ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Sandridge FC 7:30pm 10 June 2009

Packs containing the papers you will need for the AGM have been distributed. If you have not received your copy please contact Bob Brown, the League's General Secretary.

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.

As is described in fuller detail below, 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.

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