All GUFC teams must help manage home field ground operations on game days – at Gymea Bay Oval or Kareela 2.

Via a roster system, teams must:

  • provide ground control (wearing an “orange jacket” and managing crowd behaviour)
  • cook the BBQ (Saturday teams at Gymea 1 and 2 only)
  • set up and pack up fields.

Team managers are responsible for coordinating their team’s involvement.  Shared Services will email team coaches/managers to advise their team is on ground control.  Team managers must:

  • ensure the required number of people are present. This will involve planning ahead – contacting your team and confirming exactly who will help out
  • ensure your helpers are ready to go at the allocated time (and taking over from the current team on duty where appropriate).
Upcoming rounds of the team ground control roster is also available on the GUFC website.

Duties at Gymea Bay Oval

1. Ground control

The ground control system is in place right across the Sutherland Shire Football competition. It involves wearing an “orange jacket” and helping monitor crowd behavior.

GUFC teams on ground control must:

  • Provide two people per field to constantly patrol the field (Saturday afternoon and Sunday)
  • ensure these people wear an orange jacket, which are available at the ground control office. GUFC will be fined if people are not visible in orange jackets

Respectful crowd behavior is the key to everyone enjoying football. Your job while wearing the orange jacket is to ensure crowd behaviour is always acceptable.  Harassment, abuse or other poor behavior towards officials, coaches or spectators is not tolerated.

If situations get out of hand, report it immediately to the GUFC committee member in the ground control office.

2. BBQ

Saturday morning teams will need to help out with the GUFC BBQ each weekend. You need to ensure that you have the number of people requested on the ground control roster and all helpers are over the age of 18.

3. Set up and pack up

GUFC teams will be rostered to set up, field changeover and pack up Gymea Bay Oval each weekend. GUFC committee will also be on hand to help.

Ground set-up as directed by the GUFC Committee, generally involves:

  • Setup the goals
  • Put out corner flags and halfway flags
  • Put out garbage bins and banners

Ground pack-up as directed by the GUFC Committee, generally involve:

  • Take down the goals and store as directed by the committee person on duty (don’t remove nets)
  • Remove flags and put in shed next to women’s changeroom
  • Put all garbage bins back in the locker in the car park after removing any litter
  • Bring in all banners
  • Sweep out change rooms and toilets
  • Sweep steps and clubhouse area

Duties at Kareela 2

1. Ground control

The ground control system is in place right across the Sutherland Shire Football competition. It involves wearing an “orange jacket” and helping monitor crowd behavior.

GUFC teams on ground control must:

  • provide two people to constantly patrol the field – both ground control persons names must be written on the match sheet
  • ensure these people wear an orange jacket, which are available in GUFC’s plastic tub. GUFC will be fined if people are not visible in orange jackets.

Respectful crowd behavior is the key to everyone enjoying football. Your job while wearing the orange jacket is to ensure crowd behaviour is always acceptable.  Harassment, abuse or other poor behavior towards officials, coaches or spectators is not tolerated.

Please read this Criteria from the Sutherland Shire Football Association on the Use of Kareela 2 by Association teams.  It is important to follow these rules, otherwise the SSFA or GUFC may be levied a fine by Sutherland Shire Council.

2. Set up and pack up

For the team on set-up you need to come to Gymea Ground Control and collect the ground’s plastic tub.  The plastic tub includes:

  • a key
  • orange jackets
  • basic medical equipment
  • match sheets for all games played at the field that day, and
  • setup instructions on the provided sheet.

For those teams on packup, please:

  • put corner flags, portable chairs and table in cage
  • Saturday teams leave goals out overnight, with nets left on
  • Sunday teams, using trolley in cage, put goals (with nets) into cage.

It is important for packup teams please lock up the cage and return the key, plastic tub & the completed match sheets ASAP to Gymea Ground Control after finishing.

Sometimes another club may be using Kareela 2 for their matches after GUFC.  Please do not pack up the goals and corner flags – just bring back the plastic tub and GUFC completed match sheets to Gymea Ground Control.