{"id":50452,"date":"2025-09-29T17:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T17:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/50452\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T17:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T17:17:08","slug":"stood-down-taurua-set-to-return-for-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/50452\/","title":{"rendered":"Stood-down Taurua set to return for talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Bridget Tunnicliffe of RNZ\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

RNZ understands that\u00a0Dame Noeline Taurua has a meeting with Netball New Zealand on Wednesday in what will be an attempt to finally break the Silver Ferns coaching stand-off.<\/p>\n

Netball NZ dropped a bombshell\u00a0on September 10 when it announced that Taurua and her coaching cohort would be stood down for the series against South Africa.<\/p>\n

With the Silver Ferns due to head into their next camp on October 6, the clock is ticking to find a resolution between the popular coach, the Players’ Association and the national body.<\/p>\n

The Silver Ferns meet world No 1 Australia in the Constellation Cup starting on October 17.<\/p>\n

Yvette McCausland-Durie and Liana Leota stepped in as interim coaches for the Taini Jamison series against South Africa.<\/p>\n

The Kiwis survived a scare in Invercargill last night to win the series three-nil.<\/p>\n

RNZ understands the pair have been asked to be on standby for the Australia series in the event Taurua does not come back on board.<\/p>\n

The issues trace back to a training camp in January this year.<\/p>\n

Following the tour, two players approached the NZ Netball Players’ Association on behalf of a larger group of up to seven players, who raised concerns about Taurua’s leadership and communication style.<\/p>\n

Players alleged the environment had become “psychologically unsafe”. Later an independent review highlighted “significant issues” within the Silver Ferns environment.<\/p>\n

RNZ has also learnt that several past Silver Ferns have put references forward in support of Taurua.<\/p>\n

A day after the\u00a0news broke that she was being stood down, former\u00a0Silver Ferns great Laura Langman wrote a lengthy Facebook post\u00a0describing it as the “saddest day in NZ netball history”.<\/p>\n

Several recent Silver Ferns ‘liked’ Langman’s post, including former captain Ameliaranne Ekenasio, Phoenix Karaka and Michaela Sokolich-Beatson.<\/p>\n

On Sunday night, Silver Fern Grace Nweke made it clear where she stood on the future of the embattled coach.<\/p>\n

Nweke, who was acting captain for the final test against South Africa, spoke during the post-match presentations.<\/p>\n

“Going forward Noels [Noeline Taurua] if you’re listening – we love you and we miss you and we want you back here.<\/p>\n

“You’ve done so much for this group and the work you’ve done this whole year, you deserve to here and we want you back Noels,” Nweke said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Bridget Tunnicliffe of RNZ\u00a0 RNZ understands that\u00a0Dame Noeline Taurua has a meeting with Netball New Zealand on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-50452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50452","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=50452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}