August 27, 2025 • 28 mins
This week, the Inside Netball team look at the various player movements within New Zealand as well as those who are crossing the ditch following Netball NZ's new exemption rules.
Newly signed Mystics player Maia Wilson also joins the podcast to talk her move across town away from the Stars.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Inside, therefore getting you closer to the game you love.
With Nadine Wilson, Anna Stanley and Jenny Wood Starward by
News Talks, that'd.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Be got a koto and welcome to Inside net. For
a while, we've had a week off and there has
been a fair bit of player movement within New Zealand
and across the Tasman in that time. We'll get into
all the new signings shortly and we'll be joined by
Silver Fern and newly signed Mystics player Mia Wilson. But firstly, ladies,
the SECN teams are done and dusted. A and Z
(00:29):
Premiership teams have still got till the end of the
week to finalize their sides, and you'd have to say
the teams left behind have been somewhat decimated. The floodgates
have been left open. We've had about eight players moved
to Australia. What are our initial thoughts around that. Did
we think there'd be so many that would go?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Well?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
I don't know that I did. I've been sort of
quite and I must have been. I've been pleasantly surprised
because I thought some of the Aussie teams would say,
oh no, we don't want them, but hey, eight players
not bad. I also like the comments of Kerrie Wills,
who has got a bit of flack. I mean half
her team, Queensland Firebirds, are imports and I think she
(01:11):
sort of said, you know, shot right back, Well, you
know this is not a development league. You're selling this
as the best league in the country or in the world.
And I say, you know, good for her.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
And good on them. I would have one hundred percent
gone if I'd had the opportunity. You know, a number
of them at that stage of their career, that's the
perfect timing to go and get new skills, to get
as you talked about. I think in our last pot
Jen and Oi, they're going to live in a different city.
Some of them may have been still living at home,
who knows. So quite a big change. What is scary
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for me when we're looking at the numbers across an
Z thirty five percent of this year's starting sevens across
all teams are gone. And that's not just to Australia
that's retired that we've got the likes of Paris Locker two,
we're going to rugby. We've got a combination of reasons,
but thirty five percent of the starting sevens they are
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not available to be picked in the A and Z
in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
That is an astounding number.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
But how much of that would be natural attrition?
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Never would we have had?
Speaker 6 (02:18):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
No, we think yeah, five of the starting seven for
the Tactics gone, five of the starting seven for the
Pulse gone. I mean those two franchises in particular have
been left with not many players.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
The thought I had about those two is Central Manawa,
you know, the team beneath the Pulse, and Mainland the
team beneath the Tactics. You know they have probably well
the Tactic Mainland won it the Shed, didn't they? So
you know they're of all the franchises. I'm trying to
look a sudden point. You are, you're the skirt, but
you know they should have a good pull. I mean,
Canterby's always saying, hey, you know we as is Wellington Central,
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so you know you can't help, but think I can't help,
but think they're in a good position to recruit.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Yeah, there's no doubt about it.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
The SSN as a competition are getting more and more
elite and more and more professional and successful, and I
don't think we can say the same for the A
and Z Premiership. But one player that is making a big,
bold move for the twenty twenty six season. She's moved
from the Stars to the Mystics. She was, of course
one of the foundation members of the Stars team Maya Wilson.
(03:23):
She's going to be moving to Blue next year and
she joins us now inside. Welcome to Inside Netball, Mya Wilson.
Thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Wow, lots of talk out of I guess the New
Zealand camp, the big move. You've been a foundation member
with the Stars for what nine years now and you're
moving downstate Highway one have signed with the Mistakes.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
How are you feeling about that?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Yeah, it's been a crazy journey to get to this
point in all, honestly, I'm really looking forward to a
new horizons.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
Been in the game for a while in just aboult like, Yeah, something.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Scary about a new change and a new challenge and
I guess new growth and learning. So looking forward to
being within everybody in January the twenty six.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
It feels a while away now.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Did you at any stage think you might give the
game away?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
No?
Speaker 6 (04:18):
I never thought I was going to give the game away.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I felt like I'm in a stage of my career
where everything's been going at high speed and I've never
been able to get off the roller coast bride. So
I think when I've done the mass, I pretty much
have been a part of every single Silver Foon's toural
campaign apart from three in the last ten years. And
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so even when I wasn't a part of the Commonwealth
Gap twenty eighteen Comonwealth Games and the twenty nineteen World Cup,
I was still an on traveling reserves, so I was
doing everything up until the team left. So I've seen
all of my mates taking a sabbatical here and there,
and I just felt like it was my time to
just have a bit of a breather if there's any
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time to do it.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
It's not like there's as much.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Going on in the international calendar this year, so why
not refresh, reset, rebuild and head into twenty twenty six.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
YEA gunning to put myself in a really good position.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Now, Have I got my stets right? Was it Central
Pulse in twenty fifteen? Was that your first year?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Twenty fifteen was like my last year of school, So
twenty sixteen Wow Poles and then yeah, twenty seventeen onwards.
I've been with the Stars, so ten seasons deep and yeah,
a new change.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
I mean, how do you think you've evolved over that time?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
It's been a long time, and how do you keep
that passion going because it is, you know, as we
all love the sport, but turning up to physio, turning
up to the recoveries, you know, all of that stuff.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Is that starting to weigh on you? And you or
you're still like yep, nope, sweet.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
I think sometimes you don't know what you don't know.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
And I've been doing this.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Since i was baby fresh out of school, and I've
been involved within the Silophones development squad since I was sixteen,
So I think for me it was like I'm in
a stage of my career of how do I re
evolve and.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
What sits well with me?
Speaker 3 (06:17):
And I guess I always started playing netball because I
was playing with my best friends, in particular Holly Fowler
or Holly Ray, who is now retiring from the game.
So I feel like my mindset needed to shift in Yes,
I've enjoyed the people in this game, but how do
I individually become more of a creative how do I evolve?
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And I still feel like I've got a place here,
so why not try and see the different sides of me?
