Netball SA to appoint two local coaches to replace Norma Plummer

Seasoned Australian coach Norma Plummer, along with her current assistant Nicole Cusack, set to vacate her position with the Proteas in December after guiding the team through the world showpiece in Cape Town in July-August.

NSA president Cecillia Molokwane has now revealed that two local coaches will be roped in for the team's upcoming tours to Australia in October and England in December.

"There's two coaches that will be travelling with the teams – one will be going to Australia, when the time is right, we'll announce it," said Molekwane.

"And the other one will be going to England because we want them to work with Norma closely, we don't want to repeat the mistakes of 2019 of just saying, 'Norma, go,' and then we give a coach that [setup].

"We want that succession plan to say, 'This is where I was, this is where I was intending to go, and this is where I saw the future with the team, and it's whether you take it or not, but this is how we were doing things. This is the culture within the team.'"

Reluctant to give away much, Molokwane, however, confirmed that local options are being lined up to take the Proteas into their next cycle.

"As I'm saying, there's one coach who's going with the team now, and we will announce  soon who the coach is [that will be] joining the team management that went to the World Cup," she added.

"We've not changed anything, we said, 'Let them go and finish' because their contracts are ending in December, so we said, 'Let it all end in December.' But we're saying this succession plan is key and crucial for us. 

"Charles [Baloyi] will tell you that it was my wish to have a South African coach for the World Cup [2023], unfortunately things didn't go the way we anticipated, but, of course, it's a South African coach [coming in]."

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