Say goodbye to 'non-contact' as Super Netball brings extra physicality

Saturday’s season return will see ‘more devastating impact’ says Netball Australia’s CEO

On the back of several ferocious pre-season matches, players and pundits believe the third installment of Super Netball – which begins on Saturday and enters uncharted territory when it halts mid-season for the sport’s pinnacle event, the World Cup – will dispel, once and for all, the notion of netball being “non-contact”.

Reflecting growing advances in high performance programs across all eight franchises, “stronger, faster, fitter athletes” are expected to deliver fierce contests from round one, which features a double-header in Melbourne, with the Vixens taking on the Queensland Firebirds and Collingwood playing reigning premiers, the Sunshine Coast.

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