In the quiet reckoning that follows a nation's sporting decline, Australia finds itself confronting an irony at the heart of its own ambition: the league it built to be the world's finest has become the training ground for the rivals now surpassing it. New Zealand's Silver Ferns, freshly crowned Commonwealth Games champions, are flooding into Australia's Super Netball competition in unprecedented numbers, prompting former Diamonds coach Lisa Alexander to ask whether openness and excellence can coexist with the duty to nurture homegrown talent. The question is not merely administrative — it tou