History says the Silver Ferns will get “walloped” when the Constellation Cup games are played in Australia, but coach Dame Noeline Taurua hopes this is a new era.<\/p>\n
New Zealand cross the Tasman in control of the four-test series against the Australian Diamonds after defending their home court.<\/p>\n
A big win on\u00a0Sunday<\/a>\u00a0in Wellington was followed up by a\u00a0nine-goal win in Auckland<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday night which makes the silverware the Silver Ferns’ to lose.<\/p>\n Despite holding a 2-0 advantage the Silver Ferns know playing the world number one Diamonds on their home court first in Perth on Sunday and then to wrap up the series in Melbourne on 30 October will need them to defy the odds and the history books once more.<\/p>\n Australia have only lost the trophy once in the past 10 series, going down in 2021. Since the inception of the competition in 2010 New Zealand has held the trophy twice.<\/p>\n The Constellation Cup has a pattern – home sides win.<\/p>\n rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" History says the Silver Ferns will get “walloped” when the Constellation Cup games are played in Australia, but coach Dame Noeline Taurua hopes this is a new era. New Zealand cross the Tasman in control of the four-test series against the Australian Diamonds after defending their home court. A big win on\u00a0Sunday\u00a0in Wellington was followed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11753,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11751\/revisions\/11753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}