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Eleanor Cardwell (Manchester Thunder): <\/b>The 31-year-old goal shooter is beginning a third spell with Thunder. Expectations are high.<\/p>\n
Cardwell was a 2023 World Cup silver medallist with England and has league title medals from the NSL and Australia’s Super Netball.<\/p>\n
Her championship season down under came with Adelaide Thunderbirds, before knee trouble spoiled her time at Melbourne Mavericks.<\/p>\n
Thunder finished third last season. All eyes are on their fit-again star signing.<\/p>\n
Jaz Brown (Leeds Rhinos): <\/b>Once a promising tennis player, Doncaster-born Brown is now better known for guarding nets than striking forehands over them.<\/p>\n
England’s new goal keeper is enjoying being back in Yorkshire after leaving Birmingham Panthers.<\/p>\n
Brown, 24, forms part of a new-look Leeds defensive circle, with South African defender Sanmarie Visser another arrival.<\/p>\n
“We’re building a good combination,” Brown said after a semi-final Super Cup run.<\/p>\n
Gracie Smith (London Pulse): <\/b>Aged just 16, Smith last year became the youngest ever player on an NSL title-winning team. The Pulse centre did her GCSEs three weeks before the Grand Final.<\/p>\n
Already summoned by England A, could Smith, now 17, challenge for senior selection in time for the Commonwealth Games?<\/p>\n
She has enjoyed almost non-stop success, so it stung when Pulse were beaten in the Super Cup final.<\/p>\n
“I don’t like losing,” she told BBC Sport. “It’s a feeling I don’t want to feel again.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n