Miss Karma...r u there still???

The 2013 domestic netball season ended the same way it started.

The Spooners Hill Netball Club in winners row!! 

Was this our season as some netball aficionados had said?? No it wasn't!!! 

Was it rigged so we could be dominant?? No it wasn't!!!

The year 2013 will be remembered as the year Team SHNC returned to the front of netball in Barbados. It was also the year that the Barbados Netball Association promised much and failed to deliver. It was also the year that the season ended two weeks after the scheduled date.

Within the walls of the Netball Stadium is an area 'reserved' for a few people from one club. It's in that area that decisions are made,people are vilified and the gossip mongers rule. It's also in that area that Pine Hill St Barnabas LOST the 2013 League title to COW Rangers.

That COW Rangers won after losing to Pine Hill St Barnabas on three occasions was karma and we all know what is said about karma....it's a B**CH! Miss Karma showed up and spoke harshly to a Board that lied by saying that their playoff format ( 1v4, 2v3) was used all the time when it has always been a round-robin format.

Those lies have now been exposed and carried in today's daily Nation ( July 11)...The Division One League competition also received a tweaking. Instead of the team with the most points automatically being crowned champions, the top four advanced to a play-off where second-placed CO Williams Rangers beat knockout champions Pine Hill St Barnabas, who had played unbeaten.

Member clubs will never know if the proposed format for the highest division would've worked because the powers that be who ironically are members of the LOSING finalist decided that it was best to do things their way. In the end, their way wasn't the right way and they lost.

On a Friday night at the Netball Stadium, Miss Karma came calling and gave her bitchiness to a deserving winner.

Cheer up Miss Alleyne!

Once again the selectors and the Barbados Netball Association has shown little or no concern for a netballer. This time around it's promising goal shooter Chemeyne Alleyne who has been the brunt of this lack of concern.

What  is equally surprising but expected is that the BNA has given the nod to a division 2 player with no credentials to her name other than she is a former student of the pickup coach as well as a club member of the COW Rangers where ironically the coach preaches the DRIVE phase.

Chemeyne has stood up to most of the top flight netballers in the first division this year and is worthy of a place on the team. People will argue that her attitude, whether good or bad might've been her downfall but attitudes are good for sport.

I remember Lydia Bishop being told she had to change her 'behaviour' or else.... I remember head coach Alwyn Babb being told he had to stop being so outspoken...now the same thing has happened again to a junior player....DISMISSIVE!!!!!!!

To relegate Miss Alleyne to  a reserve is nothing more than telling her that she  is not qualified to make the team despite being a  member of a training squad for the past three years and a key member to Phoenix Gems ( the unofficial U21 team).

 Any explanation which may be given by the BNA on this matter would be nothing short of being a bunch of lies by a group of people who started well with major promises but have taken the path of the predecessor...a path that has lead to the destruction of players' egos and love for the sport.

I may never know how Miss Alleyne has dealt with what is a shocker and maybe she will continue to be a reserve, but I will say this...the people who made said decision have no conscience.