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Which is another reason why for the shift of mystics.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Fitness targets has always been such a huge focus for
Nole's Mayer. And you know, you look long term, has
that been something that's helped or hindered your decision to
have a little breakaway.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
I think, yeah, I'm probably one of the people who
have been on either side of the line in all honesty.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
In terms of the fitness testing.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
And I guess in some point, like I said, I've
been on this roller coaster for a long time. I've
never had a solid chance just to focus and rebuild
in terms of my fitness engine. I think the only
time I really had was during COVID lockdown of Pullman
Arena of PAPACAA Netple Center. So I think that has
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made a decision. But in all honesty, I think not
just in my case, but in a lot of the
people that I'm surrounded by a.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
Few minds in it.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
You're going to make it, And I guess I was
just at that stage where I was burnt out and
I just needed some breath of fresh air. No matter
how hard I trained, I just don't think I was
the mentally to be able to commit myself fully to
the Soul Finds program. And I've had multiple conversations with
Noels at different stages of this year, and I've been
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so grateful for the relationship her and I had as
a player and a coach, and her support to make.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
This decision a bit easier.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
And at the moment I'm still She's still checking in
every week or every two weeks, So I just feel
grateful for the support around everything.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Talking about coaches, min how hard was that conversation with
Timmy Potter to say, Okay, I'm not going to be
with you next year, I'm off to the mystics.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Yeah. I guess for me, it was awesome to see
Bubby as a player first and a coach and actually
a friend, and then the transition into a head coach.
I think we had a lot of different things happening
within our Stars.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
Environment this year.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
The round one where you had three people go down
and it was like, who has ever seen that in
any type of netball, domestic or international. So I think
we had our juggles of trying to make that fit
with different people, and yeah, for me, I feel like
I have given one hundred percent of.
Speaker 7 (09:05):
That.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
It's my heart. The pride that I have in terms
of representing my.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Fuck up uppet in South Auckland gave me so much
pride and so it has been a bittersweet in all
honesty to leave a massive part of myself. And I
still get emotional about it because that's how much this
franchise means to me. Nine years is a short is
not a long time. It is a long time in
any job, let alone to be in one franchise. So yeah,
(09:34):
I'm missing it. I will miss it, but I guess
like it's turning my head to the new page and
actually focusing on myself. Because I'm someone who gives everything
to everyone else, It's time to put me on the
focus point.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Good on you and you can see and hear the
emotion and you can see how much it means to you,
which is really cool and that's why we play this game. Right.
Some other people that have made big decisions are the
ones that have gone to Australia, and you know, a
lot has happened in netball in the last few weeks months.
Do you get a sense that the people that are
staying feel a little bit like they be left behind?
(10:10):
And I don't mean that that you're thinking negatively towards
the people they've gone, because good on them. But what
do you feel like about this competition that we're going
to see in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
I have thought about this and to me, it's a
bit of a double edged sword.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
So when I look at the types of people who
have gone across to SSN, to me, it's a bit
of agent stage for majority of them, and they have
paid their times, they've done their tolls in New Zealand,
and I feel like it's that challenge on how do
you evolve?
Speaker 6 (10:42):
What haven't you done?
Speaker 3 (10:43):
So I don't envy them, I admire their courage to
be able to do that. I think on that note,
you do have a lot of people going, but who's
going to fill the spots? And so at some point
you've got a netble World Youth Cup coming up in
a cup weeks, will we see the development pathways of
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our twenty ones or those up and comers.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
To fill those spots?
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Is that better as a nation to develop a bigger
pool of players? So I think you can see, yes,
you've got some high level people going away, but what
does that do for our player pool here in New Zealand?
And I guess it can. It will be an exciting journey,
but it will also be scary and sometimes you don't
know what the product's going to be like until it happens.
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So I think another part of my decision of going
to the Mystics is I wanted stability, and I feel
like from what I know of who's there and what's
been released at the moment, I feel like we I
can say we now and we.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
Will be in a really solid position to be dominant.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
So you talk about, you know, these players going to
Australia that it's an opportunity for them to evolve. Where
do where do we see Maya Wilson evolving? In terms
of your move to the Mystics? What more do you
want to achieve in terms of your game and how
do you think you're going to get that at the Mistics.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Yeah, I think in the few encounters I've had with
different people part of the Northern Zone and then all
the mistakes, it's some parts it's talk and cheese to
what I'm used to resourcing.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
I went into a meeting the other day and there
was like six people.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
There and I'm like, where where did these people come from?
So I think there's that exciting time. Selfishly, I'm looking
forward to just turning up and doing my own job.
I think the role that I had in Stars meant
that I wore many, many different hats.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
Actually none of them were my job.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
So I think that selfish reason of being able to
just focus on myself is going to enable me to
learn new concepts. I'm excited to have a different coaching staff.
I have went to a few Mystics open sessions at
the end of last year, and the skills and drills
that I know both here and Rob do are hard,
but they excite me. So it means I hope there's
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going to be a bit of a change in my
movement patterns. It's going to make me think different differently.
It's going to make me look at the game and
want to create a lot more. I like to think
in my head I'm a bit of a playmaker and
I can see things a couple.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
Of faces ahead, and you never know if someone like
pets three signs, I'm going to have to keep my
head up.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
And every now and then because otherwise that ball was
going to come to my head. So I think that's
something exciting and challenging to evolve into, hopefully this new
and improved person.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
My way back you were a Toall firm, I think,
would you ever look at going back to basketball?
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Yeah, I have thought about this in all honesty, and
they now have I guess a semi professional tower Hea League.
I've never been able to do it because I've been
a part of the international campaign.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
So yeah, I'd love to. I love a good screen,
as everyone knows.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I love the fatality and the contact of basketball, and
I guess at this time in my life, I'm in
a point where I've got freedom to explore what life
has up until January.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
But I'm excited at this point.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
I just feel like I'm still committed to netball long term,
well long term.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
In the next couple of years. But who knows what
things pan out.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
You never know, and honestly, I might not have knew
that I would be having a move right now if
you asked me two years ago or but it's exciting.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Well, that leak's about start in a couple of weeks,
so you know, we may even see your name in
a squad there. I know the Auckland teams are actually
still looking for players, so just shouting maybe we've just
got exclusive.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Away from the netbook court, what does Maya Wilson do?
