Listen To The FOUR NATIONS Live

[joggerjayne]

Recent issues raised on Netball threads ...

(1) "Australia take the game serioulsy, don't they."

(2) "Is it really played outside Europe?"

Well, here you go guys ...

The Four Nations Pacific Netball Series starts tomorrow (Wednesday).

Samoa, Papua New Guinea, Cook Islands, Fiji

Frustratingly, it's not being shown on the telly, but ...

... you can listen to the action online on ... Radio Australia !

(www.radioaustralia.net.au)

[dr b]

How can this post have attracted no responses yet? I for one will be listening with great interest, as this promises to be some of the most compelling radio since Qatar took on Djibouti in ice hockey in Oslo in 1952. When the Cook Islands faces Papua New Guinea, sparks will fly!

[joggerjayne]

LOL

There's a local gay pub that we call Dr B's.

[rowanwitch]

I'll pass... there is an international ironing tournament broadcast from caerphilly Wales v Kazakstahn

[joggerjayne]

Is that a real event ???

[rowanwitch]

No..... but it might as well be.... the formation vacuuming is quite jolly though it's coming from Brazil this year

[joggerjayne]

Okay, so that's not a real event either.

[rowanwitch]

Paralympic hamster racing?

[dr b]

There is a Knitting Olympics that sounds like it would make for some pretty good radio:

http://sports.yahoo.c...s-211254677--oly.html

[jno]

another triumph for the England Women's cricket team today

http://www.guardian.c...wenty20-international

Number One!

[jno]

Brits were top in this at one stage too...

http://www.extremeiro...me=Gallery&file=index

[joggerjayne]

45 minutes to the first centre pass in the opening match.

I'll keep you posted.

I'm not sure why but, for some reason, the FCP is scheduled for 7.05pm (!) local time. Local in Fiji, that is.

[joggerjayne]

Final score this morning (tonight, local time) ... bit one sided ...

Fiji 70 - 29 Papua New Guinea

[joggerjayne]

Final score in this morning's first game ...

Fiji 41 - 35 Samoa

In the second game, it's half time. The half time score is ...

Cook Islands 34 - 28 Papua New Guinea

So it's looking good for Fiji, with a convincing win over Papau New Guinea, and a closer win over Samoa.

[joggerjayne]

45 - 41 to the Cook Islands after three quarters.

[jno]

the Cook Islands are playing? Goodness me, they have a population of about 60,000 (Papua 6 million, 100 times as big), so they're doing very well.

If I lived here

http://www.google.co....BbsT9iPM4nH0QWm09z6DA

I would not be playing netball.

[joggerjayne]

Ooh, lovely pictures, jno ...

=0)

Well, the Cook Islands won ...

Cook Islands 62 - 56 Papua New Guinea

That just goes to show ... when it comes to your sporting population ...

It's not how big it is, it's what you do with it.