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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Sport
Jack Snape

Sirens call: Super Netball heading for wrangle over name of new Sydney team

Giants players celebrate
A stoush over the a new team name is looming after the new Sydney Super Netball franchise owners lodged a trademark application for ‘Sirens’. Photograph: Izhar Khan/Getty Images

It is David versus Goliath – meets Odysseus – in a looming legal stoush on the fringes of Australian sport. One one side, there is an amateur women’s ice hockey team, long-established if under-resourced. On the other is one of Australia’s most influential sporting owners.

At stake is the legal right to use the name Sirens, the mythological creatures whose profile has exploded after the release of box-office smash The Odyssey.

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