What inspires you? Away from the court?
Speaker 6 (14:48):
Are you working?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Are you studying? Are you just enjoying life? What is
it for mar Wilson?
Speaker 6 (14:53):
Yeah, it's been a hectic minimum month for a couple
of months for me.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
I have just finished moving out to my partner's thousand
acre family fun also and we've sortland so I have
boxes everywhere that needs to be unpacked. The house is
a mess, so at the moment that's sort of my
main priority. I've have got some connections and at media
works and I am trying to do some paneling at
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my FM and radio. I'm trying to dabble in things
that I feel like potentially I want to have a
pathway to transition to post netball, so I feel like
I can talk why not try and get amongst it?
So the I don't have anything solid at the moment.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
I'm living life, but we're excited to see where it
takes me.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
I think you certainly can talk. My word, that's brilliant,
very articulate.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Oh wow, hey, thanks so much for your time, Mayer.
Before we go, we're just gonna fire away some fast
five questions that we give all our our guests.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Inside Netball's first five.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
So the first one, if you could play another sport
other than netball, what would it be?
Speaker 5 (16:03):
And why?
Speaker 6 (16:04):
Easy basketball? I think the background of me would just
love to set a great screen.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Nice right. If what's your go to post game snack
or meal?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Oh go to postgame snack might seem weird, but fresh fruit?
Speaker 5 (16:20):
Oh road, which fruit? And are healthy?
Speaker 6 (16:25):
I had a.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Super manager, extraordinary delegate, and she always cut out pineapple
and rock melone and like any fresh fruit, and that
always used to.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
Get me good.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
No one, do you like fruit? That's flash go d
We're not surprising, delegate. She is amazing manager.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Who and your.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Team, let's say it's the Stars team because you haven't
experienced in mystics yet, is most likely to get you
into trouble and get you out of trouble.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
I would have said.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
The most likely this shared get me into trouble would
have probably been Lily top of door door it on have.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
A young one, and she lives with me.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
For a bit, so I feel like she's the one
who would get me into trouble. The one to get
me out of trouble would probably be Hm, I'm gonna
say Remy Carmel.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
Who's retired, right, She's just yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Next question, if you could invite three former or current
athletes to dinner, who would be.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
I gotta go with female athletes. Love a bit of
Serena Williams.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
She's been a popular choice.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Yeah, she's incredible the basketballer and me would love to
have dinner with Michael Jordan.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
Yeah. Nice.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
I would also say, from a Kiwi perspective, Lisa Carrington
has an awesome story.
Speaker 6 (17:58):
I'd like to have dinner with her. Was it four
to three?
Speaker 2 (18:05):
One?
Speaker 5 (18:06):
Finished with the Dame?
Speaker 4 (18:08):
And what's the best piece of advice that anyone has
given you?
Speaker 3 (18:16):
The best piece of advice that I've been following at
the moment is your.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Heart and your head.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
When they align, it's the right place to be. And
when things happen, they happen for a reason. So I'm
feeling quite settled in that.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Oh, it's a great piece of advice. Well, we hope
you are very settled in your decision to move to
the Mystics.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
It sounds like it's going to be a great move
for you.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
We've loved watching you over the years with the stars,
and now you're going from purple to blue and we
look forward to watching you in blue. So all the
best for your rest over the next few months and
we look forward to seeing you back on the court
next year.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
May awesome, Thank.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
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Speaker 2 (18:59):
Great piece of advice there from Maya with the head
in the heart, just making sure that that all are
lines and you just feel that it's it's a right
decision for her to take that move to the Mistics.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Gen she's impressive, isn't she. You know, you just can't
help She's so articulate. She has got the world at
her feet. I think you know she's she can speak
to RAO, she can do this, she can do that.
She's got a communication degree. Yeah, I think she's set.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
And as you said, Jen, she's twenty seven. Yeah, she's
achieved a lot in this last ten years. So I
wish you're well. She's certainly got her head switched on
in the right direction. She's a clever, clever cat. She's
going to do great. I feel like twenty twenty six
could be her year. We just sometimes you just need
a change of environment to revitalize your career. So let's
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hope this gives her the spark she needs.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Can't help but think to not being the captain or
just take all that pressure.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Yeah yeah, well, especially when you look at the season
she had this year, you know the adversity that she
would have had to have faced and dealt with being
in the leadership position. Okay, Well, a couple of signings
that has taken place over the last couple of weeks
since our last podcast. Of course, there are eight New
Zealand players moving into the SECN and two players that
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have signed over the last week, Whitney Sooness and Jane
Watson both going to the Giants.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Now.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
I sort of thought when they'd open this up that
we'd have five or six players.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Go now sooner. Certainly wasn't on my radar, nor neither
was Jane.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
I thought she was nearly at the end of her
career perhaps and was going to retire.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
So those two for me bit of a surprise.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
But I wonder though, what impact Casey Koorpour had on
Jane Watson's decision. I mean she went across for that
last half of the season and she was just a revelation,
and I think, okay, she's not going back, So you
know there's a position available for Watson. I like you,
I was surprised by Sooners.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Well, I think we've picked the other six before they've
been announced, but we spoke about Jane and we're like, no,
I don't reckon she'll go. And yet again Whitney was
not on my radar either. But again I think awesome
timing for Whitney. You know, this was a tough season
for her hair for the poll. She had had those
injuries and just different bits and pieces this year and
it just sort of hadn't clipped.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
So what a great time for her to.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
Go over there again.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Totally different environment, and what you hear a lot of
them speak about is that professional environment over there all
of a sudden, the access they are going to have
to the different you know, gyms and all those surrounding
support systems that can make that one or two percent different.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
So yeah, good on.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
And of course neither of them will have to apply
for an exemption because they didn't make the Silver Fern squad,
so perhaps an easy decision for them for them to
go the other one. Tiana Matuito not going to Australia,
heading off to her where she was born, the UK,
going to the Birmingham Panthers. She'll be joined with Charlie
Fidler and of course Sonya mcloman is the head coach.
