{"id":299572,"date":"2023-05-23T05:56:11","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T05:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=299572"},"modified":"2023-05-23T06:58:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T06:58:55","slug":"not-good-enough-pies-ripped-over-netball-farce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=299572","title":{"rendered":"'Not good enough': Pies ripped over netball farce"},"content":{"rendered":"

Caroline Wilson<\/a> has slammed Collingwood<\/a>'s handling of its Super Netball team<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Last week, news broke that Collingwood was conducting a review into its Super Netball<\/a> program, seemingly weighing up its place in the competition on account of financial issues.<\/p>\n

"Collingwood has done a lot of things right this year, but abandoning, as it might do, its netball team after seven years is not one of them," Wilson told Nine's Footy Classified<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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"\ufeffWith just five weeks to go in the season and no women's pay deal in place, Collingwood decide that it all might be a bit too hard, a bit too expensive and Netball Australia<\/a> a bit too poorly run to stick around.\ufeff"<\/p>\n

\"Collingwood<\/p>\n

The Collingwood Football Club launched its netball franchise in 2017 as one of three new teams to join the Super Netball league ahead of its inaugural season.<\/p>\n

Despite fielding a star-studded list, \ufeffthe team has so far failed to live up to its potential.<\/p>\n

After seven seasons, \ufeffthe team has featured in the finals series on only two occasions and currently resides at the bottom of the ladder with just two wins this year.<\/p>\n

Upon its inception, the Collingwood Football Club and Netball Australia formed a partnership with the Tasmanian government\ufeff. This included an investment of $1.65 million alone in the first three years.<\/p>\n

\ufeffFollowing reports the Magpies \ufeffare on the brink of collapse, Wilson said the club owed a lot to their women's sports programs and female athletes.<\/p>\n

\"Super<\/p>\n

"Collingwood won significant public funding from a government enamoured by women's sporting programs as a result of their netball team and then [women's] football team," she said.<\/p>\n

"[The club's] got bigger, brighter facilities for them to thank."<\/p>\n

\ufeffThe review comes at a worrying time for Collingwood's netballers and staff \ufeffwith no players from any of the Super Netball teams being contracted beyond this season with a Collective Players' Agreement from Netball Australia yet to be agreed beyond September 2023.\ufeff<\/p>\n

\"Anzac<\/p>\n

"Now, placing careers in jeopardy \ufeffand an eight-team competition. This is poor by Collingwood," Wilson said.<\/p>\n

Aligned with one of the biggest professional sporting clubs in Australia, Wilson believed the team should be valued more highly within the club's broader sports program.<\/p>\n

Last November, the club revealed its 2022 financial results with a net profit of $7,134,753.<\/p>\n

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On top of this, in February The Age<\/a> reported that Collingwood would receive the base distribution of funding – of between $10.5 million and $11 million – from the AFL in 2023.<\/p>\n

"I\ufefft costs less than $3 million to run a netball team and Collingwood is one of the richest clubs in the land," Wilson said.<\/p>\n

"Not good enough."<\/p>\n

Last week, \ufeffNetball Australia CEO Kelly Ryan\ufeff stated that despite the situation unfolding with Collingwood, the governing body is committed to an eight-team Super Netball competition in 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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