial haemorrhaging leading to sustained board unrest that has now bubbled over.
Magpies CEO Craig Kelly called a meeting of players and staff on Tuesday morning to advise the stunned group that whether or not the club fielded a Super Netball team next season would be determined after working through money and other issues with Netball Australia over the next seven days.


“They are all in a panic at the moment,’’ said one source with knowledge of the gathering at the AIA Centre.

Given that Visit Victoria bailed out the national body last year with a $15 million sponsorship deal once the arrangement with Hancock Prospecting was controversially withdrawn, there is also a suggestion that state government assistance is being sought to keep alive the second Victorian franchise, backed by the nation’s biggest sporting club.

Kelly’s address came after the publication of part one of CODE Sports’ investigation into the issues that have plagued the Magpies’ netball initiative almost since its birth, ahead of the 2017 season. Then, a new club now fully owned by the NRL’s Melbourne Storm – Sunshine Coast Lightning – was also introduced, while a second NSW licence was granted to Netball NSW, though the Giants run as part of a strategic alliance with AFL club Greater Western Sydney.

It is understood that the survival of Collingwood’s netball initiative has been imperilled at various stages in its almost-seven-year life. Several board members – including the departed Alex Waislitz and Mark Korda – are believed to have questioned the cost and worth of continuing amid frustration over its treatment by both Netball Victoria – which operates the popular Melbourne Vixens – and Netball Australia.

Kelly was appointed as Collingwood CEO in January, inheriting a program that has been problematic since a respectable first season. Three top-four finishes in six years have never progressed beyond the minor semi-final stage, but this year’s disastrous collapse – resulting in just two wins in just nine rounds – has left the Pies languishing on the bottom of the ladder, and favourites for a second wooden spoon in four years.

While exact numbers remain in-house, membership is minimal. Crowds, after a promising first year, have shrivelled to now be easily the lowest in the competition; something painfully apparent in the almost-10,000-capacity John Cain Arena that only against the rival Melbourne Vixens comes close to being full.

Kelly was unavailable for comment but the timing is clearly aligned with the expiration of the current Collective Player Agreement at the end of September, given that all of the the league’s 80 players are out of contract at season’s end.

New Team Participation Agreements are also being negotiated for 2024 and beyond. Should Collingwood hand back its licence, an eighth club would be required under the current broadcasting deal with FOX Sports, which runs until the end of 2026.
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Collingwood’s netball program is officially on the sporting death row known as “under review’’. Whether it can avoid a beheading seems doubtful, with seven years of underperformance and financial haemorrhaging leading to sustained board unrest that has now bubbled over.
Magpies CEO Craig Kelly called a meeting of players and staff on Tuesday morning to advise the stunned group that whether or not the club fielded a Super Netball team next season would be determined after working through money and other issues with Netball Australia over the next seven days.


“They are all in a panic at the moment,’’ said one source with knowledge of the gathering at the AIA Centre.

Given that Visit Victoria bailed out the national body last year with a $15 million sponsorship deal once the arrangement with Hancock Prospecting was controversially withdrawn, there is also a suggestion that state government assistance is being sought to keep alive the second Victorian franchise, backed by the nation’s biggest sporting club.

Kelly’s address came after the publication of part one of CODE Sports’ investigation into the issues that have plagued the Magpies’ netball initiative almost since its birth, ahead of the 2017 season. Then, a new club now fully owned by the NRL’s Melbourne Storm – Sunshine Coast Lightning – was also introduced, while a second NSW licence was granted to Netball NSW, though the Giants run as part of a strategic alliance with AFL club Greater Western Sydney.

It is understood that the survival of Collingwood’s netball initiative has been imperilled at various stages in its almost-seven-year life. Several board members – including the departed Alex Waislitz and Mark Korda – are believed to have questioned the cost and worth of continuing amid frustration over its treatment by both Netball Victoria – which operates the popular Melbourne Vixens – and Netball Australia.

Kelly was appointed as Collingwood CEO in January, inheriting a program that has been problematic since a respectable first season. Three top-four finishes in six years have never progressed beyond the minor semi-final stage, but this year’s disastrous collapse – resulting in just two wins in just nine rounds – has left the Pies languishing on the bottom of the ladder, and favourites for a second wooden spoon in four years.

While exact numbers remain in-house, membership is minimal. Crowds, after a promising first year, have shrivelled to now be easily the lowest in the competition; something painfully apparent in the almost-10,000-capacity John Cain Arena that only against the rival Melbourne Vixens comes close to being full.

Kelly was unavailable for comment but the timing is clearly aligned with the expiration of the current Collective Player Agreement at the end of September, given that all of the the league’s 80 players are out of contract at season’s end.

New Team Participation Agreements are also being negotiated for 2024 and beyond. Should Collingwood hand back its licence, an eighth club would be required under the current broadcasting deal with FOX Sports, which runs until the end of 2026.
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