(Really, it’s ever since my Father in Law asked if i’d listened to new netball podcast ‘Netball Nation’. He’d never mentioned netball before but is a Leeds United fan and as such an Emma Louise Jones fan too! š)
Netball Nation remains my favourite. I’ve listened to every episode of host Emma-Louise Jones with Sara Bayman and Maggie Birkenshaw and love their banter, their frankness and their commitment to delivering a show for everyone. They have covered everything from how the junior game can be developed for the better, memories of national clubs to the recent controversy over Ama Agbeze’s omission from the Rose’s World Cup Squad. The podcast is professionally done with a human touch. I look forward to it ‘dropping’ every week and normally listen to it on my way to training - extra motivation to smash rehab whilst I’m on the training sidelines!
Other UK-based podcasts worth a listen include the content-packed Netball Show, which can have multiple episodes a week dependent on what’s happening! They’ve always got great guests, the latest news and great opinion-packed pieces.
The original netball show has been going some time, so it seemed an odd decision by the BBC, recently launching their own netball podcast, to call it The BBC Netball Show! (Seriously - a little bit of competitor analysis needed and surely the Beeb’s creative minds could have come up with something a little more original!)
Outgoing Team Bath Director of Netball Jess Thirlby co-hosts The Netball Show on BBC Sounds. This provides a unique insight when it comes to match analysis, preview of games and squad selections. She freely admits to pulling in the ‘big guns’ for interviews too - we’ve had Serena Guthrie and I am personally looking forward to the next episode, where we’ve been promised Aussie defensive legend Monia Gerard and Roses Coach Tracey Neville. My #neek antennae went into overdrive!
From our overseas netball friends I’m loving brand new podcast ‘The Inner Circle’ with former Aussie Diamonds’ Sharelle McMahon and Bianca Chatfield.
It follows a similar format to Netball Nation, but focus is on Suncorp Super Netball. There has only been two episodes at the time of writing, both has been more than worth listening to. We’ve had debates on whether games should finish as a draw (watch out Vitality Superleague, broadcasters will have a big say in this!) interviews with the brilliant Sue Gaudion and Aussie GK Courtney Bruce and discussion on Diamonds World Cup selection and what Lisa Alexander might be considering in her final decisions.
As an aside I’ve picked up that Bianca Chatfield appeared in Aussie reality show ‘The Block’ and didn't see any of the Commonwealth games!
This makes me ask two questions:
1. Why ?!
2. Who is going to be the first England Rose / Retiree to feature on a UK reality show? Ama on ‘I’m a Celeb’ or Tamsin on ‘Strictly’ anyone?
Not only have I been regularly listening to Netball dedicated programmes from the UK and abroad, but have even found a few more general programmes featuring and interviewing our high profile netball community. Check out Jade Clarke on ‘Give me Strength’ with Alice Liveing, for a fab insight into our most capped English Rose netball journey. It was a compelling, well interviewed and thought- provoking listen!
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