Everything you need to know ahead of the 2022 Super Netball Team Girls Cup

For the first time in three years, Super Netball's pre-season tournament will go ahead, helping to build excitement and provide more adequate preparation for its eight competing teams.

First held in Brisbane in 2019, the Team Girls Cup hasn't eventuated till now due to complications surrounding travel and potential risks of exposure to COVID-19.

This time the tournament spans from Friday the 25th of February to Sunday 27th at Parkville Stadium in Melbourne and will run in a round-robin format, splitting teams into two pools and reducing matches to 10-minute quarters.

By the end of the weekend, netball fans should have a pretty good indication of the favourites for 2022, as well as some answers to these burning questions hanging over the teams.

With the expiration of one collective player's agreement in August and the beginning of a fresh one in September – that saw a significant pay increase for athletes, supported by netball's new broadcast deal with News Corp – player movement was at an all-time high during the off-season.

The NSW Swifts had just won their second Super Netball title in three seasons, demonstrating incredible resilience throughout a tough year on the road, their depth with ongoing squad rotation and their ability to peak at the right time, overthrowing the league's two frontrunners, the Giants and Fever, in the finals.

Unfortunately, it meant many of their players were hot property come the signing period, and although their starting seven have remained, their bench has been depleted.

Up and coming Diamonds shooter Sophie Garbin was always ready to make an impact for the Swifts if required, injected into goal attack or goal shooter whenever the side needed a change up to their go-to combination of Helen Housby