Steve Jurkovich

Well, I've been asked about our Silver Ferns and our New Zealand athletes playing in the Australian competition a lot over the past few days.

And my reflection is that the fact that we have such a strong competition in the ANZ premiership with incredible athletes.

And we also have athletes competing over in the Australian competition.

That just highlights the depth and quality of talent that we have in New Zealand netball.

And obviously we're heading into a really interesting period with the Commonwealth Games only a few weeks away.

So I'm sure that the fact that we've had both a New Zealand competition and Australian competition with our athletes heavily involved is going to serve us really well as we head into that journey.

When I think about...

kids' sport and youth participation.

When I was playing as a kid down at Te Pai Courts in Henderson, there weren't that many options available for young people.

If you look at what's available for young people now, there are so many choices out there.

So the reality is every sport needs to be working really hard to make sure that their product

is accessible, it's inclusive, and it works with what young people are wanting.

Some young people want competition.

Some young people want to be playing socially.

We've got to make sure that throughout a life cycle, whether it's a young person or an adult, and trying to engage with the sport, we've got to make sure that there is a version of the product that resonates.