Matt Whineray: Netball NZ Board Chair on Dame Noeline Taurua getting stood down as Silver Ferns coach

Netball New Zealand have no idea when or if Dame Noeline Taurua will return as Silver Ferns head coach.

The World Cup-winning mentor and assistant Deb Fuller have been replaced by former Pulse coach Yvette McCausland-Durie and current Southern Steel assistant Liana Leota for the Taini Jamison series against South Africa starting Sunday week.

Netball NZ board chair Matt Whineray says discussions have taken place, but he can't reveal certain details.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now Silver Fern's coach, Noorline Toto has been stood down
from her job for the upcoming Tiny Jamison series against
South Africa. Has just come through in the last half hour.
Matt Winner. Matt Winner Ray is Netball New Zealand's chair
and is with us. Hey, Matt hi Hether, how are
you well? Thanks mate? Now, you guys have said that
you were unable to resolve some issues in time for
the series. What were these issues?

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yeah, so we just have been talking with the management
team and Dave Nolvs for a little while about some
issues in the high performance program and environment. We're looking
to resolve those to make that as good as it
can be. We hadn't been able to We weren't able
to get there before the Tiny Jamerson series, which is
why we've put on these interim measures. And we've got

(00:43):
Event and Leona Lioda and there as assistant coach or
just for the next for the next series against South Africa.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Right there are reports that it is because of a
player boycott. Is that correct? No, no player boycott. No
also thoughts that players were threatening to leave if she
stayed on.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Look, there's no player boycott, and these discussions as we've said,
have been between us and Nolane Dan Nolane and the
Silver Friend's management team. So that's where the discussions are.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Are you saying you can't tell us if some players
were threatening to leave?

Speaker 2 (01:21):
I can't tell you. I can't tell you anything about
those discussions because those the discussions are between us and
Dame Noel's and the Silk Food's management team.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Okay, Is there are some are saying that there's a
problem with her old school approach? Is that the vibe
that you're getting.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Look, I can't comment on you what people are speculating about,
but what I can tell you is we have had
you know, we've had some issues in there. We'd like
to solve them, and that's what we're going to continue
to work to do. I think we can do that
and we can get a really good Silver Foen's team
out on FOURT Right.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
So does both sides? Is it that both sides need
to give here to resolve these issues or just one side?

Speaker 2 (02:01):
We're just going to dive into the into the discussions. Again,
you understand the privacy law. I can't. I can't talk
about those discussions while we're having them.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
How long do you think it might take you to
resolve this.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Well, we weren't able to get there before we you know,
we had hoped we could get there before Tiny Jamison.
We weren't able to do that. So ye takes a
little bit longer. I don't know exactly how long that
will be, Matt.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
The fact that you're referring to privacy issues suggest to
me this is an employment dispute and the standing down
is the end of her time with you. Is that
correct or not? Am I reading that right?

Speaker 2 (02:33):
No, no, no, Where these discussions are ongoing. Privacy issues
are really because you can't just can't talk about other
people's The situation was without other people's agreement, So you know,
that's what that's what we're doing. We're talking about how
we can resolve from issues in the environment and we're
hopeful that we can reach a resolution on those and

(02:55):
we'll keep working towards that. Mate.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
I feel like after everything you guys have been through
as Neipore News was bloody last thing you need.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
We've had some we've had some challenges this year, but
we've got you know, we've got a fantastic sport. We've
got a massive number of participants, we've got the biggest
secondary school sport. We've got, you know, a really strong
community sport. We just got open champs starting starting this week.
We've had some North othern secondary schools. I wasout it

(03:25):
out at Mount Wellington a few weeks ago. Fantastic, fantastic
vibe out there. So you know, we're the community games
in great Heart. We're pleased to have our TV and
broadcasting assorted so we can get out to more viewers
and we're excited about getting into this international campaign.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
Good stuff, good stuff, and congrats. By the way, I
haven't the chance to say that you congrats on the
TV and ZID deal. That's Matt Winneray, the board chair
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