The Sunday News
Mandla Ncube, Sports Reporter
WITH the 2020 Rainbow Netball League scheduled to start next weekend, defending champions Correctional Queens coach, Christopher Simeon is wary of increased competition.
This season Ranl will have 20 teams, two more than in 2019. The 2019 Ranl champions will start their title defence away to Flow Angels, a match which could set the tone for their season.
“The competition has been stiff for some time and I definitely know that all the teams will be baying for blood every time they go out to play,” said Simeon.
Simeon said despite having lost a single game to ZDF Queens last year, this season is hard to forecast looking at how other teams were performing in the transfer market.
“The ball is round. I can’t tell now, because a season before last season we have had a hundred percent record winning all our games and last year we lost once, we will see how it pans out,” he said.
Having brokered a deal with Platinum Queens to accommodate their star player Felistas Kwangwa who is on attachment in the Platinum mining town, Simeon sees her as a big loss in their title defence.
With Glow Petroleum having injected a staggering $500 000 as prize money, Ranl secretary general, Moses Gukurume strongly believes the competition will take an upward trajectory as a result of the competition.
“The sponsorship is going to generate a lot of positive competition because you can easily see through the transfer market, teams are buying, trying to beef up their squad,” said Gukurume.
“When the competition is high there tends to be hype and excitement and that would be very good for the Ranl brand,” added Gukurume.
