Super Netball 2025: Jamie-Lee Price says the winless Giants are not hitting the panic button just yet
They lost the final five games of last year and the wooden spooners have opened their 2025 campaign with three straight losses. But Giants midcourter Jamie-Lee Price says they’re not panicking just yet.
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Giants co-captain Jamie-Lee Price has declared her team’s winless start to the year is not “the end of the world” as last year’s Super Netball wooden spooners search for a way to arrest an early-season slump ahead of a formidable draw.
Mirroring last year’s horror start, the Giants slumped to their third straight defeat to open the 2025 season after their 15-goal loss to the Melbourne Mavericks on Sunday.
The Giants didn’t win a match until round 5 last season and then lost their last five games of the year to finish at the bottom of the ladder with three wins.
After a trio of losses to start this year’s campaign, the quest for a breakthrough win doesn’t get any easier for the Giants with their path ahead in the next month.
They face defending champions Adelaide Thunderbirds (Ken Rosewall Arena) after the bye; then the Lightning on the Sunshine Coast and the ladder-leading New South Wales Swifts in the Sydney derby.
But Price said the Giants were not panicking just yet and believed the bye had come at the perfect time to allow the team to reset and was confident there were some “easy fixes”.
“We’re such a competitive bunch and I feel like we’re definitely all very disappointed in the dressing room,” Price said.
“It’s probably a good thing that we’ve got a bye now, so we can refresh and we can look back on the game and there are so many easy fixes that we can build on from this game.
“There were just so many errors that we made, like steppings or offensive contacts, just little things like that where we just can’t build on our momentum in ways. I think once we clean those up we’ll be good to go.
“I don’t think it’s the end of the world. I just think it’s little things.”
💬 "I think the first two weeks of the competition we were really building but we let ourselves down a little bit today."
— GIANTS Netball (@GIANTS_Netball) April 20, 2025
Hear from coach Julie Fitzgerald and co-captain Jamie-Lee Price. pic.twitter.com/7F9llmmAhT
The Giants opened the season with a five-goal loss to the Queensland Firebirds at home and then followed with a six-goal loss to the Melbourne Vixens at John Cain Arena.
Price felt the Giants’ game had been building across the opening two rounds, but took a step back against the Mavericks.
But the midcourt enforcer believed one win could easily change the team’s trajectory.
“We built so nicely in the last two weeks and I feel like it’s just so disappointing in this game, particularly when we were both in the same situation and we both have lost two games.
“I know going into this game I was so excited because it was such a huge opportunity for us to really build on and I think it’s just that consistency and I feel like we just weren’t consistent at all today.
“I know we have a lot of young girls, but I just feel like we have so much potential, but we’re just not showing it.
“It’s definitely not (a physical barrier). I feel like once we get a win on the board it’s just like learning to win, or just (having) the confidence in ourselves and each other that we can win and we are good enough.
“I feel like as soon as we get a win it will be like, ‘We’re on here’.”
Rather than being daunted by their next clash against the two-time defending champions, Price was excited for the challenge.
“I love playing the Thunderbirds,” Price said.
“They are a great team and they are world class in every position so I think it will be great to come up against them, especially at home again in front of our orange army.”
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