Tracey Neville has admitted she will not be the suitable candidate right now for the function of England Netball head coach, whereas Tamsin Greenway has revealed she was not requested if she would need the job.
Anna Stembridge can be entering into the top coach place till after the Commonwealth Video games in the summertime following Jess Thirlby’s resolution to give up as a result of 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 below 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 obvious choice? Of course, I’m the obvious choice,” Neville, who final month grew to become managing director of Stockport County Ladies soccer crew, stated on Sky Sports activities’ Off The Courtroom Podcast.
“However am I the suitable alternative? Completely not.
“Earlier than I even obtained 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 have been, and from my perspective now, the problem I’ve in my specific function is strictly the place I wish to be.
“I absolutely love working at Stockport County so she would 100 per cent have known that [returning to England Netball] would not have been the next step.”
Neville had been a well-liked option to return lengthy earlier than Thirlby’s resolution was introduced, as she was the one coach to guide England to a Commonwealth gold medal earlier than stepping down in 2019 to start out a household.
In the meantime, Greenway, who coaches London Mavericks and could be one other standard alternative, revealed she was not contacted in any respect concerning the resolution and believes no coaches within the Netball Tremendous League have been spoken to.
“No, I wasn’t asked,” Greenway stated.
“I think maybe my phone’s dead or something, there’s no reception in London, that’s why.
“I do not assume there was any telephone calls put to any of the present England coaches within the Tremendous League for the time being – I do not consider there was anyway.
“Do I think that should have happened? I don’t know. I don’t know what the protocol was.
“I do not assume anybody noticed this coming, I feel it is all been a really fast turnaround to no matter’s occurred.”
