Texting is banned ! Good idea or more nonsense ?

[Hound]

..eventually a system will be in place where coaches will be very vulnerable to accusations and the like.

Nonsense.

If we do nothing, then we leave coaches vulnerable to accusations. By doing this, the GAA are putting everything above board.

There is absolutely no big deal in getting an guardian to give written confirmation that their child can receive texts from an adult coach - or giving them the alternative that the coach can text the parent directly instead.

[TacadoirArdMhacha]

Non-story - hardly banned: just requires the written consent of the parents, which is pretty sensible, and relatively hassle-free to obtain.

Yeah and when all clubs move to the Membership & Registration system this year its set up in such a way that a parent/guardian is copied on text to juvenile. Part of me feels its a bit ott but its better than anything dodgy ever happening so even though its a bit more hassle for team organisers overall the GAA is to be commended. Other sporting organisations will struggle to keep up with this.

Exactly. I know my own club is holding a registration night on Friday where all underage parents are required to attend with a parent. Both the child and the parent sign up to club's code of conduct for players and spectators and pay a registration fee. We don't text players at the minute but if we did, all we would need to do would be to include in the documents to be signed permission for the club to do so. Fairly straightforward.

[down6061689194]

If you're old enough to have a phone then you should be mature enough to know who to give your number too.

Why recieveing a text from someone who has Child Protection Certificates pouring out of them is wrong I don't know.

[lynchbhoy]

think its a good move
A couple of years ago when coaching underage, I did think to myself that I would rather not be in the posession of kids numbers as any bad bustard out there (and I could name a few) could accuse me of something untoward and it could be difficult to keep the good name etc. (I know someone that was reported to the cops over a two year period for sexual abuse of their neighbours kids which was completely fabricated - just because the two familes were 'at war ' with each other. The women in question was a lady and the revelations by the cops to her devestated her - so thats what some loonies are like out there!) .

Texting parents/guardians is exactly what you should be doing.
The only problem there is that some parents dont want to know and this is part of the bad parenting culture out there.

[John Martin]

Non-story - hardly banned: just requires the written consent of the parents, which is pretty sensible, and relatively hassle-free to obtain.

Yeah and when all clubs move to the Membership & Registration system this year its set up in such a way that a parent/guardian is copied on text to juvenile. Part of me feels its a bit ott but its better than anything dodgy ever happening so even though its a bit more hassle for team organisers overall the GAA is to be commended. Other sporting organisations will struggle to keep up with this.

Exactly. I know my own club is holding a registration night on Friday where all underage parents are required to attend with a parent. Both the child and the parent sign up to club's code of conduct for players and spectators and pay a registration fee. We don't text players at the minute but if we did, all we would need to do would be to include in the documents to be signed permission for the club to do so. Fairly straightforward.

How many underage parents have you got in your club TAM?

[ziggysego]

Non-story - hardly banned: just requires the written consent of the parents, which is pretty sensible, and relatively hassle-free to obtain.

Yeah and when all clubs move to the Membership & Registration system this year its set up in such a way that a parent/guardian is copied on text to juvenile. Part of me feels its a bit ott but its better than anything dodgy ever happening so even though its a bit more hassle for team organisers overall the GAA is to be commended. Other sporting organisations will struggle to keep up with this.

Exactly. I know my own club is holding a registration night on Friday where all underage parents are required to attend with a parent. Both the child and the parent sign up to club's code of conduct for players and spectators and pay a registration fee. We don't text players at the minute but if we did, all we would need to do would be to include in the documents to be signed permission for the club to do so. Fairly straightforward.

How many underage parents have you got in your club TAM?

[TacadoirArdMhacha]

Non-story - hardly banned: just requires the written consent of the parents, which is pretty sensible, and relatively hassle-free to obtain.

Yeah and when all clubs move to the Membership & Registration system this year its set up in such a way that a parent/guardian is copied on text to juvenile. Part of me feels its a bit ott but its better than anything dodgy ever happening so even though its a bit more hassle for team organisers overall the GAA is to be commended. Other sporting organisations will struggle to keep up with this.

Exactly. I know my own club is holding a registration night on Friday where all underage parents are required to attend with a parent. Both the child and the parent sign up to club's code of conduct for players and spectators and pay a registration fee. We don't text players at the minute but if we did, all we would need to do would be to include in the documents to be signed permission for the club to do so. Fairly straightforward.

How many underage parents have you got in your club TAM?

Underage players (who may or may not be parents)

[3000 miles away]

ah god be with the day of a notice in the shop window, or leave a msg in the school front office, and if u were acting the hoore at training ya got the whistle around the arse or told to run 5 laps.

[ziggysego]

ah god be with the day of a notice in the shop window, or leave a msg in the school front office, and if u were acting the hoore at training ya got the whistle around the arse or told to run 5 laps.

Is that why you were sent 3000 miles away?

[3000 miles away]

with every underage medal the game has to offer i think that treatment wrked.

[lawnseed]

at our club only one person has all the kids numbers. if you want to contact them you give your message to that person and they send it on to the relevant caller group. the fone used belongs to the club only one person has access to it, so no messing.. shes beyond reproach (social worker)

[armaghniac]

Probably this can lead to better procedures and a lawnseed says the person with access to the numbers doesn't have to be the person who meets the players. One point though, there are kids and kids, a person could be "under 18" and still drive themselves to training and be at university.