it is still in practice

stadiums should still have them

it depends on the head ref putting them out - which seems to go lacking sometimes

I thought that got ride of that system after some ref's at pas used them a little to much.

yeh i know that, it was the spectators who felt the force of the yellow cards at pas. The record is 7 in one game.

No it was both of the twins

lol, Leigh and Alex don't warn, they just throw u out. That what you get when u don't understand the game.

I understand that some parents take the game to seriously, but the reason that the yellow card has been brought in is because the referee's are not taught how to deal with coaches on a personal level. They are taught to tech first or yellow card.

There are some parents that take it to far and its the way that BASA is dealing with it. But there are better ways. Better education of referee's.

ah very true my dear anon. What is the policy that is coming in oh knowledgable one.

In my defence I have only handed out a yellow card when the abuse of a parent has, in my eyes, gone too far. I have never handed out a red card and I didn't really think the system was that effective in dealing with spectator abuse anyway.
The newer system is the code of conduct. It was actually posted on this forum a fair while ago. All stadiums have it and most referees know how to use it.
On another note I would like to say to anonymous #53616 thankyou for spelling my name right, not even Sturt managed that. :)

No system works the way it is supposed to when idiot parents go to far. For example a parent at Mvale was asked to keep quiet after he abused a fellow official. This parent then continued to abuse said official and recieved a Yellow card. After which an attempt was made to restart the game. How ever this was not possible as the parent continued to abuse both oofficials and recieved a red card after which his was asked to leave. Not happy with just being ejected he then decided it was a good idea to continue to abuse the official and not leave. As such he was then put on report. Not content with that he continued to abuse the officials whilst the report was being filled out. Now what did BASA do about it? They wrote a stern letter of warning to the club. BIG DEAL! Guess who got thrown out of the stadium the following week but a different umpire?

SO I ask you If I have ever thrown you out and you were to see a video tape of your antics. I wonder just how stupid you would look?

Leigh, I few weeks ago u umpired a U16 G D1 Norwood game. You had problems with the Norwood Parents and you teched the Norwood coach. No yellow or red cards were given.

Now the reason the yellow card system is not effective is because umpires don't use the system there to protect them. We already have to many old umpires that umpire the games 1970 style
(Port Adelaide umpires example ).

I agree there are some parents that are living their sporting career through their kids, but umpiring the game the way the rule book or codes of conduct have instructed are why we have the rules book / code of conduct.

If at the end of the day the umpires have not done that then who is to blame.

The bpoor kids. How embarrasing

What was the code of conduct about. Dont remeber reading it but it sounds like a good idea

It would be difficult for the umps

Jnr,
I haven't umpired a game of basketball since two weeks before finals due to personal reasons.
Red card/Yellow card system hasn't been in use for a while. If I really did this game then me issuing a technical to a coach isn't really the point as coaches are not covered by the red card yellow card system anyway, which as I have already mentioned, isn't being used anymore.
Pardon my grammar.

if u read it correctly it was the parents who were cracking up and you teched the coach because of it. Don't Tech the coach, speak to the UIC and let him deal with it. If he doesn't deal with it (which I know Mike will) then throw the parent out, But go through the proper people. Don't make the rules up as u go along. (Which u do so well)

I know when I was reffing school social on Saturday mornings, the ruling was if a parent was giving the refs grief, first warn the coach to control said parent, also do it loudly enough that the parent hears if they continue, they will cost their childs team a tech foul on the coach.

If the parent continues, tech the coach. The rule book actually used to state (havent seen one in a couple of years) that the coach is responsible for the actions of all players, team officials (assistant coaches, doctors etc) and followers.

If you go to the post "BASA Anti-Harassment and Abuse Policy" you will be able to download a copy of the policy which clearly states that "coaches are to adhere to and assist a referee's request to address the conduct of his\her players and spectators. For any breach of the coaches code of conduct the referees should follow the outlined procedure in order for administering the penalty.
1. warn the coach of his/her breach of the code
2. advise the other referee of the warning
3. upon a second offence the penalty shall be invoked.

The penalty being a Technical foul to be issued to the offending coach.

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I would just like to say that to my memory, the "twins" have never given out 7 yellow cards in a game. This is on a Friday night!

I can only count on one hand the amount of times I have rostered both the "twins" on the same game!

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FIRE UP LEIGH