Bet ya money on it

If not the venues will need you to be Latrobe Uni stadium will require everyone to be vaxed on site

BV should come out now and make a statement on it.

Coaches should do it to protect their players.

Would be good for associations to be able to give that comfort to parents.

Coaches should do it to protect their own families and friends

This will be forced by stadiums I suggest, so parents and coaches will need to be vaxxed to get in. Personally, I hope they do that and enforce it, at least this year and the first half of next year.

How is "we haven't made a decision yet" a mixed message?

It's not, it’s a non-message. They have a couple of weeks to say something. But if I was a coach, official or parent, I would very much assume that vax will be required ...

Hopefully this medical apartheid isn't enforced. Sadly most people are cooked.

Kids over 12 should also be vaxxed, in fairness to the coaches and officials.

So a 12 year old is banned from playing sport because he/she isn't double vaccinated, and that's ok? If so, this country is fuc### up!

If 10-15% of adults will be segregated from society for making a choice not to take part in a VOLUNTARY medical procedure, that's terrible, but those adults at least can weigh things up and justify their own decision, enforcing a mandate on kids is just sinister.

You'd think that at least double that % of the youngest teenagers won't be vaccinated for now due to understandable hesitation, even from vaccinated parents, due lack of long term testing, you can't just remove all those kids from teams.

Flying is one thing, I think you'll find rapid antigen testing will end up being the norm regardless of Vax status, but either way that doesn't even compare to banning kids from playing sport.

How many parents of 13yo girls do you think are uncomfortable having their child vaccinated for now, at least until extensive testing is done on the age group?

^ I guess you are one of the ones not vaxxed, and don't want your kid to miss sport b/c of your decision. Just a guess, might be wrong.

I don't have kids, yet, that's a reason for my personal hesitation right now, even if chances are very low. But where as I disagree with any segregation of society, at least mounting an argument for adult vaccination has at least some merit, regardless if I strongly disagree, that's just my choice for now. I'm at an age where I have friends with children who are petrified right now, and some of them are vaxxed themselves.

Mandating kids who have a statistically irrelevant chance of getting seriously I'll from covid, and knowing the Vax only reduces transmission and doesn't stop it is unethical and just wrong. There's a higher chance a teenage boy without serious underlying health conditions will end up in ICU with myocarditis from the vaccine than needing ICU from covid itself.

^ Correct, any parent not getting it won't be having their children done either that's for sure, so say that's 10%, but there's also a fairly large number of parents who are vaxxed due to workplace pressure, elderly parents, slight hesitancy for themselves but have come around to deciding yes, but they won't expose their Children to unknown risks, even if they may be rare.

How's the local u14 comp looking if even 20% of kids are shut out? Or is it 30%? Good luck if that's the decision made for community sport.

If Victoria opens up in November for Vax only in venues for 12+, and even if it's 16+, does VJBL plan a restart?

In Victoria there won't be a known date for when unvaxed are allowed back like in NSW, where from December 1st all restrictions including Vax mandates will end.

So, with try-outs for VJBL only a couple of weeks away, time to reprise this thread - what are the vax rules for players, coaches, officials, parents?

Not sure that's right, but ok.

Point of requiring full vexed kids is actually two-sided.

1. Protect them longer term. More kids ending up with bad impacts from COVID. 15 yr old died recently in Vic and more cases in US.
2. Protect others as well.

Will be interesting to see what hey do but right now Gov rules are all about Vaxxed people having freedoms.

Surely adults who are not vaxxed cannot coach or be involved when we open up??

Game Watcher that 15 year old sadly died of a brain tumour and was battling cancer, and happened to test positive to covid around the time of death. The family was pissed that the media used the case as part of the narrative.

If unvaxxed adults is for a while then OK, but there shouldn't be any mandates on under 18s.

"15 yr old died recently in Vic and more cases in US"

Brett Sutton, what are you doing on Hoops? Take your fear mongering elsewhere!!!

On a serious note, Basketball NSW have made clear what they will and won't allow. U16s are allowed to play only if parents are vaxxed.

Still waiting for VIC government and their super computer to let us know what happens here!

So in NSW can a 14yo have their parents drop them off and not go in the stadium?

Stand corrected. Can't believe what you hear on news anymore.

At last some info, albeit the most poorly drafted communication I have seen for some time.

Myocarditis could be a problem for young males. A 14yo at my domestic club has it can't play any sport for 6 months. I pray he has no long term effects. I am 2xvax but many parents have a tough decision and I don't envy them.

No vax required for Players or coaches

From seeing the basketball Victoria post on Facebook and the associated commentary. There appears to be some concerned parents worried about the possibility of having some unvaccinated coaches potentially spreading COVID to their child.

Personally I think the coaches should be more concerned about the children spreading it to them.

Mind you I'm not sure why the vaccinated need to fear the unvaccinated.

Happy for people not to vax, just don't come to the courts. Know that at least 80% of people will not want you there.

Given that VIC is approaching 95% the impact of the unvaxxed is greatly reduced. Also unless that coach does nothing else for work, the chances of them being vaxxed would be quite high.

The comment above mentioning buildings requiring vax to enter, it would actually be wrong of BV to not enforce vax prior to the season, instead of people rocking up to a venue after 2 hours of travel to find out they won't be allowed in

Backflip.

Basketball Victoria has made the decision to require all individuals aged 16 plus to be fully vaccinated (unless medically exempt) to participate. This includes players, coaches, technical officials, spectators, volunteers or staff attending a venue for these events.