Bleed Red: The Unofficial NSW Swifts Podcast

Yes, it's been awhile, but we're back with our belated review of the Swifts Super Netball Exit against the Fever. Our review of the season, our favourite Swift moments of the year and much more.

Gerorgejar's tweet on 'netball and it's failings of its fans'

https://twitter.com/georgjar/status/1318658659526733824?s=20

The West Ham Syndrome:

"Football brands rarely deserve loyalty. They have treated supporters extremely badly over a long time period, offered them dreadful facilities, poor customer care and little respect. Despite this, they command the highest level of brand loyalty of any product sector. Probably only religion comes close, but not even we would suggest religion is a brand." PARKER, K. and STUART, T., 1997.The west ham syndrome:

The Journal of the Market Research Society. Market Research Society.Journal of the Market Research Society, 39(3), pp. 509-517.

Apologies for the lateness of this pod! We review the losses of Round 11 and 12, Preview the Thunderbirds game and award Mavis of the week.

You can follow Aaron Fox on twitter: - https://twitter.com/aaron_s_fox

Suncorp Super Netball 2020: Plus/Minus Analysis - Performance insights by Deakin's Centre for Sport Research: -

https://aaronsfox.github.io/super-netball-outputs/ssn2020-plusMinus.html

A pop up? We talk about the Thrashing of Rob Wright's Collingwood. The Firebirds loss, Tippah Dwan's supershot. What flavour lip gloss does Helen Housby use? We preview the upcoming Vixen and Fever matches and of course Mavis of the week.

Apologies this episode is so late, it's been a busy week here at the remote underground Swifts bunker. On this show we cover the Vixens defeat and preview the upcoming Magpies and Firebirds matches. We give our Halfway season assessment, award mavis of the week and talk about why we don't really care about international netball.

Footnotes:

Imagined Communities Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism by Benedict Anderson

"Teams win more at home" - Nevill, A.M., Holder, R.L. Home Advantage in Sport. Sports Med 28, 221-236 (1999). https://doi.org/10.2165/00007256-199928040-00001

"Teams win more in red" -

Attrill, M.J., Gresty, K.A., Hill, R.A. and Barton, R.A., 2008. Red shirt colour is associated with long-term team success in English football. Journal of sports sciences, 26(6), pp.577-582

Hill, R.A. and Barton, R.A., 2005. Red enhances human performance in contests. Nature, 435(7040), pp.293-293

In this bumper episode we review the Lightning, Firebirds and Magpie matches and preview the upcoming games against the Sunshine Coast Lightning and the Melbourne Vixens. Plus, we take a brief look at the controversies raging in Suncorp Super Netball League.

We chat about the past two Swifts victories and look forward to the weekend and midweek games. And ask the important questions regarding what's happening on the sunshine coast and what is going on with the netball live app. Get your Sophie Garbin message @ https://heyswysh.com/collections/netball/products/sophie-garbin

Alex Marsh and Laura Coleman discuss the Swifts first outing in the 2020 Suncorp Super Netball league against the Giants. The new fan experience and the air horn.