🏀 Support Aussie Netball With Liz Ellis!

The Thunderbirds and Vixens meet on Saturday to decide the 2024 season.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda jam Nason. You've got a podcast. It's
called No Dribble clearly about netballing. It is because when
you play netball, you don't dribble. So, you know, one
of our old teammates, Killy DeVry, used to always say,
what a netballers do? We deal without dribbling. And so
when we're trying to figure out what the name of
the podcast was going to be, there was myself Caath Cox,

(00:21):
who admittedly helped me over the line. Then at Kath
from Crow's Nest with Em and m Her and I
and one of our friends who's a short comedian. So
we are an equal opportunity podcast. We've got two tall
women and a short woman just to balance things out.
Carolyn comes up to just about our navels and she's
a comedian, so she loves netball. She heads out to

(00:41):
the Swifts every week and we'll just we always have
these really funny cut well we think they're funny conversations,
and she said, one day, why don't we turned into
a podcast? So and then we have it, and here
we are this weekend. What's happening in the world of
netball this weekend? You were saying big weekend this weekend.
So I am heading to Adelaide for the court Super
Netball Grand Final. Right, Adelaide Thunderbirds taking on Melbourne Vixen's

(01:05):
my beloved Swifts. Now I'm the chair of Netball Australia.
I'm not supposed to have a team. Yeah yeah, Well,
having said that, I'm supposed to be Switzerland. But I
tell everyone I'm Swift Celand because I cheer for the Swifts.
That's hard to say into a microphone, isn't it? And
makes sense? So the Grand Final is in Adelaide on Saturday.
Vixen's Melbourne's Thunderbirds from Adelaide, It's going to be a

(01:25):
ripping game, do you think? Oh? I reckon, Thunderbirds might
just get the biscuits. So they've got a Jamaican goalkeeper,
Shimira Serling, who is worth the price of admission alone.
Amazing vertical jump flies out of the circle, creates all
sorts of havoc, So of course I love watching the
goalkeepers play. And then Vixen's have a goalkeeper Riddy Ellis,
And anytime I see a goalkeeper with Ellis on her dress,

(01:46):
that makes my heart happy. So it's going to be
a ripping game. But we've had such a great season
this year. We actually broke the record that the A
leagues broke, or the Women's A League earlier this year
for the most attendees to game, So nearly four hundred
thousand people come through the gates over the course of
a fourteen week season. Ratings are up. It's fantastic. It's
super exciting at the moment, and we're sort of we

(02:08):
feel we were like at the start of this wave
of women's sport, and you know, then the Matilda's had
their moment at the World Cup and you know, it's
really exciting to be a part of this. And you
watch the Olympics and our women are dominating. So I
just want everyone just to stop watching the Olympics, just
for an hour and a half on Saturday afternoon and
turn over and watch the Netbuk excellent and get your podcast,

(02:30):
the No Dribble podcast from wherever you get all your
good podcasts. Now, that's right. When you're a little bit
of behind the scenes action, Y's not a lot of
netbil chat. I've got to be honest. It's more just
you know, three perimenopausal women banging on about stuff, but
no dribble. Sounds like it's right in my wheelhouse.