Te Paea Selby-Rickit

Chris Teece says the festival's absence was felt last year.

And now to sport, and former Silver Ferns shooters Alia Dunn and Te Paea Selby-Rickit are back in the national squad ahead of the twenty twenty-seven World Cup.

The 18-player squad retains the 12 players who won gold at the reci- uh, recent, uh, Commonwealth Games.

Dunn's last test for the Silver Ferns was back in twenty eighteen, but coach Dame Noeline Taurua says she has earned a recall.

It just seems as though the tap is not going to turn off, and with the absence of a domestic comp next year confirmed anyway, our top players are just looking elsewhere, and you can hardly blame them, can you?

Walmsley, Dunn, uh, Tuohy, Manley, Milne, Mather, Poit, Jackson, Selby-Rickit, Heffen, Burger, Gordon, Ekernaso, Stide.

Have I missed anybody? [laughs]

Well, if you have, uh, it wouldn't matter because that is quite the list, isn't it? Oh-

So what is the hit list? Poi, Sty, they're the latest two players to go.

Ekenasio, Heffernan, Selby-Rickit, Burger, Jackson, Manley, Mather, Milne, Aumituanu.

The, the list goes on.

Now, is this a bad or a good thing? This is a great thing.