Tracey Neville has admitted she just isn’t the fitting candidate presently for the position of England Netball head coach, whereas Tamsin Greenway has revealed she was not requested if she would need the job.
Anna Stembridge can be getting into the top coach place till after the Commonwealth Video games in the summertime following Jess Thirlby’s choice to stop attributable to household causes.
Nonetheless, after the Video games all eyes can be refocusing on the Netball World Cup, held in Sydney from August 25 to September 5, the place England may discover themselves beneath new management.
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Tamsin Greenway reacts to the information of England Netball head coach Thirlby stepping down simply 4 months from the beginning of the Commonwealth Video games
“Am I the apparent selection? In fact, I am the apparent selection,” Neville, who final month turned managing director of Stockport County Ladies soccer workforce, mentioned on Sky Sports activities’ Off The Court docket Podcast.
“However am I the fitting selection? Completely not.
“Earlier than I even received the Stockport County Ladies’s job, I’ve had some nice conversations with Sue Campbell [England Netball chair] and Fran Connolly [England Netball CEO].
“And Sue Campbell could be very clear about the place I’m in my profession, what my intentions had been, and from my perspective now, the problem I’ve in my specific position is precisely the place I need to be.
“I completely love working at Stockport County so she would 100 per cent have identified that [returning to England Netball] wouldn’t have been the following step.”
Neville had been a well-liked option to return lengthy earlier than Thirlby’s choice was introduced, as she was the one coach to steer England to a Commonwealth gold medal earlier than stepping down in 2019 to begin a household.
In the meantime, Greenway, who coaches London Mavericks and can be one other standard selection, revealed she was not contacted in any respect concerning the choice and believes no coaches within the Netball Tremendous League had been spoken to.
“No, I wasn’t requested,” Greenway mentioned.
“I believe possibly my telephone’s useless or one thing, there is not any reception in London, that is why.
“I do not suppose there was any telephone calls put to any of the present England coaches within the Tremendous League in the intervening time – I do not imagine there was anyway.
“Do I believe that ought to have occurred? I do not know. I do not know what the protocol was.
“I do not suppose anybody noticed this coming, I believe it is all been a really fast turnaround to no matter’s occurred.”
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