19/05/2023
❤️ To all of our members of the Campbelltown District Netball Community, we invite and implore you to please put your best self forward this weekend (and every weekend). We have seen and received reports of some very disturbing behaviour of spectators and players. This is not who we, as a community, want to be! We feel as a community we can all do better.
🖤 Remember - there are children watching and listening to how we as adults behave and react. They will then model this behaviour. Let's all put our best selves forward and show children what good manners, respect, courtesy and good sporting behaviour is. Let's start by:
❤️ WE THANK YOU. Thank the umpires and your coach at the end of each game.
🖤 WE SEE YOU. Acknowledge the other team by:
Spectators: Have a scorer from each team introduce themselves to each other and stand together.
Coaches - give each other a wave hello and thanks at the end.
Team Captains - meet in the middle and do the C pass.
Players - shake hands with the opposing team at the end of each game.
❤️ DO YOUR JOB
Spectators should only offer words of encouragement and applaud both teams. Leave the coaches to coach and the umpires to umpire.
Players - keep your words clean and friendly. There is no excuse for foul mouthed behaviour.
😀A FINAL WORD - We all signed up to play because we enjoy the feeling of fun that playing sport brings us.
SO, remember - THIS IS A GAME! IT'S MEANT TO BE FUN.