Compton told the Herald she could not reveal any details about the meeting, only that the motion was successful and her organisation felt heard by the governing body.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlways confident that we can resolve things. I\u2019m just sad that it had to take this kind of process to get there, but we have. We\u2019ve been heard, and I\u2019m hopeful that things will improve from here.<\/p>\n
The Tauranga Netball Centre has lost faith in the Netball New Zealand leadership, Tauranga board chair Nicola Compton declared. Photo \/ Bay of Plenty Times<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve achieved our goal. We just hope that two other zones will follow suit. But we can\u2019t predict the outcome of that, nor can we influence it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Waikato Bay of Plenty and NNZ released a joint statement on Sunday, in which Compton said it was a good outcome.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe felt it was important to exercise our constitutional right and ensure our voices were heard. Our intention has always been to represent our members with integrity and clarity, and to place the wellbeing of our zone and our sport at the forefront of this process.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the joint statement, NNZ board chair Matt Whineray said: \u201cNetball New Zealand has heard the message from our Waikato Bay of Plenty centres and will work hard to reset and reconnect our relationship with all of our centres. We will continue to work with them and our zones as we face into the challenges and opportunities for our sport.\u201d<\/p>\n
Netball NZ board chair Matt Whineray said Netball New Zealand has heard the message from Waikato Bay of Plenty and “will work hard to reset and reconnect our relationship with all of our centres”. Photo \/ Jason Oxenham<\/p>\n
When speaking to the Herald two weeks ago, Compton said her zone has had informal conversations, and one other zone was \u201cquite keen\u201d to formalise its own request.<\/p>\n
She said the ANZ Premiership was a major area of concern.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the pinnacle domestic netball competition and critical development pathway for Silver Ferns and there just seems to be a lack of planning or at least an absence of communication about any planning about what\u2019s happening with that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Athletes, coaches and staff were left in the dark over the competition\u2019s future, with the new, one-year television broadcast deal with TVNZ only confirmed in late July.<\/p>\n
Wyllie confirmed to the Herald at the time that NNZ will have to use cash reserves to make ends meet.<\/p>\n
Compton also pointed to Taurua\u2019s banishment and the handling of that process through the media.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just felt it demonstrated a lack of leadership. There was an absence of transparency or due process. There was no consistent communication and we feel like that\u2019s really harmed the sport both reputationally and financially. There should have been decisive and competent leadership, and we didn\u2019t see that,\u201d Compton said.<\/p>\n
\u201cNoeline Taurua should have been part of the review process. And from what we\u2019re hearing, it sounds like she wasn\u2019t. If you\u2019re going to hide behind \u2018it\u2019s an employment issue\u2019, and any employment issue, if there\u2019s a concern raised, the person that it\u2019s been raised about has the right of reply, and I don\u2019t believe that happened.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt should have been communicated. Noeline\u2019s the type of person that would own it if there\u2019s something going on. I think that could have been handled a whole lot better.\u201d<\/p>\n
Netball New Zealand CEO Jennie Wyllie (left) with Silver Ferns coach Dame Noeline Taurua, who was stood down following player complaints. Photo \/Getty Images<\/p>\n
Compton said NNZ needed to be more transparent and communicate with its stakeholders.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt just feels like a lot of stuff is done behind closed doors and then we hear about it after. We don\u2019t feel like we get the full picture. Particularly, those last incidents, it was just like there was silence. Of course, people are going to speculate and there were a lot of keyboard warriors out there.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of it was pretty nasty, but without any kind of concrete direction or communication from Netball New Zealand, that\u2019s what\u2019s going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Compton said her region\u2019s concern was with Wyllie and NNZ\u2019s board, but the rest of the leadership seemed okay.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe other people that we interact with \u2013 the head of community netball, umpiring and coaching \u2013 they all seem like those at the community level are fine.\u201d<\/p>\n
Last month, six current and former NNZ staff spoke to the Herald<\/a> with concerns about the organisation\u2019s workplace culture and called for an overhaul of the board.<\/p>\n The sources \u2013 who wished to remain anonymous \u2013 described a challenging and secretive environment.<\/p>\n They called for an overhaul of the board to introduce greater accountability.<\/p>\n Compton said the report was worrying.<\/p>\n \u201cIf the staff are talking about a toxic kind of environment or an environment of fear, that comes from the top, and that is not a great way to lead an organisation. You\u2019re not going to get the best out of people if they\u2019re too scared to say what they think.\u201d<\/p>\n Compton said all five netball zones should be involved in the process to elect new leadership.<\/p>\n \u201cWhether there\u2019s a representative from each of those zones, along with other senior leaders within Netball New Zealand, [that] should be part of that process.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re the stakeholders. There is no Netball New Zealand without us.\u201d<\/p>\n Nathan Limm<\/a> has been a journalist with Newstalk ZB and the NZ Herald since 2020. He covered the Netball World Cup in Cape Town in 2023, hosts The Big League Podcast<\/a> and commentates rugby and netball for Gold Sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Compton told the Herald she could not reveal any details about the meeting, only that the motion was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[32319,1561,111412,1888,111411,78,1043,16762,117,111,43,139,111410,69,1118,1562,21694,4758,21419,5905,1524,80,49817],"class_list":["post-172718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-backs","tag-bay","tag-cleanout","tag-first","tag-formalised","tag-in","tag-leadership","tag-netball","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-noconfidence","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-plenty","tag-step","tag-taking","tag-towards","tag-vote","tag-waikato","tag-zealand","tag-zone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}