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the centre of it all.<br />
But it wasn’t all plain sailing, with her attracting<br />
criticism for taking five Surrey Storm players<br />
with her to Wasps. Perhaps netball in the UK, in<br />
its amateur form, hadn’t realised that sentiment has<br />
little value at the top end of elite sport. It’s about winning,<br />
and when a proven winner asks other winners to follow her<br />
somewhere else to win again, you don’t hang around where<br />
you are to take part!<br />
While many may have missed it, there’s no doubt that Superleague<br />
netball in the UK owes a debt of gratitude to<br />
Tamsin Greenway. Just as she did at Surrey, Tamsin has<br />
raised the bar, and it means the rest of the field now has<br />
little choice but to lift their game too. Netball may not have<br />
the kind of profile European football enjoys, but Greenway<br />
is the Superleague’s version of Sir Alex Ferguson, Jose<br />
Mourinho or Pep Guardiola, and she is forcing the standards<br />
up across the board. When Pep Guardiola led his Barcelona<br />
team to their 2nd Champions League title in three<br />
years in 2011 (This is Tamsin’s 3rd Superleague title in a row<br />
when in charge of a team), it left the rest<br />
of Europe with one option... adapt or get used to<br />
losing! It can only be good for the Vitality Netball<br />
Superleague and I have no doubt that Joanna<br />
Adams, Tracey Neville and the rest of England<br />
Netball are thrilled that all the franchises are now<br />
under serious pressure to improve every aspect of their operation.<br />
If they don’t, then their place at the top table of UK<br />
netball may very well be in jeopardy, and England Netball,<br />
equally as driven as Tamsin for success, will also have little<br />
room for sentiment!<br />
When Netball Universe caught up with Tamsin, we<br />
asked her what her secret to success was. She told us...<br />
“It’s simple really – you have to adapt! Netball in the UK is<br />
evolving quickly thanks to the growing appeal of the sport,<br />
and if you are unwilling to change, adapt and grow in the<br />
elite part of the game, you’ll ultimately be left behind. I’m<br />
always evaluating things so that we can keep on improving<br />
because there’s always room for improvement. We had<br />
a really honest group this year and that meant we were<br />
all able to see things as they<br />
were in the highs and<br />
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