Fiat Netball Superleague-Surrey Storm over Glasgow Wildcats
Glasgow Wildcats put up great fight against Surrey Storm in Round 6 of the FIAT Netball Superleague but where beaten by 36 goals in the end at the Glasgow Club a Bellahouston.
Ignore the final score this was a competitive match, there were with plenty of exciting and physical individual battles on the court but Surrey Storm were a bit fitter, a bit stronger, a bit faster and this all combined to make them a bit better than the home side.
Rachel Dunn had another good match, her team-mates keeping her busy with plenty of quality possession, giving her a raft of scoring opportunties. there was no sign of any fatigue for the travelling side, who hit the road in the horribly early hours of Saturday morning for their day trip to Scotland.
Surrey captain Tamsin Greenway earned special praise from her coach and makes her Facebook status update “operating on 4 hours sleep” all the more impressive; being something of a night owl myself - I prefer to be going to bed at 2am, not getting up.
It was an impressive performance at the other end too for Glasgow GA Lynsey Gallagher, the Wildcats can take some confidence from the fact they have a talent coming through in the circle.
Storm assistant coach Mel Mansfield said “ We played really well, REALLY well - maybe we should play with that little sleep more often!
“I was able to play 11 of the 12 and Tamsin was outstanding, but all credit to the whole team, they fought for the whole hour. Wildcats made sure we had to concentrate for the full hour.”
Glasgow Wildcats head coach Denise Holland said “I thought was a bit of an untidy game from both sides and the score really did not reflect the match. But we will move on positively to the next game.”
