Many of us have played netball at some point in our lives but if you were a dedicated netball player (especially as a kid), you’ll be able to relate to the following netball moments.
Hopefully the Aussie Diamonds don’t have to experience their mums screaming “pivot” or the terrible finger jam in any of their games!
“Here if you need! Here if you need!” It’s the call we’ve all used many times.
When you play a team from the same club as you and you need to wear bibs. They’re always the ones that are years old, have been neglected for ages and finish underneath your bra line.
Getting up for the dreaded 8am game as a kid in the middle of winter meant frozen fingers and fog still on the courts.
But it would be worth it for the oranges and red frogs at half times.
Netball was basically just an hour of your mum screaming at you to “pivot”, “come forward” or “SHOOT!”
If you had long nails, you’d bend your fingers back when the umpires were checking. And if you got away with it, you were over the moon.
No matter how hard you try to stop yourself from falling, you always end up on your back with your legs in the air and black scungies on show. There’s no way to do it gracefully.
The pressure you feel at the coin toss is like nothing else. “Tails never fails in New South Wales…”
Scungies were the bane of your existence. Why were they always so ill-fitting?
When you play a defender who likes to get a bit too close and you can feel them breathing on your neck and their hands resting on your backside. Nothing a little elbow won’t fix…
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