A game was called off because of open hand stuff and it was niggly? I doubt it. Games don't get called off without good reason. Must have been bad.

Rockets player swung a close fist punch along with the entire game of throwing elbows and pushing woodville players everything time woodville started to make a run north continued to get dirty

The game has gone to shite

Popped a Molly, you have just hit the nail on the head.

We had the following game and saw the whole thing. Woodville bench on the court, Al had no control over them. Number 31 from Woodville just lost it badly. A bad foul on North player who pushed a person in the chest. I think this out of control behaviour is creeping into the Woodville club. I think it is two if their more experienced coaches who appear to be pushing this style

"We had the following game..."

No you didn't. Stop lying.

Yes we did

Think you'll find a Woodville player was hard fouled not a north player, then a north player came in and threw a dog punch that's what escalated it! Guess the video will show it!

Yes it will - I have seen it!!

The trouble I see every Friday night is the lack of umpiring under the basket, way to much physical contact is happening and inconsistent calls or none at all. The players are frustrated. The best way to stop it is to teach players with the whistle, but our umpires are average at the moment, and usually out of position. I saw a game at Pasadena Friday night U18 Boys where the Sturt coach stood from his seat and questioned the referee and to my amazement the ump changed his decision, What sort of message does that send the players?

The video is in the hands of the people who need to see it. Post a video of U18 kids on Hoops - no won't be happening.

You think it's 2 of their more experienced coaches pushing this out of control behaviour... Who would that be?

Threw out the entire game the woodville coaches continued to tell the ref's watch the elbows and pushes in the back and was ignored until it was too late for both ref's to claim 15yrs of experience they seem oblivious to Wat was happening instead of calling fouls on those plays or chatting to each team at a break in play to say to cut it out and next time it will be a unsportsmanlike foul.

Sounds like a fair bit of whinging - thought Woodville were better than that? Guess not.

Anon#457882 - I was watching the game and the only time I saw the referees talk to a player in a break was during one free throws, where it looked like he was talking about an armbar - not quite sure how you heard what was said since there was no seating on the endline at St Clair.
Sounds like you are just fishing for a pat on the back because you had a whinge for the team.
You had more fouls called for you, and all the quarters had more than 5 fouls per team - and you say nothing was being called????

Let me guess, you were the one parent who would have come over at the end of the game to bag the referees?

I thought that was some of the best reffing I have seen in ages - the referees rewarded players for being verticle and did not bail out the bloke who jumped sideways into a pack looking for a foul (such as the little red head kid from woodville who seems to have problems jumping straight up, but would rather jump into a pack or sideways at somebody and than throw a tantrum when nothing got called).

And finally, maybe you should learn the difference between "Threw" and "through" before you start typing in a forum - you failing english is UMPOSSIBLE!!!
#grammarpolice

*note, you said woodville coaches were yelling at the ref - so you want them to tech foul them because there was two people from the bench talking at the refs as per the rule book - you my friend are a knob

Don't know what game some of you were watching.
Umpires had no control from the start. How is it that if you swear after getting elbowed you get a tech but if you punch a player, the game gets called off and the player doesn't even get reported. Yes 31 did go off, but only after being punched in the face.

Why have a dig at someone's hair colour? No ones mentioned what nationalities were involved in the game so why bring up his hair colour to have a dig?

he said, they said etc etc. Whatever happened we may never know until this alleged video is seen. What I heard as an observer is that the game was abandoned due to the Woodville bench entering the court to escalate the situation. Why didn't their coach stop this!

There were no bench players involved in the fight only the 10 on the crt at the time both teams bench players never stepped on the crt be careful before running Ur mouth

Bench Players entered the court!!!

I don't know Wat game u were watching but bench players stayed on the bench

Obviously not the one you were watching!! So what reason did the refs give for abondoning the game??

Due to punches been thrown and the pushingvery weak reason but the ref's didn't know how to handle a game like that

That's something u will have to ask the ref's

Woodville players can only take their referee complaining from their coaches example...

Marilynn Dunstall - so blind leading the blind!

Anyone surprised about the story from anonymous saying the Sturt coach at Pasadena got the ref to change his mind?

