Bullants Netball

Hi Bullants families.

Your committee continues to monitor the situation and will provide information as it comes to hand. Remember to keep up your fitness and work on your skills.

Resources/Links

Netball Australia has teamed with NetFit to provide on-line clinics for players. The link for that is here.  The clinics are full-day sessions, but if you want just an individual exercise/skills session then you can access those via the facebook page here. We also recommend that players warm up using the knee program designed by Netball Australia to prevent knee injury here. And SCNA have links to some activities also here.

Netball Knowledge

Here is another rule for you to consider – this is on of Meghan’s bugbear…. players being called for replay. So what are you allowed to do?

Rule 9.4.1 covers the requirements for playing the ball.

To gain procession a player may: catch the ball with one or both hands; roll the ball to oneself; catch the ball if it rebounds from the goalpost.

After releasing the ball, a player may not replay the ball until it has been touched by another player or it rebounds from the goalpost.

But, without having possession of a ball a player may do quite a bit with it – this is the interesting part.

Before you have possession you can bat or bounce the ball to another player but can’t bat it deliberately at another player (that would be unsportsmanlike!).

You can tip the ball in an uncontrolled manner once or more than once, then either catch the ball or bat or bounce it to another players.

You can bat the ball once before either catching the ball or batting practice bouncing the ball to another player.

And you can bounce the ball once before either catching the ball or batting or bouncing it to another player.

So if you don’t have possession or control of the ball – you can keep trying to get hold of the ball without worrying about being called for replay.

There are a few things you can’t do. For example, you can’t roll the ball to another player. You also can’t catch or throw the ball if you are on the ground.

If you would like to suggest some other tips for our update or have questions please send us an email at bullantsnetball@gmail.com.

We hope everyone is staying safe and well.