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Matt Hamshaw has been told he will have a ‘competitive budget’ for next season as preparations for his first term in charge of Rotherham United begin in earnest. The 43-year-old’s appointment was confirmed on Tuesday after an eye-catching spell in interim charge of the club prompted chairman Tony Stewart to bring forward the decision to make him permanent manager and get things moving early ahead of next season. With four games left on a lost season, Hamshaw can start to move forward with clarity.

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Lauren Palmer says spirits in the Leeds Rhinos camp remain high and that the feeling is a win is just around the corner, despite a run of four straight defeats that has slightly tempered their bright start to netball’s new era. Under a rookie head coach to start the new era of professionalism in the sport, Rhinos reached the final of the inaugural Netball Super Cup and then began the regular season with a comprehensive win over Birmingham Panthers.

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They like one of their own at Rotherham United. With the greatest of respect to Matt Taylor and Leam Richardson who both tried under difficult circumstances, and that elephant in the room Steve Evans, whose resurgent first term was sullied by his recent second, these men cannot hold a candle to the likes of Ronnie Moore and Paul Warne, who gave blood for the cause as players and got fans through the turnstiles as managers.

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Doncaster Knights are starting to put the pieces in place to make a sustained push for promotion to the Premiership next season after a belated run of positive results left them with a sense of what might have been this term. Knights have won their last four games in the Championship and two prior to that in the Premiership Cup, but given how indifferently they started the league season, that is still only good enough for sixth place, 26 points behind leaders Ealing Trailfinders.

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Atiba Lyons says his Sheffield Sharks team have adopted the mindset of being the chasers, despite still retaining an element of control of their own destiny in the Super League Basketball title race. Sharks defeated Newcastle Eagles 90-79 at the Canon Medical Arena on Sunday to keep pace with their title rivals London Lions and Leicester Riders, with two weeks of the regular season remaining.