Super Netball round five brought us plenty of entertaining viewing as several coaches gave their teams a spray in the timeout huddles. The closest game all weekend was decided by eight goals, as mistakes were plenty and the contests became scrappy.

Firebirds co-captain Ruby Bakewell-Doran came out publicly to support her friend and ex-teammate Remi Kamo in a brave show of solidarity, as she continues to call out mistreatment and a lack of accountability at her old club.

Plus, we discuss the confusion around the New Zealand Silver Ferns eligibility rules. Do you need to be a centurion to play abroad or not? The athletes seem to be on a different page to the national netball board.

On a special bonus episode of The Netty Life, we catch up with Jillian Joyce, business owner of Pride Human Performance in Townsville and Head coach of the North Queensland Netball Academy.

Jillian is one of the best netball brains in NQ.

In this candid interview, we chat about the role she plays in uncovering netball talent up north, the growth of the men’s game, how her team are breaking down the stigma that is still associated with women’s health in the high-performance arena, her support of Sharon Finnan-White’s First Nations Academy of Excellence, and how Sharon and the athletes in that program have changed Jillian’s life.

The reigning premiers are sitting pretty on top of the ladder and Giants have their first win for 2023.

Through their Easter induced chocolate comas, Kate and Britt discuss the big topics from round four.

Do the Lightning have the bench to win grinding battles?

Do the Thunderbirds believe they are a grand-final team?

Did the timing of Bec Bulley’s Fox Netball interview cost the Firebirds the game?

And did the Swifts implode due to the gamesmanship of Dan Ryan and the physicality of Fever?