This comes as a result of there being no valid Collective Player’s Agreement (CPA) from Netball Australia beyond September 2023.
Come on over to the other women’s sports, particulary the WNBL!
Netball is like rugby union - there are similar sports that could very well poach their top talents.
News Corp’s Code Sports was the first to report on Collingwood netball team’s troubles.
Why would you have both a AFLW and a Super Netball team? One will cannalibize the other.
Netball is buggered. If the WNBL is smart, along with any other sport, they’d be going after netball players. Netball players have skills that can transfer across to basketball , and you can travel the world more than you can in netball.
I don’t think there’s many netball/AFLW players that would otherwise play the other sport. A bit like how there’s not much cross over between Aussie Rules, the two rugby codes and soccer (at a professional level at least).
But I think it would be harder for Collingwood to sustain both a Super Netball team and AFLW team financially.
Collingwood aren’t the only club to boast the triple of having an AFL, AFLW and Super Netball club - the GWS Giants do, too, though its netball side go by the moniker “Giants Netball” and they have been successful, finishing on top of the ladder twice (2018 and 2021) and twice finishing runners-up, to the Sunshine Coast Lightning and New South Wales Swifts in 2017 and 2021 respectively.
I think the Giants’ decision to field a netball side was more to build the “Giants” brand, if that makes sense.
Sunshine Coast Lightning is also an affiliate of the Melbourne Storm NRL club.
The Giants are like Cadbury trying to make Caramilk happen. Please stop it and move them to Canberra.
At the risk of this turning into an AFL debate, if the AFL are serious about a TRUE national competition, they need 2 teams in Sydney.
WNBL club owners reportedly lost $5.5m last season. They’re currently pushing for Basketball Australia to hand it over to the NBL.
And when LK comes in, netball will have a fight on its hands.
This weekend’s Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix at Imola has been called off due to major flooding in the region (and affecting parts of the circuit).
Very much the right call, but like many fans I’m surprised to see the FIA actually act early and decisively on a situation instead of dithering about like they have so many times in the past.
Netball’s biggest strength is its position as the sport of choice for young girls across Australia and the number of places where it is offered. Until AFL and Basketball make real inroads there, netball will still hold sway imho.
except in the case of the two NSW teams, Netball NSW own the licences, not the Giants themselves (and arguably it was a leveller there given the NSW Swifts aligned themselves with the Swans previously) - unlike the Magpies holding the licence themselves. (The fact that it’s called “Giants Netball” without a location name is part of the Giants’ own branding policy, which got rid of the “GWS” part ages ago as part of their whole-of-southern-NSW/ACT targeting.)
Although if the Giants pulled out of their partnership, one would wonder whether Netball NSW would bother funding a second team. I guess that depends on whether netball in general can afford the two teams in Sydney and Melbourne, and/or Netball Victoria (or potentially Tasmania, given the Magpies netball second team is based there) stepping into the breach to fill any gap left by a missing Magpies team. With the monetary situation netball is in right now… that’s much less assured than it used to be.
In theory, such a thing could also eventually happen with the Sunshine Coast Lightning (with the licence owned by the Melbourne Storm… UniSC pulled out from being part-owner a couple of years ago)… but NRLW is probably even more unaligned in terms of skills needed vis. netball than AFLW is… I suspect it will depend more on how committed the Storm league side are committed to the Sunshine Coast, especially now the Dolphins exist and want that territory too.
I wouldn’t put it past the Wests Group to put one in Newcastle.
There’s your steaming hot take right there. 
They haven’t exactly set the world on fire since taking over the Knights. Can’t see them doing much with a netball team.
First thing they need to go - get a league-only CEO. Phil Gardiner can bugger off back to running the clubs. Next, get a netball-only CEO to run the netball side and fund it properly if they’re going to run a team. Of course, I’d rather them take over the Jets and get them sorted first.