I saw it. It was disgraceful. Show the parent the door and ask him never to return. A club runs on volunteers, in particular the coaches. It is hard to get coaches let alone good ones like the coach who was attacked. How much harder will it become if this outrageous behaviour is tolerated.

How to deal with it better? Stay out of it and let the player deal with the coach in a rational way when the heat has gone out of the situation. The parent should have no involvement, other than to counsel the player on the best way to handle it.

Its the clubs problem leave it to them

i think the humidity affected a few on saturday night - quite a carry on during an older gilrs game south of adelaide

ie techs, coach yelling abuse, players kicking chairs, parents slapping scorebench in disgust

quite an eventful night for the basketball police!

Sturtysixers,

Is that becasue it happened at your club. I can only imagine how different your response would be if this kind of thing had of happened at the club considered to be your "big brother".

Would 30 seconds be a two can Job?

I laugh at how precious this club must be, trying to prevent itself being named on this forum by anonymous "it doesn't matter which club it is" type posting whenever they have controversy - if it had of been Norwood or Sturt this happened to these same people would be naming and shaming them for all to see.

All of us have lost our temper at one stage or other.

Many of us have lost our temper at our kids basketball.

Not many of us would have thrown anything at our kids coach.

This person should be banned from all BSA run or controlled stadiums for at least 5-10 years.

What a Moron.

Sturtysixers,

Not sure that a parent can be reported for this sort of behaviour. And considering this persons position in the club, I dount that will happen.

Again, can only imagine what you would be saying if this occur at you friendly neighbours club.

Sturtysixers

A parent can be reported. For abusing or threatening a referee. But, not for an altercation with a coach.

And considering the parent who it is, I am sure that your club will do nothing. Except try and keep it under the covers, like you want.

Last time a parent threw a can at me..I drank it!

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand the club is??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

let's just say the can "flew" thru the air

9352.

You say the can was half full. This is decidedly more serious, than if it was half empty.

Throwing a half empty can, usually only attracts a slap on the wrist. But given that the said can was half full.....this parent faces at least 5 weeks of watching continuous M*A*S*H* re-runs !!

The can was arrested after it was found to be a Victorian Bitter.

Sturtysixers

Hmmmm, I would say that your Alias shows a distinct loathing for Sturt. That only narrows it down to about 9 other clubs!

It certainly wasn't a Sturt parent.

Just up the road a little... you know, the club with a similar arrogance level.

Cheeeez, was it Sturt or not, no facy "look at my name & work it out stuff". YES or NO?

The name of the club was on the bottom of the can but bloody sturty6er recycled it.

Forestville !! It was Forestville........a team full of can chucking parents. And they never say hello in passing.

Who can say!

If it was a forestville parent then the can was empty....
If it was a forestville coach then he threw it at himself.
and if it happened at forestvile, the can cost too much, slipped from a refs pocket and contained and IOU.

Yea and the parent would have needed two cans for each head if the game was in Tasmania.

Couldn't believe I was reading this - "Not sure that a parent can be reported for this sort of behaviour. And considering this persons position in the club, I dount that will happen." What the hell has a "person's position" got to do with being a ugly spectator - bring on the basketball police and ban such crap behaviour before it catches on and chairs become the next flying obstacles. Not sure whether I feel sorry for the kid who owns the parent or feel disappointed that the kid who is at an age where he can speak up didn't disown the parent and walk out.

Ban cans from games?

Oh yeah... serve everything in a CUP lol

Fortunately the thrower of the can was trained by the English cricket team's bowling coach and consequently the can was in no danger of hiting anything.

Stop Press:
The mischievous parent was arrested in Paris this morning for attempting the can can!