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They boast some of the biggest names in New Zealand and international netball and were tipped to be ANZ Championship title contenders this year. Some even had them pegged as favourites.

At least one player in the Mystics camp had something to smile about this week despite their early exit from the playoffs race - import Julie Corletto has been recalled into the Australian side for the Commonwealth Games.

It is time to officially rule a line through the Steel's transtasman league playoff hopes after the southern side were out-muscled and out-thought by the NSW Swifts in Canberra yesterday.

It is time to officially rule a line through the Steel's transtasman league play-off hopes after the southern side were out-muscled and out-thought by the NSW Swifts

Energetic midcourter Laura Langman will fittingly become the first player to record 100 ANZ Championship games this weekend.

Temepara Bailey returns to play for the Mystics in tonight's bottom-of-the-table ANZ championship netball match against the Tactix.

Mystics import Julie Corletto believes playing on this side of the Tasman has helped rather than hindered her chances of Commonwealth Games selection.

After struggling to slot into her new team earlier in the season, Silver Ferns star Laura Langman has looked a lot more comfortable in the Auckland set-up in recent weeks.

Grace Rasmussen encapsulates why the new-look Magic have still got the magic.

Dunedin Police have been called in to investigate death threats made against controversial netball coach Norma Plummer.

The Mystics have revived their ANZ Championship season with a spectacular extra time victory over reigning premiers the Adelaide Thunderbirds tonight.

Magic coach Julie Fitzgerald believes the poor strike rate of the Kiwi teams across the Tasman over the first six seasons of the ANZ Championship is a mental failing.

The Magic have assumed the unlikely position atop the ANZ Championship ladder after surviving their first real test of the season.

As far as halftime entertainment goes, you couldn't get any more fitting than the "panic room'' radio station promotion during the Mystics' loss to the Pulse tonight.

By tomorrow night, the Magic could be top of the ANZ Championship with a 100 per cent record from their first three games. It wasn't meant to be like this.

Around the ANZ Championship with Dana Johannsen.

Every week we want to take a step up from what was achieved the week before and most definitely this week coming up against the Mystics, we'll have to step up again.

This is rare air for the Central Pulse. They finally have the squad they want, a coach they're happy with and next to no excuses as they approach the latest instalment of the ANZ Championship.

Northern Mystics captain Maria Tutaia is resting much easier on the eve of the transtasman league season than this time last year.