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So a good move for Matuito. What do you think, Gene.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Well, I think again, hopefully perhaps trying to perhaps rear
Nite a bit of passion, you know, for the game. Yeah, no,
look good for her. I mean, you know she's she's
not going to be a special player over there. She's
got a British passport. Good luck to her.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Interesting though, that's the Polse. All three of the shooters
are gone, Amelia Warmsley, she's off to the stars obviously
Salmon on a Salmon's tactics. I'm completely giving few the Pulse,
wasn't she. But so that's going to be a big
change for that Pulse team because they've lost two of
the key shooters.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
They've got one though, haven't they? Who was the one?
She was such a hope and then she got Williams.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Yes, I wonder what she's doing.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
We haven't und but hopefully she stays it because this
could be her opportunity to get some some court. So
if you look at some of those movements, now, if
we if we turn our attention to the New Zealand
signings that we know of already, you've already seen one
of them, Adean Amelia Warmsley moving from the Pulse coming
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back home to the Stars. That's a big pick up
for Timmy Putter, George and then of course Martina Salmon
just signed as well with the Stars. So two hot
shot shooters for that franchise and Young Young and they
needed to because Charlie Bell's gone and Maya Wilson's gone,
and so I was Monica Faulkner retired. So I mean
it was really important that they did pick up. And
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let's be honest, as much as we think all the
positions are important, as she's putting those shooters in place early,
they're usually the ones in hot demand, right, so good
that they've picked up two of the best. So Meliani Canastio,
that's the one that we're all sort of scratching our head.
Of course, she's made herself unavailable for the Magic. It's
not going over to the SECN. Is she quietly just
going to slip away and retire or do you think
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we're going to see her pop up in one of
these other franchise.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
I wouldn't even. I wouldn't guess. I wouldn't know. I
don't know.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
I think I feel like the Comwealth Games will be
enough of a drawer card.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Still, they've moved back to Wellington, haven't they. The fan
you're telling that's as I understand it.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Okay, so maybe what's going to be the Pulse? Then
I thought they were moving to the Bay.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Well they have, but what I did the other day
and they did, they've moved back.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
But right, look, well the teams have to be announced
by Friday. Yes, so sorry, they don't have to be announced.
They have to be complete, their contracting is over by Friday.
The names have to be in New Zealand. When we
find out, they may spread out the attual announcements. The
teams may do it differently. We'll wait and see. As
you're talking about announcements, how good has a central polse
(24:34):
social media? Yes, if you're not following them, follow so
they have been so funny, the little banter guy between
the social media from Central Possa well done then.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
Love Yeah, yeah, it's very clever.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
And the import rule, am I do I understand that
we are now two imports imports? So interesting that our
imports have gone up. And you wonder just with the
talent war across the Tasman whether you know the SECN
will after a while ago, maybe we should lessen the
import role, pull the back of it because they're going
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to have a lot of Australians going, well, why aren't
we picking our Aussie players were picking Jamaicans horses bolted
for them. I remember these more teams over there as well,
more players.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Is a bigger pool eight.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Teams in that comperence?
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Yeah, I think so. So you've got well, I wonders, yes,
I suppose. I wonder where Shenie Beckford will wash up
now that she didn't get one from the didn't get
called back from the fever.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
O the news. South African President Genny.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Was our friend, Cecilia Molauane. She was She was the
woman actually who charmed me in Liverpool when I was
over there commentating, and you know I can remember going
to her and she was saying, you know, come to
Cape down in four years time, and I thought, wow,
she had this amazing outfit on.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
But we did go to Cape Town. We went to
Cape Town twice.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
We did go to Ymorable memorable, but for all the
wrong reasons really. But anyway, she has been suspended by
World Netball for they haven't actually said, but she's been
called to step down from her duties as South African
President under investigation for serious misconduct. Ouch and well there,
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I mean there, we're all sorts of accusations swirling around
about her. So loche you know, watch this space.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Well it's exciting because that Test series is coming up
very shortly. With that the tiny gemison with the South Africans,
and actually saw when the All Blacks played the spring
Box the other day Alice Park, the South African Netball
team did a loop around the field.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
It must have been at halftime and our friends and
Allie was at the front waving to the crowd.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
So exciting that they're coming over for the start of
the Test series twenty first of September, and that should
always be I.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
Think it's one exciting time for South African netball too,
because they've got Jenny Van Dyke's come in as the coach.
Who you know, she's somebody who you've heard her name
for a long time. But and there's a lot of
new players, so you know, let's hope that they that
they're I'm sure they'll be competitive. I'm not even going
to go there, but I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Self, fans will be in camped very soon, so make
sure we make sure you keep an eye out on
when that test series starts. But that's it from us
for another episode. Thanks for listening, and we'll be back
in two weeks time. It Deans off to Mongolia to
support her son at the at the basketball we've seen
(27:35):
not a lot of English spoken in Mongolian, so I've
been having to brush up on my Google Translate and
all sorts of this is going to be an intrepid adventure.
Speaker 7 (27:44):
Well, how big is Ulambatore, Well, it's I don't know,
but it's it's one of the Mongolia supposedly is one
of the biggest land areas you pull, one of the
biggest land areas countries at least populated.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Yes, because it's half of it is the Gobi.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Desert and the other half is mountains, so long bitar
as I understand it's smack bang between the desert and
the mountain. I did check out the golf course and
to be fair, the golf course in winter is a
ski field. So look it's going to be an adventure. Yeah,
good light to the good light the charity charity match
(28:26):
supporting deaf all day. Yes, I'll be running around the
court with Maya Wilson and you'll we'll be yes, yes,
all for a good cause. Well remember you can download
Inside Netball on our hat Radio or where you get
your podcast.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
Until next time at Marte Wa
Inside, therefore getting you closer to the game you love.
