Brothers Rugby League Football Club Transcript



Sport's always been a very strong part of the Gladstone community and our club especially is a very family-orientated club most of the senior playing group coach the juniors. The junior kids are involved with the senior club they come to the games they come to trainings with their dads so it's a very good family environment. The Brother's Football Club have partnered with the CCR DFV for the past five years so during the month of May the CCR DFV will do awareness stands at the Brothers games, the Brothers players will wear purple socks, purple armbands the commentator will pass information on to the crowd there about Domestic and Family Violence Month what the purple means what it's all about, the elements of domestic and family violence. It's a way of getting more information to a further demographic in our society. Everybody was more than willing to help us and get involved so we have all different age groups so it's usually the A grade players right through to the juniors that will wear some sort of purple or have some sort of involvement on the day. Sporting clubs, I feel, it's a good way of getting that message out, it's a very social atmosphere, you get to talk to the people, it's a very personal environment I think the partnership's positive and anything positive then, has a flow-on effect it's like a ripple effect so they're local role models so our children see their coaches that are in the A grade they see them promoting this so then they mimic the same behaviour and it's a positive for everybody. Very important, because they see what we do and they want to be like us when they're younger and if we go doing things that aren't good they're gonna follow in our footsteps so we've gotta really lead from the front. The 'Not Now, Not Ever' to me means that we're not putting up with violence now and we're not ever going to put up with violence. The programs that we do such as the football have students or young people involved so they're learning that 'Not Now, Not Ever' will they put up with violence. ................
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