There's a bit of Gertrude, Hamlet's Mum, in this when she said "The lady doth protest too much, methinks". Not quite apposite perhaps, but a lot of noise being made by those not actually participating. What kid wouldn't want his or her match winning try recorded forever??
On another note, David I sent your Risk article to a UK journalist in the UK who reported on the summary dismissal of a Rest Home worker who took a lonely old man home to share Christmas Dinner with his family. The dismissal was upheld by the Scottish equivalent of our ERA - on the basis that the carer had not properly considered the risk associated with his behaviour. Nobody seemed able to discern what the actual risk was, however. The old man at the centre of the fiasco had a lovely time!!
I can remember many years ago (CHTV3 - that many years ago - 70's at least ) First XV matches between Christchurch Boys High School and Christ College being broadcast on local TV live. As a lot of All Blacks have obvious played in those games through the years - Mehertens, Carter, Mohunga for starters just at #10 - it would appear that not too much damage has been caused to their character. Perhaps the pale petals of today's school "leaders" could stop thinking with their wallets.
On the other hand with the continued down slide in rugby's domination of sports in New Zealand I would suspect the begging of will you film our matches to be rolled out within the near future.
So while Auck Grammar can (albeit unreasonably) exclude individuals from their grounds, as you note David, "School Sport New Zealand chair Tim Grocott, who is also principal at Shirley Boys’ High School in Christchurch, himself recently confronted one prolific Canterbury-based YouTube channel, Onside Rugby, asking them not to film their teams anymore". That's presumably regardless of the location where their team(s) are playing; is that legal?
Does Grocott's organisation represent all sports, I wonder?
I agree with Hooker Phil. Esp post the football world cup publicity, the trend of youngsters adopting football rather than rugby is likely to accelerate, and soon the school rugby promoters will be begging for more coverage, rather than attempting to restrict it.....
I accept Tim Grocott's was a request, not like Tim O’Connor's demand/statement of exclusion. Does a request have any force/legal standing, or can it be safely ignored, I wonder?
There's a bit of Gertrude, Hamlet's Mum, in this when she said "The lady doth protest too much, methinks". Not quite apposite perhaps, but a lot of noise being made by those not actually participating. What kid wouldn't want his or her match winning try recorded forever??
On another note, David I sent your Risk article to a UK journalist in the UK who reported on the summary dismissal of a Rest Home worker who took a lonely old man home to share Christmas Dinner with his family. The dismissal was upheld by the Scottish equivalent of our ERA - on the basis that the carer had not properly considered the risk associated with his behaviour. Nobody seemed able to discern what the actual risk was, however. The old man at the centre of the fiasco had a lovely time!!
I can remember many years ago (CHTV3 - that many years ago - 70's at least ) First XV matches between Christchurch Boys High School and Christ College being broadcast on local TV live. As a lot of All Blacks have obvious played in those games through the years - Mehertens, Carter, Mohunga for starters just at #10 - it would appear that not too much damage has been caused to their character. Perhaps the pale petals of today's school "leaders" could stop thinking with their wallets.
On the other hand with the continued down slide in rugby's domination of sports in New Zealand I would suspect the begging of will you film our matches to be rolled out within the near future.
So while Auck Grammar can (albeit unreasonably) exclude individuals from their grounds, as you note David, "School Sport New Zealand chair Tim Grocott, who is also principal at Shirley Boys’ High School in Christchurch, himself recently confronted one prolific Canterbury-based YouTube channel, Onside Rugby, asking them not to film their teams anymore". That's presumably regardless of the location where their team(s) are playing; is that legal?
Does Grocott's organisation represent all sports, I wonder?
I agree with Hooker Phil. Esp post the football world cup publicity, the trend of youngsters adopting football rather than rugby is likely to accelerate, and soon the school rugby promoters will be begging for more coverage, rather than attempting to restrict it.....
I accept Tim Grocott's was a request, not like Tim O’Connor's demand/statement of exclusion. Does a request have any force/legal standing, or can it be safely ignored, I wonder?
A request is just that. No legal standing unless it is backed up with some suggestion of consequence if the request does not receive compliance.