Curtley
Years ago

NH: ANZ championship wants to expand into Asia

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/mar/17/netball-anz-championships-open-asian-side

I don't know much about netball but I know basketball is eons more popular than netball throughout Asia. Before people say the NBL tried to expand through Asia with a Singapore team, but it was almost exclusively an Australian team based in Singapore, Asian or Oceania players were not actively recruited apart from 1 or 2 (who were from the unheard of Singaporean national team).

This quote by the Netball Australia CEO sums up that this is a sport with ambitions.

"We have to make significant changes if the league is to remain viable. We simply have to change."

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to be or not to be  
Years ago

try the Philippines basketball is huge there.

is basketball wanting to compete with netball or let them run their own course of marketing discovery ?

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Camel 31  
Years ago

I seem to recall Werner showing channelninenews that WestBearcats were on the front page of Phillippine newspapers with a tour there

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Netball paid TV to cover it and now they want to expand. Weird.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Netball outside of AU NZ England Jamaica is non existant. LOL @ Asia

It's not even fully pro over here.

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