The Nation Newspaper | BNA Netball master plan soon

The Nation Newspaper | Netball master plan soon


Seems as if the planners are hard at work to bring the sport of netball to the next level in terms of its national program.

The clubs and other stakeholders now need to get on board so that together we can make another attempt at raising our standards in every area of this great sport called netball.

The Nation Newspaper | BNA's Under 21 Coach's motto: Never say die

The Nation Newspaper | Coach's motto: Never say die


Really..Well Coach Jordan ..its a miracle you would have to pull off, if Barbados is to be even competitive at the upcoming world youth championships in July 2009 in the Cook Islands.

At least 80 per cent of the competing countries already have their teams , and have been involved in at least one test series .

Why the Barbados Netball Association has slipped backed in this area is mind boggling. The 2005 World Youth World cup team was together for over two years and still had a rough time at the championships.

Why would we be doing this to our young netballers, kowning where they are coming from in terms of standard of local netball during the past season?

The adminstrators of netball must answer the question as to why even as I type this , no practise sessions have started. The coach was only appointed some time in August.
Are we serious? We are talking about world championships, not a club competition.

We are now going to ask a group of youngsters whose work ethic is to come to the stadium and have some fun playing netball, to overnight acquire the necessary attitude , strength, knowledge of game at the world level, fitness and desire to transform and uplift themselves into a team that can compete with Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, England, Scotland, Samoa, Fiji, Malawi, Botswana, Singapore , etc.

Oh come on....We as adminstrators need to stop this foolishness. The Board of the BNA already has ample proof and evidence that you cannot prepare a team for world competiton in less than one year. Yet for whatever reason, they have managed to procrastinate and now have given a first time national coach the job of getting a Barbados team competitive for this level in 7-8 months.

All I can do is wish her lots of luck, and knowing that we are talking about sport..the truth is that all things are possible!!!!!! And yes Coach..we are hoping for a miracle!!!!!

Jamaica Gleaner News - JNA in need of $5m for tri-nation series - Tuesday | September 23, 2008

Jamaica Gleaner News - JNA in need of $5m for tri-nation series - Tuesday | September 23, 2008


You know sometimes I get really tired of the way national netball associations , as well as some others, have to be literraly begging for help for its national netballers to represent their country.

We need to get this thing right in the Caribbbean especially with our team sports.

Good luck Jamaica and I hope the business houses and other interested persons come through for you guys.

cheers

Stories on Malawi: Malawi netball team triumphs in SA

Stories on Malawi: Malawi netball team triumphs in SA


Well well....South AFrica is really a shadow of the team it was as recent as five years ago.

An ever improving Malawi has defeated them again..this time giving them a good trouncing.

Barbados should feel that now is the time to defeat South AFrica and start to move up in the world rankings.

Please note that the South AFrican team that Malawi defeated was a club team. I still think that South African netball should be strong enough to rebut any club team from Malawi, unless it was a real miss match club tournament among the five nations.

Thanks to those persons who pointed this out to me and other persons on this blog.
You see... blogging really works.