Catholic doctor whose actions have been demonstrably influenced by his religion lectures us to not look at the religion of a far-right conservative Catholic who openly admits his religion guides his politics, which are ghastly archaic towards women's & LGBTQIA+ rights.
Nope 👎
Just a few years’ experience between us 😂
Had a blast playing in the circle with
@CBassNetball
tonight at
@MensNsw
mixed M-League & ticked off teaming up with a Diamond after playing against a few *many* moons ago.
Now Olivia might believe me her dad is alright at netty 😂🙏🏻
<Evaluates my life after playing men’s netball for 25 years>
- Have a wonderful 10yo daughter
- Have a great job
- Get to fly overseas all the time
- very fit for my age
and the best part…
- I’m part of the amazing netball community
On evaluation my life is pretty good 🤷♂️
From one netball and girl dad to another, I’m deeply appreciative & grateful that you could make my beloved daughter’s
@NetballWorldCup
experience that extra bit more special
@GaryBurgessIUA
, especially in light of me not being able to attend at the last minute.
Thank you 🙏🏻
Anyone else noticed how much better international netball is to watch with:
Far less stoppages
Far less missed long shots that go miles out of court
Far less sponsor call outs for inane things
Clean, decal free shooting circles
#QuadSeries
Gretel Bueta is a cheat code because she gives you height, elevation and allows you to play an ultra fast moving circle, which is the best netball. Just love it
#netballchaos
#B2022Netball
Every day, Donnell Wallam and the Diamonds standing up to the odious, racist, giant nepo mining baby looks like a better and better decision.
Netball doesn’t need nor want people like her in our game ✊🏻🙌
Rinehart's demands to Swimming Australia
- Install Dawn Fraser as President (expenses of $2500 per day)
- Removal of Pride Month and acknowledgement of country posts
- A swim in the World Championship pool!
Cracking story by
@ChrisBarrett_
@tomdecent
One very proud (and slightly emotional) netball dad who flew 45 hours for this 😍🥲
@della79
I didn’t get a chance to do a bun, but low key proud she’s rocking Helen Housby hair instead 😂)
Normally I think the call for coach sackings is grossly premature.
However, in this case it’s hard to argue that England Netball should bring change to their coaching before it’s too close to the World Cup 😬
#QuadSeries
A wizard with thread & needle
A champion of public education
A lover of fashion, shoes and travel.
An incredible mother & grandmother
Vale to my beautiful mum & Olivia’s Aussie Gran who passed away peacefully this morning 💔
Ok tweeps it’s almost take off time! A huge thanks to all who have been so supportive (special shout out
#nettytwitter
#netballchaos
community 🙏🏻) as I’ve counted down what sometimes felt like a never ending time apart from Olivia.
But we made it friends 🙌
Bye Australia 👋
Show me you know absolutely nothing about netball in a tweet while you bag it out in one of the most obtuse threads I've read on Twitter in 14 years.
I have the ball and I'm jumping. I'm also a man about to play my 25th season of men's netball & my 9yo daughter has just started.
Spending $21M taxpayer dollars on an app that didn't work, or $3.75M/year x 4 years to promote tourism in Victoria to one of the top 5 most participated sports in Australia & 20M worldwide?
The latter seems more palatable than the former, no?
🤬 I'm still absolutely livid about something that happened at Olivia's school yesterday, to the point I'm going to write a stern letter & have a Zoom meeting with the principal & head of sport to express my disgust.
She played GOAL DEFENCE at netball! The horror!
💅😂
@dariosneijder
@ajplus
Jacinta Ardern is the Prime Minister of New Zealand.
Australia is led by a conservative government that actively punches down on the vulnerable and has had the biggest drop in the global corruption index of any country in the top 30 since the other major party was in power
Good morning world 🥰
To the surprise of absolutely nobody, I got woken up to an attack hug at 6am 😂
Liv was *very* excited this morning as one could imagine.
Can’t wait to go to her netball this afternoon!
As gutted as I am as a
@NSWSwifts
member to lose, what a brilliant game of netball.
