GLADSTONE NETBALL DAD FILMS UMPIRE, 14, "FOR THE TRIBUNAL" — THERE IS NO TRIBUNAL

A father in Gladstone who shifted down from Nelson last year has filmed every netball game his daughter has played this winter "for the tribunal". Netball Southland says there is no tribunal. There has never been a tribunal.

Clint Hadfield, 44, stands courtside every Saturday with his phone out at arm's length, narrating. On the weekend he zoomed in on Kayla, 14, who was umpiring, over a contact call in the second quarter. "Our girl was obstructed. Clearly. That's going to the tribunal with timestamps. I've written down the wind direction as well."

Denise Woodhouse, who manages the team, said the mums had a gutsful by June. "He filmed me eating a pie. Reckons it's context. I told him to fuck off, politely, and he filmed that too. Said it'd be exhibit D." Hadfield has since started filming cars in the carpark. He calls this "establishing the scene". My late husband Gerald took one photograph a year, at Christmas. It was blurry and it was plenty. My son's girlfriend films her breakfast, so apparently this is normal now. It is not.

A spokesperson for Netball Southland said the closest thing to a tribunal was "honestly, Denise", and that complaints went to an email address. "He has sent it 214 videos since April. About half are of his thumb. One is nine minutes of a court with nobody on it. He's called it 'the aftermath'." Kayla, asked to comment, said Hadfield was "quite loud". She added: "It's minus two and he makes me stand here explaining the rules to him."

Hadfield has bought a tripod and told the club "the tribunal sits in September". Nobody has corrected him. He has also started complaining about the cold, which several people in Gladstone say he hasn't lived here long enough to do.