Warning for Junior Girls Playing Hutt Valley Mixed Football:
Please be aware if you are a Girl playing Hutt valley 12th grade mixed football and you come against Stopout McCreadie 2015 team you will be abused as girls apparently 'shouldnt play football" and likely physically attacked.
We played them on 6/6 and our girls were called all sorts of names by one player on the team in particular while his father was reffing and he did nothing but encourage this. The names ranged fro C....nting B...ches to telling these girls to "Get Recked". (I found out later what the implications of this are.) After the game I approached the coach who is an outright cheat and we had a very heated argument as no one should be treating these girls like that, especially their own club mates. The fathers excuse is that his son has ADHD which I thinks stands for Adults Dont Handout Discipline.Even if he does have this behavioural issue there is no excuse for the behaviour and the fact that his father condoned it. He then continued to Abuse the girls and spectators after the game without a single attempt made by his father to control him. On two occasions the same player attacked our goalkeeper with studs at head height and also studs up leg swinging as the keeper had the ball on the ground, well under the keepers control and nothing was done- the other coach and I were discussing stopping the game due to dangerous attacks on players from this one individual.
I am not claiming that I am an angel and yes things were heated after the a studs raised match between adults while this eleven year old boy continued to tell people they were arseholes and bi..ches etc without a word of correction from his father.
The punishments handed down initially were a stand down from Coaching on Saturdays which we have obeyed every week since, McCreadie Coach has not (this reflects his attitude towards the rules immensely) whilst every Saturday I had to be standing away from a team that I have fought hard to put together and then we hear that he has been disregarding what was put in place with no recourse from the club.
I have been stood down for 1 year, which I just have to live with as appealing to this "Boys Club" would obviously be pointless as our team is "just a bunch of girls" yet the player concerned is allowed to continue to carry out this behaviour despite a number of board members having had their own children on the receiving end of his behaviour.