To reverse the enmity born out of a bitter pay dispute, the embattled game needed change at the top
. Last week, chair Wendy Archer announced her departure after six years on the board, on the heels of deputy chair John O’Sullivan and director Marina Go who have also recently left the organisation. Chief executiveand the search for her replacement is ongoing. At face value, it seems like a direct response to the saga surrounding the signing ofIn 2015, netball in Australia was riding high.
When the pandemic hit in 2020, the season was delayed, then played in a hub environment in Queensland and netball administrators again made a rushed decision – to make a major rule change and bring in the super shot without consultation of players, coaches or clubs. Trust was broken and while most teams have now adapted to the change, it did not usher in a new era of the game or bring in scores of new fans, as was promised on its unveiling.
to Western Australia in 2022, a number of controversial decisions were made – again announced without any consultation of the game’s major stakeholders, its players and clubs. The distrust came to a head during the negotiation of the CPA in 2023, with terms unable to be agreed to and players left without the ability to sign new contracts – and thus without any source of income – for months.
The sport has continued to thrive on the court, but simply agreeing to terms on a new CPA would never have been enough to reverse the enmity that exists between players and administrators and start afresh. For that to occur, there needed to be change at the top.
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