NEWTOWN UNDER-11 NETBALL REF THREATENED WITH NEIGHBOURLY REVIEW OVER "DODGY CONTACT CALL"
The ref is 16. The mum is 43. The post is now pinned.
A volunteer umpire at the Newtown netball courts has been threatened with a one-star Neighbourly review by a parent who called her officiating "a disgrace to the code".
The umpire is 16. She was working her third weekend for a $20 voucher and a sausage roll. In the second quarter she called contact on Goal Defence. The mother of Goal Defence, Annaliese Corrigan-Smith of Constable Street, took exception and started carrying on like a pork chop in front of several small children.
"It was not fucking contact, it was incidental," Ms Corrigan-Smith told The Daily Yarn, already drafting the post on her phone. "I've watched netball since 1994. That girl wouldn't know contact if it bit her on the bib."
The Neighbourly post ran to 380 words. It named the umpire, named the court, and somehow ended up having a go at the council's mowing schedule. Fourteen people who weren't at the game agreed with her. A bloke called Gavin from Mt Cook asked if this was really what the platform was for.
A Capital Netball spokesperson said the umpire was "shaken but okay" and had been offered a second sausage roll. "Our umpires are children. The players are children. Everyone out there is a child except the parents, and some days I wonder."
Ms Corrigan-Smith has been asked to sit out next Saturday. She plans to attend anyway. The post has been edited twice since this article was filed.
The umpire is 16. She was working her third weekend for a $20 voucher and a sausage roll. In the second quarter she called contact on Goal Defence. The mother of Goal Defence, Annaliese Corrigan-Smith of Constable Street, took exception and started carrying on like a pork chop in front of several small children.
"It was not fucking contact, it was incidental," Ms Corrigan-Smith told The Daily Yarn, already drafting the post on her phone. "I've watched netball since 1994. That girl wouldn't know contact if it bit her on the bib."
The Neighbourly post ran to 380 words. It named the umpire, named the court, and somehow ended up having a go at the council's mowing schedule. Fourteen people who weren't at the game agreed with her. A bloke called Gavin from Mt Cook asked if this was really what the platform was for.
A Capital Netball spokesperson said the umpire was "shaken but okay" and had been offered a second sausage roll. "Our umpires are children. The players are children. Everyone out there is a child except the parents, and some days I wonder."
Ms Corrigan-Smith has been asked to sit out next Saturday. She plans to attend anyway. The post has been edited twice since this article was filed.