LEAGUE REP TEAM IS OFF TO GUERNSEY

Our Boys Face Quarter Final Showdown With Mighty Guernsey

We fly out on Friday - meet Met Police Bushey 10:00am if you would like breakfast and 10:30am if not - with a pre-trip get-together at Met Police Bushey on Wednesday evening coming, at 7.30pm. We will distribute travel packs, kit etc at this meeting so be there or be bare.

We will be the guests of the Guernsey FA and staying at the St Margarets Lodge Hotel.

The squad is as follows

with Dusty Miller as coach.

The match kicks off at 2:00pm on Saturday 13 February 2010 and, fingers crossed, we'll have something to shout about on Saturday evening before we fly back to Gatwick on Sunday morning.

YOUR PASSWORD

Ask and You Will Receive?

Like lots of websites you use, the league asks for a password and access to some of the faciltities on our website is not possible unless you provide one. But what should your password be?

The second rule is another slightly saddening one; when it comes to keeping your important data safe you are at most risk from family and friends. So; don't share passwords and don't reveal important ones - to anyone.

Third rule? Don't try and do it yourself. There are lots of password checkers that will help. A good one can be found here. Give it a try; make up a phrase you can remember - footymad11 - and try it in the checker. When you get a good one - 4th rule: don't trust internet password checkers - change it round slightly and then log on and change your password for your details here.

Finally, I repeat, please remember not to use a password that protects really important personal information on websites that don't need that amount of protection. (The more often you use a password the more times it exists "out there" in the interweb and the more likely it is to be discovered). You need at least two passwords.

While logged on please remember to check your details; particularly date of birth, post code and email address. If they are wrong or missing please fill-in the correct information as this is a great help to us when we need to match players and referees etc with data from other bodies like the FA and so on.

SATURDAY 6 FEBRUARY 2010

Frost and/or Rain to Disrupt Our Programme - Or Not?

No one knows what we are in for this coming week-end; it could be polar bear weather or something more suited to fish. It might even be something penguins would vote for. All I know is that we are all becoming increasingly desperate toplay some football.

In the weeks past, when we have had heavy snowfalls, there has been a general dispensation to clubs allowing them to call off games without a match offical's inspection. That concessionwill NOT operate for this coming week-end and all clubs must get their match official - or another official on our list - to inspect their pitch before any decision is made to cancel.

We think that a postponement much earlier than, say 2 and half hours before KO - and remember February league matches start at 2.30pm - is a little bit too early, particularly when the cancellation would be due to a frozen, as opposed to waterlogged, pitch.

Where the decision is taken out of a club's hands by the local authority, there isn't much that can be done but if it's left to your club to make, please give yourselves every chance you can to get the match played.

Please do not call your game off prematurely, give your referee the last word.

HAITI STILL NEEDS YOUR HELP

They've Not Given Up - We Shouldn't Either

Amazingly and miraculously, survivors continue to be pulled from the rubble in Haiti. The dignity and courage of this devastated people as they struggle to come to terms with what has happened is incredible. Seeing people who already had so little finding the strength, determination and spirit to rebuild their lives says, surely, we can do something from the comfort of our armchairswhich is simple, effortless andrequires no great courage or fortitude; and send them some money.

The response from the ordinary man and woman in the street in the UK has been staggering in its generosity but Haiti STILL needs all the help it can get.

The easiest way to send effective help is to make a donation. Click here to see how quickly and easily you can do your bit to make things just that little better for the struggling Haitians.

If you would like to help on a more permanent, continuing basis, click here for details on how you can intervene directly in a child's life and play a positive part in improving their future.

Our league has been around for over 100 years and some of our clubs for as long or possibly longer. With that kind of permanence in mind, I would ask all our clubs to consider "adopting" a child, paying the small monthly sum out of general club funds. Just think, your club could help bring up the next African, Asian, South American prodigy. (If nothing else, Arsenal will be grateful :)). Seriously, your managementcommittee will be considering this at its next meeting and I ask all our clubs to also give it some thought.

And finally; please don't forget Gift Aid. If you take that extra moment to provide the required details you add more than a quarter to the value of your contribution at no additional cost to yourself.

Whichever route you choose, please remember that, as far away from this appalling tragedy as we are, you CAN do something to help. Do it now. Please.

POSITION FILLED - JOB DONE

Cuffley Reserves Get Their Man

Cuffley FC were looking for a Reserve team Manager and turned to the website, amongst other channels, to advertise their vacancy.

