Michael Smith came close to landing a nine-darter in his win against Joe Cullen as he made it through to the quarter-finals for the third straight year. He had been introduced to the league by his mum's partner, before following the familiar procedure of watching clips on YouTube and buying the video game Madden as a source of both education and entertainment, studying how running backs would slalom between tackles and how wide receivers ran routes while simply learning what a first down was. Paul Anderson was delighted with his young England Knights side after they provided an exciting glimpse of the potential in the national set-up with a 56-4 rout of Jamaica at Castleford. "I want to say a huge thank you to all of my team-mates and coaches as well as the staff at both the Swifts and Netball NSW for making me feel so at home.