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Margaret Foster: Former Silver Fern on Netball NZ updating eligibility criteria for overseas-based players · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: New Zealand's netball team is about to get a serious upgrade.
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  Speaker 1: The Netball New Zealand Bord is voted to update its
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  Speaker 1: eligibility criteria. This is for silver Ferns. It means that
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  Speaker 1: if you are an overseas based athlete you can still
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  Speaker 1: play for the national team. This is a text from
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  Speaker 1: one of our listeners this morning, Ryan. No coincidence that
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  Speaker 1: Netball New Zealand have changed the goalpost this year since
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  Speaker 1: they lost their best goal shooting Grace Noiki to the
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  Speaker 1: Aussie League and won't let her be eligible for selection here.
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  Speaker 1: She's also not eligible for Australia. It's a no brainer.
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  Speaker 1: Joining me this morning is Margaret Foster, former Silver Fern
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  Speaker 1: and former coach of the Canterbury Fames and the Southern
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  Speaker 1: Steel Margaret, good morning, Good morning. So what do you
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  Speaker 1: make of this change?
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  Speaker 2: Well, yay, of course, yeah, without a doubt. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you know rips in your country. You need to have
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  Speaker 2: your best athletes surely, regardless of where they're playing it
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  Speaker 2: in the world. And yeah, no, I think it's brilliant.
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  Speaker 1: Is the What was the rationale was to build a
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  Speaker 1: better depth here in New Zealand. What was it?
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  Speaker 2: Well, Originally it was I don't know if you remember,
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  Speaker 2: but back in the day when Laura Langman was over
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  Speaker 2: in Australia playing and she was not eligible to be
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  Speaker 2: in the New Zealand team or to make the World
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  Speaker 2: Cup team, and they kind of had to do an
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  Speaker 2: exception for her. Back then, I think it was really
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  Speaker 2: about trying to build our base and ensure that our
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  Speaker 2: athletes were staying here in the country to play netball.
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  Speaker 2: But it just look, you need to if you want
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  Speaker 2: to be playing like top level netboard. The best competition
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  Speaker 2: is in Australia at the moment.
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  Speaker 1: Does this potentially make that situation worse in a way
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  Speaker 1: by making their competition stronger? If you know, if you
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  Speaker 1: don't need to be in New Zealand to play for
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  Speaker 1: the Silver Ferns, then I suppose why would you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, at the end of the that that competition
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  Speaker 2: over in Australia has got all the top athletes, so
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  Speaker 2: you know, so your week in leak out playing with
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  Speaker 2: the best and against the best, Like you know, you've
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  Speaker 2: got the Jamaicans, You've got the English, you've got the
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  Speaker 2: South Africans, are all all the top athletes are over
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  Speaker 2: there playing, so you know, it can only actually make
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  Speaker 2: you a better athletes as well, and then you can
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  Speaker 2: come back and represent your country and bring in that
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  Speaker 2: wonderful form that you've got from playing as an a.
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  Speaker 1: Level the club teams do we have a competition that's
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  Speaker 1: you know Trans Tasman.
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  Speaker 2: No, And that's the biggest thing is that we really
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  Speaker 2: need to get back into that competition over in Australia,
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  Speaker 2: Like you know, it's that's that's our biggest thing. I think,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like we've we've trialed, we've gone our separate
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  Speaker 2: ways and it doesn't really work if you're looking if
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  Speaker 2: you're looking at the product that we've got in New Zealand.
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  Speaker 1: I just don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I just think it's it would be much better if
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  Speaker 2: we try to get back into that competition.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it sounds like we would all benefit from it.
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  Speaker 1: Mag Thank you. That's Margaret Foster, a former Silver Fern,
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  Speaker 1: former Canterbury Fames and Southern Steel coach, talking on the
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  Speaker 1: change to the eligibility criteria for from Netball end Z
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  Speaker 1: for the Silver Ferns. So there you go. Be good
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  Speaker 1: news for any you know hot not hot, I mean
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  Speaker 1: late impressive netballers who are living overseas in Australia right now,
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  Speaker 1: including Grace and RICKI. For more from Early Edition with
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