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Speaker 1: Another season of sport, another season of sideline abuse. Police

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Speaker 1: have revealed they're still investigating a serious assault on a

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Speaker 1: female football coach from September. The Elsie IF volunteer was

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Speaker 1: attacked by an opposing male supporter following an under ten's game.

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Speaker 1: Laura Menzies is the Northern Region Football chief executive. She's

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Speaker 1: with us this morning.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning.

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Speaker 1: How is that coach doing? Do you know.

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Speaker 2: The last I heard she was, The last I heard

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Speaker 2: she was recovering at home. I mean, there's no doubt

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Speaker 2: that's a completely shocking incident that should shock us in

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Speaker 2: any example that our never mind a football game.

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Speaker 1: Is this thing happening more and more? Or that these

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Speaker 1: a one off?

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Speaker 2: I mean there's a huge spectrum when we talk about

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Speaker 2: sideline behavior. Somebody attacking somebody on the sideline as an

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Speaker 2: absolute extreme, which happens in very few circumstances. Certainly not

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Speaker 2: condoning the behavior in the slightest because it should never happen.

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Speaker 2: But no, this kind of thing is extreme, has happened

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Speaker 2: very rarely.

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Speaker 1: She was noted unconscious apparently. I mean, it's just terrible,

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Speaker 1: isn't it. Oh?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, that absolutely is terrible, And I think the thing

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Speaker 2: is that kind of behavior wouldn't be okay if you're

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Speaker 2: at the supermarket or the bank or anywhere else in society.

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Speaker 2: There's not anywhere in our society where we allow someone

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Speaker 2: to go up to somebody else and knock them unconscious.

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Speaker 2: You know, That's why we have laws of the country.

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Speaker 2: There's no way that behavior is in any circumstances, is

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Speaker 2: even the slightest bit appropriate? Is it?

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Speaker 1: The parents? I mean, can you ban and I know

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Speaker 1: you shouldn't take your anger out on the kids or

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Speaker 1: you know the punishment had on the kids, But do

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Speaker 1: you look at banning kids whose parents behave like that?

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Speaker 2: We don't generally ban the kids, but yes we can.

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Speaker 2: I mean, we do have a disciplinary code, we do

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Speaker 2: have a code of conduct part of me as a sport.

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Speaker 2: And absolutely it is possible to own to ban parents

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Speaker 2: according to their behavior because in most cases, yes it's

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Speaker 2: in most cases it is the parents or it is

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Speaker 2: sideline people are not always parents of kids. But yes

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Speaker 2: we can, we can take action against parents.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, hopefully this particular coach is recovering. Well.

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Speaker 1: We thank you very much for your time. Are Laura

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Speaker 1: great to have you on the program. That's Laura Menzie's

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Speaker 1: the Northern Region Football Chief Executive. For more from Early

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