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~ @lostinmyminds.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Updated version - just correcting a few incorrect "Previous Club" which I hadn't updated from when I did it last year.

~ @lostinmyminds.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Just finished updating my 2026 #NSL teams spreadsheet. Just waiting on Cardiff Dragons who keep promising but not delivering (nothing new there)! #netball #NetballSuperLeague

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~ @lostinmyminds.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Difficult to pick a #NSL2025 #TotW - purely as Thunder were so amazing, & it feels wrong to leave any of them out... GK: @alexjohnsonnnn_ [DRA] GD: @FadojuFunmi [PUL] WD: @16_taylorr [THU] C: @Emmarayner01 [THU] WA: @indyamasser_ [THU] GA: @ShannonMahlik [THU] GS: EvdB [THU]

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~ @lostinmyminds.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I woke up in agony in the early hours of this morning having clearly been dreaming about Netball, as I thought I'd done my knee in somehow! I could not straighten my leg at all & the pain behind my knee was insane. Managed to gradually bend it further & eventually the pain eased!

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~ @lostinmyminds.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Players from last year who weren't signed to a club this year (or went to NxtGen)

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~ @lostinmyminds.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Just for fun, here's how many players from each #NSL2025 team I'd pick for a team of unlimited size (I'm only considering players I'm fairly familiar with): Panthers: 4/8 Dragons: 3/8 Lightning: 7/9 Mavericks: 7/9 Forest: 6/9 Pulse: 10/10 Thunder: 12/14 Rhinos: 4/5 No Club: 8/25

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~ @lostinmyminds.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

To summarise NSL injuries/"medical conditions" so far: Pulse & Forest: 0 Dragons, Lightning, & Rhinos: 1 Mavericks: 2 Panthers: 3 Thunder: 4 15% (12) of the players initially signed for 2025 have missed at least one game 6.25% (5) have missed 1 game 8.75% (7) have missed 2 games #Netball #NSL2025

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~ @lostinmyminds.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Watched some of the Team Girls Cup last night. The coverage is mad compared to over here. The execs from @SkyNetball & @BBCSport should be made to watch even just ½ a game & be told "this is what you need to do". You don't see poor quality or missing clocks in football. #Netball

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~ @lostinmyminds.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Nope, it was just the lower tier. This photo was taken about 25 mins before the start. A few more did come in, but not a significant amount. NSL's arena target is 3.5k-5k - this was perhaps 3500 just. Belle Vue is usually close to a sell-out & that's ~2000. Maybe shut both ends & just use the sides?

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~ @lostinmyminds.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

AO Arena, Manchester. I swear the place was designed for dwarves or children. Imagine being 6ft+ and having someone sat either side of you - you just wouldn't be able to fit your legs in! My feet were as far forward as I could get them and my knees were still in front of my feet. Seriously painful!

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~ @lostinmyminds.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I bought a season ticket & will be going to the arena game in Liverpool (even though it'll cost me a fair whack to get there & back), but from next season, I will not be going to arena games. It's a shame, as I love watching the girls play, but I just don't enjoy going to them.

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~ @lostinmyminds.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

The Arena was barely 2/3 full - Sunday afternoons/evenings are not the right time for Arena games - they need to be Friday night or Saturdays. The staff are obnoxious & disinterested, & refreshment prices are extortionate. NSL needs to put this idea on the back burner for now.

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~ @lostinmyminds.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I've never liked the idea of the super shot & nothing I've seen has changed that. Yes, it's nice when you score one, but it's awful when your opponent does. It feels artificial - especially with it being only 5 mins. Also "Soft & Gentle" are absolutely the wrong sponsor for it!

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~ @lostinmyminds.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

In terms of the overall game day experience, I only turned up for the main event. There's no way I could have sat in that chair any longer. My knees were hurting after less than 10 minutes - I'm only 5'9" and I had no leg room. I feel for people who were any taller...

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~ @lostinmyminds.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Indya did well when she came on, but Lightning shut down all the channels & as they're so tall, she was struggling to get the ball in at times, but that won't be the case every week. I'd have liked to try Indya @ C & Emma @ WA for Q4. Up top, Elmerè was busy doing Elmerè things.

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~ @lostinmyminds.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Our shooters did as well as they could - playing against a defender as good as Shadine when she knows your game inside out is brutal. I love Anya - she's such a talent, but being so slight, she can't body up to strong defenders. Lucy shoots less, I feel, but holds better.

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~ @lostinmyminds.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Tay getting suspended (& subsequently kept out of the game because umpires are overly/unfairly critical of players who have been suspended) was unfortunate. Josie, Elia, & Ané all did well in defence, but their shooters were just too good & would have beaten any defence, I feel.

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~ @lostinmyminds.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I thought we competed well in the midcourt - in particular Captain Fantastic Amy on her 100th appearance & Emma Rayner were both great. Amy is just a solid presence & Emma ran & ran & ran (literally) for 58 minutes. She was our player of the match for me.

