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Meeting:
Executive Committee Meeting
Venue: Liversedge Cricket Club
Date: Thursday
21st August 2008
Attendance:
Peter Smith, Steve Holliday, Gordon Cooper, Jack
Newsome, Geoff Lowe, Richard Seddon,
Martin Stubbs, Brian Calverley, Tony Larvin,Hilary Smith.
Apologies:
Philip Akroyd
Minutes
of previous Meeting agreed.
Matters
arising from previous meeting
- Secretary
had received notification via email of the termination from Surridge
Sports of their sponsorship.
- Letters
had been sent to Hopton Mills CC and Denby Grange CC on their poor
performances.
REPORTS
Registration
·
The Registration
Secretary outlined various problems she had encountered over the season
which included the following:-
1. The
registration deadline of 31st was being used by clubs too
literally and most registration sheets were coming in on this date, which
meant a colossal amount of data to input in a short period of time as the
Result Secretary needed the information in order to validate results.
2. Current
Rules allow players to be registered until the end of July, this was
thought to be too late and only in exceptional circumstances should
players be allowed to be registered at such a late date.
3.
Registrations made on the results sheets were causing problems as
these also
needed to be forwarded to the Registration Secretary and was therefore
causing twice the work load.
4. The
Registration Secretary asked if the rules could be amended to say that
players should be registered earlier and the last date of player
registration be brought forward.
It
was also asked that a registration form could be down loaded from the
Leagues website for clubs to use and ALL Registrations be forwarded by clubs to the
Registration Secretary directly before a player plays for the club. Action: Secretary and Registration
Secretary to arrange necessary wording for AGM.
It was discussed if a list of
all clubs with their registered players could be put on the website for
clubs to self check. It was thought that there could be Child Welfare and
Data Protection issues with this at present.
The Executive thanked the
Registration Secretary for her report and was excused.
Disciplinary
·
The Gildersome /
Adwalton matter has been resolved.
·
The Ossett / Azaad
matter was nearing completion; The Disciplinary Secretary had asked ten
further questions to Azaad CC which had all been answered. He was still
waiting for the reply from Ossett CC on the questioned he had raised to
them. It had also been established that the outgoing Azaad batsman had
been sworn at whilst leaving the field of play.Action: The Disciplinary
Secretary had asked the following be discussed by the Executive.
- Could the position of Disciplinary Secretary be
changed to Disciplinary Chairman as he thought this carried more
weight? All Agreed.
- All matters should be sent direct to the
Disciplinary Chairman.
- The Disciplinary Chairman asked on the right or
otherwise of legal representation as written in the handbook, a
discussion took place and it was agreed that the present rules cater
for this as there are two sections one relating to juniors and one to
adults where it might be prudent to allow legal representation
depending on a particular incident. No
Action necessary.
- The Secretary handed out a Disciplinary Form
from the YCB, its content was based around senior players and it was
agreed to forward a copy to the Disciplinary Chairman for him to
evaluate whether the League should adopt the use of it.
Chairman
The Chairman reported that he was in the process of putting together a
paper for distribution to the clubs, which would outline proposals that
were needed to streamline the running of the League. He reported that if
adopted it would simplify the fixtures and help the Result Secretary
immensely.
The paper would contain the following:
- The League to opt out of the ECB under 13 and under 15 Competition,
allowing the finals of the cups to be played at the end of the season
and stop many rearrangement of league games in the process. If clubs
wanted to enter these competitions on their own initiative they could
but it could not interfere with the Leagues fixtures.
- The abolishment of the rule allowing clubs, by mutual consent, to
rearrange fixtures. This had caused numerous problems and made the
Results Secretary’s job very difficult.
- The only valid reason for a rearrangement would be the playing of a
senior match and any rearrangement would have to have the Fixture
Secretary’s approval and be played within 14 days.
- All cup finals would be played at the end of the season which would
allow matches to be spread out and obtaining Umpires was easier at the
end rather than during the season.
League Matches to played on the following days:
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- Under 11’s Thursday Evenings
- Under 13’s Sunday Mornings
- Under 15’s Monday Evenings
- Under 17’s Wednesday Evenings
- A & B sides could be accepted as one could play one away.
- Under 13 cup matches could be allocated on a Sunday
The Fixture Secretary reported that the best way
forward could be to have a set number of fixtures played in sections that
had an odd number this may result in not playing every team twice but
would give set number to be fair.All
Agreed on the content.
Secretary
- The Secretary read out a letter of complaint from the under 13
Manager of Hunslet Nelson CC complaining on the outcome of the League
and the amount of games that had not been played by other clubs at the
end of the season and how the points had been awarded. A discussion took place on the outcome of several games
and it was agreed that the current entry into the ECB Cup was a major
factor in the out come of the League standings. The Fixture Secretary
pointed out that the proposed changes for next season should eliminate
this. Action:
Secretary to write and inform Hunslet Nelson of the situation.
- The
Secretary reported that Mount CC had violated the Emergency Committee
ruling that there ground at Hyrstlands Park was unfit for junior
games. Despite Mount CC officials agreeing and asking the League to
write formally on the state of the ground to enable them to get
Kirklees Council to do the necessary work on the ground they had
played on it. A further Emergency Committee had ruled that the points
be deducted from Mount CC gained from the game and fined £45 for
breech of the initial ruling.
All Agreed
Treasurers
Report
- The
Treasurer reported that the Grant received for use on a girls tour was
in a poor yielding account and asked if this could be transferred to a
higher yielding fixed term account to make best use of it. All
Agreed.
- Fines
were still outstanding from Ossett CC and Townville CC and asked if
this could be doubled under recent rulings. All Agreed
- It
was reported that the League had a cash balance of £12,600.
- It
was envisaged that there would be around a £400 deficit for the year.
- A
question was raised on the turnover of the League, which was estimated
at around £9,000; clarity was needed that it was less than £20,000
due to several Grant Applications that were being made.
- The
School Authorities now require that cover be raised from the present
£5 Million to £10 Million. The cost of cover was an extra £78.75 to
insure to the end of the policy. It was agreed this should be paid
immediately
Result
Secretary
- Woodkirk had been warned several times over non registration of
players. The fines should now be £60.
All Agreed
- The Fixtures Secretary put forward that there should be no fines for
the rearranged games from the start of the season that were not played
on the due date. All
Agreed
Child
Welfare
Staffing
at Finals
- Tony Larvin to attend Brackenbury Cup
- Geoff Lowe to attend Under 13 Cup
- Martin
Stubbs to attend the Dorothy Smith Final
Any Other Business
- Clubs
to put forward nominations for individual trophy winners Action:
Chairman to send form out with proposal paper
- There
was a large amount of clothing which was out of date. Action:
Sale of clothing be advertised on the Website.
Meeting
Closed 9.40pm
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