The club filled the position and had this to say about the effectiveness of the website, "Following a response from the Advert we successfully appointed a manager on Thursday night . Many thanks for the use of the Website (and) it was definitely the best way of advertising from the 3 methods we tried and (we) had a good response from it."

Advertisingon the website works and would work for your firm or business just as well. For further details contact leaguemanager.biz.

Clubs with vacancies to fill or other requirements to advertise should get in touch with the league in the first instance (advertising on our website for clubs is free).

POSITION VACANT

Successful Club Requires New 1st Team Manager

Park Street Village FC are looking for a new manager to develop their1st Team playing in the Herts Senior County League Premier Division.

PSV are looking for a manager who is motivated, enthusiastic and equipped to see the team continue to succeed. We have a great pool of players, with an outstanding mix of youth and experience, and the appointed manager will have the full backing of the players and the club committee.

If you feel this opportunity - to put your managerial talents to work for an ambitious club - is right for you and a chanceyou have been waiting for, please get in touch with our Club Secretary, Ged Deacon - 07866 744310 - or by email to admin@parkstreetvillagefc.com.

This headline could so easily describe the scene in your clubhouse on a Saturday as the league's results come in.

You can just picture the excitement amongst your players as they watch the County league tables change before their eyes as Audrey and the wonder of the web do their stuff.

If you have a TV in your clubhouse, connecting it to the internet via a cheap PC and a dial-up telephone connection is easy, costs pennies and is immensely interesting (that bit's not true, possibly). The introduction of very inexpensive Netbook computers - costing less than 200 in many cases - and the availability of "dongles" providing 3G+ access (as fast as many household internet connections) makes setting up a TV to show County league results very straightforward and relatively easily affordable for most clubs.

Showing the results and tables as they come in and are updated will increase the number of people using your bar making investment in the small amount of equipment required self financing.

Watch your teams' fortunes ebb and flow on the telly - for more details get in touch with Brian Smith.

You can use your mobile to access league information - including the latest results and up-to-the-minute league tables - when you're not at your PC simply, quickly and for no additional cost (other than what your network provider charges you for internet access). Regardless of the make of phone or ISP you use, if you have internet access on your mob - sometimes called 3G - you're in.

It's free to get details of fixtures, results, league tables; even the address and contact details of the club you're playing and telephone numbers for the match referee and assistants. Very handy on a Saturday when you don't know where you're going or you've got a possible no-show. Click here for more details.

A tip. If you can, set your font size to the smallest your phone allows. You will then see all the information on one screen without having to scroll from side to side.

Club Secretaries - Check your Details?

Everybody in the league relies on the details provided by clubs and recorded on the website. Whether it is a league officer sending out information, a home club wishing to confirm a match or referees and players looking for venue details, everybody turns to the website.

Is Your Email Address Correct?

League rules say that every club must have a monitored email address. If yours hasn't charges could follow.

It is a league requirement for clubs to use the website to enter their match result cards and to record goal scorers. Please make sure that your club is equipped and organised to do this.

Ideally the club secretary would be the club officer with access to the internet and email. Other club members can be designated as your contact point but they must appreciate that the league will expect them to provide a consistent and reliable link to the club in the secretary's place.

If you would like additional usernames and passwords for anyone in your club (who may be operating as your internet and email "officer" for example) please let me know and I will set them up and email them their logging-on details.

Is Your Ground Up To Standards?

Lawrence Workman, the league development officer, will be visiting all our grounds throughout the beginning of the season to ensure that they meet our standards requirements. Match officials also provide regular feedback to the league via their match reports.

Appendix 'A'

The criteria we measure our grounds against are contained in Appendix 'A' to our rules. This is printed in our annual Directory and Rule Book and on the Noticeboard and all clubs are encouraged to check that they continue to meet the requirements therein.

Action was taken against clubs last year and where restrictions or additional requirements were imposed then these remain in force until the underlying reason for them has been remedied or otherwise attended to.

Of particular concern are those clubs which previously conformed to standards but have since experienced weather or other damage which they have not rectified and the small number of clubs given dispensation regarding temporary accommodation or other facilities but which have stopped meeting their end of the agreement.

The league will take action against clubs letting their standards slip and this could, in exceptional cases, include a requirement to play at another location, demotion or expulsion from the league.

Club Announcements

We warmly encourage clubs to send in announcements about their activities etc which we will be pleased to publish here.

If you are looking for new playing personnel, a sponsor, a manager, whatever, and feel that publicity on this site might help then get in touch.