As
a volunteer-based club, it is necessary for all families to get involved. This includes parents taking their turn in
the “fruit and jersey” rosters throughout the season. Team managers will organise rosters for
parents to bring fruit (eg watermelon, oranges) to the game, and to take the
jerseys, as a full kit home to wash.
Junior players are not to take individual jerseys home – they are to
stay as a kit in order to have them together and to avoid one jersey fading at
a different rate to others.
Training
sessions and games are not to be treated as free baby-sitting services. Whilst all coaches have a blue card, and have
taken on a role of coaching the children, players are the sole responsibility
of the parent. NO child is to be left in
the care and supervision of a coach. In times of sudden wet weather
cancellations mid-training, it is distressing for both coach and child when a
parent is not present and is not able to be contacted immediately. Many teams, via the manager, create a team
contact list, in order for busy parents to car-pool or help with
supervision. This is up to the team and
parents, and is to remain strictly within the team – no contact details are to
be given without consent.
Parents,
as with players and coaches, are required to adhere to the codes of conduct.