With Nadine Wilson, Anna Stanley and Jenny Wood Starward by
News Talks, that'd.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Be got a koto and welcome to Inside net. For
a while, we've had a week off and there has
been a fair bit of player movement within New Zealand
and across the Tasman in that time. We'll get into
all the new signings shortly and we'll be joined by
Silver Fern and newly signed Mystics player Mia Wilson. But firstly, ladies,
the SECN teams are done and dusted. A and Z
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Premiership teams have still got till the end of the
week to finalize their sides, and you'd have to say
the teams left behind have been somewhat decimated. The floodgates
have been left open. We've had about eight players moved
to Australia. What are our initial thoughts around that. Did
we think there'd be so many that would go?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Well?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
I don't know that I did. I've been sort of
quite and I must have been. I've been pleasantly surprised
because I thought some of the Aussie teams would say,
oh no, we don't want them, but hey, eight players
not bad. I also like the comments of Kerrie Wills,
who has got a bit of flack. I mean half
her team, Queensland Firebirds, are imports and I think she
(01:11):
sort of said, you know, shot right back, Well, you
know this is not a development league. You're selling this
as the best league in the country or in the world.
And I say, you know, good for her.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
And good on them. I would have one hundred percent
gone if I'd had the opportunity. You know, a number
of them at that stage of their career, that's the
perfect timing to go and get new skills, to get
as you talked about. I think in our last pot
Jen and Oi, they're going to live in a different city.
Some of them may have been still living at home,
who knows. So quite a big change. What is scary
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for me when we're looking at the numbers across an
Z thirty five percent of this year's starting sevens across
all teams are gone. And that's not just to Australia
that's retired that we've got the likes of Paris Locker two,
we're going to rugby. We've got a combination of reasons,
but thirty five percent of the starting sevens they are
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not available to be picked in the A and Z
in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
That is an astounding number.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
But how much of that would be natural attrition?
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Never would we have had?
Speaker 6 (02:18):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
No, we think yeah, five of the starting seven for
the Tactics gone, five of the starting seven for the
Pulse gone. I mean those two franchises in particular have
been left with not many players.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
The thought I had about those two is Central Manawa,
you know, the team beneath the Pulse, and Mainland the
team beneath the Tactics. You know they have probably well
the Tactic Mainland won it the Shed, didn't they? So
you know they're of all the franchises. I'm trying to
look a sudden point. You are, you're the skirt, but
you know they should have a good pull. I mean,
Canterby's always saying, hey, you know we as is Wellington Central,
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so you know you can't help, but think I can't help,
but think they're in a good position to recruit.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Yeah, there's no doubt about it.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
The SSN as a competition are getting more and more
elite and more and more professional and successful, and I
don't think we can say the same for the A
and Z Premiership. But one player that is making a big,
bold move for the twenty twenty six season. She's moved
from the Stars to the Mystics. She was, of course
one of the foundation members of the Stars team Maya Wilson.
(03:23):
She's going to be moving to Blue next year and
she joins us now inside. Welcome to Inside Netball, Mya Wilson.
Thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Wow, lots of talk out of I guess the New
Zealand camp, the big move. You've been a foundation member
with the Stars for what nine years now and you're
moving downstate Highway one have signed with the Mistakes.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
How are you feeling about that?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Yeah, it's been a crazy journey to get to this
point in all, honestly, I'm really looking forward to a
new horizons.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
Been in the game for a while in just aboult like, Yeah, something.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Scary about a new change and a new challenge and
I guess new growth and learning. So looking forward to
being within everybody in January the twenty six.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
It feels a while away now.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Did you at any stage think you might give the
game away?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
No?
Speaker 6 (04:18):
I never thought I was going to give the game away.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I felt like I'm in a stage of my career
where everything's been going at high speed and I've never
been able to get off the roller coast bride. So
I think when I've done the mass, I pretty much
have been a part of every single Silver Foon's toural
campaign apart from three in the last ten years. And
(04:42):
so even when I wasn't a part of the Commonwealth
Gap twenty eighteen Comonwealth Games and the twenty nineteen World Cup,
I was still an on traveling reserves, so I was
doing everything up until the team left. So I've seen
all of my mates taking a sabbatical here and there,
and I just felt like it was my time to
just have a bit of a breather if there's any
(05:03):
time to do it.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
It's not like there's as much.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Going on in the international calendar this year, so why
not refresh, reset, rebuild and head into twenty twenty six.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
YEA gunning to put myself in a really good position.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Now, Have I got my stets right? Was it Central
Pulse in twenty fifteen? Was that your first year?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Twenty fifteen was like my last year of school, So
twenty sixteen Wow Poles and then yeah, twenty seventeen onwards.
I've been with the Stars, so ten seasons deep and yeah,
a new change.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
I mean, how do you think you've evolved over that time?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
It's been a long time, and how do you keep
that passion going because it is, you know, as we
all love the sport, but turning up to physio, turning
up to the recoveries, you know, all of that stuff.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Is that starting to weigh on you? And you or
you're still like yep, nope, sweet.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
I think sometimes you don't know what you don't know.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
And I've been doing this.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Since i was baby fresh out of school, and I've
been involved within the Silophones development squad since I was sixteen,
So I think for me it was like I'm in
a stage of my career of how do I re
evolve and.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
What sits well with me?
Speaker 3 (06:17):
And I guess I always started playing netball because I
was playing with my best friends, in particular Holly Fowler
or Holly Ray, who is now retiring from the game.
So I feel like my mindset needed to shift in Yes,
I've enjoyed the people in this game, but how do
I individually become more of a creative how do I evolve?
(06:39):
And I still feel like I've got a place here,
so why not try and see the different sides of me?
