"It will have been tough for them to just train this week and play a semi-final, but equally they'll be raring to go and be up for it," Francis-Bayman noted. Indeed, as the Covid-19 pandemic was wreaking havoc across the world last March and throwing up challenges for everyone, the former England Academy international was struggling with depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts as a result of his injury too. "I just need to be playing matches week in, week out, back-to-back, and trying to maintain the same level physically," she said. Sky Sports is your home of netball. The Vitality Netball Superleague continues on Saturday, with the semi-finals live on Sky Sports Action and Mix and streamed on the Sky Sports YouTube channel from 1.30pm.©2021 Sky UKFootball