Jamaica's netball deserves more help - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM

Jamaica's netball deserves more help - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM



I believe every country in the Caribbean can identify with these sentiments.
Barbados recognised the importance of competition other than against its neigbors leading up to the world championships in 2003. As a result of playing aginst Australia, New Zealand, England, South Africa and Jamaica , Barbados landed a 7th place world ranking.

Barbados just went on a tour of South Africa , which caused its rating to drop to twelve at this time.

S'Africa outclass T&T 51-41 in tri-series - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM

S'Africa outclass T&T 51-41 in tri-series - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM

Once again a Caribbean country fail to stop a team our of its region.
Story taken from Jamaican Observer paper

IFNA : Current World Rankings

IFNA : Current World Rankings



World rankings as at October 2008.
Click on IFNA World rankings and see the current world rankings.

Some movement has occurred between positions 5-12..

Bdos slipped from 11 to 12 as a result of their three love defeat by South AFrica
South AFrica moved from 9th to 7th
Trinidad moving from 7th to 8th

Girls whip S'Africa - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM

Girls whip S'Africa - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM



Jamaica won the first game against Trinidad and Tobago 59-30 and have defeated South Africa, but are yet to lessen the number of unforced errors in the 60 minutes of a netball game.
South AFrica, obviously not up to the standard of the SA teams of the late 1990's and struggling.

The Citizen: SA netball finish in fine style..defeating Barbados 3-0

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The Citizen: SA netball finish in fine style

Barbados's inability to play intense and tough netball within a 48 hour period has manifested itself again... it appears the Bajans forgot to turn up for the final test against South AFrica and were trounced, after being competitive in the first two tests, although losing.

This obviously speaks to the team's fitness level both physcial and mental and clearly is an area which needs to be worked on.

Barbados goal shooter Lydia Bishop had a great second test missing only three of her attempts at goal. Have not heard about many other outstanding performances by the Barbados players. The South AFrican coach seemed to be fairly satified with her players performance, despite the closeness of the first two matches.

South AFrica will be in the Caribbean next week - Jamaica to be precise - where they will play a tri nation test series involving host Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago.

Proteas win Challenge Series: Sport: OtherSport

Proteas win Challenge Series: Sport: OtherSport


Both teams are in the rebuilding stage, so it will be interesting to see the final test score

South Africa defeats Barbados in first test in Cape town

SABCnews.com - sport/other


A new look South AFrica team defeated a changed Barbados team by 9 goals in their first test match.

The South African coach believes the game was too close for comfort, while the Bajans must feel that with a more total and consistent effort, they may just defeat this 9th ranked South African team.

Read the story as reported by the South African newspaper.

Bajans take on South AFrica in a three match Test Series

According to a Nation Newspaper report The Barbados Netball Association has selected the following persons to represent Barbados in the three match test series in South Africa:
Laurel Browne, Lisa Puckerin, Nikita Piggott, Kizzy Marville, Sabrina Smith, Shekira Boxill, Dionne Quarless, Natalie Miller, Lydia Bishop, Sherry Martindale, Shakira Springer, Janelle Sealy, Harriet Waithe (senior coach), Sandra Bruce-Small (assistant coach), Sonia Moore (manager) and Andrew Simpson (primary care/physiotherapist)

Not a lot to say about this group as I believe the BNA is in the process of trying to put together a group of about 15-17 players to draw from with respect to senior selection over the next two to three years leading up to the world tournament in 2011.

Shakira Boxhill and Shakira Springer, will be making their debut at senior level, having been part of the successful Barbados Under 16 team in 2005. Natalie Miller would have been invited to trials before, but was in a position to accept this time and she too will be making her debut.

Good luck girls and remember that a victory of any sort over South AFrica will do wonders to getting the Barbados world ranking back up to or surpassing 7th in the world. The July rankings show Barbados moving up two places from 2007 from 13th to 11th.

Pretoria News: Barbados series part of netball's 4-year plan

Pretoria News: Barbados series part of netball's 4-year plan



Well...the West Indies cricket team can tell the Sout AFricans about attaining the habit of losing and the difficulty of moving to the habit of winning.

I therefore cannot fault the South African coach on her reasons for this and future test series of this standard.

I await to hear the perspective of the Barbados Netball Association.

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.