Quote Originally Posted by KITZ View Post
The upside to the old system, there wasn't the club mentality where people needed to bag out a bunch of 9 and 10 year olds learning how to play football. Kids often moved from one district program to another HV to Newcastle to Macquarie sometimes with parents that had to move etc. There was still a little bit of politics but it was quickly seen to as well as bad parent behaviour with offenders spoken to. I honestly wish the clubs could get together and work out how to better stamp it out, its not needed, even through to NPL the parents from SAP can get together and have a chat etc. I'd imagine now its more like an all in brawl. its just so silly.
Please dont confuse the behaviour on this forum to what actually happens at games. As someone who has been there from the start and watched multiple age groups every year i can speak with a small bit of authority and say the gameday experience has been 99% positive for me.Ive seen a couple of instances of coaches carrying on towards refs but spectators have always been good.i see most good play get applauded by both teams fans,kids always shake hands (fist bump, elbow bump whatever) after matches.The spirit at the games is great and i think the clubs uphold a standard of behaviour that the kids must adhere to, and therefore their parents act accordingly.This forum seems to have a few old school heroes who dont have any affiliation with the program on here just airing old grudges. you could make it about mascots or chicken burgers and the same people will be on here bagging out yours and praising theirs.
and we all know george at olympic has the best chicken burgers.