Huge congrats
@AdelaideTBirds
on a great victory and putting on an incredible showcase of netball 🙌
And you never get credit but what an end of game call
@SueGaudion
@CathCoxy
👏🏻
#THUvSWI
So Fever's
@staceyrinko
&
@SueGaudion
who hold national level roles in netball want the Vixens to forfeit due to a complex situation caused by outside factors outside their control & suffer 1/3 the same penalty the Fever were given for *egregious & systemic salary cap rorting* 🤷♂️
I hate to be that guy but
@NetballAust
have now got 3 empty spots in the major netball trophy cabinet
❌ Comm Games
❌ World Cup
❌ Constellation Cup
and
❌ we play a different sport to the rest of the world in
@supernetball
❌ broke
Abject failure of leadership all round
The amount of men with misogynistic tweets about women's sport (especially netball and football/soccer) who have profile pics standing next to either women partners or worse, with their daughters, hurts my brain and is enraging.
Serious
#netballchaos
question:
What does Helen still need to do to be considered the GOAT GA or at minimum be in the conversation?
Not saying she is yet but she’s is in spectacular form and been mostly at that level for the last few years…
Discuss
Helen Housby has been on 🔥 since round 7, with five back-to-back games with 100+ Nissan Net Points 🤯
Rd7 - 100
Rd8 - 110
Rd9 - 122.5
Rd10 - 114.5
Rd11 - 118.5
Insane.
Officially packed and ready to go to be
#ReunitedWithOlivia
Pending no issues with flights across the four of them, the video of the moment should be posted around 7am AEST Thursday 👨👧
We just told Olivia I’m going back to Australia on the repatriation flight this Saturday pending final flight clearance.
As heartbreaking for both of us as you can imagine 💔
Quick interlude from Twitter break to say getting help from a mental health professional is well worth it.
Been through the wringer the last few months & years so getting help & clarity today of what to focus on to be well was amazing.
Do it if you need to ❤️🩹
Back soon friends
Which dad is flying 18,457km next Friday to surprise their daughter to take her to her school's Daddy-Daughter dance and be there for her first communion?
This dad.
Legit teared up booking the dance tickets🥹
63-day countdown is now 7!
The
#netballchaos
community. My goodness.
This week has been one of the hardest of my parenting life. To miss the
@NetballWorldCup
with Olivia has been soul crushing. We've counted down for 4 years to go to it together.
But all the amazing support I've got? Means everything 🙏
For someone who consistently toots their own horn about empowering women, the
@NetballAust
chair needs to reflect at how the very sport she oversees treats their most important asset - the players.
Then resign.
A brilliantly worded statement
@AusNetballPA
@joannamweston
👏✊
What does one get their half-Aussie, half Sth African daughter for a welcome kit when she’s coming for her first Easter & first visit to Aus since 2019?
Free build LEGO ✅
Xbox Series X for here too ✅
Football & netball to train with ✅
@TheMatildas
new indoctrination kit ✅😂
And the natural order of the universe has been restored 🪐
Liv scored all 3 of her team’s goals in a win and already naturally is moving into open space and not just standing waiting for the ball.
Like father, like daughter 💅😎😂
(Seriously me right now 🥰😍🥹)
#NewProfilePic
After 5.75 months away, a day of being real life Dad (& amazing working from home ex-husband 😂) again, doing the school run, netball, groceries, homework, dinner & washing up is enough to repair most of a soul that breaks apart over time while away from her 🥰👨👧
Flight is officially confirmed ☹️
I fly back to Australia tonight then spend 14 days and Christmas in quarantine instead of having another six weeks with Olivia.
Just… 💔
Zero sleeps left 🎉🥳 Today is departure day ✈️
This is the last reunited moment Olivia & I had 22 months ago here in Sydney. Chills 😍
The next one is going to be something else considering everything & it’s a surprise 🤫
Stay tuned around Tuesday morning Sydney time 😉
I’m off to see my baby girl!
I’m off to see my baby girl!
I’m off to see my baby girl!
I’m off to see my baby girl!
I’m off to see my baby girl!
😍👨👧❤️🙌
Eulogy done
Flowers done
Picture done
Bookmarks done
Video tribute done
Olivia's Aussie Gran made outfit ready
Suit ready
Just to get through it all tomorrow for her ❤️
Down at the Flemington prepoll booth with my trusty team of staff and volunteers. Great to see so many locals getting out to vote early. Vote 1 Labor
#ausvotes
Quarantine Freedom Day is here at last 🥳🙌
Packed and ready to go. Even cleaned the bathroom, stripped the bed and wiped down everything with disinfectant wipes 🤷♂️😂
Now get me to my club sandwich and bucket of vodka STAT 😂
In the normal world, it seems denigrating one's ex is the thing to do.
Well, I don't work like that.
