LOBFC EXEC MEETING MINUTES Episode 6 – January 2007 “Happy New Year!”
- Cast - Andrew Shapland
- Paul McGoohan
- Alex Barnes (Chair)
- Dai Baynes
- Mark Shewring
- Apologies for absence - Stuart Freeman, Mike Deasey (other club commitments) and Darren Luff
Minutes of last meeting
- Mike Deasey queried whether he had agreed to book the table for the AFA dinner.
Matters Arising from last meeting(s)
- Club business cards – Alex Barnes – Waiting in queue for production. Should be done by end of January.
- Selection guidelines – Paul McGoohan – drafted and 1st feedback received from the Chairman. Now going back to the chairman for final approval before it gets issued. – To be signed off and distributed this week w/c December 6th. – Outstanding action
- Website profiles are still outstanding from Shappers, Luffy and Paul Caldwell – will do them this week w/c December 6th. – Still outstanding from 3 useless boys!!
- Players’ handbook to be reviewed by Alex Barnes. With Mike Deasey to get some printed and give electronic copy to Andrew Shapland and Dai Baynes. Also Graham Archer to display to website. – Outstanding action
- Chairman’s beginning of season statement to go out before the start of the season!!!! – Issued as part of the next newsletter. Discharged
Chairman’s report
- Nothing exceptional to report. All is going well and selection is pleasingly.
Secretary’s Report
- Football foundation funding secured and received.
- Mike Deasey is arranging for demonstration of the destruction of the goalposts. “McDowell Welding Services have taken for scrap”. – remains outstanding action.
- We’re looking into whether we are still affiliated with London FA or not. There may be some benefits of getting re-affiliated?
- We are losing money un-necessarily through cup match fines. Club captain to re-visit care of referees with the captain. For results cards, we need to put a process in place for next season.
- Action taken to set a date for the AGM and communicate out.
- Need to start thinking what the committee might look like next season. Start sewing the seed in people’s minds about what they can do next season.
- 7th Feb reunion dinner being attended by Dai and he will drop the business cards around. We are also looking into posters and mini-footballs for the school as advertising.
- Next season we should consider donating some branded size-5s to the school for use in PE lessons.
Club Captain’s Report
- Very few matches since last report. This does mean that the fixtures played have evened out across most leagues.
- Inter-club match and the after-event was a complete success.
- Availability has been good and strong spirit for the 1s. Availability is now pushing down into the 2s and therefore 3s hopefully.
- 2s league is all over the place due to disciplinary issues of various teams in that league.
- 4s remain on course for promotion. It is 2nd vs. 3rd in their league this Saturday.
- 3rd XI is in a mess. Lack of experience and strong leadership. We need to find a solution.
- 5th XI will not be playing again until the final week of the month. – it is time for them to pay their subs now.
- “Care of referees” – will be re-affirmed yet again with the captains although things do seem to have improved. – We have not learned our lesson and it cost us a few fines – we need to now!!
- Captains will notify Club Captain each week of any bookings so as fines can go onto the team-sheet ASAP. No action seen on this so far, can we ensure the information comes back to club secretary please?
- Vets had a fantastic December.
- Fixture’s secretary reports – none, submitted he is in Australia.
LOBFC TABLES AND TEAM NOTES
- Team only played one league game since the end of November
- Assessment for first half of the season: Results have not matched performances
- A good core of players seem to enjoy playing for squad
- A good set of results will see side jump up the league.
- Team have only played one league game since end of November
- First half of season points return is poor given how team have played
- Possibility of being relegated seemingly eased due to problems of both Mill Hill and Ravenscroft
- Good solid squad with excellent team spirit, show in performance against the 1’s!
- Need to win games!
- 3’s are involved in a tight relegation scrap
- Played twice since beginning of December, one defeat and a fantastic 10-1 win over bottom side Wood Green
- 3’s first half assessment: a good group of young players but the side is lacking experience.
- Need to aide this side as much as possible to get them through the season.
- Promotion is a real possibility for the side, as for a title chase this will depend on the future of Mill Hill.
- The side have only played once since the end of November, a thumping 9-1 win!
- A good core of players with a great mix of experience and youth, confidence is high.
- Squad have LOBFC’s only real chance of silverware.
Treasurer’s Report
- Pitches and training are paid to the end of the season.
- Starting now to save.
- We have problems again with the Halifax account and Mark has to work through the aggro. We will be opening new account to solve the problem.
- Current P&L attached.
Social Secretary’s Report
- None submitted.
- Dinner Dance is booked for May 18th but now needs to be organised. We need an action plan from Social Secretary to get us from now to then.
- Poster must go out before the next exec meeting.
- Maybe an end of season barbeque?? April time 2nd last weekend.
Fund Raising Secretary’s Report
100 Club- December Grand Draw winners 1st Prize £150 Matt Jones, 2nd and 3rd Prizes £100 each Mike Deasey and Sue Naish. As a result of waving cash at the membership before doing that draw another 3 subscribers signed up taking the number of shares in the February draw to 63.
- Some concern here as although I have 35 names now, 14 of them are guests of the Club. With effectively just two weeks left a massive effort from ALL Exec and Captains is now required if we are to avoid cancelling the event. A minimum of 70 is what we should be looking at for a successful event. Guests, who have accepted invitations, include representatives from the AFC, AFA and Botany Bay Cricket Club. Notable declines include Jim Buttress, Mark Garbett and, although he has helped sponsor the event, Dave Colson.
- The final LOB News, volume 14, was distributed during December.
- As there is no darts fixture on 18th May I have secured that Friday for our Annual Dinner & Dance. This should now be Stuart’s responsibility although I am available for help with caterers and entertainment.
- February 17th has been identified as one of the Saturdays that the Cricketers are meeting during the winter. I have arranged with Simon Clark that we, LOBFC, could provide some opposition to compete with them at darts and pool on that evening. I can handle the Darts, does anybody want to get some names together for a Pool challenge.
- We need to sell, sell, sell tickets for club meal.
- Alex Barnes to contact AJ.
- Paul to speak to all captains and they must get a team of 8 minimum per team.
- House committee meeting in progress during our Exec.
- Andrew Shapland to book a table for AFA dinner on May 11th. Exec and Team Captains to keep the evening free. £40 per ticket.
- First aid equipment should be provided for every home game – re-visit with Matt Sutcliffe. – Paul McGoohan to chase this up by the next meeting. Club captain to sort before next executive meeting. Ajay Patel might help?
- Club secretary to liaise with Trevor Simms and co-ordinate letters to the BBCC regarding the Yorkshire Old Boys game on April 7th (Easter Saturday).
- Letter has been sent to Botany Bay Exec regarding Saturday evening opening. We await a response.
- 05/02/2007
- 05/03/2007
- 02/04/2007
- 07/05/2007
- 04/06/2007
- i.e. First Monday of every month
Please download Club Minutes 08/01/2007 in Word document format