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Which is another reason why for the shift of mystics.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Fitness targets has always been such a huge focus for
Nole's Mayer. And you know, you look long term, has
that been something that's helped or hindered your decision to
have a little breakaway.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
I think, yeah, I'm probably one of the people who
have been on either side of the line in all honesty.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
In terms of the fitness testing.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
And I guess in some point, like I said, I've
been on this roller coaster for a long time. I've
never had a solid chance just to focus and rebuild
in terms of my fitness engine. I think the only
time I really had was during COVID lockdown of Pullman
Arena of PAPACAA Netple Center. So I think that has
(07:31):
made a decision. But in all honesty, I think not
just in my case, but in a lot of the
people that I'm surrounded by a.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
Few minds in it.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
You're going to make it, And I guess I was
just at that stage where I was burnt out and
I just needed some breath of fresh air. No matter
how hard I trained, I just don't think I was
the mentally to be able to commit myself fully to
the Soul Finds program. And I've had multiple conversations with
Noels at different stages of this year, and I've been
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so grateful for the relationship her and I had as
a player and a coach, and her support to make.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
This decision a bit easier.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
And at the moment I'm still She's still checking in
every week or every two weeks, So I just feel
grateful for the support around everything.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Talking about coaches, min how hard was that conversation with
Timmy Potter to say, Okay, I'm not going to be
with you next year, I'm off to the mystics.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Yeah. I guess for me, it was awesome to see
Bubby as a player first and a coach and actually
a friend, and then the transition into a head coach.
I think we had a lot of different things happening
within our Stars.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
Environment this year.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
The round one where you had three people go down
and it was like, who has ever seen that in
any type of netball, domestic or international. So I think
we had our juggles of trying to make that fit
with different people, and yeah, for me, I feel like
I have given one hundred percent of.
Speaker 7 (09:05):
That.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
It's my heart. The pride that I have in terms
of representing my.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Fuck up uppet in South Auckland gave me so much
pride and so it has been a bittersweet in all
honesty to leave a massive part of myself. And I
still get emotional about it because that's how much this
franchise means to me. Nine years is a short is
not a long time. It is a long time in
any job, let alone to be in one franchise. So yeah,
(09:34):
I'm missing it. I will miss it, but I guess
like it's turning my head to the new page and
actually focusing on myself. Because I'm someone who gives everything
to everyone else, It's time to put me on the
focus point.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Good on you and you can see and hear the
emotion and you can see how much it means to you,
which is really cool and that's why we play this game. Right.
Some other people that have made big decisions are the
ones that have gone to Australia, and you know, a
lot has happened in netball in the last few weeks months.
Do you get a sense that the people that are
staying feel a little bit like they be left behind?
(10:10):
And I don't mean that that you're thinking negatively towards
the people they've gone, because good on them. But what
do you feel like about this competition that we're going
to see in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
I have thought about this and to me, it's a
bit of a double edged sword.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
So when I look at the types of people who
have gone across to SSN, to me, it's a bit
of agent stage for majority of them, and they have
paid their times, they've done their tolls in New Zealand,
and I feel like it's that challenge on how do
you evolve?
Speaker 6 (10:42):
What haven't you done?
Speaker 3 (10:43):
So I don't envy them, I admire their courage to
be able to do that. I think on that note,
you do have a lot of people going, but who's
going to fill the spots? And so at some point
you've got a netble World Youth Cup coming up in
a cup weeks, will we see the development pathways of
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our twenty ones or those up and comers.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
To fill those spots?
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Is that better as a nation to develop a bigger
pool of players? So I think you can see, yes,
you've got some high level people going away, but what
does that do for our player pool here in New Zealand?
And I guess it can. It will be an exciting journey,
but it will also be scary and sometimes you don't
know what the product's going to be like until it happens.
(11:28):
So I think another part of my decision of going
to the Mystics is I wanted stability, and I feel
like from what I know of who's there and what's
been released at the moment, I feel like we I
can say we now and we.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
Will be in a really solid position to be dominant.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
So you talk about, you know, these players going to
Australia that it's an opportunity for them to evolve. Where
do where do we see Maya Wilson evolving? In terms
of your move to the Mystics? What more do you
want to achieve in terms of your game and how
do you think you're going to get that at the Mistics.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Yeah, I think in the few encounters I've had with
different people part of the Northern Zone and then all
the mistakes, it's some parts it's talk and cheese to
what I'm used to resourcing.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
I went into a meeting the other day and there
was like six people.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
There and I'm like, where where did these people come from?
So I think there's that exciting time. Selfishly, I'm looking
forward to just turning up and doing my own job.
I think the role that I had in Stars meant
that I wore many, many different hats.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
Actually none of them were my job.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
So I think that selfish reason of being able to
just focus on myself is going to enable me to
learn new concepts. I'm excited to have a different coaching staff.
I have went to a few Mystics open sessions at
the end of last year, and the skills and drills
that I know both here and Rob do are hard,
but they excite me. So it means I hope there's
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going to be a bit of a change in my
movement patterns. It's going to make me think different differently.
It's going to make me look at the game and
want to create a lot more. I like to think
in my head I'm a bit of a playmaker and
I can see things a couple.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
Of faces ahead, and you never know if someone like
pets three signs, I'm going to have to keep my
head up.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
And every now and then because otherwise that ball was
going to come to my head. So I think that's
something exciting and challenging to evolve into, hopefully this new
and improved person.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
My way back you were a Toall firm, I think,
would you ever look at going back to basketball?
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Yeah, I have thought about this in all honesty, and
they now have I guess a semi professional tower Hea League.
I've never been able to do it because I've been
a part of the international campaign.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
So yeah, I'd love to. I love a good screen,
as everyone knows.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I love the fatality and the contact of basketball, and
I guess at this time in my life, I'm in
a point where I've got freedom to explore what life
has up until January.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
But I'm excited at this point.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
I just feel like I'm still committed to netball long term,
well long term.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
In the next couple of years. But who knows what
things pan out.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
You never know, and honestly, I might not have knew
that I would be having a move right now if
you asked me two years ago or but it's exciting.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Well, that leak's about start in a couple of weeks,
so you know, we may even see your name in
a squad there. I know the Auckland teams are actually
still looking for players, so just shouting maybe we've just
got exclusive.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Away from the netbook court, what does Maya Wilson do?
