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Set play · 16 seconds

Off the Post

A set play, from Sportplan, for a backline throw-in at the attacking end. The four attackers set up ball side: the wing attack beside the circle, the centre on top of it, and the goal attack inside the circle, which puts the goal defence on the wrong side of her before anything happens. The shooter takes the throw-in from behind her own goal line. She fakes a pass out to the wing attack, the keeper's weight goes that way, and then she throws the ball against her own goalpost instead, steps back onto the court and catches the rebound herself in front of the post. Nobody else touches it. It is legal: the World Netball rule book names the goalpost as the exception to repossession, lets a player gain possession from a rebound off it, and says a ball off the post into the court is not out. She has to hit the post side on rather than square, or the ball comes straight back off court instead of into the circle. Seven players, one ball, no cones, on a real court. The clip runs the move once at full speed and then again in slow motion from the other side of the post.

Instructions

The goal shooter takes the throw-in from behind her own goal line
The wing attack sets up ball side, beside the goal circle
The centre sets up ball side, on top of the circle
The goal attack sets up ball side INSIDE the circle, which takes the goal defence out of the play
The shooter fakes a pass out to the wing attack and the keeper moves that way
She throws the ball against the post instead, side on so it comes off into the circle
She steps onto the court the moment the ball has left her hands and follows it
She catches the rebound in front of the post, lands, turns and shoots

Progressions

Let the goal attack take the rebound instead, so the keeper cannot sit on one of them. Play it against live defence with no script. If the ball sits up off the post, feed it out and set up again rather than forcing the shot.

Adapted from Sportplan, with the rules checked against the World Netball rule book.

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Animated netball set play on a full court with fourteen players: a goal keeper takes a backline throw-in from behind her own goal line to a wing defence in the circle edge pocket, drives onto the court for it back square, and the ball goes through the goal defence, centre, goal attack and wing attack into the goal third, out to the goal shooter at the top of the circle, back out to the wing attack in the circle edge pocket and in to the goal attack, who shoots, with the other seven marking passively throughout

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Set play · 23 seconds

Animated netball set play in the goal third: a goal shooter stands behind her own goal line with the ball for a backline throw-in while a wing attack sets up beside the circle and a centre on top of it, both ball side, with a goal attack inside the circle, the shooter fakes a pass out to the wing and the goal keeper moves that way, the throw-in goes to the centre on top of the circle, the shooter steps onto the court and splits away from the goal attack, takes the return pass in front of the post and shoots

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