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27.08.2016 Australia's Sharni Layton in action during the Netball Quad Series match between South Africa and Australia at Vector Arena in Auckland. Mandatory Photo Credit ©Michael Bradley.

Netball audition for top guns

AUSTRALIAN coach Lisa Alexander says the Quad international netball series is a real time job audition for the new national netball league which will debut in February.

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BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - JULY 31: Gabi Simpson of the Firebirds competes for the ball with Kimberlee Green of the swifts during the 2016 ANZ Championship Grand Final match between the Queensland Firebirds and the NSW Swifts at Brisbane Entertainment Centre on July 31, 2016 in Brisbane, Australia. (Photo by Jason O'Brien/Getty Images)

Swifts, Firebirds on hit-list

THEY may have lost the grand final but NSW Swifts players will still be top of the hit-list as rival clubs look to bolster their stocks ahead of the new-look all-Australian league in 2017.

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2016 ANZ Championship Grand Final - Firebirds v Swifts

Agonising end for NSW Swifts

THE NSW Swifts have fallen agonisingly short of the top prize in world domestic netball for the second year, downed by the history-making Queensland Firebirds in double extra time sudden-death.

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