The Netball Super League will be too close to call this year, says Manchester Thunder Coach Karen Greig | Netball news

The Netball Super League starts this Friday live Sports And while London’s Pulse can be regarded as the team to win, this season is too close to call, according to Karen Greig.

Greig, the coach of Manchester Thunder, said Sports: “I think it’s really hard to say really.

“I think Pulse will definitely be over there. I also think looking at Loughborough, even though they didn’t make the semifinals at the weekend (in the Netball Super Cup), they will always be there with the quality they have throughout their team.

“It will be a good time and the fact that we don’t know enough who will be in that top four – I don’t think you can call it – stands our championship in a good position.”

The introduction of the new Super Shot rule will make the championship unpredictable. The new regulation will allow teams to score two goals from a special area inside the outer edge of the shooting cycle over the last five minutes of each of the four quarters.

Greig explained: “Now in the form we actually play – we will play 45 minutes of normal Netball and 15 minutes of Super Shot Netball – it will be really difficult to say which team is going to get up and measured.

“I don’t think you can get out of the London pulse with the quality they have passed through their entire unit, but it will be interesting to see how the teams apply really super shot, either go early and try to get a piece of lead and put pressure on the teams.

The side of Greig’s Manchester Thunder is taking their campaign in progress against Loughborough Lightning on Sunday, live Mixture of Sky Sports.

“It was a truly rocky, fragmented pre-session for us,” Greig said. “To lose three of our international athletes (in injury) before the start of the season and it was critical to us and it was a lot of adversity and great uncertainty about how to really deal with it.

“But for us we are so grateful to have this foundation of our path and some really exciting young people who come through them are able to get into their shoes.

“Hopefully it will be seamless as we go through and there will be many lessons as we move on to these early stages until we get some of our athletes back.

“It is really exciting to move on with a repetition of last year’s final. It will definitely be a difficult, but we are definitely starting in the right way, the Ao Arena on the big stage.”

The new Super League season begins on Friday, March 14, when Leeds faces Birmingham and Cardiff takes over the London Mavericks from 19:00.

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