5212LAW Study Guide - Final Guide: Football Federation Victoria, Darren Lockyer, Roger Federer
RESEARCH
News article 10 year old
- ‘too competitive’
- ‘no one was having fun’
- ‘I don’t think parents should yell instructions from the sideline. Its great to hear parents
cheering us on but only coaches should be allowed to tell the players what to do once they
are on the field’
- ‘referees should be able to feel safe when they’re trying to their jobs’
- Australian bureau of statistic reveals 14.7% of SA children participated in organised footy in
2012, down from 16.2% in 2009
- Parents’ behaviour has a profound impact on their child’s participation in junior sport –
good or bad
- A child can recognise that sport develops good character. ‘there’s no shame in losing or not
making a team when you have tried your hardest. What’s important is how you respond to
it that builds character.’
Australian Sports Commission
- Code of conduct or behaviour: A code of conduct or behaviour can be described as a set of
statements that set out what you club considers to be an acceptable standard of behaviour
and conduct. These codes explain how your club expects its members and their guests to
behave. Codes of conduct or behaviour provide a guide and basis of expectations for a
club. They encourage commitment to ethical and professional behaviour and outline
principles on which a club is based.
- Every club has a legal responsibility to provide a safe environment for players, coaches,
referees and spectators. For your club to create a safe environment for its members, you
need to develop a plan. Sport safety planning is not hard. Most of it is common sense.
Play by the rules – committees
(1) Implement a member protection policy and codes of conduct
MPP = outlines how your club meets its obligations to provide a safe environment and to maintain
responsible behaviour and fair decision making
Code of conduct = an agree standard of behaviour for everyone in your sport
(2) Have sound disciplinary procedures
Members who breach codes of conduct
Procedures may be within MPP, club constitution or by-laws
Disciplinary action may involve a simple warning, but could include suspension, expulsion or
require the person to participate in a counselling session
If club does not have procedures contained in the rules, advisable to seek legal advice as well as
speak to state/territory/national sporting body
(3) Understand incident process
Clear process for dealing with incidents
How to respond, who is responsible for each step
Options take no further action, complete incident report and refer to club committee, ask
person to leave, referee makes decision whether to suspend play until action taken, involve police
if necessary
(4) Allow for non-members
Important club secures the right to enforce rules over spectators, officials and parents of visiting
teams
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- Applying conditions of entry
- Requiring parents to agree to be bound by the club rules (ask to sign registration forms at
start of the season)
- Implementing league/association rules which apply equally to home and visiting team
plays, officials and representatives
(5) Appoint ground marshal
Every game day to prevent and deal with bad behaviour by other officials, players, coaches and
spectators. Marshal must be prepared by giving info pack, distinctive clothing, training, reporting
system, conflict steps understanding
(6) Training and education
Ensure people in club have skills to deal with poor behaviour and good understanding of fair play
is essential
Play by the rules online training
Ideas:
- Promote policies and procedures
- Articles in newsletter/website
- Meetings
- Role models
- Ground announcements
- Positive messages
- Fair play day
- Good sport award
Flinders article
- Parents’ aggressive behaviour on the sidelines is embarrassing junior footballers, making
them lose confidence and can lead to them quitting the sport
- ABS reveals 14.7% SA children participated in organised footy in 2012 down from 16.2% at
previous count in 2009
- Parents behaviour had a profound impact on their child’s participation in junior sport –
good or bad
- Parents' verbal behaviour towards children, umpires and coaches - yelling, bagging and
disagreeing with positioning - can be problematic and there is a clear emphasis on
performance, playing well and, for some parents, winning
- For some parents its much more serious than having fun or participating. They almost lose
sight that its 12 and 13-year-olds
- Children did not prosper under these conditions and lose motiviation which resulted in
immediate or future disengagement from sport
- Poor parent behaviour impacts on children's confidence, motivation and continuation, not
just from game to game but from season to season
- Throughout the research, parent-child relationships were commonly portrayed in a
negative light, highlighted by parents providing excessive instruction, putting down their
child in view of others, coaching from the boundary and verbally jousting with their child
- "Post-game, if children experience a win or loss, played well or not well, parents are
instrumental for support - they can talk them through that and it's the advice children
crave."
Flinders – powerpoint
in 2009 approximately 1.7 million children participated in organised junior sport
a reported 223,000 children participated in organised junior Australian rules football
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sporting codes and policies have been developed to safeguard and promote positive junior
sport involvement for all
media reports of poor parental behaviour
othe use of verbally abusive language towards junior umpires and players
othe use of physical violence towards parents and opposition teams
ouse of physical aggression to assault junior football players
oparents are the most important identities in junior sporting experience
ojunior sport engagement can enhance the social, bio-physical and psychological
health of children
ojunior sporting experiences and physical activity participation in school are strongly
linked
opositive junior sporting experiences predict future sport participation into
adulthood
oparents emphasize winning
oboth mothers and fathers involvement impacts the junior sporting experience
oparental involvement in junior sport is perceived differently
overbal aggression associated with children’s lower self esteem and lower self
efficacy
operceived parental pressure is linked to burnout and sport discontinuation
o‘you have got to win not to get bullied pretty much, that’s just the way it is’
o‘need to teach parents that its kids footy…the main reason they are playing kids
footy is to have fun, play with their mates to have fun…maybe if the parents and
everyone was a bit more chilled out, the over the top stuff on the sideline probably
wouldn’t happen’
opositive verbal reinforcement is most appropriate
onegative outcomes can result from positive reinforcement
ohowever tiers of negative verbal reinforcement is socially accepted
overbal abuse
‘great Australian trait;
‘part of football culture’
‘coping a bit of stick is normal’
o‘we had a carnival a couple of weeks ago, basically stayed for the final, and the
umpire, who was just a kid, from both sides, because there was so much riding on
it, just copped it’
o‘if my son makes a blue, I will sit back and accept that he might get some criticism
from other parents, nothing harsh, but that’s how it works.’
o‘any sort of criticism, not even harsh or anything like that, but you can just see the
kids, they don’t really respond to it’
the weekend article spoil sports
- Australia’s winter footy season has been spoiled by violence on and off the field, and the
“ugly parent syndrome” is being blamed for teaching a generation of children that they
must win at all costs. A police chopper was called in to help quell a punch-up between
teenage players at the end of an under-18s rugby league match in Brisbane’s south in
August. The following month, police had to use capsicum spray and Tasers to tame a 100-
spectator brawl after a Sunday football game at North Ipswich, southwest of Brisbane.
- In NSW’s Hunter Valley, also in September, boys brawled on the field during an under-15s
rugby union final. Shelley Youman, former general manager of Newcastle and Hunter
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Document Summary
I don"t think parents should yell instructions from the sideline. Its great to hear parents cheering us on but only coaches should be allowed to tell the players what to do once they are on the field". Referees should be able to feel safe when they"re trying to their jobs". Australian bureau of statistic reveals 14. 7% of sa children participated in organised footy in. Parents" behaviour has a profound impact on their child"s participation in junior sport good or bad. A child can recognise that sport develops good character. There"s no shame in losing or not making a team when you have tried your hardest. What"s important is how you respond to it that builds character. ". Code of conduct or behaviour: a code of conduct or behaviour can be described as a set of statements that set out what you club considers to be an acceptable standard of behaviour and conduct.