The reason I have a brilliant & beautiful daughter is because of the mother of my daughter.
I mean just look that them.
Beautiful. Stunning. Strong.
I'm so thankful 🙏
1) Long overdue
2) Our Prime Minister
@ScottMorrisonMP
has some serious questions to answer about his long association and govt favours around travel permits
3) Also serious questions of previous
@nswpolice
leadership associated with the “church”
How we need a federal ICAC…
2023
@SuperNetball
total attendance 266k
2019 pre-COVID & SS was 235k - old record
*Swifts doubled capacity moving to KRA - 4.5k to 10k
*T-birds played a game at ADL EntCent which drew 9k. Usual max 3.2k
*Fever's '22 🏆 saw crowd growth & twice break record in '23
SS 🚫🟰 👨👧⬆️
An interesting development in Olivia's netball journey this week. Her school coaches have suggested she move from GA in the B team to C in the A team.
I actually like the idea for a few reasons - lack of potential height, longevity, right athleticism make-up...
The accusation of New Zealand being biased *towards* Australia in sport whether it be officiating, administration or support is bloody hilarious.
Not sure who dislikes us more - the Kiwis, the Poms or the Saffas 🤷♂️
My beloved daughter is nine today.
A journey I need an hour of a podcast to explain.
A life I’ve missed 85% of in person but been there every step, virtually and financially.
We’ve gone through more than a father and daughter should, but we still have an unbreakable bond 👨👧🥰
So the GF was sold at the last minute for peanuts in the scheme of things to help fix the gaping hole in
@NetballAust
finances.
OK.
We're just weeks from
@birminghamcg22
. Here is the current state of the Diamonds online store, a revenue source for NA & the players
⬇️🤔🤨
MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT
The League has announced a new Grand Final venue format, taking the most anticipated match in the competition’s calendar to a new location across the country each season.
Read more -
#SSN2022
School run with a daughter asking “why do you keep taking selfies?”
Me: “Because friends of mine are interested in how we’re going now we’re together again”
Liv unimpressed: “just tell them we’re fine <rolls eyes>”
So everyone - we’re fine and no more selfies 😂😂
@MmusiMaimane
I hate to say this as a frequent visitor to SA & my 7yo daughter lives in JNB but...
Where's the lie?
The only warning missing is "frequent interruptions to power supply"
Here's Australia's travel guidance for South Africa FYI.
Again - where's the lie?
Winners (even with a very bruised and potentially broken big toe) are grinners 😁🥳🙌
So damn happy to have made it back out on court in
@netballnsw
M-League 25 years after I started. Don’t care if I play another minute this season - I still played 🥹
#netballchaos
Our wonderful Aussie Gran was a voracious reader & that is no exaggeration. On her last trip to Johannesburg for Liv's 9th birthday she read 15 books in 17 days during times when B & I had to work 📚
So we designed & getting printed bookmarks for all in attendance this Friday ♥️
“… when did he arrive?”
🤣 someone took a little while to process things this morning - her excuse was “don’t surprise me when it’s early” - but has since been a total chatterbox
#reunited
✅ Flights booked
✅ Two nights at the Sofitel Adelaide booked
✅
@supernetball
Grand Final Lunch + Diamond seats 3rd row centre court booked for
@niki1211x
& I
🙌🥳
Who else is going
#netballchaos
?
Strongly disagree.
@supernetball
should always aim to be the Premier League or NBA of netball i.e. best league in the world that is also insanely successful commercially. It’s only one of those things now but is on a good path to grow 💰 hopefully
Our Diamonds will be fine.
Elite netball in prime time on a Saturday properly supported by a broadcaster.
Men’s netball games and live streams being promoted by actual official netball NSO’s.
This old male netballer honestly never thought I’d see the day. It’s truly wonderful
Just found out Olivia is worried and sad that she thinks I’m going to miss her netball carnival on May 26th.
Arriving with Aussie Gran May 24th and Liv doesn’t know… 😍🥳
Giving you all fair warning of another tear inducing reunited moment 👨👧
It’s official - next year I’ll be working remotely for the majority 🥳
Rough plan:
Dec-Mar: Mauritius & Joburg
Apr-mid May: Sydney
Late May: London
Jun-Aug: Joburg & Cape Town for
@NetballWorldCup
Sept: Sydney
Oct-Nov: London & Joburg
Dec: Sydney for Xmas
👨👧👩❤️👨🥲
Also me ⬇️