Netball Tasmania CEO Mitch Coulson joined Brent to discuss the Mavericks' big win in Hobart on Saturday, the state's future in the Super Netball and TNL finals.
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Netball Tasmania CEO Mitch Coulson (01/07/24)
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And yeah, it's super important for Tazzy to keep posting a Let Level Netball. Yeah. I was about to ask you that. So we lost Collingwood obviously with their exit from the competition, but it just seemed a no-brainer for the Mavs to slide in and the partnership from the outside looking in and seems to be going really well so far. Yeah. It was, you know, the demise of Collingwood. There was that little interim period where obviously Netball Australia and everyone else was trying to figure out what was going on. But once the Mavericks, you know, entered the fray, the conversation evolved pretty quickly from there. And yeah, you would have seen Sasha and Lauren from the Mavs in here last week, obviously, but you know, they were up in, up in Launcest in the week leading in, you know, visits at NCAA, school visits, a whole range of, you know, connection with the community, some connection with our clubs and our state programs. So from our end, we just feel like, you know, Netball's got an enormous amount of value, that's fantastic. You and I have spoken at length about a Tasmanian Super Netball team, but it just goes to show doesn't it? You know, probably three, three and a half thousand out there supporting a Melbourne-based side. If we had a Tasmanian team of our own, we'd see what's happened with the Jack Jumpers. The appetite's obviously there from what we saw Saturday night. Yeah, absolutely right. It's hard to exactly quantify that, but yeah, the Tasmanian own, you know, that adds, you know, X percent to that. So yeah, it's a very exciting ambition and something we're still incredibly passionate about, something we still strongly believe in. So, you know, a bit of water to go into the bridge, but certainly we make that known with Netball Australia, absolutely. And not just Super Netball on Saturday, it was a good chance for our Tasmanian world to have a game against the Mares Reserve side. You mentioned some of the other things they were doing here, but just to have that experience. And the net set goes at half time was awesome too, and that probably got the biggest cheer of all, didn't they, throughout the night? Yeah, absolutely. Look, that sort of stuff is, you know, that's potentially once in a lifetime. It's not too often. You find yourself out there at half time of the antilate level sport, so I'm sure that's something that I remember for a long time. Our wild girls getting out there in my state bank arena, they actually had Stacey Meringavitch who'd popped down for the weekend, and Diamond's head coach, and she actually sat on our bench and, you know, worked with our coaching group, worked with a girl. So again, just very simply, sometimes we see our role as just creating more and more opportunity for the netball community. I think we certainly delivered on that across the weekend. How do you see the Mav's partnership evolving from here? They're going to have a couple of pre-season games, I think, and then another home in a way match next season? Is that right? Yeah, that's right. So we'll be working with them about the scheduling of those pre-season games, one we'd imagine would be late this year, sort of just before Christmas, and then one early 2025. I'd say there's a very good chance, one of those will be in Launceston, and possibly the other one might even be on the Northwest, but we've got to work through that. And then one of the other things that have really begun with the Mavericks is how can we get some of our girls over there to Melbourne and train in their environment, so we're just working through the details of that, but that's a really critical part for us as well. Rich Colson is the netball Tasmania CEO and joining me in the studio this morning. Let's switch to T&L because semi-finals locked and loaded for this weekend, and in no surprise the two Northern teams, Cabs and Hawks will go head to head for a spot in the Grand Final, and tell us about the other games you've got coming up as well. Yeah, so those two Northern clubs obviously have been so strong for so long, so not a total surprise, but yeah, the Cabs and Hawks will play each other in both 19s and opens up there at the Silver Dome and down south elimination final in the 19s between Crips and Corona, and then opens Crips and Kingston at 6pm Saturday 6th of July, so yeah, pointing into the season, yeah, we'll see what happens, but yeah, it's been a shorter season, but still a really, really positive one, so we're excited to get finals underway. Absolutely. How do you think the state league's going as a whole? Yeah, look, it's being talked about, and I guess that example of the Northern clubs being at the point of the end has been talked about a lot, equally for the clubs, you know, closer to the bottom, that's obviously no one likes being there, and we want to have probably a more evenly balanced competition, so yeah, I think that's something we want to work on, but I think our perspective on that would be that it's our responsibility to help those clubs and help them lift their standards and to be frank at the moment, help push that standard up higher to what the Northern clubs are rolling with, so that's certainly what we intend to do. I think we can help facilitate more of what you saw on the weekend, having a diamond head coach down or having other head coaches down from SN programs, help lift our coaches up, help them connect with, you know, strength and conditioning expertise, all those sorts of things that help make each club's program better, so that's certainly our intent across this off season. And before I let you go, how's netball going as a whole in Tasmania, do you think? Yeah, look, we were really pleased participation last year, you know, finished really, really strongly. We had the highest level of participation we've ever had in Tasmania from a registered player perspective. We're looking a good spot to break that again, so we're really confident about that. We're well aware of the challenges and things and the sign-in around AFL or the jack-jumpers and all those sorts of things, but to some degree, we also got to focus on what we can control and what we can do really well, and there's still lots of amazing things that, you know, we're working on at the moment that I think can keep pushing that number further north. Well, tremendous week. It was last week for netball in Tasmania, Mitch. How about the good work? And thanks for joining us here on SCN Tazzy Breakfast this morning. Thanks, Brent. Thanks very much. Mitch Coulson joining us here in the studio. It's breakfast powered by a Kubota take on any job with Kubota's range of tractors, miles, and utility vehicles. Still time to get us a text on the Harkorps Open Line Harkorps results for you. 0437 5552535, but now here's the news headlines.