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Laura Menzies: Northern Region Football CEO on the investigation into the assault of a coach · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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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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