Round 9 is in the books and we've got a stacked one for you.

We open with Sammy Ngubane's instant impact on her Birmingham Panthers debut, why Tiana Metuarau's hip injury is heartbreaking for the Panthers camp, and South Africa quietly stacking the NSL ahead of the Comm Games. Then the Amex Super Shot reveal. £20 a pop. Underwhelming or a stepping stone? We talk it through.

Plus Loughborough Lightning becoming the first team to lock in a top four spot, Mavs v Thunder from Nia's commentary box in Brighton (Thunder are the comeback queens now), and how Pulse dismantled Panthers 61-35.

Then the main event. Best mates from their Surrey Storm days, on opposite sides of this weekend's Forest v Dragons. Leah Middleton and Niamh Cooper sit down for one of our favourite chats yet. The bus they first met on. The Christmas Niamh nearly drowned in Australia. The 1AM phone call about a fly stuck in a cast. The horror ankle injury and the comeback. Forest's football grade professionalism. The Loughborough score error story you haven't heard the inside of yet. Niamh's day job as an A&E doctor. Leah's Welsh eligibility origin story and the post touching saga that started it all. Whether they actually pass intel on each other (and what they'd never share). And the win loss tally between them, settled on the record.

We close out with our Round 10 predictions. Bonus point system in full effect. Plus a Nia diesel story you didn't ask for but absolutely deserve.

Netball needs its own Drive to Survive. We said it.

This week on Here If You Need, Emily and Nia get into why a behind the scenes documentary could be a game changer for the sport, and Nia breaks down centre pass structures and why those first two phases of attack separate the best teams from the rest.

Plus SSN expansion scrapped, grand final ticket prices reduced, Panthers back to bib bingo, Thunder pulling away from Dragons, Pulse getting Tchine back, England's injury list growing again, and Nia Knows on sports psychologists and dealing with annoying umpires.

Could South Africa actually win the Commonwealth Games?

This week on Here If You Need, Emily and Nia break down a big Round 7 of the Netball Super League, pick their mid-season Teams of the Season, and get into a proper debate about whether South Africa have what it takes to go all the way in Glasgow.

Panthers finally get their first win, the Roses injury crisis shows no signs of slowing down, Pulse are winning ugly, and Forest push Loughborough closer than anyone has all season.

Plus Jo Noel's elevation, Fadoju's ridiculous stats, mid-season Teams of the Season, fantasy netball, and Nia breaks down exactly what goes into commentary prep in a new Nia Knows.