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Wests Juniors Australian Football Club is based at Oakman Park in Toowong Brisbane Australia. The mighty Bulldogs! Teams from U8 to U18 & Auskick Centre

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GRADE	COACH	CONTACT	EMAIL	A/COACH	MANAGER
Coordinator U8 – U11	Steve Murray	3812 7602	steve.murray@srwpalliance.com
U8 White	Andrew Dettl	3876 2118	jamdettl@bigpond.net.au m.teasdale@imb.uq.edu.au		Mel Teasdale 0448 394140
U8 Maroon	Bill Guy	0421 327599			Josh Hunt
U9 White	Michael Gillett		michael.gillett@anglocoal.com.au		Vacant
U9 Maroon	Marco Barazza	0417 645633	kbarrazza@bigpond.net.au rclabrom@optusnet.com.au craig@stockwells.com	Rob Labrom 0422 384557	Craig Mercer 3870 7711
U10 White	Scott Fern Brian Williams	3254 3658 0411 519049 0418 556 516	sfern@rbcbrisbane.com.au bwilliams@iinet.net.au brian@generatorplace.com.au
U10 Maroon	Andrew Sivijs	3278 5849	andrew@crctourism.com.au andrew.sivijs@westnet.com.au r.teasdale@imb.uq.edu.au	Rohan Teasdale 3202 9143	Karen Sivijs 0420 408005
U11	Keith Wallis	3378 4661	dwallis1@bigpond.net.au swooten@dixonjohnston.com.au		Stephen Wootten 0411 790760
Skills Coaching & Youth Coordinator U12 – U16	Lester Kirkwood	0409 482 991	lbkirk@bigpond.net.au l.kirkwood@orrcon.com.au
U12	Ian Martin	0411 723211	imartin@au1.ibm.com pshooter@bigpond.net.au	Russell Shooter 0412 111 720	Trisha Shooter 0412 294 894
U14	Mark Ritchie	3870 1746 0419 621093	Mark.Ritchie@abbott.com dielema@optusnet.com.au		Sue Delemans 0403 810114
U16	Paul Wilsher Alister Gaw	0413 904064 0412 881199	abgaw@optusnet.com.au p.wilsher@brisbaneclub.com.au functions@queenslandclub.com		Deb Tertis 0430 340 004

Legal Responsibilities of the Coach.

Coaches have at least ten important duties when carrying out their activities:

Provide a safe environment.
Activities must be adequately planned.
Athletes must be evaluated for injury & incapacity.
Athletes should not be mismatched.
Safe & proper equipment should be provided.
Athletes must be warned of the inherent risks of their sport.
Activities must be closely supervised.
Coaches should know first aid.
Develop clear, written rules for training and general conduct.
Coaches should keep adequate records

Keith Wallis, Director of Coaching Wests Juniors.

Wednesday, January 21, 2004

See the Positive or Pointless Promotion Program material

here

"Most kids go straight from the car to full kicking to each other with absolutely no stretching or warm up before kicking

(training or game situation), or warming down". Does this familiar? Perhaps the injury described below does also.

What is Osgood-Schlatters Disease?

This is a common condition in which a child or adolescent (usually 9-14 years) complains of pain at the front of the knee joint just below the kneecap.

It is more common in boys (but does occur in girls at a slightly younger age) and is caused by a ligament pulling repeatedly on a growing bone. It usually only affects one knee but can affect both.

Essentially, the bony protrusion below the knee( called the tibial tuberosity) becomes inflamed.

The patella tendon inserts here and through overuse can tug away at the bone causing inflammation. New bone grows back causing a bony lump.

Symptoms

Swelling just below the kneecap Tenderness and pain on the tibial tuberosity during and after exercise. Pain when contracting the quadriceps against resistance. An x-ray is needed to confirm and to see how much damage has occurred. This Disease can occur in one or both knees. Also very common it can be accompanied with Severs Disease which is inflammation of the Achilles Tendon.

Prevention

The only prevention of both these Diseases are proper stretching exercises before during and after exercise.

Tight quadriceps muscles cause a “tugging” stress on the patellar tendon where it inserts into the tibial tuberosity, so doing stretching exercises for the quadriceps, hamstrings and calves may help prevent this condition.

Stretching and flexibility should focus on the quadriceps and hip flexor muscles and should be done before, during and after each bout of activity. EG: Straight Leg Hamstrings Stretch, Standing, Quadriceps Stretch and Lifting up onto your toes then rolling back onto your heels lifting your toes off the ground.

Also the use of Orthopedic inserts in their shoes and footy boots can help especially if their ankles roll inwards.

Treatment

.I.C.E Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation. Sometimes if severe needs to be put in a cast so the injured knee is made to rest. Once the pain has completely gone your child can slowly resume activities and work on the leg to regain strength.

The pain can recur and if it does the treatment needs to be restarted.

Blue Card Application Form Required 2008

“Parents are entitled to expect that people to whom they entrust their children – be they carers, tutors,
sporting or community service providers – are suitable - to protect our children from potential harm.”

Under the Commission for Children and Young People and Child Guardian Act (2000), people who work with children under 18 in particular businesses or categories of paid or voluntary employment, must undergo screening. This includes unpaid volunteers in sporting clubs, and even parents.

The Queensland Government Commission for Children and Young People and Child Guardian is the authority responsible for issuing "Blue Cards" to those who pass a "Working with Children Check".

A Blue Card is mandatory for all Coaches and Managers. It is also recommended that all other parents having regular contact with the players should have a Blue Card. A volunteer's application form is available here.

The Commission's website (here) provides a good deal of information about the process and any changes to forms or application procedures.

Officials ID Cards

All Coaches, Managers, Assistant Coaches, First Aiders, Runners and Trainers must have an ID card with photo. This process will start in a few weeks, once we have nominated teams (upon which we will receive the appropriate forms - see the AFLBJ web site for more details and sample cards).

A form will need to completed with passport photo attached.

Without a card, you will not be able to have contact with players.

(At a 2005 Grand Final one coach left his card at home and was allowed no contact with the players as a result!!)

Contact Virginia Loraine (Registrar - email) for more details.

Resource Downloads


Code of Conduct for Officials	Football Sizes	Ground Duty
Match Day Checklist	Injured Player Send-off Rule	Team Managers Role
U10 Tackle Rule	National Competition Rules (very large file - 3.2mb)
Blue Card application form (pdf) 144kb	New Coach and Code of Conduct form 68kb	First Aider form 50kb
Match Report Template	AFLBJ Coaching Calender April 2006
Refer to for more