On Tuesday 16th February 2010, the PNG Netball Federation announced a 43 person train-on squad for the national team. Training the squad started last Saturday for all 43 ladies named and is expected to quickly pick up pace to condition players for several significant international commitments in the region PNG is expected in undertake as well as the Commonwealth Games which, though almost a certainty now, still requires official ratification by the PNG Commonwealth Games Secretariat and that of the Commonwealth General Secretariat itself.
Confirmation from IFNA is also still being sought as to PNG’s status on the matter.
Commitments the Pepe’s have to consider for this year include qualifying for the 2011 World Netball Championships that will be held in Singapore. To qualify the Pepe’s need to do well at the Pacific Series that will be contested in June this year in the Cook Islands. Then of course the Commonwealth Games in India will add to the teams prestige both internationally and at home. I'm not even sure if PNG's netball team has ever been invited to compete at the Games and a real feather in the cap for those that do take the court.
The team as announced to the press on Tuesday is listed below and the formal release to the press displayed below that.
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Goodluck to all the girls named and we look forward to some decent results.
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Reffering to the squad on training and the names selected for the cook islands game....nerri sape..a selected player as a shooter from madang is a registered player of Madang Basketball Association and she's definetley not a netball registered player and a commited one of Madang netball Association..
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ReplyDeleteAs you appreciate, this is something NTH can't comment on. Be assured though that it will be passed on to the appropriate people for their attention.
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