{"id":70217,"date":"2018-10-11T10:18:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T08:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=70217"},"modified":"2018-10-11T10:18:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T08:18:53","slug":"griffin-saenda-dares-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/10\/11\/griffin-saenda-dares-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Griffin Saenda dares squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Mphatso Malidadi: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/griffin-saenda.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-69612\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/griffin-saenda-300x134.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/griffin-saenda-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/griffin-saenda-768x342.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/griffin-saenda.jpg 820w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Malawi national netball team Coach, Griffin Saenda Senior, has warned that he is ready to drop star players if they fail to impress in training.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWe want players that are committed and ready to execute instructions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The players must fight to deserve a place in the team. Otherwise, I am not looking at names but performance and commitment of each player,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Saenda is drilling his charges ahead of the Fast 5 Netball World Series set for Hisense Arena in Melbourne, Australia, from October 27 to 28.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.times.mw\/queens-regroup-for-fast-5\/\">Queens<\/a>\u2019 performance at last year\u2019s event was below par as they slumped from position three to six.<\/p>\n<p>Saenda believes that his charges can impress at the games.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cFrom what I have observed during the first days in camp, we are impressed. The players are really fighting hard to impress me. I want to turnaround our fortunes,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Malawi will be without injured shooter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.times.mw\/mwawi-kumwenda-top-scores-again\/\">Mwawi Kumwenda<\/a> of Melbourne Vixens in Australia, who is recovering from injury.<\/p>\n<p>Shooter Joyce Mvula has returned to Manchester Thunder in the United Kingdom after being recalled to feature in British Fast Five5 set for mid-October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mphatso Malidadi: Malawi national netball team Coach, Griffin Saenda Senior, has warned that he is ready to drop star players if they fail to impress in training. \u201cWe want players that are committed and ready to execute instructions. The players must fight to deserve a place in the team. Otherwise, I am not looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":70221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70222,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70217\/revisions\/70222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}