What inspires you? Away from the court?
Speaker 6 (14:48):
Are you working?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Are you studying? Are you just enjoying life? What is
it for mar Wilson?
Speaker 6 (14:53):
Yeah, it's been a hectic minimum month for a couple
of months for me.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
I have just finished moving out to my partner's thousand
acre family fun also and we've sortland so I have
boxes everywhere that needs to be unpacked. The house is
a mess, so at the moment that's sort of my
main priority. I've have got some connections and at media
works and I am trying to do some paneling at
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my FM and radio. I'm trying to dabble in things
that I feel like potentially I want to have a
pathway to transition to post netball, so I feel like
I can talk why not try and get amongst it?
So the I don't have anything solid at the moment.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
I'm living life, but we're excited to see where it
takes me.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
I think you certainly can talk. My word, that's brilliant,
very articulate.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Oh wow, hey, thanks so much for your time, Mayer.
Before we go, we're just gonna fire away some fast
five questions that we give all our our guests.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Inside Netball's first five.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
So the first one, if you could play another sport
other than netball, what would it be?
Speaker 5 (16:03):
And why?
Speaker 6 (16:04):
Easy basketball? I think the background of me would just
love to set a great screen.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Nice right. If what's your go to post game snack
or meal?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Oh go to postgame snack might seem weird, but fresh fruit?
Speaker 5 (16:20):
Oh road, which fruit? And are healthy?
Speaker 6 (16:25):
I had a.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Super manager, extraordinary delegate, and she always cut out pineapple
and rock melone and like any fresh fruit, and that
always used to.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
Get me good.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
No one, do you like fruit? That's flash go d
We're not surprising, delegate. She is amazing manager.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Who and your.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Team, let's say it's the Stars team because you haven't
experienced in mystics yet, is most likely to get you
into trouble and get you out of trouble.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
I would have said.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
The most likely this shared get me into trouble would
have probably been Lily top of door door it on have.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
A young one, and she lives with me.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
For a bit, so I feel like she's the one
who would get me into trouble. The one to get
me out of trouble would probably be Hm, I'm gonna
say Remy Carmel.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
Who's retired, right, She's just yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Next question, if you could invite three former or current
athletes to dinner, who would be.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
I gotta go with female athletes. Love a bit of
Serena Williams.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
She's been a popular choice.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Yeah, she's incredible the basketballer and me would love to
have dinner with Michael Jordan.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
Yeah. Nice.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
I would also say, from a Kiwi perspective, Lisa Carrington
has an awesome story.
Speaker 6 (17:58):
I'd like to have dinner with her. Was it four
to three?
Speaker 2 (18:05):
One?
Speaker 5 (18:06):
Finished with the Dame?
Speaker 4 (18:08):
And what's the best piece of advice that anyone has
given you?
Speaker 3 (18:16):
The best piece of advice that I've been following at
the moment is your.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Heart and your head.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
When they align, it's the right place to be. And
when things happen, they happen for a reason. So I'm
feeling quite settled in that.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Oh, it's a great piece of advice. Well, we hope
you are very settled in your decision to move to
the Mystics.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
It sounds like it's going to be a great move
for you.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
We've loved watching you over the years with the stars,
and now you're going from purple to blue and we
look forward to watching you in blue. So all the
best for your rest over the next few months and
we look forward to seeing you back on the court
next year.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
May awesome, Thank.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
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Speaker 2 (18:59):
Great piece of advice there from Maya with the head
in the heart, just making sure that that all are
lines and you just feel that it's it's a right
decision for her to take that move to the Mistics.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Gen she's impressive, isn't she. You know, you just can't
help She's so articulate. She has got the world at
her feet. I think you know she's she can speak
to RAO, she can do this, she can do that.
She's got a communication degree. Yeah, I think she's set.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
And as you said, Jen, she's twenty seven. Yeah, she's
achieved a lot in this last ten years. So I
wish you're well. She's certainly got her head switched on
in the right direction. She's a clever, clever cat. She's
going to do great. I feel like twenty twenty six
could be her year. We just sometimes you just need
a change of environment to revitalize your career. So let's
(19:46):
hope this gives her the spark she needs.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Can't help but think to not being the captain or
just take all that pressure.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Yeah yeah, well, especially when you look at the season
she had this year, you know the adversity that she
would have had to have faced and dealt with being
in the leadership position. Okay, Well, a couple of signings
that has taken place over the last couple of weeks
since our last podcast. Of course, there are eight New
Zealand players moving into the SECN and two players that
(20:13):
have signed over the last week, Whitney Sooness and Jane
Watson both going to the Giants.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Now.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
I sort of thought when they'd open this up that
we'd have five or six players.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Go now sooner. Certainly wasn't on my radar, nor neither
was Jane.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
I thought she was nearly at the end of her
career perhaps and was going to retire.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
So those two for me bit of a surprise.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
But I wonder though, what impact Casey Koorpour had on
Jane Watson's decision. I mean she went across for that
last half of the season and she was just a revelation,
and I think, okay, she's not going back, So you
know there's a position available for Watson. I like you,
I was surprised by Sooners.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Well, I think we've picked the other six before they've
been announced, but we spoke about Jane and we're like, no,
I don't reckon she'll go. And yet again Whitney was
not on my radar either. But again I think awesome
timing for Whitney. You know, this was a tough season
for her hair for the poll. She had had those
injuries and just different bits and pieces this year and
it just sort of hadn't clipped.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
So what a great time for her to.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
Go over there again.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Totally different environment, and what you hear a lot of
them speak about is that professional environment over there all
of a sudden, the access they are going to have
to the different you know, gyms and all those surrounding
support systems that can make that one or two percent different.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
So yeah, good on.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
And of course neither of them will have to apply
for an exemption because they didn't make the Silver Fern squad,
so perhaps an easy decision for them for them to
go the other one. Tiana Matuito not going to Australia,
heading off to her where she was born, the UK,
going to the Birmingham Panthers. She'll be joined with Charlie
Fidler and of course Sonya mcloman is the head coach.
