HEAD coach Tracey Neville wants to see England make a statement when they take on Australia again on Wednesday.

In April England secured Commonwealth Games gold for the first time as Neville’s Roses beat the Australians 52-51 on the Gold Coast.

Ahead of Wednesday’s Quad Series meeting, Neville said: “I think Lisa Alexander, the Australian coach, has been in the press saying she’s gunning for us.

“She’s brought some new players into the team, players who have been in form out in the SSN (Suncorp Super Netball) this year. There’s some unknown players for us and obviously some known ones.

“I think for us, we want to go out there and make our stamp.

“We’ve not consistently beaten Australia — only once in the last four years in my reign.

“These girls have to start making a name for themselves and [talking] about consistency — world-class teams are consistent and beat the best teams, so that’s what I’ll be challenging the girls to do on Wednesday.”

Australia and England are first and second in the world rankings respectively.

Neville, whose side beat New Zealand 52-39 yesterday in their opening match of a Quad Series that will also see them face South Africa, added: “We’ve come out of a Commonwealth Games having won gold for the first time and you’d like to say everyone is gunning for us.

“We used to be the chasers and now we are being chased and that for our players is a new experience.

“We are starting to now blood some youngsters in there and hopefully we’ll see a few more on court in the next few games.”

England have been drawn in a group with Scotland, Uganda and Samoa for next year’s Netball World Cup in Liverpool and when asked for her thoughts on the group, Neville said: “The countries are ranked seventh [Uganda] and below in the world, so you’d like to say it is a steady group for us, although Uganda at the Commonwealth Games gave us a huge run for our money.

“I think the next stage is probably going to be the most difficult for us — we have the chance of meeting Jamaica or South Africa in that quarter-final. Everything is going to be tough.

“However, I think our preparation leading into that World Cup will be exceptional. We go to Jamaica in October, so we’ll have some experience against them, and we have Uganda coming over to Britain in November.

“It’s all about building a gameplan, building our strengths and seeing which players we can utilise against opposition.”