I am writing from the great land Down Under and I have just started playing country netball in Western Australia after having been away from it for 10 years.

Woman are just such good sports. We clap the other teams goals because we appreciate the skill involved in throwing a ball through that little hoop without the benefit of a backboard or being able to slam dunk the ball. The further out the shot is the bigger the clapping!

However, it doesn’t mean that we are happy about it. We really want to punch their heads in for shooting the goal in the first place. It is all for show.

As far as the little skirts go. Not all sights in little skirts are nice. Especially those with big thighs, bottoms and boobies. Are you all puking yet.

Well bye bye from Down Under. I came across this site by accident and I am so pleased that I could add to it.

TTFN

i have not uttered that word for 7 years which when i last played ( i was 16). I despised it because i never had the height advantage only being a tiny 5′2

Dr Clip – I can be bribed.

ellie – aggressive buttock use is actively encouraged in the Angry coaching manual.

Léonie – you can high-five with the coaches.

I am terrible at netball, but I’m competitive and quite good at wearing little skirts. I might dribble, but only if someone hits me in the face with a netball whilst I’m vaguely wondering what the rules are and whether it’s nearly half time yet.

Ellie how does one use one’s buttocks agressively? I have such a lot to learn.

Can I be the shower room attendant?

Mouldy – ta muchly, fit lesbians in short skirts playing with each other? That’s a rhetorical question right?

And can I come and watch your netball team play?

Also, in my experience most female sportswomen are lesbians. Are you bothered by that?

If so I’m in. Can I be in?

Yet, admiration for a point well played should be expressed. I used to row cometitively, and it was the done thing to give three cheers for the other boat, whether you won or came second, but only if it was a really good race.

If there was open water, then tough. If it was won or lost by a bow ball, then cheers all around because that meant it was a hard fought race. The winners deserved it for winning, second place deserved it for pushing hard and making winning all the sweeter.

Clapping every point though? That’s politness gone bad.

I’m told that when supplied with weapons female sports can be every bit as nasty as the men’s (hockey in particular). Does this mean that Netball belongs in “games” rather than “sports” perhaps?

Me I’m all for sports with penatlties like “Unneccessary Roughness” as in American Football. The clear implication being that a minimum level of roughness is required to play the game. Can’t help thinking it would be a lot better without all that clunky body armour tho’. Even Rugby players seem to be strapping on more and more pads these days, and Pro’ Footy seems to be more about ballet than ball control, so perhaps the girlies are just ahead of the game after all?

ellie – well done, you can be captain.

z – I also wonder what it is like to lose at anything.