17/08/2020
UDATE ON SEASON - unfortunately that’s a wrap ladies 😞 at this stage our club prizegiving will still go ahead but will wait to see what happens August 26 as to what we do. Thanks for an awesome season and hope to see you in 2021.
Hi Everyone,
What a year 2020 has been … the challenges presented to us in order to contain COVID-19 have been tough, but necessary and we are grateful that we even got a part of a season.
SENIOR COMPETITION
Unfortunately we have decided to cancel the remainder of the Senior Competition. The logistics required to arrange a competition in Level 2 is particularly difficult, noting that the penalty for getting it wrong is having the centre shut down. Netball courts pose a different set of problems to other open air sports, such as football, which have fields that are reasonably spread out. At the courts every Saturday we have in excess of 800 people either playing or supporting netball so in order to achieve the Level 2 rules we would need to split the courts and only have 4 courts running at a time, with longer breaks between games to undertake deep cleaning . This would result in the competition needing to run for many hours longer on a Saturday and potentially push back into the Friday arvo/evening as well …. this is a big ask on an entirely volunteer run centre.
In addition to the main rules (contact tracing, limiting numbers to groups of 100, providing sanitiser) there are other rules such as providing sanitiser in buckets to each court to allow sanitising of the ball both before and after the game as well as if it goes out of court and is touched by someone other than a player on the court in question. The toilet blocks need to be cleaned every 2 hours and in between each game the goal posts must be wiped and the bench seats must be cleaned and sanitised. Noting all of that, please remember that at the end of the day we are a committee of 8 volunteers and given the fact that Level 2 could be in place for the remainder of our season, it is just too big an ask. We hope you understand our reasoning.
Final placings for the short season will be posted in due course.
