1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:02,440 Speaker 1: We've got some bad behavior on the sports field again. 2 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:06,600 Speaker 1: So all out brawl between parents and students is during 3 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:09,440 Speaker 1: the Auckland grammar game against De La Cell match was 4 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:11,840 Speaker 1: called off. Eight coppers were needed to break the mess up. 5 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:13,920 Speaker 1: Kevin Partter's the form of Springbok, of course, our current 6 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:16,840 Speaker 1: rugby seven's coach at King's College, and he's with us Kevin, 7 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:17,600 Speaker 1: morning to you. 8 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:18,960 Speaker 2: Good morning, Mike. 9 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:20,720 Speaker 1: How often would you see this sort of stuff in 10 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:21,239 Speaker 1: a season. 11 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:24,759 Speaker 2: Well, if you're talking all out brawls and that, that's 12 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:27,479 Speaker 2: obviously very isolated because media had picked that up a 13 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:29,240 Speaker 2: heck of a lot. But if you're talking about the 14 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:33,560 Speaker 2: intolerance and volatility of it, you'd see it nearly every week. 15 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:37,160 Speaker 1: Jeers, And is it getting better? Is there any sort 16 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:40,080 Speaker 1: of overarching we're a bit over this kind of behavior 17 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:41,280 Speaker 1: thing going on or not really? 18 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:45,040 Speaker 2: Well, it's the exact opposite. I think there's people wanting 19 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:47,240 Speaker 2: to get over it, but that there's a few contributing 20 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:50,559 Speaker 2: factors in my view, Mike. One is the poor old 21 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:53,440 Speaker 2: volunteers disappearing. You know, the good referees that are about 22 00:00:53,479 --> 00:00:56,240 Speaker 2: flipping seventy years of age running around the field. They're 23 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:58,680 Speaker 2: just not willing to put up the good people have 24 00:00:58,760 --> 00:01:01,640 Speaker 2: gone from it because of the abuse and intolerance it 25 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:04,840 Speaker 2: goes on. And so that's letting, you know, sort of 26 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 2: reduce the control factor around school sport. 27 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:09,880 Speaker 1: Jeez. So when somebody yells out and abuse as a referee, 28 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:12,240 Speaker 1: doesn't that someone on the standlight, like a normal person, 29 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 1: go don't be a dick and shut up or something 30 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:14,480 Speaker 1: like that. 31 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:17,319 Speaker 2: Oh and you're one hundred percent, But I mean you 32 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:19,840 Speaker 2: have a look where we're living in a much more 33 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:23,320 Speaker 2: intolergent and volatile, nearly an angry society. Look at the 34 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:25,920 Speaker 2: amount of road rage and that's increased as to what 35 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:28,320 Speaker 2: we would have seen in the past. So you're dead 36 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:31,320 Speaker 2: right that that can happen. But that invariably leads to 37 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:34,639 Speaker 2: what you've just spoken about, of those reactions that become 38 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:37,880 Speaker 2: mass and group orientated rather than just an individual. 39 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:42,119 Speaker 1: Is it elite level only or not not at all? 40 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 2: I mean, that's the saddest thing you can go along. 41 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:47,200 Speaker 2: And I'm not going to suggest that you can expect 42 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:49,600 Speaker 2: it at elite level or at maybe first fifteen one 43 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 2: A stuff. But what you have got is people could 44 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 2: be playing a six A game and suddenly you've got 45 00:01:56,760 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 2: kids that have been under such pressure from the parents 46 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 2: are filming the game, and everything's the suggestion that they 47 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:05,120 Speaker 2: are the meal ticket jeep as this is my son's 48 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:07,840 Speaker 2: future or my daughter's you know, career that's on the 49 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:11,400 Speaker 2: line here, and it's so inaccurate. So I don't know, 50 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:14,400 Speaker 2: I even look back that maybe maybe media have got 51 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:16,880 Speaker 2: a little bit to play here. Look at the Lions 52 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:19,040 Speaker 2: from the weekend. What's the biggest story to come out 53 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:20,960 Speaker 2: that the refs got it wrong and we've got an 54 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,639 Speaker 2: angry society we're going to see on the weekend. That's 55 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:26,799 Speaker 2: just no different to the British lines versus you get 56 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:29,800 Speaker 2: what I mean, there's a lot of championing of the negatives. 57 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:31,880 Speaker 1: Dear Idea, Kevin, nice to talk to you appreciate it. 58 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 1: Kevin part who's Rugby Simons coach at King's. 59 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 2: For more from the Mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to 60 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:40,400 Speaker 2: news Talks it'd be from six am weekdays, or follow 61 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:42,000 Speaker 2: the podcast on iHeartRadio.