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~ @lostinmyminds.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Very tough game to watch tonight as a Thunder fan. We were never even level, let alone in front. It's tough playing the best team in the league when your team is decimated by injuries. The girls all did really well & gave it their all, but we don't match up well against Lightning

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~ @lostinmyminds.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

and as soon as it goes out of court. Too much time wasting.

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~ @lostinmyminds.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I thought the midcourt was fairly even, but their defence certainly had the better of our attack & their attack were too good for our defence - shooting from the 2pt area even outside of the last 5 minutes of each quarter is a tough one to take.

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~ @lostinmyminds.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

@bencrellin.bsky.social No goal for Wood in 4 games now - is it time for me to get rid of him? I also have Isak & Wissa, but I'm tempted by Evanilson & Mateta 🤔

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~ @lostinmyminds.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Very. Not hard to get it right, really - we're not talking quantum physics here, we're talking about one number divided by another! 🤣

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~ @lostinmyminds.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Dear @NetballSL, your stats are broken... the accuracy figure seems to have been copy & pasted from the number of goals... please sort it! KR! #Netball #NSL2025

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~ @lostinmyminds.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

So NZ & Jamaica move a bit closer to Australia. EN lose a net 6RP on both, & 5 to SA. Wales move up 3 places to 6th, Tonga drop 2 places, NI drop a place, Samoa move up 4 places with Barbados dropping 4. Grenada drop out of the top 20 & are replaced by Botswana.

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~ @lostinmyminds.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

The new Netball World Rankings have been released. Here's the relevant Placings/Rating Points changes... AUS 0/0 NZ 0/+3 JA 0/+3 EN 0/-3 SA 0/+2 WAL +3/+3 UGA -1/-5 MAL 0/-2 TON -2/-7 SCO 0/-3 T&T +1/+2 NI -1/-2 ZIM 0/+3 SAM +4/+15 ZAM +1/+4 FIJ -2/-4 StV 0/+2 NAM +1/+8 BAR -4/-3 GRN -1/4

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

An #Anonymous message to the people of the United States and Trump. #3E (part 1)

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~ @lostinmyminds.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Decent picture, that - who took it? 🤣

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~ @lostinmyminds.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

About damned time! 🥰🥰🥰

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~ @lostinmyminds.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Can't see Kaz getting involved. I plan on going watching an Oldham match or two at some point, so I'll mention it to Debbie, but Tay is the Social Media person. I've left her comments before, but I don't think she reads comments from randoms (can't say I blame her) and has DMs turned off on IG.

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~ @lostinmyminds.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

TBF, he had that for the 4 games or so he was in charge of United and did really well. That's the only reason he got the Leicester gig.

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~ @lostinmyminds.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Leicester have been awful all season & since he took over, they've conceded more goals than any other Premiership team, so they'll probably beat United! 🤣

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

The last photo of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, detained after refusing to abandon his colleagues and patients. In just one image, we see both the power of Palestinian humanity and the moral weakness of all those complicit in genocide. End all arms sales to Israel, now.

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~ @lostinmyminds.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Incorrect. Basketball is called Basketball & Netball is Netball - two different sports. That's like saying in the US, they call Rugby Football/NFL/Gridiron - similar games but entirely different.

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~ @lostinmyminds.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Fixed my dodgy script (well, my dodgy calculations), so the correct changes to the #Netball World Rankings after the African Netball tournament is here - as you can see, it's done nothing much of anything useful for anyone. Malawi & Zambia underperformed & Eswatini unsurprisingly got a beating.

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~ @lostinmyminds.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Right, so I've found the mistake in my calculations - it's when teams played each other & were far apart in rankings (basically I counted something wrong when the winning team was ranked lower), so the table above is wrong. I'll fix tomorrow at some point (before or after work)!

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~ @lostinmyminds.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Something seems to have gone wrong with my spreadsheet's calculations. I'm not sure exactly what, as I've not had time to fully debug it & I haven't been able to reproduce the problem with test data. Hopefully, I'll get to the bottom of it this weekend.

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~ @lostinmyminds.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Yup, I know all that. I'll have to double-check the script tomorrow evening to make sure it's not doing something funky. 🤣

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~ @lostinmyminds.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Most Americans have no concept of the world outside their borders. Many have never been outside their state & some never beyond their city. This is why many will not read books or watch films that are not set in the US. It might as well be set on another planet - they have no frame of reference.

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~ @lostinmyminds.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

And another 3 in the 11-20 range (Zimbabwe 13th, Zambia 15th, Namibia 19th)! ☺️

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~ @lostinmyminds.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

No probs! Thanks for such a great podcast! It's pretty great in that it's not like "you need to buy this guy or your team will fail" - it's just a couple of easygoing kinda guys having a discussion about FPL & letting us listen in! ☺️

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~ @lostinmyminds.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

@alwayscheatingfpl.bsky.social re: Jakub Kiwior, the best way to explain it is Ya-koob Keev-yor. In Polish, W is pronounced V (whereas Ł is W)!

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