(21:56):
So a good move for Matuito. What do you think, Gene.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Well, I think again, hopefully perhaps trying to perhaps rear
Nite a bit of passion, you know, for the game. Yeah, no,
look good for her. I mean, you know she's she's
not going to be a special player over there. She's
got a British passport. Good luck to her.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Interesting though, that's the Polse. All three of the shooters
are gone, Amelia Warmsley, she's off to the stars obviously
Salmon on a Salmon's tactics. I'm completely giving few the Pulse,
wasn't she. But so that's going to be a big
change for that Pulse team because they've lost two of
the key shooters.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
They've got one though, haven't they? Who was the one?
She was such a hope and then she got Williams.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Yes, I wonder what she's doing.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
We haven't und but hopefully she stays it because this
could be her opportunity to get some some court. So
if you look at some of those movements, now, if
we if we turn our attention to the New Zealand
signings that we know of already, you've already seen one
of them, Adean Amelia Warmsley moving from the Pulse coming
(23:02):
back home to the Stars. That's a big pick up
for Timmy Putter, George and then of course Martina Salmon
just signed as well with the Stars. So two hot
shot shooters for that franchise and Young Young and they
needed to because Charlie Bell's gone and Maya Wilson's gone,
and so I was Monica Faulkner retired. So I mean
it was really important that they did pick up. And
(23:24):
let's be honest, as much as we think all the
positions are important, as she's putting those shooters in place early,
they're usually the ones in hot demand, right, so good
that they've picked up two of the best. So Meliani Canastio,
that's the one that we're all sort of scratching our head.
Of course, she's made herself unavailable for the Magic. It's
not going over to the SECN. Is she quietly just
going to slip away and retire or do you think
(23:46):
we're going to see her pop up in one of
these other franchise.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
I wouldn't even. I wouldn't guess. I wouldn't know. I
don't know.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
I think I feel like the Comwealth Games will be
enough of a drawer card.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Still, they've moved back to Wellington, haven't they. The fan
you're telling that's as I understand it.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Okay, so maybe what's going to be the Pulse? Then
I thought they were moving to the Bay.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Well they have, but what I did the other day
and they did, they've moved back.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
But right, look, well the teams have to be announced
by Friday. Yes, so sorry, they don't have to be announced.
They have to be complete, their contracting is over by Friday.
The names have to be in New Zealand. When we
find out, they may spread out the attual announcements. The
teams may do it differently. We'll wait and see. As
you're talking about announcements, how good has a central polse
(24:34):
social media? Yes, if you're not following them, follow so
they have been so funny, the little banter guy between
the social media from Central Possa well done then.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
Love Yeah, yeah, it's very clever.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
And the import rule, am I do I understand that
we are now two imports imports? So interesting that our
imports have gone up. And you wonder just with the
talent war across the Tasman whether you know the SECN
will after a while ago, maybe we should lessen the
import role, pull the back of it because they're going
(25:07):
to have a lot of Australians going, well, why aren't
we picking our Aussie players were picking Jamaicans horses bolted
for them. I remember these more teams over there as well,
more players.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Is a bigger pool eight.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Teams in that comperence?
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Yeah, I think so. So you've got well, I wonders, yes,
I suppose. I wonder where Shenie Beckford will wash up
now that she didn't get one from the didn't get
called back from the fever.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
O the news. South African President Genny.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Was our friend, Cecilia Molauane. She was She was the
woman actually who charmed me in Liverpool when I was
over there commentating, and you know I can remember going
to her and she was saying, you know, come to
Cape down in four years time, and I thought, wow,
she had this amazing outfit on.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
But we did go to Cape Town. We went to
Cape Town twice.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
We did go to Ymorable memorable, but for all the
wrong reasons really. But anyway, she has been suspended by
World Netball for they haven't actually said, but she's been
called to step down from her duties as South African
President under investigation for serious misconduct. Ouch and well there,
(26:21):
I mean there, we're all sorts of accusations swirling around
about her. So loche you know, watch this space.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Well it's exciting because that Test series is coming up
very shortly. With that the tiny gemison with the South Africans,
and actually saw when the All Blacks played the spring
Box the other day Alice Park, the South African Netball
team did a loop around the field.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
It must have been at halftime and our friends and
Allie was at the front waving to the crowd.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
So exciting that they're coming over for the start of
the Test series twenty first of September, and that should
always be I.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
Think it's one exciting time for South African netball too,
because they've got Jenny Van Dyke's come in as the coach.
Who you know, she's somebody who you've heard her name
for a long time. But and there's a lot of
new players, so you know, let's hope that they that
they're I'm sure they'll be competitive. I'm not even going
to go there, but I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Self, fans will be in camped very soon, so make
sure we make sure you keep an eye out on
when that test series starts. But that's it from us
for another episode. Thanks for listening, and we'll be back
in two weeks time. It Deans off to Mongolia to
support her son at the at the basketball we've seen
(27:35):
not a lot of English spoken in Mongolian, so I've
been having to brush up on my Google Translate and
all sorts of this is going to be an intrepid adventure.
Speaker 7 (27:44):
Well, how big is Ulambatore, Well, it's I don't know,
but it's it's one of the Mongolia supposedly is one
of the biggest land areas you pull, one of the
biggest land areas countries at least populated.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Yes, because it's half of it is the Gobi.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Desert and the other half is mountains, so long bitar
as I understand it's smack bang between the desert and
the mountain. I did check out the golf course and
to be fair, the golf course in winter is a
ski field. So look it's going to be an adventure. Yeah,
good light to the good light the charity charity match
(28:26):
supporting deaf all day. Yes, I'll be running around the
court with Maya Wilson and you'll we'll be yes, yes,
all for a good cause. Well remember you can download
Inside Netball on our hat Radio or where you get
your podcast.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
Until next time at Marte Wa
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