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The Panel with Kathryn Graham and Tim Wilson Part 1
The Panel with Kathryn Graham and Tim Wilson Part 1

RNZ News

time3 days ago

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  • RNZ News

The Panel with Kathryn Graham and Tim Wilson Part 1

Tonight, on The Panel, Wallace Chapman is joined by panellists Kathryn Graham and Tim Wilson. Starting off, the Panel hears from one of the first jewllers to work with Michael Hill in his first store in Whangarei. They also talk to Jules, a pensioner who is living in her car for the first time after being made homeless and they discuss how Christopher Luxon was booed at a netball game: is it ever OK to boo a politician? To embed this content on your own webpage, cut and paste the following: See terms of use.

Top netballers may need secondary income as broadcast deal drags on
Top netballers may need secondary income as broadcast deal drags on

RNZ News

time3 days ago

  • Business
  • RNZ News

Top netballers may need secondary income as broadcast deal drags on

ANZ Premiership players Amelia Walmsley of the Central Pulse and Jane Watson of the Tactix. Photo: © Photosport Ltd 2025 Pay cuts could be coming for New Zealand's top netball players in 2026 as the broadcast deal for the domestic competition drags on. ANZ Premiership players may need a secondary income next season "to make ends meet", according to New Zealand Netball Players Association executive manager Steph Bond. This year's ANZ Premiership concluded on Sunday, but Netball New Zealand is yet to lock in a television deal for next year. The broadcast deal will impact how much players are paid. "The sad part that could end up next year is that actually players will have to look outside of netball to supplement what they are earning to make ends meet," Bond told Midday Report. "In some cases that's a good thing in terms of actually having something off the court, but it's definitely not pushing the sport forward in terms of the progress other sports are making." Bond said players had felt "unsettled" while the negotiations continued. "It's creating challenges for those individuals, which is understandable when you're not sure where your short-term future is heading. "We would normally be in the contracting stage right now in terms of the ANZ Premiership for next year, so we're currently in bargaining with Netball New Zealand to try and see what that landscape will look like next year." The players avoided wide-spread pay cuts this year when a collective employment agreement was negotiated last year for 2025, Bond said to be back facing the potential of pay cuts again was "disappointing". "The community game is still growing despite other, I guess, competing sports in that market and so there is definitely the fans and the people that are supporting the game just at this point in time we don't seem to be able to be getting that turned into dollars and making that a difference at that level." The Netball Players Association supported players looking to Australia to further their career with the "uncertainty" around the future of the New Zealand competition. "I think like anyone, if you look across the ditch, you can see a job over there that potentially is paid better and has different challenges then people will be looking at that and having a look and seeing if that's actually a better option for them." Netball New Zealand updated its Silver Ferns eligibility criteria this month, paving the way for greater flexibility for athletes who wish to play overseas.

Stumble in Super Netball semi-final could be making of Swifts star Grace Nweke
Stumble in Super Netball semi-final could be making of Swifts star Grace Nweke

The Australian

time3 days ago

  • Sport
  • The Australian

Stumble in Super Netball semi-final could be making of Swifts star Grace Nweke

Star goaler Helen Housby believes the Swifts' shambolic semi-final stumble against West Coast Fever last week could be the making of Silver Ferns shooter Grace Nweke. The Swifts went down 77-45 in a shellacking in Perth, with Nweke, the club's star recruit this season, finishing with 23 goals, three offensive penalties and six general play turnovers as the Fever put a blow torch on the Kiwi ace. It was the lowest tally for the 23-year-old this season but Housby expects her goaling partner to bounce back and in fact, grow from the experience. While Housby - who said she would still back Nweke 'till the day I die' - was not about to sugar coat the Swifts' performance, she said both she and Nweke had to find the humour in the game to take the pain out of the result and be able to move on to the grand final qualifier against the Melbourne Vixens on Sunday. 'Both of us are incredibly competitive and hate losing in any form, never mind like that, so you kind of do have to laugh at it a little bit because it does take the sting out,' Housby said. 'For Grace, I always forget how young she is and she actually doesn't have as much experience as everybody thinks she does - and especially I thought she did. 'I've had so many games where I either haven't played well at all or we've had a devastating loss for whichever team I'm part of, and that's absolutely shaped who I am as a player and it's shaped my career and it's made me more resilient and it's made me a better player and better able to deal with those moments. 'So I personally think this is just going to be one of those moments for her and she'll probably look back on it in five or 10 years and say - 'Do you know what, that made me a better player'.' If their 2019 campaign is any indication that could come as quickly as this weekend. Housby sees plenty of parallels between the 2019 Swifts - who suffered a significant loss to Sunshine Coast Lightning in the major semi-final before winning their preliminary as underdogs and taking their revenge on the Lightning in the decider. 'It absolutely feels like a bit of deja vu,' Housby said, not just of the result but the way the team had responded. '(The loss) definitely felt the same way that this game feels because we were so confident going into it and we had nothing to lose and then we came back to Sydney licking our wounds a little bit the same as we've done this time around. 'We actually we played the Vixens in that prelim as well and we had one of our best performances of the year. 'It definitely does feel very similar and I feel like the way that we've banded together this week also feels similar to how we did it in 2019, so I'm hoping that history will repeat itself.' Certainly Housby, who has played much more of a feeder role than in previous seasons given Nweke's dominance in the one-on-one contest in the circle, is not about to abandon her shooting partner. 'I'm still super proud of her. I'll back her in till the day I die, I think she's incredible,' she said. 'And I don't think one bad game defines a player. 'She certainly was not the only one who didn't have her best game. I don't think anyone on the court at the weekend for the Swifts would be happy with their performance.' And beware the wounded warriors. Housby is an athlete who wants the ball in her hand in the crucial moment - one unafraid to take on the big plays in the big games. And she believes Nweke is the same. 'I'm excited to see what she does this weekend, because I think there's a bit of vengeance in her mind - as there is in mine,' she said. Netball Super Netball's eliminated teams must confront harsh truths about their failed campaigns. But there is a road back to the top. We assess what's next for the six teams to miss the grand final. Netball From big-name recruits and runaway premiership favourites at the start of the year to a crushing prelim-final defeat, things turned very ugly for the Swifts. So how did it all fall apart?

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