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West Coast Fever season preview A Set the default text size A Set large text size Replay A Set the default text size A Set large text size Last season the West Coast Fever finished second. The West Coast Fever made the grand final in both 2018 and 2020 and split those grand final appearances with a sixth-place finish in 2019. The Fever lost a thrilling grand final to the Vixens by two points. Traditionally it would be goals but with the invention of the super shot, it is now points. Sorry traditionalists – and I am one of those – the super shot is still around for 2021.

Photo: PHOTOSPORT Jury joined the Pulse in 2020, helped them to their second straight title and was subsequently recalled to the Silver Ferns squad. However 2021 didn't start so well: she was one of a couple of players dismissed from Noeline Taurua's Silver Ferns camp after failing fitness tests. She returned home and watched the Ferns score a historic 3-1 win over Australia in the Constellation Cup series. "Mentally it was hard, emotionally it was difficult," Jury said. "I felt like I disappointed myself and I'd disappointed a lot of people around me, so it was a really tough time following ...

Kai Schwoerer/Getty Images Silver Ferns wing attack Gina Crampton is one of several players to have switched teams ahead of the new ANZ Premiership season. There will be some familiar faces in unfamiliar dresses this Sunday and Monday as the 2021 ANZ Premiership season begins. Kate Burley with the Northern Mystics for starters, and Fa’amu Ioane. Gina Crampton with the Northern Stars, and Monica Falkner, and, out of retirement, Anna Harrison. Temalisi Fakahokotau with the Waikato-Bay of Plenty Magic, and, back from the Stars, Grace Kara. Whitney Souness, also back from the Stars, with t...

JOHN DAVIDSON/Photosport Australian Diamonds star Caitlin Bassett has joined the Waikato-Bay of Plenty Magic for the 2021 ANZ Premiership season. At the end of the Constellation Cup in March, once the Silver Ferns loosened the Australian Diamonds’ tight grip on the trophy after nine years of trying, most of their opponents packed their bags and headed back across the Tasman. But the longest-serving Diamond, Caitlin Bassett, who captained her side in the opening match of the series, went a different way, to Mount Maunganui, where she is living while she plays for the Waikato-Bay of Plenty M...

Ameliaranne Ekenasio and Dame Noeline Taurua with the Constellation Cup 2021. Photo: PHOTOSPORT The two-time defending champions Central Pulse will be without their captain for the start of the national netball premiership this weekend. In a post on Instagram last month, Ekenasio said she had been struggling mentally and was seeing a therapist. Ekenasio missed last month's pre-season tournament in Ōtaki to freshen up following the Silver Ferns' Constellation Cup victory in which she played a huge part. Pulse chief executive Fran Scholey confirmed today that she remained on "extended medical...