Wow, that would have to be the quickest tribunal in history.

There JUST happened to be 3 tribunal members there to have a tribunal hearing??

And first time I have heard of a suspension being given out in games, they have always been given out in weeks before.

And if a referee had been following that team closely enough to know how well they play, they had a conflict of interest, and should not have been reffing the game in the first place.

These days I wouldn't have put it past the kids to cook up the idea themselves.
I think the penalty is pretty harsh, but I guess now the example has been set.
You will never totally stamp these things out of sport though.

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Ps. Seriously 4hours is a very short time for everyone to organise their arguments and is not fair on the coach. Also agree with yogee that the referee is not the one that should be bringing this to the attention of the association. He/she is to close to the teams involved.

No, I dont know how things work in the "country"...obviously kangaroo court would be the best way to describe it.

If these allegations were proven true and correct by a BASA qualified tribunal, the coach would have got more than 19 "matches".....19 seems to be a very unusual number in any context...most penalties go 1 week, 2 weeks, 4 weeks, 6 weeks, then 1 month, 2 months etc.

People are saying 4 hrs isn't long enough. Well I think it is better to hold the tribunal while it is still fresh in your mind.
I don't understand why to have it 4 hrs after is so unfair for the coach.
If the Referee dosen't bring it to the Associations attention who do you rhink should.
Look at BASA who would pass it on there if not the Referee. Some places during the week there is no UIC to overlook the situation.
I think good on them for being so organised that they can hold the tribunal straight away and get on with it.

Can someone please tell me what exactly the situation was in this game. Don't have to mention clubs, but enough for everyone to get the jist of it.Was it a finals game? and if it was, I can't see how throwing a finals game could possible help you?

Thanks Ananymous for clearing that up.Not sure what to think, cos it is just stratagy. I remember one or two years ago New Zealand loosing a cricket match on purpose(it was blatently obvious) to South Africa in order to keep the Aussies out of the tri nations final. No one seemed to care.

Also, in the Aussies first world cup win the Australian team deliberately made an easy run chase (about 100 runs) take close to the 50 overs to get so the team they were playing run rate wouldn't be too bad, in order to keep another team out of the finals. I can't quite remember the exact particulars but i remember we delibrately went slow to knock someone else out and so we could stay in........not fair some people would think, but we won the world cup so who's complaining. Its the same thing here. Having said all that, its probably not teaching our kids the right thing to do, but i still think a whole season ban for the coach is a bit unfair.

I guess a whole Season isn't that unfair if the guy/girl has been up to these sorts of things before.
I guess x-factor there are two differences in what you are saying one is International sport and as you said the other is kids sport.

Ok, my apologies to one and all, obviously I should have just shut up....

Just on tribunals, I was invovled in one at the Classics in U16s back in 2000, the complaint was made straight after our game, and about 90 mins later after they had found a SA rep to sit on the tribunal, it commenced.

I think it is something that occurs in every stadium around the world, but to what degree can be debatable.
We quite often have the feeling of local umps taking it upon themselves to assist in teams winning/losing & it appears to occur to our club the most as we are extremely young & our junior program is so successfull that people hate seeing us win all the time (we won 4 out of 6 junior finals & as a club represented in 9 of 12 finals with 8 victorious).
But then again it could be seen just from our eyes & the opposition thinks they are getting hard done by?
In regards to the tribunal hearing, 4 hours is fantastic, we have a set time format of 24 hours before the sitting of the hearing & use BASA guidelines in regards to suspensions.