Netball Australia boss Kelly Ryan has resigned,effective immediately,after a tumultuous two-year tenure in the sport’s top role. It comes amid mounting criticism over the governing body’s handling of the embattled sport.
Foxtel is concerned about Netball Australia’s lack of strategic direction to increase viewership and bring new audiences to the game,leading to fears the broadcasting giant will not seek to renew its rights with the embattled sport at the end of its current deal.
Matildas veteran Kyah Simon can empathise with her netball colleagues as their pay dispute with Netball Australia continues to drag on.
Australia’s netballers say they have been forced to sleep in their cars and move back home with their families amid the ongoing dispute with Netball Australia that has left them without pay.
Australian netballers have rejected an interim deal for an immediate pay rise and back pay to Super Netball players,while Liz Ellis described the offer from Netball Australia as offensive.
Netball’s in-demand shooter Sophie Garbin says the ongoing issues plaguing her sport is starting to take its toll on the athletes.
Australia’s netballers have effectively barred the sport from featuring them in any promotional material,after Netball Australia rejected the union’s most recent pay deal proposal.
The netballers’ union has accused Netball Australia of “weaponising” the looming pay deal deadline to pressure players into signing a new collective player agreement,in the latest escalation to the league’s bitter pay dispute.
Sports media mogul Craig Hutchison has added netball to his sprawling broadcast empire,inking a new radio deal with the embattled sport.
Infighting,culture wars and financial woes have eclipsed netball’s successes. So how did Australia’s biggest women’s sport get in this mess,and how can it be saved?
Australia is leading the netball world on the court,but there is unfinished business facing netball in this country. The truth is we can do better,and so we must.