Photo: PHOTOSPORT Netball in New Zealand has experienced a resurgence in playing numbers in stark constrast to what was happening with close rivals Australia. Netball Australia released a wide-ranging report this week that showed the organisation continued to battle with ways to remain relevant. While Netball New Zealand's head of community netball Ruth Stanley acknowledged the some of the issues facing her counterparts could be applied to a local context she also pointed out some of the ways that her organisation was doing it differently. "We do get people dropping out of netball, so we do want to be able to retain them and uniform could be one of those things that they don't want to wear a short, tight dress, they'd rather play in a format that's more relaxed on uniform, more relaxed on the actual format of the game," Stanley said.