No not surprised how a thread about a Woodville and north game includes an anonymous sook about the big bad sturt coach intimidating and changing the refs call

pathetic inferiority complex anyone

Is that you ego coach?

Forestville had the same problems with woodville, they are all about fights. forestville should have beaten them if it wasnt for their referees. Forestville have a great team this year lel

although north are terrible, cant hold them back. woodville should get the W and north should all be banned or life with the punches i saw them throw

I didn't know Warriors sooked this much?

Why are forestville complaining about that? Woodville had 3 players fouled out.. you guys just lost! No elbows or punches were thrown in that game.

Maybe Woodville should merge with Magic and toughen up a bit !!

Make your mind up, 1 minute Woodville r to rough & the next they need to toughen up.

How did Woodville go last night? Did they get any tech fouls or players ejected. Were any players on the opposing team racially vilified at that game.

woodville lost and 4 out of there 7 players fouled out LOL

Oh now we are playing the race card, couldn't see that one coming! Pathetic!

Ohh so bury your head in the sand mate. They took on a young Sudanese kid wi walked away then decided to pick on another who stood up for himself. Let's see the outcome from BSA on that !

Who is the coach who can't teach them at stay in the game?

Result was changed which put woodville back into the finals

Woodville would make the finals anyway as they have the head to head on West who are fifth.

Bsa have could.it a draw

Called**

They haven't called it a draw - They have called it a no match and no points to anyone. This doesn't seem to make any sense when looking at the by-laws. Do they even refer to the by-laws??

Juno70, I bet you a million dollars they don't end up in the GF together.

Great support shown by BSA to the refs and the court supervisor. The by laws make it clear that if the game was abandoned then North should be awarded the win as more than 50% completed. If these officials did something do drastically wrong to have a significant impact on the finals then they should be stood down!!

State champs seeding is established after round 9. This should have no bearing on that

It was just before 3/4 time. I guess it just shows anything goes and By laws are just a suggested way of doing things

Did the committee make a decision based on the merits of the incident - or just to avoid a North v Woodville final this week?
Looks like another debacle...

Well why should North be penalized by missing top spot. If you are worried about the follow up game get the best refs there.

Not fair a kid got punched from behind either

They can have all the reports they want and have individual players reported etc but that has nothing to do with the by-law relating to abandoning a game which is a decision left to the officials at the time. How can the CC change this when any investigation into player behaviour has not been finalised. They have got this wrong!!

Note that if the game is a "no result" then West should finish 4th as they have more points than Woodville (27 to 26). In this case finals would be Sturt v West and North v Norwood.

If the result stands when the game was abandoned, Woodville would also be on 27 points, and would finish 4th as they have the head-to-head on West, and North should finish top as they have the head-to-head over Sturt. In this case finals would be North v Woodville and Sturt v Norwood.

At the moment NEITHER of these scenarios is occurring. What is the competitions committee doing? Certainly nothing consistent or following how most interpret the by-laws. And no comment to explain their decisions? It looks like they are trying to sweep it under the carpet, avoid a North-Woodville final, and hope no one looks hard or asks questions.
What a debacle!!!

Incorrect.

The game was called a "no match", as in it never occurred, not a "no result". As a result both North and Woodville only played 12 games and everyone else played 13.

BSA by-laws state that in the case of teams having played different number of games (usually in the case of uneven byes) then the final standings are decided on % of games won.

Woodville 12 games for 7 wins = 58.33%
West 13 games for 7 wins = 53.85%

Then why did the refs tell the teams that North will be awarded the win?

Id say the only reason the umpires said north would be awarded the points is because they had no control over the game nor any idea what they were doing.
BSA's decision has been finalised. If you're going to protest about 50% of the match being played to award North the points then you could also protest the players throwing punches to be suspended for a number of games.

These are two seperate issues. One is the conduct of all players including those from the woodville bench who entered the court. The second is the ludicrous decision of BSA not to support the action taken by the ref and to now adhere to By-Laws

^^^not adhere to

So judging by the anon response it looks like they've done all they can to just avoid a North-Woodville game - normal protocols be damned.
Reality is if this is not explained to the masses the committee should be disbanded. Totally inept.