Plains Producer - June 5, 2013

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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

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APFL acts on abusive players, officials

A few weeks ago, Balaklava CFS officer Andrew Outram was one of the heroes of a school blaze. Today, he tells how he was lucky to survive as his home was destroyed by fire:

Les Pearson reports:

LIFE CAN BE CRUEL Les Pearson reports: A DEVASTATING house fire at Balaklava, which caused about $250,000 damage, left a local CFS volunteer with few belongings amongst charred remnants of his possessions last week. Balaklava CFS first lieutenant, Andrew Outram, was one of the heroes involved in preventing the Balaklava High School from burning down following an arson attack recently. When a fire started in his

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Andrew Outram surveys the damage with Carley Smith, holding Candice and Tynan, holding cat Jet and INSET ABOVE: Andrew in the ruins of a Balaklava High School classroom. Centenary Street home about 2am last Wednesday, he was lucky to escape with his life. “When I woke up, it felt like someone was choking me,” Andrew recalled. “My room was already full of smoke and the alarm was going off as well. I ran straight out the back door.” Andrew’s children, Tynan (six) and Candice (two) were staying with their mother, Carley, at a

different home having moved out barely a week earlier. “The flames were coming out of the window of Candice’s bedroom, hitting the top of the verandah,” Andrew said. He ran across the road to wake neighbour and fellow CFS volunteer, Todd Robertson, but with his lungs full of smoke, staying conscious proved a problem. “I kept falling over because I was out of oxygen,” Andrew said.

“It felt like someone had winded me. I’ve never experience that before, it’s shocking. “I didn’t even see the fire truck rock up, I kept passing out. “I woke up in the morning with a heap of CFS blokes in my room. “I went back down to the house at 11am the next day and that’s when I got to see it all. “I was devastated. “There was nothing left.” n Continued Page 7

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THE Adelaide Plains Football League is moving to stamp out a worrying spate of umpire abuse from players and club officials recently. An 18-year-old Hamley Bridge footballer was handed an eight-week sanction by the APFL tribunal last week for abusing umpires during the senior colts match between Hamley Bridge and United at Long Plains. The player will serve two weeks of the sanction, with the remaining six weeks suspended as part of a good behaviour bond until the end of the season. The two field umpires, both junior umpires recruited from a neighbouring league this season, reported the player, who was running water for the senior colts team at the time of the incident. APFL tribunal secretary, Greg Tucker, said the reporting umpires warned the water runner for coaching, which prompted an expletive-filled tirade in response. “They were gobsmacked; they were shocked,” APFL umpires coordinator, Doug Tallboy said. Three out of four cases heard by the league’s tribunal this year have been for umpire abuse, including the most recent eight-week suspension handed to a goal umpire from Virginia. APFL president, Brad Busch, said it has been an issue, particularly during senior colts games, this season. Mr Busch said a person who had been around the league for a long time told him the language and conduct from players and officials during colts games had never been heard before. “I don’t think, as a league, we have seen it like this before either.” Mr Busch said neither the umpires, nor the league, will tolerate umpire abuse from players or club officials. “It gets to the stage where we know umpires won’t get it right all the time. “But you’ve got to have them. n Continued Page 4

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